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== Character List ==
 
== Character List ==

Revision as of 20:22, 20 May 2007

Episode Info

Banjo-Playing Deputy

  • Filmed: 159
  • Aired: 159
  • Original Air Date: 1965/05/03
  • Writer(s): Bob Ross
  • Director: Coby Ruskin

Plot Summary

Andy, struggling to find work for Jerry Miller, a one-man band who has lost his job with a traveling carnival, hires him as a part-time deputy. After realizing he's too incompetent to fill Barney's shoes, he decides to let him go. Before he can give Jerry the bad news, the musician-turned-lawman busts some of his former pals who were responsible for a string of purse snatchings.

Odd Facts Known by Few

  • This was the last black-and-white episode.

Character List

  • Andy Griffith - Andy Taylor
  • Ronny Howard - Opie Taylor
  • Frances Bavier - Aunt Bee Taylor
  • Howard McNear - Floyd Lawson
  • Jerry Van Dyke - Jerry Miller
  • Herbie Faye - manager
  • Sylvia Lewis - Flossie the Dancer
  • Hope Summers - Miss Bedloe
  • Mary Lansing - Miss Roundtree
  • Jean Inness - woman
  • Robert Carricart - Frankie
  • Lee Van Cleef - Skip
  • Tom Steele - 1st character
  • Bill Catching - 2nd character