Perry is retained to defend a client on a homicide charge before the murder takes place; guests Constance Ford, Denver Pyle.

A simple case of inheritance turns to murder when a woman is found in a locked room with a body by her side and a gun in her hand.

Perry thinks that a man who called asking to be defended on a charge of homicide is an old wartime buddy; guest Claude Akins.

Paul Drake and Perry search for the identity of a bedraggled, amnesiac teenage girl; guest Werner Klemperer.

A fight for control of corporate voting stock results in murder, and Perry's client was at the scene of the crime.

Perry volunteers to defend a down-and-out man (Fred Sherman) charged with robbery and the murder of a dance-hall girl.

An elderly farmer (Lew Ayres) urges Almanzo to run for mayor to oppose Mrs. Oleson.

A deranged man (Robert Loggia) attacks his wife and child, then takes Laura and her daughter hostage.

Mrs. Oleson's prejudice troubles a former circus dwarf (Billy Barty) who is trying to raise his daughter alone.

Townspeople rescue a mute boy whom a carnival owner has been using as an attraction.

Jessica heads to London in answer to a foreboding message from her cousin (Angela Lansbury in a dual role).

Jessica's friend (Ann Blyth) fears she is going insane and may have murdered her husband.

While staying at a lakeside inn, Jessica investigates the drowning of a championship swimmer.

Jessica must help her niece, a jockey whose first victory is followed by charges of murdering the horse's owner.

Opie is jealous of all the time his father spends with his new girlfriend, so he feigns several illnesses to keep them apart.

Barney and Floyd run out of gas on their way home from a fishing trip. While looking for a telephone, they are captured and held hostage in a remote cabin by a group of escaped female convicts.

Aunt Bee drops hints that she wants a bed jacket for her birthday, but Andy is oblivious. When he realizes he let his aunt down, Andy goes to great lengths to get her the bed jacket.

Barney sets out to prove that the Mayberry Bank is prone to robberies and is not safe. Disguised as a cleaning lady, he easily slips by the bank teller and accidentally locks himself in the vault.

Opie must learn to fight when new boy Steve moves into town, bullies him, and causes trouble for him and his friends.

Barney issues the governor a parking ticket when his chauffeur parks in a no-parking zone. The governor, impressed, visits Mayberry to commend him for doing his job without favoritism.

Malcolm Tucker, a wealthy businessman, has trouble getting his car to start and finds himself stranded in Mayberry on a Sunday.

Barney orders Gomer and Otis to keep watch on Andy when an ex-con Andy sent to prison many years before returns to Mayberry.

When 9-year-old Megan dedicates her Christmas wish to helping her mom Cara find love, her letter goes viral. Cara realizes that what she was looking for may have been on her doorstop all along.

An old audio cassette of her dad's voice sends a woman on a journey to retrace her family's most memorable moments. Along the way, she meets a man who offers her a generous payment in exchange for a ride to close the most important deal of his life.

After Haley Lloyd has been burned by countless suitors, it's refreshing when shy but handsome Claud falls for her, unaware of her true identity: However, when that truth inevitably comes out, it puts their budding Christmas romance at risk.

Perry defends a woman (Josephine Hutchinson) who confessed to the murder for which she is being tried; guest Ruta Lee.

An elderly woman retains Perry when she feels her employer is about to be murdered, a crime for which she is later arrested.

An ocean cruise's calm is shattered when a passenger falls overboard, an incident that eventually results in a courtroom struggle.

A case that begins in a Las Vegas casino ends with two dead victims lying in the morgue; guest Lyle Talbot.

Mason seeks to free his client of a murder charge after a blackmailer is found dead.

An unexplained $2,500 check in Perry's mail leads him to eventually defend its sender on a murder charge; guest Yvonne Craig.

The detective is put on the case of a man who murders his brother.

Columbo matches wits with a forensics specialist, helping his girlfriend to frame her husband for a stock broker's murder.

As an actress, Emma always acts like she's in love for work but knows little of what true love is. When Emma realizes she has always loved her good friend Gray, she learns how love works.

A case of mistaken identity and the time change come together to create a magical blind date for two people (Emily Rose, Barry Watson).

A woman tries to save a small, historic hotel from developers, but she soon realizes that the man she's falling for is behind the hotel's development plans.

Struggling with writer's block after a breakup, Olivia takes a tropical holiday in hopes of some inspiration and meets Prince Alexander, who needs some distance from his upcoming duty to marry royalty.

Wedding photographer Jessie Brooke's happy life in her small town is changed when a famous Hollywood actor attends her sister's wedding.

Rose McGovern realizes that one of the items in her secondhand store is actually an antique teapot worth $80K. An ambitious antique broker tries to buy the piece from her, but she's determined to find the original owner.

A teacher returns home to help at the family cider mill, where he meets the new marketing manager and finds a new class of students to mentor.

A divorcee retains Perry to defend her former husband in the slaying of his stepson; guests Fay Wray, Nancy Kulp.

A beautiful blonde (Whitney Blake) enters Perry's legal life wearing a bathrobe and sporting a black eye.

A South African diamond company retains Perry to defend one of its employees on a charge of murder; guest Joanna Moore.

Murder suddenly disrupts attempts to commit a wealthy man to a mental institution; guest Kitty Kelly.

Perry receives a phone call, supposedly from a man whose funeral he attended three years earlier.

Perry defends his client by invoking the constitutional provision of double jeopardy.

The inimitable cop must prove that a flamboyant Hollywood gossip reporter was murdered by her former lover.

A Hollywood film composer and conductor murders a talented, young musician out of jealousy.

Poppy is a marketing specialist whose life is turned upside down when she fakes an engagement with her boss's handsome new client Milo, to win over her strict building manager and get Milo the penthouse suite.

Sparks fly between a physical therapist and an injured tennis star who is temporarily living at a tropical resort.

When sisters Megan and Kate attend a local wedding fair, they jokingly enter for a dream wedding package, even though neither is getting married; the sisters win, and now must put on a show or be mortified by their champagne decisions.

When bookstore owner Samantha Hill starts an antagonistic relationship with a book cover model Josh, they unknowingly find an antique key in a false book that starts to unlock their true romance.

Rose McGovern realizes that one of the items in her secondhand store is actually an antique teapot worth $80K. An ambitious antique broker tries to buy the piece from her, but she's determined to find the original owner.

A nurse fights for a chance at love with a new doctor and for a promotion to free herself from the misery her supervisor creates. As her supervisor tries to derail her chance at happiness, she learns to stand up for herself and go after her dreams.

A dancer pairs with an unlikely partner, entering a contest to save her family's general store.

Perry becomes involved in one of the toughest cases of his career because of a 13-year-old boy; guests Elisha Cook, Nita Talbot.

Perry arrives at an Army post to defend an officer on a murder charge before a court martial, only to find his client dead.

Perry finds himself deeply embroiled in a case involving blackmail, embezzlement and murder.

A man asks for advice in a case involving embezzlement and blackmail, and Mason soon winds up defending him on a murder charge.

A schoolteacher working two jobs to make ends meet helps a drunken friend, and finds himself charged with murder; guest Jesse White.

A jockey (played by jockey Billy Pearson) is charged with murder.

Andy and Barney must figure out a way to prevent a farmer's goat who has eaten a load of dynamite from blowing up Mayberry.

Andy and Barney look forward to seeing their high-school sweethearts at the Mayberry Class of '45 reunion.

Rafe Hollister, a farmer with a golden voice, is chosen to represent Mayberry at a musical, but Mayor Stoner believes he looks too seedy. It is then up to Andy to make Rafe presentable enough.

Opie meets Arnold Winkler, a spoiled kid who teaches him how to manipulate Andy into increasing his allowance by throwing tantrums.

Andy uses common sense and Barney uses modern technology to solve several burglaries at a filling station.

Andy's knowledge of American history is put to the test by Opie and a new teacher.

Colonel Harvey, a traveling salesman, arrives at Mayberry and captivates Aunt Bee, who buys Harvey's dubious elixir and invites him for dinner. When Andy and Barney find Aunt Bee clearly drunk, they analyze Harvey's elixir.

Andy unexpectedly has his hands full as The Darlings, a family of musicians from the mountains, arrive in Mayberry to meet a bus due the next day.

Malcolm Merriwether, an English tourist, passes by Mayberry on a bicycle. After causing a traffic accident, he agrees to work off the damages as Andy's personal valet.

Barney spends his life savings to buy a used car. Unbeknownst to him, the car is actually a lemon and has several issues and defects.

After Opie is struck with puppy love, Barney tries to show him how to handle women.

Barney thinks it's time Andy got married, but Andy has a plan of his own.

A pack of hunting dogs overruns the Mayberry courthouse just as Andy is trying to impress a state official.

The Darling family returns to Mayberry and asks Andy for help in dealing with Ernest T. Bass, a mountain man who keeps pursuing Briscoe's married daughter Charlene.

Barney and Gomer are responsible for watching over two thieves who are temporarily jailed in Mayberry. Between the two of them, the criminals manage to escape three times.

Opie takes on the job of raising three baby birds after he accidentally kills the mother bird and learns important life lessons along the way.

Andy, Barney, and Gomer look for a lost baseball while exploring a supposedly haunted house and experience some strange events inside.

Mountain man Ernest T. Bass goes on a window-breaking ruckus around town after the army refuses to accept him in their ranks. When Andy and Barney arrest him, he explains to them that he wants a uniform to attract women.

A preacher urges the residents of Mayberry to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life.

Briscoe Darling decides to court and marry Aunt Bee after he is treated to her hospitality and home cooking. When he resorts to kidnapping, Andy rescues Aunt Bee and convinces her to make Briscoe work hard to clean up their home.

Gomer moves in with Andy after he loses his job at the filling station. Before long, the Taylor house turns into another filling station as Gomer's customers line up to get their cars looked at in Andy's driveway.

Barney lets it slip that a top-secret shipment of gold will make its way through Mayberry on the way to Fort Knox. Everyone in town soon knows about the gold and welcomes it with a carnival-like reception.

Opie gets straight A's on his report card, much to Andy's delight. But when Opie finds out that his teacher made an error, he cannot figure out how to tell the truth without disappointing his father.

Barney moves into the courthouse jail after his landlady evicts him. When he learns that she is planning to sell her home and marry someone she just met, Barney suspects that she is the victim of a con man.

Thelma Lou refuses to go with Barney to the town's upcoming dance unless he gets her visiting cousin Mary Grace a date. Just when he and Barney are about to give up, Gomer appears.

Gomer makes a citizen's arrest of Barney for an illegal U-turn, the same violation Barney has ticketed him for, causing him to overreact and resign as deputy.

Opie and his friends take their roles as Robin Hood's men seriously when they befriend a hobo.

Barney organizes a rescue party when Andy and Helen become trapped in a cave after it collapses. Unbeknownst to Barney, the two have already escaped, but decide to go back into the cave to save him from becoming a laughingstock.

Opie becomes jealous when he thinks Andy likes Trey, his new best friend, more than him. Andy then decides to teach Opie a lesson in friendship.

Aunt Bee organizes a protest to keep Mr Frisby, the local egg farmer, from getting evicted because of a highway project. However, unbeknownst to her, Mr Frisby is hiding a big secret.

Barney adds a vintage motorcycle to the rolling stock of the Mayberry Sheriff's Department.

A mountain-bred would-be Romeo is brought into Andy's home to be taught some manners.

Andy and Barney fall for the charms of a female prisoner who threatens to crumble the security of the Mayberry jail.

Otis Campbell acquires a car and threatens the lives and limbs of Mayberry's pedestrian population.

Choir director John Masters decides to give Gomer the solo in the upcoming concert instead of Barney. Gomer fakes laryngitis when he learns how important the part is to Barney.

Barney disguises himself as a dummy in an attempt to solve a series of thefts in a Mayberry department store.

Andy goes on vacation, leaving Barney and Gomer in charge of Mayberry. However, Andy cannot enjoy his rest as Barney and various townspeople interrupt his peace.

Gomer believes that Andy has saved his life after Andy wakes him to put out a small fire at the filling station. Indebted, Gomer dedicates himself to repaying Andy in return.

Aunt Bee buys a side of beef from a discount butcher shop to save money. When she gets home, she discovers that her bargain freezer does not work.

Charlene Darling-Wash wants to perform a mountain ritual to divorce Dud Wash and marry Andy. When Barney discovers a way to counteract the ritual with another ritual, Andy decides to fight fire with fire.

Opie and his friends become involved in a scheme selling worthless salve. Barney and Gomer disguise themselves and head to Mount Pilot to fool two salve cons into buying all their salve back.

Two fun-loving girls from Mount Pilot interrupt Andy and Barney, who are working late doing inventory. They end up in hot water when Helen and Thelma Lou see them with the other girls.

Aunt Bee feels unneeded when Malcom Merriweather returns to Mayberry and gets enlisted to help at the Taylor House to give Aunt Bee a break from work.

Barney sees Andy and Helen sneaking a kiss in the jewelry store and tells everyone they are engaged. Aunt Bee redecorates Andy's room to make it more appropriate for a bride and throws a surprise party for them.

Thelma Lou uses Gomer and flirts with him to make Barney jealous after he says that he has her in his hip pocket. Things escalate when she slips and kisses Gomer on the cheek.

Andy, Barney, and Gomer take Opie and a couple of his friends on a camping trip. When Opie leaves early in the morning to pick berries, Barney and Gomer go looking for him but end up getting lost in the woods.

Gomer enlists and joins the Marines to test himself as a man, with Andy driving him to the base for his first day at boot camp. When Andy learns that the sergeant plans to get Gomer home, he tries to prevent Gomer from getting kicked out.

Opie has a crush on his teacher, who is also Andy's girlfriend.