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The Andy Griffith Show - The Best of Andy & Barney (The Loaded Goat/ Class Reunion/ The Great Filling Station Robbery) [VHS]

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The main thing I noticed about this set is that the image is DARK. I've got a few other Andy Griffith sets, and they all look better than this one. The sound is good, however, and in my opinion it's hard to call anything with Barney bad! It's inexplicable to me that they ditched the original theme music and replaced it with some lame synthesizer track. But I guess that doesn't ruin it entirely. I would recommend getting the complete 1st season from Paramount instead.

Also, I didn't realize when I ordered that this is the same as the Best of Barney and Best of Andy packaged together. Now I have duplicates of everything.

Here are the episodes:

Disc 1

* Class Reunion - Andy rekindles an old flame.

* Opie and the Spoiled Kid - Opie becomes friends with a rich kid.

* Aunt Bee's Medicine Man - Aunt Bee gets "tipsy" on Indian elixir.

* Andy's English Valet - Andy's personal servant is driving him nuts.

* Rafe Hollister Sings - Andy discovers Rafe's talent.

* Andy Discovers America - Opie puts Andy's history knowledge to the test.

* The Darlings are Coming - Charelene sets her country cap for Andy.

* Mountain Wedding - Ernest T. Bass plots to stop Charlene's wedding.

Disc 2

* High Noon in Mayberry - An ex-convict returns to settle the score with Andy.

* The Great Filling Station Robbery - Barney tries modern criminal detection methods.

* The Rivals - Barney attempts to teach Opie the ways of women.

* Dogs, Dogs, Dogs - A pack of stray dogs make the courthouse home.

* The Loaded Goat - A farmer's goat makes a menacing mean of dynamite.

* Barney's First Car - A little old lady sells Barney a lemon.

* A wife for Andy - Barney goes fishing for a wife for Andy.

* The Big House - Two big city convicts do time at "The Rock."

Buyer beware. For some reason the company that produces these particular Andy Griffith Show video collections do not have the copyrights to the original Andy Griffith score so they have created some annoying, cheesy new score that sounds nothing like the familiar whistling tune. I was greatly disappointed with this purchase and urge anyone who is a die hard Andy Griffith fan NOT to buy these tapes.

I have purchased these episodes and there are B&W but the packaging says "color". This is not good advertising, misleading to me because my expectation was the picture would be shown in color. If it was a bigger issue I would have returned this item same day.

I have been watching Andy Griffith since i was 3! I have seen every episode! If you havn't seen it yet, your missing out on something VERY GOOD!

AMS

From the fall of 1960 when the Andy Griffith Show premiered to spring 1965 when Don Knotts left the series,Mayberry sheriff Andy Taylor(Griffith) and deputy Barney Fife(Knotts) were in constant partnership when at the police station in Mayberry. This package contains the first humorous police work on screen,big or small. Later there would be humorous police work on "Barney Miller" and the "Police Academy" movies. Giving Griffith and Knotts moral support are Ronny Howard as Andy's son Opie and the late Frances Bavier as Andy's aunt Bee. Howard later would star as Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" and become one of Hollywood's best-loved movie directors. Griffith would star on "Matlock" and Knotts would join the "Three's Company" cast as landlord Ralph Furley.