Vince Barnett

Aunt Bee goes to Mexico with her two best friends but the trip tests their friendship.

Irma Hodge's wealthy step-father, Sumner Hodge, is withholding her inheritance because he dislikes her folksinger boyfriend, Con Bolton. When someone supposedly takes a shot at Sumner, he suggest to the police that Con is to blame. Then another attempt is made on Sumner's life which proves successful. His car goes over a cliff with him behind the wheel and an investigation reveals that the brake line had been severed. Witnesses then claim Con was fooling around with the brakes minutes before the crash and he's charged with murder. (TV-PG)

Andy catches the flu and Goober takes over as his deputy.

A $500 bequest to the Mayberry church almost provokes a schism over how to spend it.

Oliver will make considerable more on his apple crop if he gets his to market first. He hires local highschoolers to pick the fruit and uses their old truck to haul them. As the rickety truck suffers numerous breakdowns the apple prices begin to drop. Finally Lisa's hotcakes come to the rescue.