Our Favorite Andy Griffith Episodes

ANDY AND BARNEY HOLDING HIGH TEA!

One of my friends responded to an earlier post and asked if me and Perry still watched Andy Griffith?  We thought you knew us better Greg.  The High Tea Council , i.e. me and Perry, (I introduced high tea in an earlier post) like all good southerners are addicted to Andy.     
For all you neophytes out there The Andy Griffith Show was broadcast for eight seasons running from 1960 thru 1968.  There were a total of 249 episodes filmed.  The first five seasons were filmed in black & white and are considered the more iconic episodes.  When the show started to air in color in season six we think it started to go downhill, due in no small part to the departure of Don Knotts as Barney.

Lately, at tea and over several days we've held an ongoing discussion about our favorite Andy Griffith episodesthePerry and I have each listed our top twenty episodes.  I told Perry I was going to post our lists on the blog but he's been slack about giving me his list.  He has a list but finds it too hard to rate them from one to twenty!  I have no such problem and so presented here for your approval (or disapproval as the case may be) in reverse order, is my list of the top 20 all time Andy Griffith episodes:

20.  Aunt Bee the Warden (Season 2, Episode 23)
19.  The New Housekeeper (Season 1, Episode 1)
18.  Citizen's Arrest (Season 4, Episode 11)
17.  Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army (Season 4, Episode 3)
16.  Andy and Opie, Housekeepers (Season 1, Episode 23)
15.  Alcohol and Old Lace (Season 1, Episode 17)
14.  Dogs, Dogs, Dogs (Season 3, Episode 30)
13.  Aunt Bee's Medicine Man (Season 3, Episode 24)
12.  Barney's Sidecar (Season 4, Episode 16)
11.  Opie the Birdman (Season 4, Episode 1)
10.  Andy Discovers America (Season 3, Episode 23)
9.    Convicts at Large (Season 3, Episode 11)
8.    The Haunted House (Season 4, Episode 2)
7.    Barney and the Choir (Season 2, Episode 20)
6.    The Loaded Goat (Season 3, Episode 18)
5.    Christmas Story (Season 1, Episode 11)
4.    Man in a Hurry (Season 3, Episode 16)
3.    Barney's First Car (Season 3, Episode 27)
2.    Mountain Wedding (Season 3, Episode 31)

And my all time favorite Andy episode....

1.    The Pickle Story (Season 2, Episode 11)

So there you have it.  I'll post Perry's list when he quits being a loser and does the hard work of ranking his top 20.  What are your favorite episodes?