A Visit to Barney Fife

Episode aired Jan 16, 1967
30m

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

266

YOUR RATING

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in The Andy Griffith Show (1960)

Comedy Family

Andy takes a trip to Raleigh to visit Barney and ends up making him a hero by solving a series of robberies.Andy takes a trip to Raleigh to visit Barney and ends up making him a hero by solving a series of robberies.Andy takes a trip to Raleigh to visit Barney and ends up making him a hero by solving a series of robberies.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

266

YOUR RATING

6User reviews

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Trivia
The table lamp in Barney's boarding house room is the same prop used in season 4, episode 2 "The Haunted House."

Goofs
The Mayberry school pennant in Barney's apartment is green. It has been established previously in the series that the school's colors were orange and blue.

User reviews6

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Featured review

6/10

Miss and hit

Barney Fife in color. Knotts was good but the writing sometimes put his Barney Fife in situations that were just humiliating. Like this episode. When Barney is given intelligence, he gets to keep his dignity, and sometimes that happened, too. Those were the better episodes. This was a little bit of both. I know his humiliations were supposed to be funny, but at times it went overboard. Another Barney visit (in color) had him driving an Edsel convertible, with one 'fin' window rolled up. A funny image. But let's face it, when Knotts left and the show went to color, a new and awful era for the show began.