Andy Griffith Show (DVD)
Paramount : The Complete 6th Season
APPROX. 0 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1965 - MPA RATING: NR
" The sixth season of "The Andy Griffith Show" suffers without Knotts, but there are still plenty of entertaining episodes, especially the ones without Knotts' replacement.
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13) "Girl Shy"—Warren sleepwalks (big surprise) and makes a pass at Helen while he's in lala land, but it gets worse.
14) "Otis, the Artist"—Warren enrolls Otis in an art class to rehabilitate the town drunk, but it turns out Otis is a genius on canvas only when he is drunk.
15) "The Return of Barney Fife"—Barney comes to town for a high school reunion and sees Thelma Lou again . . . and her new husband?
16) "Lost and Found"—Warren and Goober complicate things further when Aunt Bee collects the insurance money on an antique brooch she later finds.
17) "Wyatt Earp Rides Again"—Andy gets challenged to an old-fashioned duel by a man claiming to be a descendant of Wyatt Earp.
18) "Aunt Bee Learns to Drive"—It's about time, you say? Not after you watch her in action.
19) "Look, Paw, I'm Dancing"—Helen suggests that she and Andy chaperone Opie's school dance to help Opie get over his fear of dancing, but it turns out to be a like-father-like-son situation.
20) "The Gypsies"—Well, the Darlings aren't around, so somebody goofy has to come to town. In this episode, a band of gypsies curses Andy after he busts them for selling junk.
21) "Eat Your Heart Out"—Goober likes the new waitress at the Diner, but it turns out she likes Andy.
22) "A Baby in the House"—Aunt Bee's niece has a baby, and she just won't stop crying when Aunt Bee picks her up. So how is she to take care of it?
23) "The County Clerk"—Andy and Helen set Howard up on a blind date, but his personality gets in the way.
24) "The Foster Lady"—Aunt Bee is excited to be asked to sell her favorite furniture polish in a commercial, but it turns out that she's going to be made fun of. An entertaining episode.
25) "Goober's Replacement"—And Gomer begat Goober, and Goober begets big trouble when he lets his girlfriend fill in for him at the filling station . . . and business booms.
26) "The Battle of Mayberry"—In another memorable episode, Opie discovers something about the town's history that nobody wants to hear.
27) "A Singer in Town"—Aunt Bee the songwriter? In this episode, a rock star wants to turn Aunt Bee's ballad into a rocker, but Aunt Bee isn't too thrilled about it.
Video: "The Andy Griffith Show" really looks great in color—with surprisingly less grain than I expected, and much more natural colors than in some of the other shows that went from B&W to color. The aspect ratio is, of course, 1.33:1.
Audio: The audio is nothing special—the usual Dolby Digital Mono you get from shows of this era. But the tonal quality is pretty good, with a deep timbre that isn't too full of bass—just enough to give it a round tone.
Extras: There are no extras.
Bottom Line: You can take the boy out of Mayberry, but you can't take Mayberry out of the boy. Don Knotts practically proved it when he left the show to develop and star in his own comedy-variety show for CBS's rival network, NBC. In "The Don Knotts Show," a single-season flop that finally aired in 1970, Knotts alluded to the show with his weekly segment, "The Front Porch," in which he and guest stars sat in rocking chairs and talked—the way many episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" would end. And as if to give a hint of why he walked away from one of TV's most successful and beloved sitcoms, Knotts had a continuing skit that was built around the frustrations of filming a weekly TV show.
The sixth season of "The Andy Griffith Show" suffers without Knotts, but there are still plenty of entertaining episodes—especially the ones without Knotts' replacement. But of course, fans of the series will want to add this one to their collections, because the Hollywood segments and "The Foster Lady" are classics, and a handful of others are very, very good. Overall, this season merits somewhere between a 6 and a 7, but how can you go low when after five seasons there's finally color? It's positively Oz-like . . . and Mayberry isn't all that far from Oz, when you get right down to it.
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