On Monday, December 29, 2014 10:24:15 PM UTC-5, dave wrote:
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> The episode where Andy, Oppie, and aunt Bea have a 3 episode visit to Hollywood.
Here's a nice synopsis of that epic trilogy:
http://cmulrooney.tripod.com/rafkin.html
Off to Hollywood
The Andy Griffith Show
A real movie studio sends Sheriff Taylor a $1000 check in payment for his likeness and representation in a film based on the magazine article about him, "Sheriff Without a Gun", not the "studio" that used the article as a pretext for trying to rob the Mayberry bank.
[...]
Gavin MacLeod as the actor Bryan Bender playing Sheriff Taylor in the film is shockingly bald off-camera, even in costume, but no toupee can assuage Aunt Bee's displeasure at his histrionics during the exploits of the hero against the armed Calhoun boys, though the real sheriff is rapt with enjoyment. The actress playing Aunt Bee is blonde and heroic, using a rifle despite her nephew's reticence, and this saves the day.
[...]
Belmont Pictures wants some publicity shots of Sheriff Taylor and the actress who plays his love interest in Sheriff Without a Gun, Darlene Mason. Sid Melton makes this request as the publicity man with a silent photographer in tow, and this is where Rafkin's style of deadpan right down to the floor prepares the revelation of a Hollywood star who even in her makeup robe is attentive and easy with a man on first acquaintance. After a quick change, a photo is quickly achieved on her dressing-room sofa of nuzzling smiles, which the publicity man observes "will make the papers" and does, in Mayberry, where Helen Crump sees it and is discomfited greatly.
Smiling, kind and professional like everyone the Taylors meet at Belmont, the movie star sets things right with a phone call, and kisses Sheriff Taylor on the cheek. "What was that," asks Helen on the other end. The sheriff, holding the phone, says, "Miss Mason just opened a bottle of pop."