Catchy Comedy Schedule
For Chicago, IL
You're viewing the schedule for Chicago Over the air 26.6
5:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Opie's Job
Opie and another boy compete for a job at the Grocery store.
5:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Aunt Bee, the Swinger (Color Episode)
Aunt Bee and a retired politician experience a very fast-paced relationship.
6:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Hollywood Party
After Helen gets upset about a publicity picture of Andy and a pretty actress from the movie, Andy tries to get back at Helen by going on a date with the actress. When Helen calls to apologize, Opie tells her about the date.
6:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Aunt Bee Takes a Job
Feeling bored and lonely in the afternoons, Aunt Bee asks Andy if it would be alright if she get an afternoon job. After looking through the want ads, she gets hired at a printing company, not knowing that her bosses are counterfeiters.
7:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Return of Barney Fife
Barney Fife returns home to Mayberry for a brief visit only to discover that his former girlfriend Thelma Lou has married. Fortunately for Barney, sweet Nettie Albright a secret admirer from days gone by shows up at Barney's high school reunion dance to save the day.
7:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Legend of Barney Fife
Warren gets to meet his idol Barney Fife. Barney is thrilled to have someone worship him (at long last!) but tries to sneak out of town when a real case needs to be dealt with involving an escaped convict.
8:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Look Paw, I'm Dancing
Opie wants to attend his first dance but first must learn how to dance.
8:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Eat Your Heart Out
Poor Andy Taylor. What's he to do when Goober's new sweetheart starts making cow eyes at him? What else? HEAD FOR THE HILLS!
9:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The County Clerk
Andy and Helen try to play matchmaker for Howard Sprague, the county clerk, but his mother wants to keep him close to home (and to her).
9:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Battle of Mayberry
Opie has to write an essay on the Battle of Mayberry for an essay contest. Everyone gives him their versions of the battle, including their own ancestors. When Opie and Andy go to the library to research the battle, they find out the REAL story was much less exciting than before believed...
10:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Manhunt
The state police arrogantly ask Andy and Barney to step aside while they search for an escaped convict in Mayberry. They believe that the Mayberry sheriff's department is not capable of doing real police work. Andy and Barney then show them how things are done in Mayberry to great success.
10:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Opie's Charity
Andy becomes upset when Opie contributes a measly three cents to the Underprivileged Children's drive.
11:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Alcohol and Old Lace
Andy and Barney, on a still-smashing spree, are surprised when a trail leads them to two spinster sisters.
11:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Barney Gets His Man
An escaped convict vows revenge on the man who sent him back to prison--Barney Fife.
12:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Opie's Hobo Friend
A ne'er-do-well vagrant has a bad influence on Opie.
12:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Pickle Story
It's canning time again, and Aunt Bee has put up another batch of pickles. After realizing the only thing they're good for is killing flies brave enough to land on them, Andy and Barney decide to substitute store-bought for her homemade and hand the originals to travelers passing through Mayberry. After the switch, Bee decides to enter her pickles in the county fair. Unfortunately, the perennial winner is Clara Johnson, Bee's best friend, and she has her heart set on winning her 12th blue ribbon in a row. Andy and Barney have no choice but to destroy all eight jars before she can enter, so they eat night and day until all the pickles are gone. They do their work proudly, but Bee decides that since the boys liked them so much, she will make a double batch.
1:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Manicurist
A beautiful manicurist from the city comes to Floyd's to set up shop. She makes all the wives in town extremely nervous as she manicures their husbands.
1:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Jailbreak
The state police come to town to catch some payroll robbers. They want Andy and Barney to stay out of the way and let them handle it. The big boys end up needing Andy and Barney more than they thought.
2:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Barney and the Choir
When the awful sound coming from the Mayberry choir is narrowed down to Barney, the members decide they must get rid of him. Since no one has the heart to do it, they set him up telling him he is singing into a supersensitive microphone, while someone else is actually singing the part back stage.
2:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Aunt Bee the Warden
When the Mayberry jail, is filled to capacity by a group of moonshiners who blame Otis for their capture, Andy must find a new place for Otis to serve his term. He takes Otis home and places him in Aunt Bee's care. Aunt Bee decides to take advantage of the situation to get Otis to change his ways.
3:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Andy and Barney in the Big City
While staying in Raleigh, Barney believes he is witnessing a man casing the hotel clientele. Barney, is right in believing that there is a crime about to be committed, but he is tailing the house detective and has hooked up with the real crook.
3:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Andy on Trial
A news mogul swears revenge on Andy after he is arrested for what he deems a minor infraction. In retaliation, he sends a reporter to Mayberry to dig up whatever dirt she can on Andy. She poses as a college student writing a paper on local law enforcement. Barney, trying to impress her, starts to spout off about how he would do things differently. This leads to a lawsuit against Andy.
4:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Mr. McBeevee
While walking through the woods, Opie meets Mr. McBeevee, a telephone repairman. Opie, in describing his new friend to Andy and Barney, remarks McBeevee "lives in the tress" (climbs telephone poles to do his work) and "jingles when he walks" and "has 12 extra hands" (referring to the repairman's tools). Since Andy and Barney have not met McBeevee and are unable to track him down, they chalk Opie's enthusiastic description to childhood imagination. That is, until one day Opie comes home with a quarter McBeevee had given him. Andy immediately suspects Opie stole the quarter and takes him to the woods to return it. McBeevee, in the meantime, has been called away to assist fellow workers at another site and has left by the time Andy and Opie arrive. The sheriff takes Opie home to punish him, but backs off (to Barney's chagrin) when he believes his son. At the end of the episode, Andy goes to the forest and, having parked next to a telephone pole, fumes aloud, "Mr. McBeevee!" McBeevee immediately shows up, and the two become quick friends.
4:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Cow Thief
The mayor calls in an investigator from the state capital to help solve a string of cow thefts.
5:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Lawman Barney
Barney's ability to be a lawman is put to the test with some itinerant peddlers and he fails. His confidence is shattered until Andy steps in behind the scenes and warns these peddlers of "Fife the Fierce". Barney's next encounter with them leads him to believe he is truly respected. Unfortunately the peddlers learn the truth and confront him again. This time, with some help from Andy he rises to the challenge and truly demonstrates where his power comes from.
5:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Convicts-at-Large
Barney and Floyd run out of gas while coming home from a fishing trip. While looking for a telephone they find and are captured by three female escaped convicts.
6:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Bank Job
Barney tries to convince everyone of the lack of security of the Mayberry Bank. He is furious when no one will listen. He takes matters into his own hands, but ends up stuck in the bank vault instead. When real robbers come to the bank. However, Barney is proven right.
6:30p CT
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Barney and the Governor
Barney is goaded into ticketing the governor's car and mistakenly believes Andy is setting him up for a dressing-down by the governor. In fact, the governor is coming to Mayberry to give him a personal commendation for performing a job without showing favorites. In the midst of all the action, Otis secretly spikes the water tank, giving both Barney and Mayor Stoner a surprise snootful.
7:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Man in a Hurry
Big businessman Malcolm Tucker is stuck in Mayberry for the Sabbath when his car breaks down outside the city limits. He's soon driven to frustration when he finds there is no way to get anything done in this two-bit town until the following day. After finally getting Gomer's cousin Goober to fix the car, Tucker gives in to the mood and decides to stay the night.
7:30p CT
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Andy Discovers America
Opie doesn't like his new teacher "Old Lady Crump" because she gives too much homework. Andy says some things that Opie twists and tells to Miss Crump, who is furious. When she bursts into the Sherriff's Office, Andy realizes that "Old Lady Crump" is actually young and very attractive. Realizing that he has put his foot in his mouth, Andy straightens things out, and this is what seems to be a new beginning for Andy and Miss Crump.
8:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Barney's First Car
Barney uses his life savings of three hundred dollars to buy a new car. On his first drive, after he buys it, the car begins to fall apart. Eventually the car breaks down. A tow truck appears and Barney thinks its Gomer. It turns out that the tow truck is driven by the crook who sold him the car in the first place.
8:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Mountain Wedding
Andy and Barney visit the Darlings to rid them of Ernest T. Bass, who has his mind set on marrying daughter Charlene.
9:00p CT
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The Big House
When the state police leave two captured bank robbers in the custody of the Mayberry police department overnight Barney is determined to show the prisoners that the Mayberry jail is as good as any other. Unfortunately he has problems keeping them from escaping.
9:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Opie the Bird Man
Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new slingshot and takes it upon himself to raise the orphaned baby birds. After adopting them with the Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, Opie faces the difficult task of setting them free.
10:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Citizen's Arrest
Barney gives Gomer a ticket for making an illegal U-Turn, but when Barney does it, Gomer yells "CITIZINS ARREST!" Gomer said Barney did something illegal himself. Andy agrees, and says that he'd be happy to pay the money for Barney's own ticket. Barney locks himself in jail, and decides to quit. Gomer thinks of a plan to get them back together.
10:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Barney's Sidecar
Barney comes back from a police auction with a motorcycle and sidecar. His intention is to use it for patrols. After he upsets the whole town, Andy has to find a way to convince Barney to give up the bike.
11:00p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
My Fair Ernest T. Bass
Andy tries to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear when he takes it upon himself to turn Ernest T. into a presentable gentleman. The big test comes at Mrs. Wiley's weekly reception when Andy tries to pass him off as his cousin. Even Andy is surprised at E.T.'s progress when Mrs. Wiley places his accent as being definitely Back Bay Bostonian, but the whole scheme blows up when Bass smashes a vase over the head of a man who won't allow him to cut in for a dance with his chosen woman.
11:30p CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Three Wishes for Opie
Barney acquires some fortunetelling cards and a secret box. The cards promise magical occurrences, and when his promised wish is granted almost immediately, he becomes convinced that the box has mystical powers.
12:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Lodge
Andy invites Howard to join "The Regal Order of the Door to Good Fellowship" lodge. Howard's mother doesn't like the idea of Howard being around the other men, so she concocts a scheme whereby Howard will be denied membership. It's all a big misunderstanding, and Howard eventually is allowed to join the lodge.
12:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Barbershop Quartet
The Barbershop Quartet is missing one singer when Howard develops a sore throat. Andy, much to his dismay, must bring along a chicken thief who is a great singer. Andy has deep misgivings about this fellow and whether he will actually sing or try to break free.
1:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
The Ball Game
Andy umpires the baseball game for Mayberry but when he calls the final strike for the opposing team, everyone in town is angry at him until Howard Sprague steps up and teaches everyone about being fair to Andy.
1:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Big Fish in a Small Town
While fishing, Howard catches the legendary rare carp "Old Sam". He has Old Sam put at the local museum.
2:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Only a Rose
Aunt Bee is totally excited about her rose that she has been growing for over a year for the annual flower show. While Opie and Arnold are playing, however, they accidently destroy it.
2:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Dinner at Eight
With Aunt Bee off visiting relatives and Opie away on a Scout trip, Andy is home alone. He is ready to spend a relaxing evening when Goober arrives to keep him company. He insists on making his special spaghetti recipe. Andy gives in, eats heartily, and then is reminded by Goober of an invitation to Howard's for dinner. Andy goes to see Howard, who did not actually invite Andy at all. They still whip up some spaghetti, but then Andy realizes dinner was at Helen's. He rushes over, but is in hot water for being late so he must endure another dinner of spaghetti.
3:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
A Visit to Barney Fife
Andy visits Barney in Raleigh, and realizes that Barney isn't as successful as he has always claimed. Andy is able to help Barney solve a series of supermarket robberies and help him save his job.
3:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Barney Comes to Mayberry
Barney returns to Mayberry and rediscovers an old girlfriend who has become a movie star.
4:00a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Howard the Comedian
Howard gets an opportunity to appear on television and demonstrate his comedic talents. He's a great hit --except with the people of Mayberry, who are upset that he mentioned them in his jokes.
4:30a CT
The Andy Griffith Show
Goober's Contest
In order to boost business Goober has a contest at the gas station. The printer accidentally prints a ticket for $200 and Floyd wins the ticket--and Goober can't pay it.