The Andy Griffith Show Episode 13: Mayberry Goes Hollywood

Originally Aired on Jan 2, 1961.   Average User Rating: 4.2 out of 10  (71 entries).

A hollywood producer visits Mayberry and, taken with the town's charm, decides to use it as the setting of a new film. The town members become screen-struck and busily go about giving Mayberry a face-lift, changing everything the producer liked. Just before the citizens are about to cut down a landmark oak tree, the producer stops them and tells them what Mayberry's appeal was to him: the townspeople's simple, honest, down-to-earth ways.

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comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 2/18/2005 7:00:29 PM PST:

"This was a good one! The Mayor cracked me up." - Jimmy from L.A.

comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 12/2/2004 7:39:06 PM PST:

"To correct a previous post, Andy calls Barney "Smokey Bear," not "Smokey the Bear." Also, what's the deal with changing Floyd's last name? He's Floyd Colby in this episode, I remember him being a Beasley before he was a Lawson. At the beginning, how funny that they describe their friend's visit to Hollywood - picking up Gary Cooper's paper then being told to get off the grass. This is exactly how they later 'actually' visited Caesar Romero's home in the Hollywood visit! Also, didn't the Mayor's daughter show up later as Lydia? Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Ye wild whistly blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where, wild in the woodlands, the primroses blow; There oft, as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As, gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dreams. " - Rusty from NC

comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 8/20/2004 3:33:30 PM PST:

"Mayor Pike shows his true, forward-thinking nature in this one. "Are you gonna let 'em make fun of our little fat mayor?"" - J-Kay from Louisville, KY

comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 9/19/2003 6:30:17 AM PST:

"The previous review is a typically overblown and underwritten diatribe written by someone without a spellchecker, who is somehow impressed with his own intelligence. Get lost, schmuck." - Ana Olivares from Odessa, Texas

comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 7/21/2003 9:32:53 AM PST:

"A typically overated episode about the fake world of Hollywood considering the all to seroius tone of the show wastghis episode was to dragy" - Bill Villemaire from Burflington

comment about 'Mayberry Goes Hollywood' posted 5/23/2003 10:14:34 AM PST:

"Flow gently sweet Afton..." - Kenneth S. Reedy, FLMI,PCS,PAHM,ACS,ARA,AIRC,AIAA from Greensboro, NC