The Andy Griffith Show Episode 3: The Guitar Player

Originally Aired on Oct 17, 1960.   Average User Rating: 3.8 out of 10  (232 entries).

Andy helps local guitar player Jim Lindsey (James Best) find a job with "Bobby Fleet and His Band with a Beat." When Fleet's band arrives for a lunch stop in Mayberry, Andy arrests them for a parking violation and forces them to listen to Lindsey while jailed in the courthouse.

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comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 12/21/2006 7:51:34 PM PST:

"Can anybody tell me what kind of car or bus that was that Bobby Fleet drove?" - Quentin from Indiana

comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 6/21/2006 9:28:46 PM PST:

"Were some of the band members from I Love Lucy? They looked familar." - Michael from Hollywood

comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 10/27/2005 9:14:53 PM PST:

"Great episode! This one has all sorts of good stuff in it. Classic "rural" Andy, the abrasive Bobby Fleet, great music w/lots of guitar work and Barney's dance! Add in the top-notch verbal exchanges between Bobby Fleet and Andy, along with the happy-go-lucky Jim Lindsey, and you've got yourself one heckuva episode!" - albert from So. California

comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 7/16/2005 7:16:22 PM PST:

"I loved Barney's dancing, too. However, I wish they would've been more realistic. Being married to a guitar player and raising two sons that have a band now, I've seen lots of guitar players. Jim did NOT play a lick of those songs. #1 that was an acoustic guitar Jim was playing #2 the songs were played on an electric guitar #3 sometimes it was obvious that 2 electric guitars were playing #4 he wasn't doing the fingering right Other than that, it was a really cute episode." - marymertz1 from washington state

comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 7/13/2005 7:19:25 PM PST:

"I love the part of the episode when Barney starts dancing when the Bobby Fleet and the Band plays their music. It always keeps me in stitches." - LaTonya from Montgomery, AL

comment about 'The Guitar Player' posted 6/2/2005 12:28:59 AM PST:

"I like this one because Opie kicks Bobby Fleet while in Jail because he called his Pa " a hillbilly sheriff all the other good stuff was said by everyone else" - steve from LA