The Legend of Barney Fife
While Barney is back in Mayberry, a convict escapes and heads to Mayberry to get even with him for sending him to prison the year before.
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"This is the second of two consecutive episodes where Barney Fife has returned to Mayberry. The purpose of his visit was to attend the reunion, but that was the previous episode. This week he goes down to the courthouse with Andy to meet the new deputy, Warren Ferguson. Because everyone is praising Warren, Barney is at first defensive about this visit. But when he actually meets Warren, he's lavishing praise on Barney as the gold standard of what a deputy should be. Then a call comes in while Andy and Warren are out of the courthouse, and Barney answers it. It is the warden of the state ..."
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The run-down exterior of the train depot, seen in the climax of the story, was the original structure on the 40-Acres lot for the famous train depot scene in Gone with the Wind (1939), 30 years earlier. Over the course of the Griffith series it can occasionally be seen distantly down at the far end of Mayberry's main street.
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While Barney is back in Mayberry, a convict escapes and heads to Mayberry to get even with him for sending him to prison the year before.