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Three Wishes for Opie

Original airdate	December 21, 1964
Cast	Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife Ron Howard as Opie Taylor Howard McNear as Floyd Lawson Aneta Corsaut as Helen Crump George Lindsey as Goober Pyle Burt Mustin as Jud Fletcher Unseen Characters Count Istvan Teleky Directed by Howard Morris Written by Richard M. Powell

PlotEdit

Barney buys a fortune-telling game and lets Opie try it out.

SummaryEdit

Barney gets Andy in trouble with Helen when he summons the two-hundred-year-old spirit of Count Istvan Teleky from a kit he bought at an auction. Opie is granted three wishes, which ironically all come to fruition. On his last wish however; Barney cuts him off from speaking- believing he knows what Opie's last wish is. The town begins to spread the rumor that Helen and Andy are going to get married. When Andy and Helen confront Barney and Opie about it, Opie finally explains that he didn't wish for them to get married- but that Helen would his teacher next year- which Helen then replies, she would be teaching Opie's grade the following year.

Trivia/NotesEdit

The bulk of this episode is seen in flashback, one of the few uses of the device on the show.
In this episode, the back room of the courthouse where Barney conducts his séances, has no back door to the outside. In a couple scenes, the wall that normally holds the door to the alley outside instead has a jail cell window at the top of the wall and no door. This window is complete with vertical iron bars and a very thick, sloping sill just like the windows in the jail cells.