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The Bookie Barber

Original airdate	April 16, 1962
Cast	Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife Ron Howard as Opie Taylor Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee Taylor Howard McNear as Floyd Lawson Herb Vigran as Bill Medwin Harry Swoger as Barbershop Customer Joe Stannard as Joey Unknown as Gordan
Directed by	Bob Sweeney
Written by	Harvey Bullock and R. Allen Saffian

SummaryEdit

When business gets too hectic, Floyd hires a second barber who turns out to be a bookie. Barney goes undercover as an old lady to catch them.

PlotEdit

Floyd the barber is overworked so when Bill Medwin walks into the shop looking for a job, he sees an opportunity. Andy encourages him to hire Medwin and accomplish his dream of having a two chair shop. He does and is amazed with an even greater increase in business, now from 'out-of-towners'. Andy becomes suspicious when he sees the same men going in to the shop everyday but it's information from the town's telephone exchange operator that makes him realize exactly what is going on: Bill Medwin is a bookie and the men who visit him are delivering the days collections from various betting offices. Barney decides to go undercover dressed as an old lady to get the goods on the criminals.

Notes/TriviaEdit

Although Floyd laments numerous times about having a "Two Chair Shop" this is the one and only time that Floyd's ever sports two barber's chairs.
This is the first time Barney dresses up as a woman. He did this again in The Bank Job.
When Barney first come out of the courthouse dressed as a woman, his dress has lace, a diamond pin, a not very many dots on the material. When he starts walking down the street, the dress doesn't have the lace, diamond pin, and has big flowers on the material.