The Andy Griffith Show: The Shoplifters (1964)
Season 4, Episode 21
10/10
Tol Avery was so good as 2nd of 3 Ben Weavers
17 May 2022
Wow! What an episode! So many big laughs. Every scene in Weaver's store was classic TAGS hilarious. I like the uncredited shoppers crossing paths with incognito Barney. The graveyard shift store closed scene is one of TAGS best. Ben Weaver (Tol Avery), Barney, and sleeping Asa (Charles Thompson). Nervous Barney waving a loaded gun activating the cash register, and pulling the speak cord on the Bozo clown, are gut busting funny. Love Weaver's line to Asa, "There was enough noise to wake the dead, and you slept through it". A little tense when Andy opens the door with Barney having a loaded gun.

Little old lady (Lurene Tuttle) is hardly recognizable frumped up to look older from her other classic TV appearances.

Interesting how poorly trained Barney is on questioning, and arresting shoplifters protocol. That reflects badly on Andy.

One of my favorite TAGS epilogues. Little old lady has a lot of tricks up her sleeve.
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