DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Andy and Barney must contend with a goat with a bellyful of dynamite before he goes “blooie.” Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Cy Hudgins tells Mayor Stoner that folks are saying the main reason he pushed so hard to get an underpass for Mayberry is because the highway will run right past his brother’s filling station. A rear entrance to Barclay’s Jewelry Store in Mayberry is shown. Old Miss Vickers calls the courthouse after each blast. She worries it means that Yankee cannons are approaching. Bernard “Barney” Fife is a fictional character in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts. Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow paced, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina. He appeared in the first five black and white seasons (1960 — 1965) as a main character, and, after leaving the show at the end of season five, made a few guest appearances in the following three color seasons (1965 — 1968). He also appeared in the first episode of the spin-off series Mayberry RFD (1968 — 1971), and in the 1986 reunion telemovie Return to Mayberry. Don Knotts had previously co-starred on the “Steve Allen Show”, along with Tom Poston, Pat Harrington, Jr., and Louis Nye—which is where a frantic, twitching “man on the street” character was introduced. He created Deputy Barney Fife in the same fashion, as a hyperkinetic but comically inept counterpart to Mayberry’s …
