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The series focused on the life of Mayberry’s sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and the people in his orbit: his son, his aunt, his best friend, and the various residents and passers by of the small community.

The show became an amazing mixtureof witty comedy, homespun humor, and touching interpersonal relationships which never crossed the line into bathos.

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Ed Sawyer, a mysterious stranger, arrives in Mayberry and disrupts the lives of the townspeople because he appears to know everyone's name, intimate details about their lives, and other startling facts about them.

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When a stranger gets off the bus from New York City, everyone was curious in Mayberry

When he wanders into the barbershop - seems to know everyone.

He calls everyone by name and knowing things that no stranger should know .

They all got very suspicions as nobody knows who he is.

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In fact, Ed Sawyer's knowledge of the goings-on in Mayberry is mysterious and creepy.

Soon, he's accused of being everything from a foreign spy to a space alien.

He could have no friends or even be able to settle down.

Andy, on the other hand, seems to be the only one in town unwilling to judge Ed until he knows the facts.

Stranger in Town - PlotStranger in Town - Plot While Andy is calling the town's newspaper to

explain things, Ed is challenged by a terrified, angry and annoyed crowd who want to get him out of town.

Andy steps in - telling Ed's story and delivering a speech about how to treat people who may appear to be a little different.

Hearing how their "friendly" nature caused a total stranger to embrace them, all of them backs down and warmly welcomes him to town.

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Ed asks Andy for help and explains how Mayberry came to be his "hometown", revealing that he's a loaner with no family and no real home.

Then all revelaed, Andy has a friend in the army who was from Mayberry and loved the stories he told about "back home" so much that he began to take the town newspaper and told everyone that he was from Mayberry.

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Andy: Do you think people will ever go to the moon?Ed: Sure. I'm going there myself someday.Andy: Boy, you're already there!

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This episode marks Floyd the Barber's first appearance in the series although (as noted), he is not played by Howard McNear but by Walter Baldwin.

In this episode, the Mayberry Beauty Shop is located directly next to the barbershop. There is a door in the barbershop that goes into the beauty shop. Later, Monroe's Funeral Parlor and TV Repair shop is located next to the barbershop. The door connecting the two is never seen again.

Stranger in Town - CastStranger in Town - Cast Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy TaylorAndy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor Don Knotts as Deputy Barney FifeDon Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife Ron Howard as Opie TaylorRon Howard as Opie Taylor Walter Baldwin as Floyd LawsonWalter Baldwin as Floyd Lawson Phil Chambers as JasonPhil Chambers as Jason William Lanteau as Ed SawyerWilliam Lanteau as Ed Sawyer Bill Erwin as George SapleyBill Erwin as George Sapley George Dunn as PeteGeorge Dunn as Pete Sara Seegar as Mrs. BuntleySara Seegar as Mrs. Buntley Marlene Willis as Lucy MatthewsMarlene Willis as Lucy Matthews Pat Colby as Bill MatthewsPat Colby as Bill Matthews Directed by : Don WeisDirected by : Don Weis Written by :Arthur StandeWritten by :Arthur Stande

Stranger in Town - WhyStranger in Town - WhyGreat funGreat funHumor can be seen as anything Humor can be seen as anything

that makes us laugh or is that makes us laugh or is amusing, or the ability to amusing, or the ability to recognize what is funny about a recognize what is funny about a situation or person.situation or person.

Has a great meaning and always Has a great meaning and always remind me of my home townremind me of my home town