Talk:List of The Andy Griffith Show episodes

message: Now that the production/airdate battle has subsided, somebody seems intent on removing information from the episode descriptions and adding the "disc number."  I personally could care less which disc an episode appears on--we're not selling DVDs here--and it hardly seems relevent to a list of episodes in the order they were produced.  Furthermore, why take out the airdate number, guest stars (e.g. "James Best" info was removed from "The Guitar Player" desc.), and other notable info, which as far as I'm concerned, is more important than the disc number?  My guess is somebody's trying to make the list match the descriptions on their DVDs, not realising they're removing relevent info.  Very unnecessary.
:They did it again... I reverted it.  --rogerd 23:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And again today.  I reverted it Ee60640 23:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

text: He sure seems intent on getting those disc numbers in there.  Seems like a lot of work to have to keep redoing.  Poor guy.  It's probably some lowly advertising drone from Paramount's Marketing department whose boss is making him pimp out their DVDs on the Internet. Wavy G 20:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DVD Numbers 

message: # Upload All ScreenshotsI have all the screenshots so this will be something I will need to take care of on my own, and it may take quite a while to upload all 249 screenshots.  We shouldn't start our revisions until this is done or else there will be tons of broken image links.
# Convert all episodic information to new table structure
## Divide workload between volunteers.  Each volunteer will be responsible for converting 2 or 3 years worth of episodes to the new structure.  (Don't change the order)
## We'll pick a week or two timeframe to get our conversion work done.  This will minimize the possibility of others screwing up our work by editing the live list in the middle of this transition.
# Fix the name of this article.
## The alternate episodics list will need to be renamed or deleted (after we are done using info from it to help our updated article)
## This article will then need to be renamed to the correct article name (with "The")
# Congratulate ourselves on a job well done.  :)
::I'll help.  Why not?  Seems like an easy job, at least as far as the rest of us are concerned.  I mean, the information is already there.  We just need to put into the new format.  I like the layout you proposed.  I also like the idea of doing the gray shades for the B&W list and the beige/green boxes for the coloured ones. Also, redirect the old list to the new on when it's all completed. Wavy G 03:52, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since starting this article I had no idea it would end up looking this fantastic.  Yes, yes and YES to the way it is going.  Thanks to all of you for making this the best episode list in the entire Wikipedia.  Ee60640 08:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Process

message: Who cares about original production order?  When the show originally aired it wasn't aired in order of production, so the list should be in order of air dates so that anyone who is watching the show IN ORDER OF AIR DATES (ie: watching it in the same order that it was originally seen), they can follow the list better.  Sure, production date is interesting...but it could be a side note, not the order list.  If no one else corrects the order, I probably will...because it is the better way to list it. 01:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, a lot of people care about it, because the subject has been discussed to death, and the general consensus is production order. Wavy G 17:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree.  I don't think production order makes any sense either BUT there's a historic reason why this show uses production order, which is totally against logic and the nearly universal standard of airdate order.  For whatever original reason The Andy Griffith Show's syndicator used the production order only for over forty years of locally syndicated rebroadcasts.  Because of this, a loyal following of fans and books written on the show all used production order too.  (Some written in the past several years have chosen to break with tradition)  It may not be logical and it may be the opposite of most other shows, but that is most definitely the most commonly used episode numbers order/list for this particular show. Fife Club 19:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Time to rethink this. Production order may have been used in syndication, but who, seriously, watches any show on a regular basis in syndication anymore? Perhaps an episode or two here and there when bored, but anyone worth their weight in salt only watches shows on DVD now...and they use AIRDATES as the order.  I think it is time to ignore the past on this one, since most people now discovering this show (as I have) will see the episodes in order of airdate...not production date.  Donaldd23 13:31, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Another good reason is continuity...take Season 4 for example.  If you go in order of Production, the Gomer joins the USMC in Production # 107...but then he shows up in several episodes after that as still being a civilian.  In order of air date, he doesn't join the service until the last episode of season 4...which is how it will be seen when watching it on DVD.  Your thoughts?  Donaldd23 00:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Production order

message: OK, I am not sure if I am messing anything up (I know how long it has taken this page to get right), but both episodes #160 and #161 have the title :This is the first color episode to be produced.
I am removing it from 161. If I am in error, just fix it.littlebum2002 15:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First color episode 

message: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia,and does summaries, not teasers: "But Brooke vows to escape again and head straight back to Mayberry to exact his revenge.", "... and creates turmoil with the town's resident hypochondriac." abd the like  are  teaser--the episodes had a specific conclusion, and it has to be stated--this is the sort of thing that might be in a tv guide. We should of course not have a full article on each episode, but we need more than one sentence. (And we it can all boioled down to one sentence, it has to cover the entire actions).    DGG ( talk ) 06:15, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Inadequate summaries

message: I am concerned that this article is becoming overly cluttered with bits of minor in-universe trivia that are really not appropriate for an encyclopedic article. Some examples of what I'm referring to:
* "On September 14, 1908, Jedediah Wakefield had be taken to the hospital after he was injured by his mule, Emmie."
* "Dirksen's mug shot number is 74582. His prison uniform number is 26043."
* "Ed Sawyer was an Army buddy of Joe Larson."
* "The price per copy of the Mayberry Gazette is 7¢."
I believe that these types of items should be trimmed out of the entries. I'm sure they're being added in good faith, but Wikipedia is not a list of trivia items, and these are too minor to be appropriate. I would like to hear what others think. Ithizar (talk) 01:33, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No one has yet replied to my concern about the article, so I am beginning the process of "pruning" many of these unencyclopedia trivia entries. I'm also a bit concerned, based on the way some of the episode summaries are written, that these summaries and bits of trivia are being lifted verbatim from the book The Definitive Andy Griffith Show Reference, which would be a copyright violation. Ithizar (talk) 21:55, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extremely Minor Trivia Items 

message: I just saw that episode and you got it all wrong.  Aunt Bee decided the jailhouse was a bad influence on Opie and convinced Andy of it.  Andy told him he had to stay out of the jail.  Aunt Bee tried to get him interested in planting spinach in the yard for something to do.  He got bored with that and went out looking for something to do.  He pried at the boards over the old mine's entrance until one came loose and there was a minor cave-in near the entrance(he just got dusty from it).  He then went and traded a can he was kicking for a whole mess of apples this kid was eating sitting on the back tailgate of a truck(I think it was a delivery truck).  He ate so many apples he got sick to his stomach-all of them, I believe-and then laid down in the back of the truck to sleep it off.  He was NOT attempting to runaway-the truck took off with him in the back while he was asleep.  Andy and Aunt Bee-after looking for him until after dark and getting worried out of their heads-got a call from somebody who told them where Opie was and how he came to be there.  They then decided that Opie could hang around the jail-except when Otis was making his weekly visit-if some of the bad influence was cut out.  Someone else can decide how they want to boil that down to a summary, but you at least ought to get it right when you write the summary.  If you last saw the episode 20 years ago, maybe you shouldn't be writing the summary at all(although it might've been just copied from some other site).Ronar (talk) 09:05, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Final episode of first season summary is way off 

message: That character appears in 2 episodes.  It has just come to my attention that 2 acrors play that character. Carlm0404 (talk) 00:55, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dud Wash character