The 6th season Episode of the Andy Griffith Show is where Aunt Bee won appliances on a game show is now out on DVD, looks like there watching it on a Zenith Color Roundie...

Coppertone Galore...

The prizes arrive in Mayberry

I bet he's never seen one of these before...

You mean it actually makes its own ice, get the smelling salts...

Look Ma, no wringer!

Interesting, appears to be a mixture of brands ...

Glenn!

To me, they look like a Frigidaire refrigerator, Whirlpool laundry, and a GE Mobile Maid.


May Frances Bavier rest easily. I adored her "Aunt Bee."

Lawrence/Maytagbear

Gotta keep all the sponsors happy!

My favorite episode: Aunt Bee and her pickles. God, that was funny. Second favorite was when she was nursing a broken down freezer that had side of beef in it during the summer time.

Is when Aunt Bea wanted to take her Flying Lesson, because almost all of her Friends had something that they had done for themselves and Aunt Bea felt out of place around them.

I liked the one when she did the Cooking Show on TV and Andy was taking over with the Cooking at home. Aunt Bea figured that out and quit the Cooking Show, to go back to Cooking for Andy, Opie and herself again at home.

Peace and TV Time Finest Memories, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...

Misc. rantings...

Talk about a "comfort" show. I always liked Aunt Bee. She reminded me of some of my Aunts. Always cooking something delicious and a spotless house. A bit of my Grandmas thrown in too.

And of course Don Knotts. I can still watch this expert in action and am amazed at the ease he can make a scene funny. As I get older, I enjoy watching the scenes where he is NOT over the top doing something goofy, but just easily bragging and telling 1/2 truths in a voice of experience. Or just quietly talking philosophically. Darn he was good.

Off the subject...who were the characters you DIDN'T like in the show?

For me, there were three.

Floyd the Barber....that guy's voice just sounds to me like a pervert. The hmmmmin and the hawwnnn. What is it with Floyd? Would you be comfortable with that guy cutting your hair? I bet he licked the combs before he put them in the solution. I imagine him having his mom stuffed in the basement a la Norman Bates.

Goober....while Gomer was obnoxious in kind of a funny way, Goober was obnoxious in all the worst ways. The guy prattles on and gossips like a woman. Heck, he crosses his legs like a woman! And what is with that hat? Only Jughead from the Archies has a hat like that. Where does one get a Jughead hat? What is it called? A modern Joker hat? All it needs is some bells sewn onto it. And what the hell is Goober short for anyways? Goobert? Gooberman?

Howard....When Don Knotts left, the best part of the show in my opinion, they tried to replace some of the spark with Howard. For some odd reason, they purposely made Howard so boring, and the producers thought this was funny. It wasn't funny, it was boring. Then they also made Howard cheap. Uncomfortably, squirmingly cheap. The worst episode was when he and the bakery lady fell in love, and took the train trip with Andy and Helen to get married. Howard wanted to cheap out on everything, the cheapest dinner, etc. His girlfriend wanted to live it up a little, and who can blame her. She was about to get stuck with Howard. Thankfully for her, and us, the marriage was called off. Lucky girl. I think she went on to be Ken Berry's wife on Mayberry RFD. You may remember that show, the depressing version of Andy Griffith, with carry over characters including, unfortunately, ahem, Howard and Goober.

The upside to Howard was seeing him in "The Getaway" with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw a few years later. He played a vet in that one, with his sexually repressed wife Sally Struthers. I would imagine Jack Dobson had some fun with this character, who he played just like Howard. His character was, of course, boring, and his wife became interested in the loser criminal that came to visit them for help and takes them hostage. When Howard the Vet finds out the crook and his wife are sleeping together, he hangs himself in the bathroom. If you want to see Howard hang himself and painted a grisly color, see "The Getaway". I have a feeling that Dobson enjoyed hanging the most boring character ever created!

I remember this episode, but don't remember noticing the Hoover handle ... and is that all you ever get to see? Anyone know which Hoover it was? I seem to remember her using a Model XXX in one episode. Guess this would have been quite an upgrade, at least for the rugs!

I don't ever remember a model XXX. I only remember her having Hoovers. There were some episodes with a vacuum stored in the kitchen by the back door, and it was a Hoover. There was an episode where either Gomer or Goober repaired her vacuum and it was a Hoover. Then there was the episode where they had the "Summitt" meeting at Andy's house. In the very beginning of that episode, Aunt Bea is using a Hoover Constellation to vacuum the upholstery. I just don't ever remember a Lux XXX at all. Tim

"Goober" is short for peanut, at least in the South. Maybe he was a small child. And then there's what my PE coach in the 9th grade said about dressing out, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. All boys have two b***s and a goober." For a while after that speech on the first or second day of class, he was known as Coach Goober when he was not around.

I used to watch to try to see what kind of stove was in Andy's home, but don't remember ever seeing it. They shot most of the kitchen scenes from over it. On the shelf at the back of the display on the program's stage, is that a Corning Electromatic Perk to the right of the disposer? I don't remember the brand of that orange and gray coffee pot at the far left. On the next shelf down, those two things that at first look like sawed off food processors are probably those Pyrex Cracker Barrel storage containers with the white plastic lid still in their retail packaging, or maybe electric juicers, but I don't think that they looked that modern then. One of those Pyrex Americana bowls is on top of them in brown with the gold decoration. That's gonna be a dark kitchen

In the 5th still from the program, they have the WP washer and dryer backwards with the dryer door opening against the washer. That's Maytag positioning.

People who worked with her on the show said that she was always complaining about the lax production standards, poor writing, etc, like she was slumming.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm not 100% sure, but that handle looks like it could be from a polisher and not from a vacuum. Had it been a vacuum there would be a switch on the back and the cord coming out.
That handle looks like it has the cord clip on the back and not on the side.

As someone who lives in Charlotte, that show and the characters are sacred here and anybody who says anything negative.......well, them's fightin words!

A few comments based on what I haved read. I only remember Hoovers of various models being in the backround and once, I remember Aunt Bea using one. Then there was the episode when Barney got tired/fed up/discouraged of being the Deputy, so he became a Hoover salesman and I am almost positive his "demonstrator" was a convertible 65.

My partner and I always felt Howard was the town closet case. His mother, (Mabel Albertson, Jack Albertson's sister and Darrin Stevens mother as well), was totally overbearing, (whoops!-- Gay sterotyping), and ran his life as he was living with her. Fits the type for the 1960's.

Poor Floyd. After Howard McNear, the actor portraying Floyd, had a major stroke, he was much more whinny and nasal. They would only shoot him from one side and his movements were limited. Let him cut my hair..........probably not. Bue when Barbara Eden appeared one time as the manicurist, I would have gladly be seated in her chair!

I always adored Aunt Bea and her patrician voice. She sounded like Mrs Trumble, (Elizabeth Patterson), from, "I Love Lucy". My favorites with her are when Andy always reminds her that she is part of the family and that if they ever move or if he ever marries she will always be with them. So unlike today.

I still watch it daily when I am home. Thanks again Robert for the pictures. That show is part of the American lexicon.