This article from MeTV:

https://www.metv.com/lists/6-things-you-never-noticed-in-the-andy-griffith-show-favorite-mr-mcbeevee

This article from MeTV:

https://www.metv.com/lists/6-things-you-never-noticed-in-the-andy-griffith-show-favorite-mr-mcbeevee

That is great information. It's interesting how many times I've seen him acting in other tv shows and movies, only to wonder "Is that mr. McBeevee?" Gunsmoke, Bonanza, a good handful of movies. I think it's his eyesockets/forehead that cue my memory. Thank goodness for IMDBdotCom so I can satisfy my curiosity.

I even watched a rerun of Hitchcock's "The Birds" recently because they mentioned he played a despondent drunk in the movie.

LOL, there is a thread around here somewhere asking what Eddie Haskell's father did for a living, and I was tempted to answer that he worked trimming trees.

There were two Mr Haskells. George Petrie & Karl Swenson.

Wow, I just now realized that Mr McBeevie also played on Little House on the Prairie!

So what was mcbeevees job?? to climb trees to see if the birds were ok??
I can see if he climbed telephone poles to do maintence.

Apparently McBeevee climbed trees to trim branches that were too close to the phone lines. I'm not sure why phone lines were going through a wooded area.

Andy was usually pretty smart, but he was not so smart in this episode. Even though McBeevee was gone, Andy should have seen the phone lines, noticed trees that had been recently trimmed and branches on the ground and determined that someone was working in the area.

Today I went and checked out TAGS season 3 DVD at my local Library, and made my own copy of Mr McBeevee. It's amazing how much of the regular show gets cut out by TVLand to make room for commercials.
Today I saw the epilogue of the Mr McBeevee episode for the first time I can ever remember, and the part where Barney answers the phone and it's McBeevee calling to confirm he's coming to dinner...is perhaps one of the funniest sequences in the entire series.

Today I went and checked out TAGS season 3 DVD at my local Library, and made my own copy of Mr McBeevee. It's amazing how much of the regular show gets cut out by TVLand to make room for commercials.
Today I saw the epilogue of the Mr McBeevee episode for the first time I can ever remember, and the part where Barney answers the phone and it's McBeevee calling to confirm he's coming to dinner...is perhaps one of the funniest sequences in the entire series.
Pluto TV has a free 24/7 streaming TAGS channel.

Apparently McBeevee climbed trees to trim branches that were too close to the phone lines. I'm not sure why phone lines were going through a wooded area.
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Perhaps those were the phone lines out to Charley O'Malley's place? (and Emma Brand's lake cottage)

Pluto TV has a free 24/7 streaming TAGS channel.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately where I live high speed internet isn't an option. :(

Outright butchery is what TV Land is doing to this series!! Just watched a DVD version of Mr McBeevee right along side of the cut down version that TV Land runs...and the amount cut out....the entire epilogue..plus the earlier portion that depicted McBeevee on a telephone pole with a service phone,.. getting called away (a material part of the plot) plus a few odds and ends here and there.....is staggering. Not to mention the closing credits completely gone too. If they go much further the total commercial time will be greater than the program content that is left. I feel like calling to complain.

https://i.ibb.co/PzCSFfy/Mc-Beevee-Phone-Dual.webp

That is great information. It's interesting how many times I've seen him acting in other tv shows and movies, only to wonder "Is that mr. McBeevee?" Gunsmoke, Bonanza, a good handful of movies. I think it's his eyesockets/forehead that cue my memory. Thank goodness for IMDBdotCom so I can satisfy my curiosity.

I even watched a rerun of Hitchcock's "The Birds" recently because they mentioned he played a despondent drunk in the movie.

A favorite Hitchcock movie, but I haven't seen it since probably the 1980s, this is just the inspiration to view "The Birds" again.

Outright butchery is what TV Land is doing to this series!! Just watched a DVD version of Mr McBeevee right along side of the cut down version that TV Land runs...and the amount cut out....the entire epilogue..plus the earlier portion that depicted McBeevee on a telephone pole with a service phone,.. getting called away (a material part of the plot) plus a few odds and ends here and there.....is staggering. Not to mention the closing credits completely gone too. If they go much further the total commercial time will be greater than the program content that is left. I feel like calling to complain.

https://i.ibb.co/PzCSFfy/Mc-Beevee-Phone-Dual.webp

Leave TV Land behind, all eight seasons are on DVD, and I presume, uncut, and I've spotted the sets at Walmert for as low as five bucks each.