I've noticed that the Bicycle impounded in season 3's episode 21 "Opie and the Spoiled Kid" is the same bicycle Andy buys new as a reward to Opie in season 4s episode 8 "Opie's Ill Gotten Gain". This same bicycle makes a few more appearances during the color era, as well.

And I believe that sleek Thunderbird driven by "Baily's Bad Boy" in season 2 episode 15 is one and the same with the car given as a gift to Peggy McMillan in "Andy's Rich Girlfriend" in season 3, episode 2.

I noticed recently when watching an episode of Gomer Pyle that inside the barracks there is a very large square metal box, I believe it's a heater, but it's the same giant heater that's next to the door on the inside of the Sheriff's office on Andy Griffith. At least I think so.

I've also seen the same phony cover on a magazine on a couple different Columbia shows, Hazel and Bewitched would both use the same magazine cover magazine that either Endora or Dorothy Baxter would be reading. Harpies was the name of the magazine. I've seen that magazine other places but couldn't tell you where now.

I noticed recently when watching an episode of Gomer Pyle that inside the barracks there is a very large square metal box, I believe it's a heater, but it's the same giant heater that's next to the door on the inside of the Sheriff's office on Andy Griffith. At least I think so.

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Is this the one you are speaking of? Approx 11:15 in the video (good episode btw)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6opjnk

Another prop that is kind of a head scratcher shows up in season 3, episode 26 "Andys English Valet.

As Malcom Meriwether rides his bicycle down the sidewalk in front of Andy's house. There is a 1950 Ford Custom Deluxe sitting in Andy's driveway..

Aunt Bee doesn't drive at this stage, we know it's not Opie's......so who's car is it? We never see Andy driving it. But it does serve an interesting plot device when Malcom later tucks Andy into the back seat with a blanket over his lap, in preparation for being chauffeured to work like an English Noble.

That Ford just doesn't "fit" in that driveway.


https://i.imgur.com/xUOaNWi.png

No, I don't think that's quite it. Maybe, guess I'd have to watch the episode again. But the box I saw on Gomer & Andy was big and square with a hole type thing in the center front. The Gomer episode I noticed this in was an early 3rd season color episode. It was green on Gomer's show, it was gray on Andy's (b/w) show. If you've seen that big box next to the inside doorway entrance in the Sherriff's office then you've seen it.

No, I don't think that's quite it. Maybe, guess I'd have to watch the episode again. But the box I saw on Gomer & Andy was big and square with a hole type thing in the center front. The Gomer episode I noticed this in was an early 3rd season color episode. It was green on Gomer's show, it was gray on Andy's (b/w) show. If you've seen that big box next to the inside doorway entrance in the Sherriff's office then you've seen it.

Can you narrow it down as far as where the heater was located in the Gomer Pyle show? (Gomer's barracks, Carter's barracks.....front room, back room.....stuff like that.)

I've noticed that the unit in the Mayberry courthouse get's shuffled around a lot, sometimes the outlet is pointed towards the front doors, some times towards the jail cells, sometimes in the middle.
And, considering those units have a rigid flue as well as a gas line attachment of some sort, they really are not the kind of thing that the occupant moves around a lot just for comfort. The firebox is usually heavy firebrick.

So, your theory best explains the apparent movement of the unit, if it was borrowed from time to time.

I guess a lot of thus stuff we just have to write off that when they were creating this series, they were just trying to create entertainment, in half hour blocks. And had no idea they were creating an institution that people would fascinate over 50-60 years later.

There is an elephant foot umbrella stand at the end of The Andy Griffith Show episode, "The Cow Thief" in Oct 1962. A year later it is in the Dick Van Dyke Show at the beginning when they are at the auction in the episode, "The Masterpiece."

The heater above--is this the same one Andy and then later Carter saved Gomer from, when there was a gas leak?

If so not on ly did they recycle the script, but the heater, too.

There is an elephant foot umbrella stand at the end of The Andy Griffith Show episode, "The Cow Thief" in Oct 1962. A year later it is in the Dick Van Dyke Show at the beginning when they are at the auction in the episode, "The Masterpiece."

That is a good find.
And then there is this picture hanging on the wall in the Ricardo as well as the Taylor living rooms

https://www.metv.com/stories/this-painting-from-i-love-lucy-was-later-used-to-decorate-the-andy-griffith-show-too

Thrifty of them!

Another prop that is kind of a head scratcher shows up in season 3, episode 26 "Andys English Valet.

As Malcom Meriwether rides his bicycle down the sidewalk in front of Andy's house. There is a 1950 Ford Custom Deluxe sitting in Andy's driveway..

Aunt Bee doesn't drive at this stage, we know it's not Opie's......so who's car is it? We never see Andy driving it. But it does serve an interesting plot device when Malcom later tucks Andy into the back seat with a blanket over his lap, in preparation for being chauffeured to work like an English Noble.

That Ford just doesn't "fit" in that driveway.


https://i.imgur.com/xUOaNWi.png

Okay, confession time. I really bungled this one. If you watch the first 15 seconds of the episode, Aunt Bee states that "Mrs Edwards is leaving her car here in the driveway".....which evidently I have always missed.
So the car's presence s NOT the mystery I had imagined it was.:blush: