dirty dealings, cronyism and malfeasance in office in Mayberry

dirty dealings, cronyism and malfeasance in office in Mayberry

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


A Big time City newspaper editor and Publisher seeking revenge on hick, too good to be true sheriff of Mayberry Andy Griffith, sends a foreign reporter [ she's Canadian], in disguise to Mayberry, North Carolina sometime in the near distant past, to ruin good guy Taylor. Sexy reporter posing as a " college kid"  according to Deputy Fife accuses said Sheriff Taylor of Cronyism, dirty dealings and malfeasance in office.

Informal trial and hearing is held in the local courthouse.

At trial hick deputy Fife turns tables on big city lawyer with from the heart testimony and exposes school girl reporter for what she is " big City fast fun girl come to Mayberry to cause trouble with unsuspecting Men."

Episode ends happily, Emma Watson gets her medicine, delivered in fruit jars carried in trunk of squad car [ Emma Watson not to be confused with Harry Potter actress].

Barney and Andy still friends but seeds of discord are planted that leads Fife to move to " threes company" playing role of a strangely dressed comedian who has lost his mojo.

Interestingly town drunk Otis is credited in " Variety" as being in episode but never appears but is only mentioned in oral testimony between Fife and school girl reporter. In infamy Otis will now always be remembered as a drunk because of the internet.

Ruta Lee who plays reporter was also in "7 brides for 7 brothers" not to be confused with " 7" the horror story with Brad Pitt as a new detective whose wife loses her " pretty little head".

Later in Mayberry series the theme of Taylor's malfeasance is revisited when Barney accuses Andy of 76 counts of malfeasance when they run against each other for sheriff.

Politics can be a little confusing at times.