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Watch The Andy Griffith Show online: Episode 1 Mr. McBeevee

While walking through the woods, Opie meets Mr. McBeevee, a telephone repairman. Opie, in describing his new friend to Andy and Barney, remarks McBeevee ""lives in the tress"" (climbs telephone poles to do his work) and ""jingles when he walks"" and ""has 12 extra hands"" (referring to the repairman's tools). Since Andy and Barney have not met McBeevee and are unable to track him down, they chalk Opie's enthusiastic description to childhood imagination. That is, until one day Opie comes home with a quarter McBeevee had given him. Andy immediately suspects Opie stole the quarter and takes him to the woods to return it. McBeevee, in the meantime, has been called away to assist fellow workers at another site and has left by the time Andy and Opie arrive. The sheriff takes Opie home to punish him, but backs off (to Barney's chagrin) when he believes his son. At the end of the episode, Andy goes to the forest and, having parked next to a telephone pole, fumes aloud, ""Mr. McBeevee!"" McBeevee immed

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