Ken made some good points about episodes of TAGS which had similar plots to episodes of Mayberry R.F.D. There are also episodes of Gomer Pyle - USMC that parallel episodes on TAGS.
In Barney on the Rebound, Barney is accused of "proposing" to a girl who turns out to a con artist after his money, and of course in the end Andy saves the day. The very same thing also happened to Gomer, and Sgt. Carter had to try to get him out of the mess. In Andy Saves Gomer, Gomer smothers Andy with all sorts of unwanted favors after Andy "saved Gomer's life." This very same story was also used on Gomer Pyle - USMC, only with Sgt. Carter receiving all of the unwanted attention. They even used the same ending gag, with Carter pretending to be working on a leaking gas stove. Obviously, there had to be some sort of agreement among members of whatever union the writers belonged to. Perhaps the writers would ask permission from other writers before writing such episodes, or perhaps the original writers were paid a fee even though they didn't get screen credit. Too bad Harvey Bullock isn't with us anymore, this would have been the perfect question to ask him. Or maybe we asked him years ago and it's in the archives somewhere. Paul Mulik Sent from my U.S. Cellular BlackBerry® smartphone _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
