TV Guide Sundance TV Thursday

When a homeless man is found severely beaten in a middle-class neighborhood, Stone tries to prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.

A college student will accuse an admittedly promiscuous rock star with sexual assault, but the culprit claims that the act was consensual.

Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending an admitted racist charged with several random murders.

The police suspect a cover-up in the murder of a wealthy business man when his wife refuses to allow an autopsy after a verdict of death from natural causes.

Opie is given a lecture by Andy on keeping promises after he becomes friends with an 8-year-old who has run away from home.

Andy and Barney fix Goober up with Lydia Crosswaithe after they grow tired of Goober being a fifth wheel during their double dates.

When offered a job that would take him to South America, Andy persuades Barney to run for sheriff, but the election gets ugly when the offer falls through.

Barney stumbles upon a briefcase loaded with $250,000 in cash while chasing a hobo, and Barney and Andy soon learn the money is from a bank robbery.

A film crew from Hollywood contacts Andy to discuss their idea for a television show based on his reputation as a sheriff without a gun.

Aunt Bee's close friend's daughter visits the Taylor's after having a bad experience with her boyfriend back home, causing Andy's girlfriend to become jealous.

Barney creates hostility in Mayberry when he discovers that an old assault case was never resolved and attempts to close the case for good.

Opie and his friend Howie spice up the penny newspaper and publish it with gossip that was overheard, but some things are better left as gossip, not news.

After Aunt Bee thinks Andy is worried about her, she puts together a story linking herself to Orville Hendricks in romantic ways, the butter and egg man.

Skippy and Daphne are back in Mayberry to intentionally get pulled over for speeding and reckless driving so they can see Andy and Barney.

Newton Monroe, a hard luck itinerant peddler, doesn't seem to be able to do anything right, leading Andy to hatch a scheme to help him out.

Andy is outraged when he finds out Opie has done poorly in math, but Helen comes to Opie's rescue by telling Andy to be reasonable.

When the carnival has a rigged game that Opie blows all his money that he had saved up for Andy's birthday present on, Andy gets upset.

After struggling to find work for Jerry Miller, a one-man band who has lost his job with a traveling carnival, Andy hires him as a deputy.

After getting hired at the local market, Opie decides that Billy could use the job more than he could and decides to come up with a plan to get himself fired.

Andy becomes jealous when Helen starts canceling dates to work on projects with Frank Smith, who is only there for scholastic business.

When Malcolm returns to Mayberry, Andy offers him Ernest's position of crossing guard, causing Ernest to challenge Malcolm to a fight.

While Andy is away, an overzealous Warren arrests Aunt Bee and her friends when they run a Bingo game at the Ladies' Charity Bazaar.

A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.

Stone and Kincaid try to prove that a young woman believed to have planted a bomb had been brainwashed by a charismatic cult leader.

A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, bringing him face-to-face with the brilliant culprit who is seeking a new trial.

A lawyer will have to defend her teenage client, claiming he is violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.

A bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in America.

An emaciated, elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack, and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.

A millionaire friend of Schiff will not cooperate with the local police authorities who are following orders to investigate his son's kidnapping.

While they are searching for a stolen newborn baby, Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.

A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.

A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who is also an old friend of Detective Lennie Briscoe.

A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who has been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.

Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan will shoulder a heavy caseload that includes five unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel.

Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.

A minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver is not indicted.

In an attempt to lift Barney's spirits, Andy stages a small robbery and attempts to set his deputy up on a date with a timid seamstress.

Opie contributes a measly three cents to the Underprivileged Children's drive and Andy becomes extremely upset about Opie's miniscule donation.