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Ellie Comes to Town: Directed by Don Weis. With Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Elinor Donahue, Don Knotts. A problem with ethics soon puts a lovely new lady pharmacist on the town's black list over withholding pills from a senior citizen simply because she has no prescription for her regular medication.
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- Comedy, Family
- Don Weis
- 1960-10-24
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When Mayberry's local pharmacist falls ill, his niece Ellie Walker steps in as a temporary replacement - and creates turmoil with the town's resident hypochondriac.
Ellie Walker comes to town to help her uncle Fred Walker run the drugstore while he is sick. Ellie is fresh out of pharmacy school (she has a "PhG,” so Andycalls her a "Pharmacy Gal") and a "by the book" kind of girl. When Emma comes in and wants her pills, but doesn't have a prescription, Ellie won't give them to her. Emma reports this to Andy, as...
Barney attempts and fails to recite from memory the Sheriff's Rules, a gag repeated with The Preamble to the Constitution in episode 408 Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain.This episode marks the first appearance of Ellie Walker, Andy's first love interest in the series. Andy usually seemed to gravitate toward educated, professional women.Ellie's diploma bears the fictitious name "Bernard University.” Perhaps a reference to Barney Fife, whose name is actually Bernard.Ellie's diploma also bears her full first name as "Elinor,” the same way Elinor Donahue spells it. The usual spelling is Eleanor.The drugstore has a window display on the outside, facing the courthouse, but there is no corresponding window on the inside of the drugstore.
Emma Watson: (threatening to boycott the drug store)"Come Christmastime, don't expect me to buy my cotton balls from you!" Emma: "Bad, Bad, Sheriff!" Emma: "I hope that ain't more soup" Emma: "I'm goin' downhill fast and you're the one that pushed me."
New pharmacist Ellie Walker comes to town to help out her ailing uncle and quickly incurs the wrath of Emma Brand, and the town, by refusing to sell Emma her pills without a prescription. Emma, a hypochondriac, takes to her sickbed and milks it for all its worth.
This classic series takes us to America's favorite small town, Mayberry. "The Andy Griffith Show" serves up wit and warmth as Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and bumbling Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) solve the town's misdeeds.
Ellie Comes to Town. Available on Pluto TV, Paramount+, Prime Video, iTunes. S1 E4: Ellie Walker, a pretty young graduate pharmacist, moves to Mayberry to help her uncle out in the local drugstore. Comedy Oct 24, 1960 25 min. TV-PG.
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