Asked if he had to eat a lot of pickles for the episode, Knotts laughed and said, “Oh yeah, because we had to keep shooting scenes over and over again. I don’t know how many we ate that day.

Knotts called Griffith the next day and suggested that Sheriff Taylor needed a deputy. In his book Andy and Don: The Making of ... of frightened mugging by the rubber-faced Knotts. “ ...