Why do the outfits worn by the two “G-men” on the episode “A Black Day for Mayberry” change?
This one is for those of you that don’t get . Rance Howard told me about this blooper in the episode “A Black Day For Mayberry.” It seems that originally there were two other actors that were cast as the U.S. Treasury agents. During the filming one of them stood up and said, “I apologize if I have offended anyone” and at that point collapsed into a seizure. It was then that Rance was asked to fill in, but the suit for the part didn’t fit Mr. Howard, so that’s when they put him in one of Andy’s suits. Rance said that the reason that they didn’t edit the other gentleman out had something to do with a contractual agreement. That’s why you see two different men, wearing different clothes, playing the same part in the same scene.
