No messing around with characters to fit a script. All the regular actors play their original themes. Andy the intermediary, Howard the outsider, Emmett the whiner, Goober the imbecile, Opie the pest, Bee the worrier. A wiity script. Strong introduction of Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman). Opie's odds are 30x too high. Why would the Mt Pilot team volunteer to give Mayberry odds without any negotiation? Opie gets a lot of milage out of the green and orange shirt. Howard (Jack Dodson) appeared to have the best bowling form. Andy, Goober, and the Mt Pilot team looked like novices. No one though had a big hook needed to get pin action to be a truly good bowler.