by scoring a perfect game. Howard even parachuted from an airplane to appease a thrill-seeking lady friend. Howard had two brushes with stardom. First he appeared on the "Colonel Tim's Talent Time" television show performing his stand-up comedy act, which consisted of personal affronts to his neighbors and "one-horse" jokes about Mayberry, causing him to be temporarily snubbed by the townsfolk. In the ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' episode "The Panel Show", the Mayberry city council sends Howard with Emmett Clark to a New York City TV station to promote traditional, small town values. Howard does a backspin and becomes an unabashed New Yorker, replete with a loud, paisley Nehru suit and hair bangs. Additional appearances In the 1986 television movie Return to Mayberry, Howard was revisited (along with most of the surviving cast). In a funk about aging, the clerk was seen throughout the movie in various hues of hair color. Dodson appeared in character as Howard Sprague on It's Garry Shandling's Show in the 1990 episode "The Day Howard Moved In". References External links Fictional characters from North Carolina The Andy Griffith Show characters Television characters introduced in 1966