Followers of The Andy Griffith Present first met wild-eyed mountain man Ernest T. Bass within the Season 3 episode “Mountain Marriage ceremony.” A neighbor of the musical hillbilly clan the Darlings, Bass, performed by Howard Morris, figured that proximity would put him first in line to marry sole Darling daughter Charlene. When Charlene married soldier Dud Wash as a substitute, Bass took noisy exception — and The Andy Griffith Present earned one its most memorable recurring characters.