
Andy Taylor is the widower sheriff of the small, sleepy North Carolina town of Mayberry. Andy and son Opie live with Aunt Bee, who takes care of the family. Andy's deputy is his bumbling but neurotically hilarious cousin, Barney Fife. Among Andy's Mayberry friends is the town's resident barber, Floyd.

Andy faces some new problems when Aunt Bee buys a secondhand car.

Opie is reluctant to attend the school party after he learns that it is a dance.

Goober falls in love with the new waitress in town, but she has eyes for Andy.

Barney moves into the courthouse jail after his landlady evicts him. When he learns that she is planning to sell her home and marry someone she just met, Barney suspects that she is the victim of a con man.