
Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters - Bobbie Jo, Billie Jo and Bettie Jo - run the Shady Rest Hotel, a small-town inn where city folks come to enjoy the quiet. Nothing much happens around Hooterville, so it's up to the girls to come up with their own schemes for fun.

Kate faces a mother's dilemma when her youngest daughter falls in love.

Thanks to Uncle Joe, everyone in the valley knows that Steve is going to marry Betty Jo -- except Betty Jo.

A brochure for the Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely distributed.

Homer plans to keep the Cannonball from making its Christmas caroling tour.