
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.

Uncle Joe decides to go into the cologne business.

General store clerk Herbie Bates, is name assistant general manager of the Shady Rest by Kate, making Uncle Joe feel like he is being replaced.

Uncle Joe becomes a justice of the peace with hopes of attracting honeymooners.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with his son Homer Jr., who is a carbon copy of his dad.