
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 asks the judge if she can legally keep Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.

Uncle Joe convinces two overweight women that the Shady Rest is really a reducing farm, where their loss is management's gain.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe arrives in Hooterville with a railroad tycoon, who is determined to purchase the Cannonball.

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