
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 is surprised at her old school teacher's new personality.

Betty Jo has made a new little friend, a dog which keeps following her everywhere she goes. Although she wants to keep him, Kate insists he must go.

Kate's friend Elsie comes to Shady Rest while waiting to have her baby.

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