
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.

Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her, he has just been drafted.

Billie Jo discovers that her late father wanted her to be a doctor.

A man travels to Hooterville to investigate a line connection.

Kate wants to hide the Hooterville Cannonball to save it from the scrap heap.