
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.

Betty Jo has finally met a man she likes, but he seems more interested in tinkering on cars than he is working on a romance.

Uncle Joe wants to cash in on the recent Beatlemania fever, by making up a girl group named The Ladybugs, starring his nieces and Sheriff Ragsdale's daughter.

After selling a painting, Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to success.

A pair of crooks plans to rob the Cannonball of its bank shipment.