
Andy Taylor is the widower sheriff of the small, sleepy North Carolina town of Mayberry. Andy and son Opie live with Aunt Bee, who takes care of the family. Andy's deputy is his bumbling but neurotically hilarious cousin, Barney Fife. Among Andy's Mayberry friends is the town's resident barber, Floyd.

Opie is jealous of all the time his father spends with his new girlfriend, so he feigns several illnesses to keep them apart.

Barney and Floyd run out of gas on their way home from a fishing trip. While looking for a telephone, they are captured and held hostage in a remote cabin by a group of escaped female convicts.

Floyd decides to give up his Mayberry barbershop when Howard Sprague buys the building and raises the rent fifteen dollars a month.

Andy visits Barney at the Raleigh police department and makes a hero out of his bumbling former deputy.