
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.

Staid county clerk Howard Sprague becomes a comic and performs on a TV amateur hour.

County Clerk Howard Sprague volunteers to become the Big Brother of a high school boy.

The Darling family returns to Mayberry and asks Andy for help in dealing with Ernest T. Bass, a mountain man who keeps pursuing Briscoe's married daughter Charlene.

Opie meets Arnold Winkler, a spoiled kid who teaches him how to manipulate Andy into increasing his allowance by throwing tantrums.