
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 breaks a bottle of expensive perfume at his new job as a drugstore clerk.

A $500 bequest to the Mayberry church almost provokes a schism over how to spend it.

Goober has dreams of entering show business when he thinks he owns a genuine talking dog.

Andy's deputy upsets his weekend when he insists that a picnic will prove disastrous.