
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.

A pack of hunting dogs overruns the Mayberry courthouse just as Andy is trying to impress a state official.

Mayberry's small-town methods prove more effective in capturing a fugitive than those of the state police.

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.

When Aunt Bee goes away for a visit, Andy and Opie discover the problems of bachelorhood.