
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.
Detective Barney Fife, of the big city police department, pays a visit to his old hometown Mayberry; he goes to the premiere of a former girlfriend's movie.
Andy's perennial romance with Helen is jolted a bit when Andy's old high school sweetheart moves back to town.
Aunt Bee has a brief fling as co-owner of a Chinese restaurant.
Floyd decides to give up his Mayberry barbershop when Howard Sprague buys the building and raises the rent fifteen dollars a month.