
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.

Jim Lindsey, a guitarist from Mayberry who becomes famous while playing in a band, returns to town after failing his solo career.

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

Aunt Bee scolds Opie and tells him to stay away from the courthouse after he handcuffs a classmate to a flagpole; Opie, annoyed at the situation, decides to run away from home.