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Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies have been left on their doorstep. Hector has a hectic time keeping them in line and cleaning up their messes without alerting the lady.

Rob is asked to write an amusing bulletin for the PTA bazaar. Richie is having a difficult time explaining to his friends just what his father does at work and he's taking out his frustration on his father. Laura thinks it would be a good idea for Rob to take Richie with him to the office for a day so he can see first hand what his dad does. Rob is skeptical this will work but agrees to give her plan a try.

Stuart takes the case of legendary bigger-than-life actress/dancer/singer Crystal Dart, she initially making a name for herself in the post-war era as the star of the Folies Bergère in Paris. She wants him to accompany her to a cabin at Lake Arrowhead that was owned by her estranged husband, Swiss national ski instructor and aspiring not too good actor Kurt Weibel, before they married, after which, in his poor financial state, she assumed the mortgage. She wants him evicted from the cabin where he is living - she having legal papers to dispossess him - before she begins divorce proceedings. She wants Stuart along more for protection than anything. Also accompanying them will be her biographer, Ken Dexter, so that Ken and Crystal won't lose any of their work time. Ken not only makes it clear to Stuart in private that he does not want to go, but for undisclosed reasons does not want him to get involved. Stuart also further learns directly from the horse's mouth that Janice Dexter, Ken's wife, believes Crystal has some evil hold over her husband, Janice who wants Crystal out of their lives so that Ken can work on what was supposed to be his first novel after spending his career thus far solely on biographies. Upon arrival at the cabin, Stuart gets a slightly different perspective of the marriage from Kurt. Due to a snowstorm and the only road being blocked, those at the cabin are temporarily cut off from the rest of the world, they who not only include Stuart, Crystal, Ken and Kurt, but out of circumstance Janice and Marie Lang, Kurt's longtime companion who he left when he met and married Crystal. There is an explosive atmosphere in the cabin in their confinement, Stuart who has to find out what is truly going on with this collective in sifting through what is the truth and what are lies among all the stories before something tragic happens.

Stuart is hired by husband and wife Vincent and Helen Blanton, in believing that their wealthy uncle, Cyrus Blanton, is being swindled by his neighbors, who are building a Utopian paradise community called Eden on their vast rural property, Uncle Cyrus joining their cause in adding his property for the community. Outwardly, the community, led by a man calling himself Mr. Paradise, has renounced any form of progress, instead espousing peace and harmony and a "do unto others" philosophy. It also operates as a legal non-profit, the community members who only donate a small financial amount for the community to operate. However, in going undercover in meeting Mr. Paradise, Stuart believes Vincent and Helen's assertions are correct in that Mr. Paradise has some sort of scheme going on to dupe people like Cyrus. They have to convince Mr. Blanton's sister, Lois Blanton, who, closer to Uncle Cyrus than her brother, believes that her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart are all operating under a financial gain motive, and wants to see Uncle Cyrus happy in whatever form that takes. Upon meeting Uncle Cyrus with Mr. Paradise, Lois comes to the same conclusions as her brother, sister-in-law and Stuart, but by that time Stuart's cover is blown. As such, he has to co-opt Kookie and Roscoe to infiltrate the community, they acting as "converts" which may not be the easiest thing for them to do to a point of convincing Mr. Paradise of their sincerity. What Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart all ultimately believe to be at the core of the scheme is that Mr. Paradise is able to convince his followers to will their estates to the community, many of the wealthy elderly people whose deaths are accelerated in entering the community's infirmary with whatever minor ailment never to exit alive. This discovery places Kookie, Roscoe and Stuart's lives at risk, along with Cyrus and the other especially wealthy elderly followers', as Mr. Paradise and his operatives are willing to kill to protect their lucrative scheme.

Stuart and Jeff's old friend Art Moomey hires Stuart to look into a commercial property, the Switchburg Hotel, he is thinking about buying. He asks Stuart instead of a real estate agent since the hotel is located in Switchburg, a virtual ghost town in the old silver mining region of the Nevada desert about four hundred miles away from Las Vegas. There are no such regular services such as a real estate office in Switchburg let alone a mayor, and Art is unable to find out anything about the hotel on his own. It appeals to the eccentric side of him, he who plans to fix it up if it is worth buying only to sell it to someone even more eccentric than him for a profit. Stopping off in Las Vegas on his way, Stuart ends up having company, at least to Kingsley, fifty miles outside Switchburg, in the form of casino cocktail waitress Nan Polly with who he made a personal connection. In Switchburg, he finds that he seems to be getting some sort of runaround in that the few old timers he meets point him in one direction, only to be pointed back in the opposite direction by the next person to who he speaks. He also finds that the few men he has met in town all carry sidearms for whatever reason. A young couple, Clyde and Dorothy Amboy, have recently moved to town, Clyde, who opened a service station despite there already being one in town that has little business, suspicious of any man who talks to Dorothy, and Dorothy who runs the diner, also that does little business and charges high prices because of the expensive overhead of needing to ship everything into town. And although no one seems to have a key to the hotel with its owner George Silverdale's whereabouts unknown despite he promptly paying his property taxes every year, Clyde reports that he has seen lights on the second floor of the hotel at night. Those lights may provide some answers as to the mysteries of the town and why Stuart has been getting the runaround.

Jim Bowie is riding along the Mississippi when he is bushwhacked by Manion and Kneeland...two settlers who accuse him of being a land grabber and throwing them off their land. They tell him Jim's brother Rezin has been shot and killed. Jim returns home and finds his brother is still alive but Bowie and Bowie Land Office is in trouble. A Frenchman with an old land grant from King Louis XVI has overturned all of their deals and taken the property back. On top of all this, counterfeit money is being distributed in the region and Jim begins to wonder about the validity of the grant.

JIm Bowie is in a hurry on his way to New Orleans to take a lady to the Opera Ball when he comes upon two women who are having trouble with their pony cart. They are Angelique Moreau and Miss Peabody of Miss Peabody's Select Female Academy. They are searching for a young girl who has run off from the school to elope. Her father is planning on making a handsome contribution to the school so they are desperate to find her before she can carry out her plans of marriage. He tries to get back on the way to N.O. but is drawn back to the ladies when he discovers they have been kidnapped as part of an extortion scheme.

A street rat spurned by Aladdin turns herself into a sand witch.

While riding from one town to the next the boys answer a man's cry for help and find themselves involved with treasury department agents, counterfeiters, and stolen plates. There's also the matter of a woman who may be the man's daughter or a counterfeiter herself.

After a spat with Thelma Lou, a sophisticated new girl arrives in Mayberry and takes a surprisingly deep interest in Barney, trapping him in an unintentional proposal.

When the State Attorney's Office sends Andy a man to give practical lawman experience to, Barney believes Andy wants him to train a "replacement" deputy.

The callous eviction of a down-on-his-luck elder citizen comes back to bite the town council when the man's uncashed municipal bond amounts to more than the town can pay.

Andy, through Barney, learns that Opie has been targeted by a bully who's been shaking him down for milk money, leaving Andy to wonder how to intervene without letting Opie know he knows.

Barney and Thelma Lou successfully match-make Andy and Thelma Lou's cousin Karen, but Barney's unfortunate way of describing the situation has Karen rifle-ready to shoot down Andy's supposed inflated ego.

The girls are doing their community service at Golden Gates Convalescent Home for stealing the sign at the bank. Ginger brings Carl along who develops a friendship with Maude, a mischievous prankster who lives there. Hoodsey is jealous of Maude and Carl's relationship. Courtney invites herself over to Ginger's house for dinner and Ginger accepts. She is nervous and everything has to be perfect...it could but Carl has also invited Maude over for dinner.

A senator's son is switching from private to a public school and may pick Lucky Junior High. Courtney immediately sets her sights on him but unfortunately has an allergic reaction to a mystery meat which swells her face and she picks Ginger to impersonate her while she's ill. Hoodsey falls on his head and develops amnesia...Carl tries to help him regain his memory.

Ginger is worried about her mom's single status and has been listening to the advice of Dr. Fondfeelings on TV. She warns that being alone makes you miserable and you are alone because you are miserable. Actually though Lois has a new man in her life. His name is Buzz and he is a Jack-of-all-trades/handyman at the hospital. He is also loud, obnoxious, a slob and has three boys who are just like him. Ginger puts up with him for her mother's sake. Lois puts up with him for Ginger's. Carl has new products to market--fabric softener that doubles as after shave and drier sheets that double as hankies. He uses Buzz' Kids as test subjects.

Darren has his orthodontic head gear removed and the cool kids seem to see him for the first time. Miranda starts paying attention to him and it's not long before Ginger feels left out and forgotten. This seems to drive a wedge between Miranda and Courtney also. Once Darren starts dating Miranda he starts to realize what Ginger really meant to him. Carl and Hoodsey help Brandon find his missing monkey.

A new girl arrives at Lucky Junior High and her arrival sparks a flurry of negative gossip. Ginger feels bad for her and starts making friends. It seems the new girl's father is a mortician and they live over the mortuary. When Ginger decides Laetitia should throw a party to introduce herself properly she finds it difficult to interest anyone in attending. Carl and Hoodsey suffer through Brandon's birthday party.

The Annual Lucky Junior High Ski Trip is coming up and Ginger is avoiding getting her mother's permission to attend. Pressured by Dodie, Ginger agrees to go...despite the fact that she can't ski. Soon she has something else to be nervous about because Courtney and Miranda have a bet going that Ginger and the exchange student Jean Pierre will get to first base on the chair lift. Carl and Hoodsey want to set a world record by being stranded on the chair lift for over sixteen hours.

Mr. Cilia, the chemistry teacher, pairs off students for lab work in his classroom. Courtney and Dodie, Miranda and Macie and Ginger with soccer jock Ian Richton. Ian starts paying attention to Ginger and she starts to fall for him but Darren overhears Ian bragging to his buddy about using Ginger to do all the work and getting an easy A. Carl, Hoodsey and Brandon compete for the privilege of playing a glockenspiel solo for Ludlow Krantz...a former student at Lucky Jr. whom Carl and Hoodsey idolize.

The Japanese have a new special modified armored Zero with the best Japanese pilots in the air. If Pappy or any of his men come up against them they are to disengage and get home. This doesn't sit well with Pappy or the rest of the squadron. Pappy pulls strings and has newly 'returned to service' Ace pilot Doug Rafferty assigned to his squadron. His father is an Admiral...but Jim remembers him from previous missions and believes him to be a jinx. Pappy won't have this kind of superstitious talk going around and tells Jim to keep his mouth shut. Meanwhile Pappy and Casey are wheeling and dealing to receive a shipment of high velocity armor piercing ammo.

During an early morning strafing attack by Japanese Zeros Pappy manages to shoot one down. After taking the pilot prisoner they begin to discover it's hard to hate him. He has lived in the U.S. and speaks perfect English and begins to warm up to the Squadron. But what Pappy really wants to know is what the sonar device was doing in his plane and what his mission has to do with the Japanese task force which is on the move.

While on patrol Pappy is accidentally shot down by T.J. He hits the silk and winds up on a Japanese occupied island. The squadron's morale hits rock bottom while he is MIA and Jim is unsure of his abilities to command. Pappy soon discovers he is not the only one trying to survive on the hostile island.

A large number of street people flock about the diner and John's office. Jake's grandmother leaves him $25,000.