A worthless movie contract drives a glamor girl into hiding. Mason, asked to find her, finds more than he bargained for, including a romantic triangle and murder.
John Walton is asked to negotiate a professional baseball contract for a teenage orphan boy who pays a return visit to the Waltons, the only family he has ever known.
A former girlfriend returns to Walton's Mountain and challenges John-Boy to reexamine his goals.
Jonathan (Michael Landon) tries to persuade an unmarried schoolteacher (Doreen Lang) to adopt four orphaned brothers.
Matt, Doc, Festus and several other passengers are trapped on a train by a band of Indians in the snowy Colorado mountains.