Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick Van Dyke guest stars as a carnival's destitute banjo player. He also proves to be an inept lawman when he is hired in Barney's Fife's absence.
As director of the annual variety show, Rob finds himself trapped between casting Laura as this year's leading woman or a dazzlingly talented newcomer to the neighborhood.
Carter is determined to break the long-term contracts that both he and Gomer signed with a dance studio.
Mr. Drysdale forces a playboy on his bank's board of directors into courting Granny.
Granny practices what she intended to preach against when she sets out to save Jed from the evils of gambling.