An enraged publisher hires a gunman to kill an author (Mickey Spillane) who intends to sign a contract with a competitor.
The integrity and pride of the Waltons is severely challenged when the head of a seemingly well-to-do, fashionable family accuses John Walton of being a thief.
After a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs thanks Bob on television for saving his career a catcher shows up asking for the same help.
Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch, and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him.
Oscar loses money in a poker game and when he can't pay the debt in cash, he donates Felix's band, the Sophisticados, to Billie Joe as payment instead.
