The Taylor's housekeeper leaves and is replaced by Aunt Bee. However, Opie disapproves of her and wants to fire her.

Andy, Mayberry's sheriff, and his deputy Barney offer to help track down an escaped criminal when the state police comes to town.

With a dance band in an adjacent cell, a hometown guitar player auditions from jail.

Ellie Walker, a young pharmacist, moves to Mayberry to help her uncle in the local drugstore and tries to adjust to the unusual nature of the town and its residents.

Andy becomes convinced that Ellie wants to marry him after she accepts his invitation to the church picnic and dance.

Andy lectures Opie on the importance of keeping one's promise after Opie and his friends play a practical joke. However, the tables are turned when Opie befriends a runaway boy and refuses to reveal his name to Andy.