The children befriend four performers stranded on the mountain after the carnival moves on; guest Billy Barty.
When French is called away, his brother fills in.
Uncle Jesse's (Denver Pyle) old sweetheart, Lucinda (Jan Clayton), comes to Hazzard to settle an old debt owed her, and Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) tries unsuccessfully to keep her from collecting.
Danny and Keith try to give a shy, awkward grocery clerk enough confidence to ask Laurie for a date.
Matt reinvestigates a murder case from twelve years earlier; Doc is found near death.