Brian Libby

A heavy rain has been falling in Walnut Grove for two months, and shows no signs of stopping. Charles fears that his crops will suffer and his family will go hungry. He takes them on a 400-mile journey for a temporary new life in Gold Country. Caroline opens and teaches a school in a tent, right in the middle of town, but it proves to be a less-than-ideal learning environment for everyone.

A mysterious woman (Kristen Meadows) wants her slain father's South African diamond mine freed from unscrupulous businessmen.

Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) has some crooks steal the Christmas trees that the Duke boys (Tom Wopat and John Schneider) are delivering, and he almost loses the money in his safe.

McCall and Hunter learn an undercover officer may have been murdered by his mobster half brother; guest Jerry Orbach.

Rosco (JAMES BEST) and Boss (SORRELL BOOKE) are involved in an insurance fraud that almost backfires until the Duke boys take charge of the investigation.