A terrible hit-and-run accident on the day of the election puts things in perspective for Walt and Branch.
Tragedy strikes the life of a young girl befriended by the Waltons when her drunken father burns the schoolhouse in the name of religion after he learns the children are being taught the theory of evolution.
Drunken Circuit Judge Warfield, who is on the payroll of town boss John King, is forced by Dillon to hold an inquest into the death of a woman saloon owner.
Luke Duke's (TOM WOPAT) long-lost, little brother (RANDY HAMILTON), a professional boxer, arrives in Hazzard, as does a disgruntled gambler and his henchman who want to kill Luke's brother.
Vera (Beth Howland) almost becomes an instant mother when she finds a baby in the laundromat.