Barney and Gomer are responsible for watching over two thieves who are temporarily jailed in Mayberry. Between the two of them, the criminals manage to escape three times.
The Darling family returns to Mayberry and asks Andy for help in dealing with Ernest T. Bass, a mountain man who keeps pursuing Briscoe's married daughter Charlene.
Kate asks the judge if she can legally keep Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.
Maud Hoad leads her revenge-seeking family against Joe, who was forced to shoot treacherous Jeb Hoad.
Hoss falls prey to a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money.
An Easterner swears revenge for the death of his father, a drunk that a Cartwright killed in self-defense.
Undercover federal marshal John Carruthers (John Wayne) is suspected by the local sheriff, Jake (George Hayes), of stealing the town's payroll, but his suspicions are sidelined when young Betty Mason (Eleanor Hunt) announces that her father, an important businessman, has been murdered. Without him, supplies will not reach town, and homesteaders will starve. When town leader Malgrove (Edward Peil) offers to buy the locals out, John and Jake get suspicious, and uncover a land-grabbing conspiracy.
John Ford's landmark Western revolves around an assorted group of colorful passengers aboard the Overland stagecoach bound for Lordsburg, New Mexico, in the 1880s. An alcoholic philosophizer (Thomas Mitchell), a lady of ill repute (Claire Trevor) and a timid liquor salesman (Donald Meek) are among the motley crew of travelers who must contend with an escaped outlaw, the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), and the ever-present threat of an Apache attack as they make their way across the Wild West.
A Civil War veteran (Chuck Connors) and his four buddies take jobs as mercenaries in Colombia.
Having witnessed the brutal murder of his entire family by bandits at the age of 5, Bill Meceita (John Phillip Law) has spent 15 years planning his vengeance. Finding a kindred spirit in Ryan (Lee Van Cleef), an experienced gunslinger seeking his own revenge on those who framed him, the two team up to find and kill Walcott (Luigi Pistilli), a fearsome bandit on the loose. But Bill soon discovers that Ryan may know more about his tragic past than he has let on.
The Rev. Shay (Willie Nelson) moves out West to set up his new home in Montana so that he can spread God's word. But when his wife, Raysha (Morgan Fairchild), leaves him for another man -- in part because she wants to return to Philadelphia -- the reverend decides to replace his spiritual ways with a gun. After shooting down his wife and her lover, he battles a landowner intent on keeping all of the town's water for himself. But his deadly ways make him yearn for a belief in God again.
A pack of hunting dogs overruns the Mayberry courthouse just as Andy is trying to impress a state official.
Barney thinks it's time Andy got married, but Andy has a plan of his own.
After Opie is struck with puppy love, Barney tries to show him how to handle women.
Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her, he has just been drafted.
Homer plans to keep the Cannonball from making its Christmas caroling tour.
A brochure for the Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely distributed.
For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.
A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.
Hoss falls prey to a beautiful woman with a gambling addiction and refuses to believe she's only interested in his money.