After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for sheriff.

Andy Griffith
as Andy Taylor

Ron Howard
as Opie Taylor

Don Knotts
as Barney Fife

Jim Nabors
as Gomer Pyle

Hal Smith
as Otis Campbell

Janet Waldo
as Amanda / Aunt Bee (voice) (uncredited)

Aneta Corsaut
as Helen Crump Taylor

Jack Dodson
as Howard Sprague

George Lindsey
as Goober Pyle

Betty Lynn
as Thelma Lou