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- Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives.
- Hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the likeable singer, comedian, entertainer received his own variety show sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which gave Ernie the venue to entertain millions with his informal friendly manner and talent. His music was a combination of gospel and country and western. His homespun catch phrase "Bless Their Little Pea Pickin' Hearts", endeared him to the nation.
- Annie O'Connell's boarding house in Buckskin, Montana, in 1880, is the setting for dramas unfolding for travelers and townies alike. Stories are seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Jody.
- A salute to the golden age of musicals from the 1940s.
- The O'Connells meet a man who feels he has been cheated of his wages by the mining company he had worked for. He decides to turn to robbery to get the money owed him despite Tommy trying to help.
- Heading to the town of Buckskin, a photographer gets more than he was expecting when the stage is held up by outlaws.
- Jody wants to sell his prize lamb to sheep trader Cash Robertson in order to buy a rifle, but Robertson doesn't want to buy it.
- Detective Kirby arrives in town on the trail of a man who performs surgery without a doctor's license. The O'Connells like the man and try to keep the officer from doing his job.
- The sheriff is forced to shoot and kill an outlaw, and the man's brother comes to town for revenge. However, the townspeople won't help the sheriff because they think he didn't give the outlaw a chance before he shot him.
- When his good buddy's father is accused of murder Jody seeks help from the town's fortune teller.
- Dan Pruitt returns to town for his father's funeral, but he's surprised--and angry--to discover that his mother has already remarried.
- A veteran of the Crimean War is entertaining the town folk with his tales of war heroics. Jody asks him for help in preparing a school paper but the facts given may or may not be true.
- Jody "borrows" a gold watch that had belonged to his father and accidentally breaks it. When his mother discovers it missing, she assumes it was stolen, thinks she knows who did it and accuses them of the "theft".
- Newspaper editor Ben Newcomb hears a deathbed confession that appears to implicate the mayor in a shooting. Not wanting to make the confession public, Ben goes to the mayor and tries to convince him to clear the air one way or the other.
- The local schoolmaster has sent away for a mail-order bride, but when she arrives in town she has a surprise in store for him--she refuses to marry him.
- While riding out on the prairie, Jody finds a wounded man. He brings him back home and they try to nurse him back to health, and soon a friendship grows between Jody and the mysterious stranger.
- A notorious outlaws's son enters the spelling bee at Jody's school. All the other children withdraw from the contest, except Jody.
- Chrissy Miller, Jody's best friend, causes an injury to her father's best mare, and she makes Jody promise not to tell anyone. When she arrives home four hours late her friends and family jump to conclusions about the reasons for her lateness, and when she won't tell them where she's been or what she's been doing, speculation runs rampant and results in charges being leveled against an innocent man, amidst talk of a "necktie party".
- The Taliaferros arrive in town withe seemingly no past. But Annie O'Connell recognizes the man from years before as someone who caused great harm practicing quack medicine.
- One of Channing's oldest students is Don Burroughs, who's nearly thirty and never graduates. He and his wife and child live on her salary as the Dean's secretary, but he can't keep a job either. He seems like a charming eternal boy, always forgiven, but deep inside, he resents it.