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The relationship between the headmaster of an elite California private school and his students and faculty.

A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.

A young man finds him ostracized by his school mates and his football team when he refuses to take part in the drug culture.

An attractive teacher's penchant for wearing mini skirts makes her popular with the students. Coach Brownell also finds reasons to be around the instructor. Headmaster Andy must rethink the school's dress code.

Buff MacKnight promises Andy he can get Glen Campbell to appear at the Greenwood Centennial Celebration, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Paul Hartman (Emmett Clark), Don Knotts (Barney Fife) and George Lindsay (Goober Pyle) all reprising their famous Andy Griffith Show roles. Andy Sawyer's three friends, Goober, Emmett, and Barney, come to visit from out of town to welcome Andy back to Greenwood however that is not their sole reason for coming. Emmett and Goober along with Buff MacKnight (new character played by Glen Ash) all have ideas of expanding their one store business into a chain on a site up for re-zoning. Barney has the same idea opening a restaurant believing that he has state wide celebrity status and his famous name will entice the general public to eat at a restaurant he wants to build on that site. While each has the same idea, each decides to keep it from the other three to use the power of bribery, friendship and Andy's new position as mayor to persuade the town council to accept their bid. After subtly warning each of them that there may be other bidders, he is put in a less than ideal position to decide if he is going to recommend the site to one friend and if so, which friend? Ultimately, as level headed as Andy Sawyer (Andy Taylor) has always been, he makes the right decision.

The glee club is preparing for the Spring Fling under a different music director. Andy Thompson leads them in a new interpretation of composers like Bach.

A student challenges Margaret's advice on families because she and Andy don't have children of their own.

Mark Stillwell is just an average student but his hard driving father is intent on him going to a top rated university. Andy Thompson feels he must intervene to keep the young man from dropping out of school but also life.

An authoritarian math teacher Mr. Hiller has the students against him and they've dubbed him Mr. Hitler. When the instructor goes to far the kids conduct a walkout.

Billy strives to be an excellent student as he seeks to emulate his older brother. But Andy sees worrisome signs as the young man starts to struggle and his mental state is questioned.

Coach Jerry Brownell is down because his teams do not do well against other schools. He blames this in part on lack of school support -- even Headmaster Andy Thompson doesn't attend track meets. After Concord loses to Hubbard, 97-9, and to Linsday Academy, 81-3, Coach submits his resignation. Andy accepts it reluctantly, and at the suggestion of some team members, organizes a going-away dinner. At the dinner, members of the current track, football, and basketball teams, and football alumnus Art Schultz, all speak of how Coach may not have won many games, but provided valuable life lessons which were more important than winning. This, plus some earlier mild prodding to the same effect by Andy, convinces Coach to stay on.

Margaret, while teaching Shakespeare, dicusses young love and sex. She finds her words twisted and a mother accuses the teacher of advocating premarital sex. Andy must settle the dispute.

Andy sends a group of students off camping in the woods for an experiment : to create a new society wirh their own rules. The task is more difficult than the kids imagined.

Andy becomes involved in trying to straighten out the home life of a student who has suddenly become in-corrigible.