From the hills of West Virginia, Amos McCoy moves his family to an inherited farm in California. Grandpa Amos is quick to give advice to his three grandchildren and wonders how his neighbors ever managed without him around.
Cast:Walter Brennan , Richard Crenna , Kathleen Nolan , Tony Martinez , Michael Winkelman , Lydia Reed , Andy Clyde , Madge Blake , Janet De Gore , Jon Lormer , Butch Patrick , Willard Waterman , Stanley Farrar , Robert Foulk , Marjorie Bennett , Eva Norde , Eddie Quillan , Olan Soule
Grandpa, Luke, Kate, Hassie and Little Luke McCoy travel from Smokey Corners, West Virginia to California. They take over an inherited farm and everyone loves it, but Grandpa who has trouble adjusting to the new place.
Grandpa gets into an egg feud with a rival egg salesman. He makes money, but the rest of the family suffers when Hassie wants to date the rival's son.
Grandpa and Luke need a new gun for a shooting contest. Kate needs a new dress to be inducted into the PTA. There's just enough money in the cookie jar for one of them.
The McCoys find out that they are three months behind on their mortgage payments and will lose the farm if they can't come up with the money. Grandpa fears that he will have to sell a 200 year old flintlock family rifle to get the payment.
Kate wants to discipline Hassie and Little Luke for bad grades and skipping school, but Grandpa thinks she is being too tough. So Kate lets Grandpa takes over raising the kids.
Grandpa's innate honesty saves the day when a dishonest real estate speculator tries to buy five unproductive acres of the McCoys' land for considerably less than its actual value.
Kate pointedly tells Luke that he is welcome to go fishing with Grandpa and Mac Maginnis and to do whatever he wishes for several nights thereafter, but Grandpa steps in to make amends when he realizes that Luke's "freedom" is causing a genuine strain on their still-young marriage.
The Farmer's Association is having it's fall dance and Grandpa doesn't want to take Flora MacMichael until Little Luke tells him about the box supper that Flora is bringing.
Grandpa and George MacMichael compete to win the fishing contest. The only problem is that both of them are better at cheating than fishing.
Grandpa pretends to be able to read so he can vote against an uppity female politician.
Grandpa gets struck with jealousy because of Flora MacMichael and tries to take it out on her apple tree.
Grandpa and Luke jeopardize Kate's chances to be named to a church committee when they unwittingly allow a Las Vegas gambling house to advertise on the McCoys' barn.
Much to Grampa's consternation, George wants to join a private club known as the Loyal Order of the Mystic Nile.
Grampa's vanity gets the best of him when he refuses to acknowledge that he needs eyeglasses to pass the vision test for his new California driver's license.
A multi-talented photographer obtains the McCoys' permission to take pictures of their farm, but Luke becomes jealous when he seems to be focusing most of his attention on Kate.
Grandpa has Luke prepared for the worst when it is learned that Kate's mother is coming for a visit, but everyone is surprised when she arrives and repeatedly chides Kate for being insufficiently attentive to Luke's needs.
Amos invites their old neighbors to California for a visit including Luke's old girlfriend Elvira. Kate tries to hide her jealousy during the reminiscing of old times.
When some of Little Luke's classmates tease and bully him about his "hillbilly" roots, Grandpa steps in to teach them about the perniciousness of prejudice.
The retirement of the postman convinces Luke and Kate that Grandpa Amos should take it easier. It backfires when Grandpa instead works too hard and ends up bedridden.
Grampa breaks up Flora's romance, and is forced to propose to her.
After one full year of marriage, Luke and Kate finally get to go on their honeymoon.
Luke McCoy is tricked into buying a swimming pool.
Kate's rich Uncle Dave stays with the McCoys for the weekend.
Feeling that he's been forgotten on his birthday, Grampa runs away from home.
Grampa has a cold, but he doesn't trust the new doctor - or any doctor, for that matter.
After Grampa refuses to give him a raise, Pepino quits and goes to work for neighbor George MacMichael.
Kate creates a successful dress alteration business at home, much to the consternation of Grampa and the local tailor.
Grampa is in desperate need of character witnesses to testify on his behalf at his parking ticket trial.
The McCoys teach a wealthy couple the joys of simple living.
Grampa tries to stop a marriage-minded widow from chasing George.
Luke wants to modernize the farm, but Grampa is against change.
Grampa has his heart set on joining the town's volunteer fire department.
Little Luke worships his Grandpa Amos, but when he gets in trouble at school for using Grandpa's colorful language and telling lies the rest of the family tells Amos to set a better example for Little Luke. Amos tries his best to change his ways, but after a week he can't stand it anymore and reverts to his old habits. When Little Luke's teacher brings him home from school after a serious incident, Amos faces a hard choice: continue to be his grandson's hero or admit that he's not perfect.
Hassie refuses to accept a date with the homeliest boy in class.
Scandal erupts when a 30-year-old photo of Flora clad in a scanty swimsuit winds up in a local publication.
Grampa wagers Kate's prize hen, Jenny, on Little Luke winning a corn-eating contest.
Grampa secretly joins an over-sixties club known as the "Young Old Timers".
Grandpa reluctantly agrees to let Luke and Kate trade the McCoys' family car (plus $80) for a newer model, but they regret their decision when they realize that he was genuinely attached to the ancient vehicle.
Grandpa and Luke's efforts to help Hassie win the attention of the most popular boy in school backfire, but for unexpected reasons.
Little Luke desperately wants to join the school band as a trumpet player, but he has no talent for the instrument and Grandpa feels compelled to resort to chicanery in order to help him prevail when tryout day arrives.
Kate insists that Luke take dancing lessons in order to improve his social graces, but she is unpleasantly surprised to learn that his teacher is an attractive young woman.
When it seems that Grandpa's location of water by divining rod is a failure, Luke employs a geologist and drilling equipment as Amos gloats at the apparent unsuccessful outcome of Luke's chosen methods.
Grandpa solicits George MacMichael's help in turning the tables on two swindlers who convinced him to pay $35 for a worthless dog, but he begins to have a change of heart when he discovers that Little Luke has become quite attached to the animal.
The rest of the McCoys find themselves torn over what to do about musically-challenged Luke's determination to enter an amateur singing contest.
Luke's reluctance to kiss Kate in public causes her to feel unappreciated, especially when she notes how demonstrably affectionate their friends George and Betty Emery act toward one another.
Grampa schemes to pass off a prized pig as his own at the county fair.
The stakes escalate as Flora, Kate, and Hassie refuse to go to the annual Grange Dance with Grandpa, Luke, and Tommy unless they receive a proper apology for Grandpa's remarks to Tommy about how a man should "handle" women.
George gets into a dustup with Grampa over a used vacuum cleaner, which George wants to give to Kate as a gift.
Pepino feels his job is threatened when Grampa takes on another hired hand.
Grampa wants nothing to do with his wealthy new neighbors.
Grandpa and Kate are dubious when Luke gets a part-time job as a shoe salesman, but when he loses the job the rest of the McCoys unknowingly come to his aid by going to the store en masse to buy shoes.
When the McCoy's learn that hometown girl Glory is a Hollywood celebrity, Luke fears Kate will be dissatisfied with her life when the McCoy's visit her so when Glory comes to visit, the McCoy men try to paint Kate's life rosier than it is.
In order to secure a loan from the bank, Grampa must sign title to the McCoy farm over to his grandson Luke.
The McCoys dig up a brontosaurus leg bone on their property. Kate wants to donate the bone to a museum, but Grampa would rather cash in on a roadside stand tourist attraction.
Grampa wants to become the new Grand High Imperial Mummy of the Ancient and Loyal Order of the Mystic Nile.
When novice driver Kate mistakenly believes that she has damaged the family car, her heartfelt efforts to make amends cause the real culprit (Grandpa) to become increasingly conscience-stricken.
After Grandpa tells Little Luke and his friends an exciting (but untrue) story about serving with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War, he is invited to appear as a guest of honor at a public Veteran's Day celebration.
An aging and nomadic Arapaho Indian Chief insists that he can repay the McCoys' kindnesses by doing an extended sequence of dances that will bring much-needed rain.
George is the perfect houseguest for all the McCoys - except Grampa.
Kate's mother and her fiancé visit the McCoys. Kate feels there's something not right about the couple.
Determined to fit into a tight "Anniversary Dress" and concerned that she is taking after her corpulent Aunt Bessie, Kate embarks upon a crash program of diet and exercise.
After breaking a date with Tommy, Hassie takes things out on her family.
Grampa begins neglecting Flora MacMichael when an attractive 50-year-old widow develops an interest in him.
Luke volunteers to coach Little Luke's baseball team, but soon finds himself beset by constant interference and advice from the other boys' fathers.
Grandpa's determination to keep Hassie's 15th birthday party a surprise causes her to become genuinely hurt and angry when she becomes convinced that no one cares about the occasion.
Grampa defies the city road commissioner when he decides to take matters into his own hands, by fixing a pesky hole in the road in front of his house.
A conflict arises between Luke and Kate when Grandpa monopolizes all of Luke's free time, but Grandpa decides to make amends after Pepino makes him aware that he is the source of the problem.
Grandpa and Luke convince Kate to enter a local merchant's "Mrs. Homemaker Contest" when they realize that the first prize of $50 in merchandise would almost exactly cover the cost of the new gun they've been admiring.
Grandpa's attempts to hide his furniture from the tax assessor lead the McCoys' minister to conclude that the family is experiencing serious financial difficulties
When Grandpa injures his arm, he sorely regrets that he stubbornly (and secretly) refused to join the rest of the family in taking out a group health insurance policy offered by the Grange.
When Grandpa and George MacMichael realize that their house painting contracts with the "Sparkle Paint Company" are a fraud, they utilize a ruse to try to recover their money.
Envious Grandpa attempts to sabotage a camping trip arranged by Hank Johnson, a generous neighbor who has become increasingly popular with Little Luke and his friends.
Tired of being goaded about his lack of competitive spirit, Luke becomes determined to beat Grandpa in the county's annual skeet shooting tournament.
Grandpa volunteers for a lodge job to shame Luke for refusing it and then finds the task is to assist in answering lodge letters but because he is to vain to announce his illiteracy, creates chaos faking the assignment.
Fastidious actor Sterling Ames injures his back on the McCoys' property and must remain on their sofa for several days, much to the annoyance of "cantankerous" Grandpa.
Grandpa decides to turn the tables after a fast-talking shooting gallery proprietor hustles Little Luke out of $14 in proceeds from the sale of church social tickets.
The McCoys expect company: Kate's pickle-brained ex-beau and his wife.
There's a new game warden in town, and his name is George MacMichael.
Grampa resists tapping the cookie jar of the $25 needed to pay for Hassie's screen test.
Grampa and Luke give Kate a break from her family chores, including the cooking.
Kate is expecting some women from the Garden Club to visit, and is nervous about them asking her to join. Of course, Grampa makes the wrong impression and Kate is sure that she will not get the invite.
A new female neighbor makes a bad impression on Grampa by being better than him at almost everything.
Luke is set up by a traveling show to take part in a boxing match. Kate objects which leaves Grandpa to defend the McCoy family honor.
George opens a gas station, and he makes the mistake of hiring Amos.
Amos sneaks into an air base to complain about jet noise over the farm and accidentally touches classified material so when Luke and Kate come looking for Grandpa, they are all suspected of espionage.
Grandpa and Kate are upset when Luke sells food on credit to a failing restaurant run by a widow and her daughter, but the McCoy patriarch softens his "no credit" stance considerably when he learns that the proprietress is attractive and spunky.
The McCoys are initially honored by a visit from supposedly "pro-farmer" Congressional candidate Jim Slade, but they decide to turn the tables when they learn that he has never been a farmer and is interested mainly in self-aggrandizement.
Granpda urges Pepino to marry his new girlfriend Rosita when he notices improvements in his work ethic, but the McCoys must first help him obtain a dowry by making a favorable impression on the girl's demanding Uncle Lopez.
Grandpa is stubbornly opposed to Hassie's friendship with hot rod enthusiast Eddie Collins and must be convinced that the young man is a serious engineering student and mechanic rather than a "hooligan".
To join a secret club known as the "Imperial Demons", Little Luke must go into an abandoned "haunted" house at night and succeed in taking a light all the way to the top floor.
Grampa tries to marry off a friend in danger of being deported.
After Amos mocks George's painting, cheap junk dealer Daggett pays twenty dollars for a painting by George at the McCoy farm so Amos encourages George's painting to be his manager unaware that Daggett has actually paid for the frame.
Luke tries to sweeten the McCoy bankroll - by selling barn perfume.
Everyone in the family wants to buy a TV with the $15 in the cookie jar. Well, almost everyone - Grampa wants a power saw, instead.
George drives into a ditch on the McCoys' property, breaking their water pipe in the process. Grampa claims he posted a warning sign, but George claims there was no sign. A lawsuit ensues.
Grampa manages George's campaign for town councilman.
George's conniving cousin Naomi is nothing but trouble for the McCoys.
Kate becomes upset when she learns that Luke is teaching an attractive (and unattached) young woman how to bowl, but at Grandpa's urging she turns the tables by convincing a handsome younger man to provide her with bowling lessons of her own.
Little Luke writes an essay revealing a secret about Grampa.
Luke's recently married henpecked cousin Charlie and his wife come to visit.
Grampa, Luke, and Kate spend the weekend at a posh hotel in Los Angeles, while there to attend the Sons of the Mystic Nile convention.
Little Luke is highly resistant to the idea of taking tall and awkward Agnes Maypole to a school party, but when Grandpa finds the girl to be kind and considerate he becomes equally determined to compel the boy to honor his commitment to go ahead with the date.
Troubles flow when Grampa and George think they've struck oil on plots of land they've recently agreed to trade to each other.
Granpa causes problems when he questions the way Kate disciplines the younger McCoys.
Grampa sues the electric company for leaving a gate open on the property, causing the death of his bull. The company wants to settle, but of course Grampa is sure he will win once he discovers that George is on the jury.
12-year-old Little Luke gets his first job as a paperboy, but when it comes time to deposit his earnings in the family cookie jar general fund, he chooses to spend the money on himself, instead.
Kate's newfound determination to wear a strapless dress to a church dance causes a rift in the McCoy family.
Grampa refuses to join the Grange co-op, so he strikes out on his own to make his fortune in the egg business.
Grampa inherits some antique furniture from his recently deceased 94-year-old Uncle Willie.
Harm befalls members of the McCoy clan when sharing a task with Cousin Orval so, when Orval visits the McCoy farm, Grandpa and Luke hastily develop excuses to avoid chores involving Orval despite Kate's fragile skepticism.
Both Amos and George stoop to dirty politics, while campaigning for a trip to San Francisco as a delegate representing the Ancient and Loyal Order of the Sons of the Mystic Nile.
In hopes of staving off foreclosure, Amos courts the elderly spinster holding the mortgage on the McCoy farm.
When 16-year-old Hassie and her boyfriend Jerry impetuously announce their engagement, Grandpa's apparent approval causes considerable consternation among Luke, Kate, and Jerry's fastidious grandfather, J. Luther Medwick.
Amos struggles against conflicting state government and military timetables to save a destroyer named after a West Virginian patriot when the ship is docked in Long Beach where it is to be scrapped.
Luke and Kate attend night school. Luke accuses Kate of thinking she is smarter than him. The two have an argument, and stop speaking to each other. In order to save their marriage, Grandpa tries to get Kate to quit studying.
Kate is headed for fame and fortune, after a food company offers to patent her pickled preserve recipe.
The McCoys are struggling financially, so Pepino secretly gets a job moonlighting as a singer at the El Tippi-Tin.
Little Luke's hopes of having his brother as his relay-race partner are dashed when Grampa steps in to take Luke's place.
Grampa is upset to learn that Little Luke wants to grow up to be a scientist, rather than continuing farming in the MCcoy tradition.
Both Grampa and his best friend, George, have their caps set on the new librarian.
The entire family begins to pamper Grampa - much to his displeasure.
When Luke fears that he may be losing his hair, Grandpa employs an unusual tactic to remind Luke that appearances aren't as important as he thinks.
An eccentric area hermit furtively exchanges miscellaneous items for his subsistence but, when he trades for McCoy assets, Amos has him arrested for theft but is regretful when a hearing to put the man under state supervision ensues.
When the gossip-monger postman , who has witnessed George McMichael's will, lets it slip that Luke's family benefits substantially, Luke, Kate and the children engage in excessively fawning behavior toward George to the disgust of Amos.
The McCoys hire a Japanese girl named Nikko to help around the house.
Grampa claims he can tame a horse. The horse allows anyone to ride it - except Grampa.
Deprived city boy, Pete, arrives on the farm and uses his urban smarts to get the McCoys to do his assigned chores for him. A good lesson is learned by all.
Grampa is approached b a relative who wants him to invest in an oil well. In turn, Grampa gets some of his friends to invest, as well.
After Grampa sells a large quantity of produce to a stranger, he finds out that he's really competing with himself.
Grampa tells George about the time Luke became jealous of a photographer who was taking pictures of Kate.
The McCoys one and only cow goes missing soon after the Army sets up a war games area next to their property.
Grampa sets up a booth at the school bazaar and uses radical methods to raise money for the children's athletic equipment fund.
The gossip mill is running overtime with rumors connecting Luke with the McCoys' new young and beautiful Swedish maid.
Grampa takes over as the new Sunday school teacher.
Little Luke develops a crush on an older woman - the McCoys' beautiful Swedish maid, Helga.
Amos is not thrilled that Luke offers the McCoy barn for a Grange fund raising play but Amos' resistance softens when he learns Fay Wray will join the production but then becomes envious of George's lead opposite the actress.
Grampa plots to keep George from selling his place and moving away.
Pepino can't wait to marry Maria - until they get engaged.
Hassie tries to impress her high school sorority so she can be accepted.
Kate returns from her extended stay at her mother's, while Hassie takes over the cooking chores.
Grampa resists storing the family cash in the bank, rather than in the cookie jar.
Grandpa, Luke, and Kate return to Smoky Corners for Great Grandma McCoy's 100th birthday, but worry that their modest keepsake gifts don't measure up to those given by the newly-prosperous McCoys who remained in West Virginia.
Grampa interferes with the sale of a parcel of McCoy real estate in West Virginia.
While still visiting relatives in West Virginia, Grampa is reintroduced to an old flame, who he remembers well - but she doesn't seem to remember him, at all.
Kate gets the wrong idea after Luke compliments a new female neighbor's cooking skills.
While Amos is walking through town, $200 floats down to him from the heavens above.
After Grampa counsels Little Luke on how to overcome his shyness with girls, he soon thinks he's God's gift to women.
Charlie Ruggles guest stars as a wealthy neighbor who offers to send Hassie abroad as a traveling companion for his granddaughter.
Luke thinks his rural accent is holding him back and decides to take elocution lessons.
Grampa sees red when a matador tries to lure Pepino into the bullring.
With his sister away, George hires a housekeeper who sweeps him off his feet.
Everyone in the McCoy family, including Grampa, gets a job in order to make ends meet.
To demonstrate his capability in Grandpa's absence, Luke rents trailer space on the farm to a family that proves to be intractable and obtrusive.
Luke moves in with George after a squabble with Grampa over whether soybeans will grow on their land.
Grampa is dead set against spending the money it takes to buy a used piano, so Hassie can take lessons.
Kate falls for a charismatic door-to-door cosmetics salesman's pitch, and she blows the cookie jar money on makeup. Her efforts are lost on Luke, and it doesn't take long for Grampa to notice the money is missing from the jar.
Grampa gives George lessons in the McCoy technique of courtship.
Luke gets caught up in the Christmas spirit and wants to buy Kate a diamond ring that he can't afford. After he buys it, he tries to sell it to pay for Kate's hospital bill. Luke and Grandpa find out what Kate has for them on layaway.
Grampa takes a trip and leaves Luke in charge of the farm.
Grampa banks on trouble when he meets Hassie's wealthy boyfriend.
Luke, Kate, and neighbor George plunge into the stock market. Grampa has other ideas.
Luke is upset after Pepino reports to Grampa that he saw Kate enter a marriage counselor's office.
Kate's new used washing machine turns out to be more trouble than it's worth.
Pepino is studying to pass the test for U.S. citizenship, so Grampa decides to school him.
The McCoys get more than they bargained for when they try to better acquaint themselves with Hassie's friends.
Amos is arrested and jailed for burning trash. He decides to fight City Hall.
George's nephew comes to visit before joining the Navy. It's not long before he's trapped in a web of lies.
Flora becomes fed up with Amos when he cancels their date in favor of going out with a more attractive woman.
Pepino falls in love with a beautiful Italian girl named Carla.
Kate becomes suspicious of Luke after she hears him muttering about his love for an unknown Margie in his sleep.
Grampa believes he's 7 years younger when he gets a letter from the government mistakenly stating his age as 61.
Trouble crops up when Luke takes charge of George's fruit stand.
Amos and George have a falling out over the true ownership of a plant sprayer they've been lending back and forth to each other for years.
George reacts wildly to Grampa's checkerboard: he's allergic to it.
When Grandpa is entrusted with $200 belonging to Pepino, he can't resist the temptation to settle a few of the McCoy's past due bills.
Pepino becomes suspicious when Grampa offers him a two-week paid vacation.
Pepino hires the Owl Woman to make a love potion; Grampa thinks he's being hoodwinked and interferes, prompting the woman to put a curse on the farm.
Grampa believes Cousin Sarah needs help with her marriage.
When Grampa and George win a baby pig in a raffle, Kate, Luke and Pepino want to keep it as a pet, but Grampa and George are thinking more along the lines of lunch.
Tilda Hicks moves to 'Californy' - setting her sights on widower Luke.
Amos takes advantage of three lonely widows: one for cleaning, one for cooking, and one for washing.
Grampa digs up some skeletons that return to haunt an old Army pal.
Luke is conned into "rainproofing" his roof by a beautiful blonde and her crooked boss.
Grampa commits a colossal faux pas when foreign dignitaries visit neighbor George's farm.
Grampa sees an opportunity for financial gain after a paratrooper lands on an old chicken coop, but Luke doesn't like the idea.
A runaway starlet is playing a new role - the McCoy's housekeeper.
The new housekeeper tries to trick Luke into marrying her daughter.
Trouble is on Grampa's doorstep when Pepino inherits some land in Arizona.
A female veterinarian tends to Agnes, the cow, behind Grampa's back.
Grampa tempts the members of Luke's health club with 'forbidden' fruit.
Grampa and George take turns playing Cupid when their respective farmhands, Pepino and Pedro, find themselves competing for the same girl.
Luke starts earning extra money by hanging out at the laundry and gathering dirt for the local gossip column.
Luke is fuming when a crop duster maneuvers to steal his girlfriend.
Grampa's devilish plot sparks a romance between Luke and Louise, their good-cooking new neighbor.
Grampa picks a peck of trouble when he helps Louise harvest her tomato crop.
The head of the McCoys in Scotland clashes with Grampa over who runs the family.
Greg runs away from home when his widowed mom, Louise, decides to move to Cleveland and remarry.
Luke joins the city slickers in his new job as a slogan writer for an advertising agency.
Aunt Win uses feminine trickery during Grampa's campaign to be elected grange president.
George loans Luke some money - thanks to the charms of Aunt Win.
Grampa's afraid of Luke getting married, and thus, leaving the farm.
Aunt Win sorts through a variety of single townsfolk, in order to find a suitable husband for Louise.
While Grampa's out-of-town visiting kinfolk, Luke takes in a couple of hired hands. Unbeknownst to him - they're escaped convicts.
Luke takes a temporary job as Dogcatcher and winds up with a houseful of homeless pups.
George, Grampa, and Luke judge a homemaking contest, but the fix might be in.
George is doomed after Grampa curses him with the McCoy Hex.
Luke's boorish Uncle Rightly drops in for a surprise visit, while Grampa is out-of-town.
Uncle Rightly woos George's sister Flora in hopes of getting her to invest in his latest invention - a musical milker.
Uncle Rightly volunteers Luke's sponsorship in the amount of $500 for a farmer's "best ear of corn" contest.
While Grampa's out-of-town, Luke takes in a few jazz musicians as boarders, which results in much loss of sleep for Luke and Pepino.
Luke grows a full beard and a new rotten personality to go with it.
Luke blows Grampa's tractor payment on some worthless art at an auction.
Luke and Louise soon regret meddling in the Porters' squabble. Now they're at each other's throat.
Luke and Pepino regret trying to patch things up between George and his sister, Flora.
Luke runs smack into trouble when Greg spots him kissing his mother, Louise.
Luke schemes to get rich by selling Mama Garcia's bean sauce.
