A handicapped ex-singer from Hawaii yearns for home but will not return as she will not go because her trip to the mainland to find fame failed; then her regular maintenance checks stop coming.
Bob Hope guest stars as an angel dispatcher who assigns Jonathan to stop an angel who's back on Earth and intent on breaking up his son's marriage. To stop him, Jonathan must enlist aid of a special kind.
Sarah's strong-willed publisher father tries to persuade the Carters to move to New York and exerts a maleficent influence on Sarah's little country weekly.
Matlock exercises his mind and body at a health spa, where his client is accused of killing the amorous aerobics instructor, Christy Huntley, who had an affair with her husband.
Matlock gives it the old college try when a law school buddy is murdered after their class reunion, and he defends another friend who has been arrested for the crime.
Matlock has to do some fancy footwork to prove that a dance instructor didn't murder his wealthy, married lover. Meanwhile, Matlock continues to waltz around his relationship with Julie.