Ep 1. Wings Over Hooterville

Oliver and Lisa Douglas return to Hooterville after an extended vacation to find that some changes have been made to the town. Arnold Ziffel, the pig, has been granted the power to serve legal subpoenas. Furthermore, the Hooterville airport has been officially opened, leaving Oliver uneasy. The airport has a new manager, Steve Williams, who is eager to get pilots to use the airport as a stopover point on their way to other destinations. He decides to give people free gas to get them to stop at Hooterville. Williams also thinks that he can convince Oliver to buy a plane and build a runway on his farm, in order to get around the new regulations for landing at the airport.

Oliver resents the thought of all the noise, pollution, and inconvenience that would come with airport activity on his property. However, he finds himself enchanted by a group of farm boys who are practicing flying and who are excited about the opportunity to take flying lessons. They are all encouraged to pursue their dreams by Williams. Meanwhile, Lisa is preoccupied with the airport's new stewardess, who is filled with shallow and misplaced enthusiasm about the pilot lifestyle. Lisa, as someone with more refined tastes and sensibilities, finds it difficult to relate to the stewardess.

As the episode progresses, Steve abuses the free gas offer, filling the airport's storage tank, in order to make the tank look more attractive to pilots. And pilot drives the local store owners crazy as he tries to secure a hundred gallons of fuel, but is turned down by every store. When Ziffel serves legal papers on Steve, and the local pilots hear of Steve's action, Steve is forced to leave town, abandoning his plane and his dream to be a passenger carrier.

In the end, the local pilots get their flying lessons from Lisa, who has discovered a talent for teaching the boys. Williams goes on to become a traveling salesman for airplanes while the stewardess stays in town, opening Arnold's very own airline, Hooterville Airways. The townspeople then put on a flying exhibition, flying over the farm with the pilot tipped upside down. In the end, the townspeople find a way to live with and make the best of change, despite the shenanigans of the unscrupulous airport manager.