Joan Blackman has a secret that may destroy her father's life. Slattery persuades an educator to stand for reappointment as state board of education president despite the threat of a smear.

Ed Wynn, as spry old Ezra Tallicott, enlists the aid of State Representative Slattery. Earnest hero Slattery fights against closing a home for the aged.

State representative Slattery (Richard Crenna) is crusading in a different direction. In an obvious effort to show a more romantic side to Slattery, you are to believe he is capable of being sidetracked by shapely lobbyist Sally Kellerman, one of "those Utopian reformers."