The show's dual themes are dusting and lusting. Guests are John Dehner who dusts the Garrett crops against locusts, and Claire Griswold who lusts after Garret foreman Jim Redigo. Ranch engineer Dan Tabor resents a romantic relationship developing between his ward and Jim Redigo.

James Gregory plays a thoroughly contemptible character, a sharecropper who uses his sensitive young son as a pawn in a get-rich-quick oil scheme. Gregory is fine, and so is Terry Moore, but the story of the "poor white trash" suddenly overwhelmed by riches, runs steadily downhill.

Arthur O'Connell and Joanna Moore guest star in a drama about a con artist and his daughter who scheme against the Garret holdings.