Tod's wealthy father dies, leaving the Yale grad penniless but for his 1960 blue Chevrolet Corvette. He meets Buz, who worked for Tod's father, and the two decide to start driving across the country. The Corvette breaks down in a small Mississippi town with some very nasty residents. The boys discover that the town hosted a POW camp during WW II and that the town boss had an escaped prisoner lynched when his son was killed in action. The boss plans to lynch Tod and Buz to keep the town's secret.
Shrimp boat captain Charlotte Duval hires Tod and Buz as a crew for her boat. Her suitor Jean Boussard gets very jealous of the new male crew members. Buz falls in love with the captain.
Tod and Buz arrive in New Orleans during a parrot-fever epidemic. They meet a girl named Carrie Purcell and ask her out for a date. Carrie doesn't have money to afford nice clothes.
Tod and Buz are working at a Louisana Gulf of Mexico off-shore oil-drilling tower. Lew Ayres plays a Nazi-hunter hunting an escaped Nazi on the drilling rig.
Tod and Buz give a lift to Lotti Montana, a migrant worker who is going to help pick the peach crop. As they approach the town of Sparrow Falls she begs them to drive through as quickly as possible. They take her to the Coronet Club and the Silver Dollar cafe. Sheriff Hingle keeps her from leaving town. The boys work with a revivalist.
Vergil and Helen Page with their young brother Homer are owners of the family ranch. Fighting a desperate battle against drought they're too proud to accept Tod and Buz's offer to help.
The boys work on a ranch and encounter a rancher's son. Karen dances on a table.
Tod and Buz are working as loggers in Oregon. They meet an Italian girl, Lucia Trapani, who has come from Sicily to buy a new Madonna for her church. She plans to do it by selling her only possessions.
A group of models are sent to a construction camp at Glen Canyon to do some fashion shots for a magazine. Jeff Grady head of the crew working at the dam appoints Tod and Buz as bodyguards.
Jack McConkie makes a find of Beryllium, a rare ore. Mine operator Fred Durant insists that he sell his claim. The old man refuses and is found badly beaten.
The boys meet scientist Mark Christopher and his friends who intend to remain in Carlsbad Caverns until a predicted nuclear war is over.
Laura Church is paroled from a Texas prison and prepares to take up a new life. Then she discovers that the man assigned as her advisor is none other than Woody Biggs, the rancher who sent her to jail in the first place. The boys work as cowboys.
Tod and Buz work at the Riverside race track for the Grand Prix stock-car races. They get involved with a family's problems, including whether the father should continue stock-car racing. Tod drives a racecar.
Tod and Buz watch a show at a local night club where trumpeter Gabe Johnson and his group are appearing. While driving away, they witness Jana Johnson, Gabe's wife, crash her car. She tells the boys that Gabe is insanely jealous and tried to kill her. The boys watch over her. Gabe shoots Tod but Tod tells the hospital it was an accident. When Jana goes back with Gabe, the boys realize that Jana will keep returning to Gabe no matter what.
The boys work on Adam Darcey's date farm. Adam loves his ward, "Sweet Thing", who wants to leave the farm. Adam is also trying to stop a road from being built on his property.
Tod goes to work for the Windus Dusting Company as a crop duster. He meets Summers, a pilot. The company is losing money.
A farmer wants his crops dusted with sulfur, which is very dangerous to the pilots. However, the risk means more money to for the crop-dusting company.
Tod and Buz meet a teenage girl who claims to be running from gangsters. The girl's wealthy mother thinks her daughter has been kidnapped and calls the police and a detective.
A blind widow listens for the voices of her dead husband's murderers. She asks Tod and Buz to buy her a pistol for self-protection.
Tod and Buz pick up a small boy who has run away from an orphanage. Tod wants to return the boy but Buz, who has bad memories of an orphanage, refuses. The boys also get involved with showgirls.
A psychotic killer is killing women at the Squaw Valley ski resort. He leaves a body in the snow.
The townsfolk of Broken Knee hand their money over to famous gambler Sam Keep to gamble it in Reno.
Tod's aunt Kitty asks Tod to find her daughter Carole. The boys find that she was living in a Los Angeles slum.
Tod and Buz meet hotel owner Mike, who drinks and gambles. Mike is the guardian for his niece, Linda, a little girl. Linda's executor wants to remove the child from her uncle, and she asks Tod and Buz for help.
Tod and Buz work on a ranch belonging to Frank Ivy. Frank's son dies leaving an Indian girl, Kawna, pregnant. Frank and Kawna's relatives fight over the baby.
Tod stops a poacher Hump Humphrey from killing a deer. Hump then shoots out the tires of Tod's car and later frames the boys for poaching.
Tod and Buz are kidnapped by New Mexican mountain townspeople who need a teacher. Tod addresses the New Mexico legislature about the culture of the people of Cordova and the need for teachers. Filming Location: Cordova, New Mexico
A has-been boxer Johnny Copa is now throwing fights. Johnny trains Buz in boxing.
Joan Maslow wants to bury her mother in the cemetery outside of Amity. The entire community is determined to stop her.
Buz and Tod go to work for Volovich and live at his house. Two other boarders are courting Volovich's mute daughter.
Buz falls in love with actress Arlene Sims who has a fatal disease and has returned to her home town to die.
Tod and Buz deliver "Blue Murder", a wild rodeo stallion, to Jim Bludge's ranch. Later Bludge is found dead with the mark of a horse hoof on him.
Ethel Waters plays a dying blues singer who asks Tod and Buz to locate her old jazz band for one last show.
Buz uses his experience as a former drug addict in an attempt to rehabilitate heroin addict Arnie.
Tod and Buz are working in a Russian -American neighborhood for Jack and Mike in a steel mill. Mike's daughter is found dead and Jack's son Janosh was with the girl when she died.
Tod and Buz are working on a fishing boat. The owner Leigh Adams is killed in an accident and his wandering daughter Prudence returns for the funeral. She takes over the boat and falls in love with Tod.
In the small Maryland town of Hester, Buz meets some people who physically resemble him (played by Maharis' relatives). He has been looking for his mother and thinks she may be in the town.
Tod and Buz are working at a shipyard. They meet Lillian Aldrich, another employee. Lillian has been released from a mental hospital.
Tod and Buz meet French singer Perette and her controlling tough-guy manager Glenn.
Maximillian Coyne is running a beauty contest. He claims to have connections with Hollywood and that the winner will get into pictures. Tod and Buz discover that Max is a fraud.
While at a party, Tod is accidentally given a powerful psychosis-producing drug. Buz tries to keep him from killing himself.
Johnny quits a juvenile gang. Packy takes over and also claims Johnny's girlfriend Marva.
Tod and Buz are working on a chicken farm. They meet Agnes Brack who doesn't like her son's widow Julie. Agnes tries to cause trouble for Julie. Filming Location: Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania
In Boston, Tod and Buz encounter right-wing nuts armed with plastic explosives.
Ollie Crump is a rodeo clown who is in love with Babe Hunter.
After five years in prison, David Job and his mob return to Harcourt Junction, Texas. Their mission is to take over the town and put its leading citizen Bob Harcourt on trial for sending them to jail.
Tod and Buz work with wheel chair patients at a veteran's hospital. Nurse Lori Barton falls in love with patient Frank Madera.
Tod and Buz meet Vicki Russell who is cruising around on her motorcycle. Vicki doesn't have a driver's license and the bike hasn't got plates.
In Dallas, Tod and Buz are delighted to be staying at a hotel hosting a secretary's convention. Then Caine, a religious serial killer armed with nerve gas kidnaps Buz. He plans to kill Buz unless the city "repents".
Tod and Buz are working in building construction. Tod's attempt to pick up Terry involves the boys in a corporate executive training program.
Tod and Buz befriend a Jewish boy whose family is a victim of anti-Semitism.
Tod and Buz work with a former Broadway show dancer Rosemarie Brown who is trying to make a comeback in a television show.
Tod is working as a high-speed boat test driver. He gets to pilot a boat whose new engine is developed by Tod's boss Sandy Mason.
Buz is blinded in an accident. At a school for the blind he falls for a blind girl (Celia). His sight returns and he has to leave her.
Tod and Buz encounter Miriam, who steps off a bus wearing a mask.
Tod and Buz meet Charles Clayton, a fugitive swindler who has returned to the US.
Several school children are touring Lake Erie aboard an excursion boat when "poor little rich boy" Ritchie McIntyre falls overboard. When Ritchie is brought back onboard the boat, he claims that he was pushed.
Tod and Buz visit Santa Catalina Island. A woman on the beach has caught her foot in a rock and the tide is coming in.
Tod and Buz visit Pacific Ocean Park, a Southern California amusement park. While there they encounter a woman with two identities.
A refugee Hungarian wrestling champion finds that American wrestling has it's own set of rules when he is offered a position as a "good guy" wrestler.
Tod goes to work for Peter Hale, who owns a wild animal park. Peter's first wife was killed by an animal. Hale has re-married and his new wife is frightened.
Tod works as a dental assistant to Dr. Anna Martin. Her husband Lawrence Martin, a famous inventor, has moved out and is living at a religious retreat.
Buz and Tod hire out as deck hands on Anna Gustafson's salmon fishing trawler where Tod becomes involved with Anna's daughter.
Tod and Buz ride into Harleyville. They meet some old comedians, including Jonah Butler, the town jinx.
In Chicago, Tod and Buz encounter Harry Wender, a frightened 1930's gangster who has outlived his time.
Tod and Buz go surfing in Southern California. Buz challenges a surfing champion to a match.
Tod and Buz encounter a downtrodden stock clerk who is involved in a telephone romance.
Tod and Buz are excited to be working at a Chicago hotel which is hosting a women's convention. Also staying at the hotel are the famous horror film actors. The actors are debating whether their traditional horror film characters can still scare modern audiences. The actors test their ideas on the conventioneers.
In Oregon City Tod and Buz get a real deal on rooms at an old house - $6.50 per week. Living in the house is Maggie a psychic reader, Van her unemployed husband, Michael, her nephew. Maggie's sister Autumn arrives after being fired from her teaching job and moves in. Michael is the house's sarcastic unpleasant owner and threatens to evict his relatives when he turns 21 in a few months. Michael is also trying to avoid some young men who want to beat him up.
While waiting for his date in a Cleveland railroad station Tod encounters convict Justin Lezama who is being moved to another prison. Lezama wants to call his brother and when the guard refuses Tod agrees to make the contact. Lezama takes Tod as a hostage.
Tod and Buz work for John Rados' road building-business. John has a strange daughter and John offers Buz money and a business if he will date her.
Tod and Buz work with a Doc Duncan, a shark fisherman. Doc is catching sharks for scientific experiments.
Tod and Buz encounter Muddy Mullins, a piano playing ex-con and his son Arnie.
Mentalist Brycie Koseloff makes dire predictions about Tod's future including predicting that finally Tod will kill Buz. Her predictions start coming true.
Tod becomes involved in a kidnapping. Ellen Barnes claims that a mental patient is kidnapping her.
Tod meets Vicki Russell again (from "How Much a Pound is Albatross"). She is again riding her motorcycle and this time has a boyfriend Frank pursuing her.
Tod becomes an assistant to novelist Warren Barr. Warren's daughter Beth shoots her husband.
Tod meets music composer Julian Roebuck who is recording local folk musicians in Tennessee.
Tod and Buz meet Lars, a German sailor in Tijuana who is looking for his father Ralph and is carrying a gun.
Tod is carrying his new credit card around Los Angeles, and is being followed around Los Angeles by Diane. She asks him for a date and then steals the credit card.
Tod meets Joby, who steals his wallet. Corelli is a social worker who helps out.
Tod witnesses a double murder and joins a posse hunting for the killers.
Alma Hawkes returns to a Gulf Coast fishing town after spending time in prison for killing her father. She is looking for her son and mistakes Tod for the son.
Tod is working for the Houston zoo. Maria, the troubled daughter of a Mexican family, throws herself into the bear pit.
Tod meets a Lincoln Case who has just completed a six-year Army enlistment including two years in Vietnam as an Army ranger. Linc decides not to re-enlist but to join Tod on the cross-country odyssey.
Linc meets a girl named Janie in a tavern and she gives him a knockout drink.
The boys get jobs at the Weeki Wachee theme park in Florida. The park show features girls dressed as mermaids performing underwater. A shy girl Elissa emerges from the water and after demonstrating amazing underwater swimming talent is hired for the show. She talks about "coming from the sea" and implies that she is a real mermaid. Skeptical Tod falls for her but assumes that she just wants publicity to launch a movie career. Linc has a more open mind and believes her. Tod discovers too late that she was telling the truth.
Tod and Linc meet Jai-Alai players who involve the boys in Cuban politics. Quiepo wants to smuggle his niece out of Cuba.
Linc meets Lt. School, a former officer he served under in Vietnam. The officer now has the mentality of an eight-year old child and is living with his mother.
Tod and Linc meet two rich playgirls after one of them runs down his boat with her speedboat.
Tod and Linc's car breaks down. Linc hitches a ride with Alva and Charlie, two robbers who force him to drive their getaway car.
Tod and Linc are working in a Florida town. Linc is accused of stabbing an unfriendly dog and is arrested. Filming Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Tod and Linc are working with Emmett McNeill, a tramp. A strange disease breaks out which turns out to be spread by ticks.
While in a Florida swamp, Tod and Linc meet Major Barben, an American World War II ace and Takasuka, a Japanese officer who are still fighting the war.
Tod and Linc encounter Morgan Harper who is back to reopen an estate. Her psycho husband Eric is back to kill her.
In Maine, Tod and Linc work at a sawmill and board with a French Canadian one-armed former logger Poppa and his beautiful daughter Marie. Marie tries to be what ever a man wants her to be. Marie and Link are having a romance and Marie tells Tod "I'm going to hurt your friend". Sailor Jack arrives in town between ships and has a fling with Marie. Marie decides to leave home to "find herself" but Tod and Linc talk her out of it.
Tod and Linc work at a beauty contest with Celli who is an acoustical engineer.
Tod and Linc go fishing for lobsters with Thayer Faxon. Thayer's problem son Mamomsha returns to cause more trouble.
Tod and Linc meet Mike Donato, an eccentric raspberry farmer.
Spinster Hazel comes to Colorado. She meets Ben Beldon, who was in the Army with Linc. Ben is now a miner amd a trouble-maker. Ben and Hazel get trapped in a mine.
Tod and Linc work for a Vermont farmer and get involved in a pulling horse race.
Tod and Linc meet Stephanie. .
Tod and Linc encounter five lady instrumentalists in Toronto.
Tod and Linc meet physical culturist Greta.
Two children leave their little brother on a doorstep.
Tod and Linc witness a plane crash and a dying passenger asks Linc to deliver money to a child in Savannah.
Tod and Linc work on a neon sign in a small Georgia town. Simon rips the sign down.
Linc beats up a man (Cam) in a Georgia bar. The man was in Linc's unit in Vietnam and his cowardice in battle caused the death of a Vietnamese girl.
Link stops Nola Nielsen from committing suicide and romances her. Her possessive brother Hamar dissaproves.
Tod and Linc meet Tank, a boxer who likes rum, and Tank's girlfriend Gaybee.
Tod and Linc encounter a Daytona Florida librarian and a murderer.
Tod and Linc meet Harlan Livingston III, a naive millionaire who is surrounded by women who are pretending to be hurt.
A disturbed teenager kills his friend.
Tod is vacationing by himself in Canada near Niagara Falls. He meets a professional assassin who looks exactly like him. Middle-Eastern plotters have hired the assassin to kill their king and he plans to do so with a high-powered sniper rifle. The assassin complains to Tod that his deprived childhood has caused him to become what he is.
In Florida, Tod and Linc meet the Tiffins, a family of con men and criminals who are squabbling over a will. Tod becomes involved romantically with family member Margo who stands to inherit the money if she marries. Tod is thrown off a bridge.
Believing that Tod has been killed, Linc and Margo set out to catch his murderer. Tod turns up alive and marries Margo. Linc leaves the Corvette with Tod.