In the ""pilot"" part of the episode, the Shaw brothers, former hockey stars, now fat and middle aged, face dilemmas in the town of Poland, New Hampshire. In the ""Falling Acorns"" part, Dottie decides to buy the old movie house.
Rehearsals for the Easter pagent don't go as planned; Hank does not support Dottie as he begins to blackmail Sharon Ropers about her affair with Garret.