Subplots include that of a teenage boy with absolutely no flight experience takes to the air in a stolen Ercoupe because his parents (Van Johnson is the dad, a newspaper columnist extraordinaire) are getting a divorce, and a case of mistaken identity between an uptight, diet-gum-chewing bookkeeper and a laid-back "made-for-TV hippie." Will Pernell get the appropriations for the airport—or be canned for ruffling the wrong feathers? Will the criminals get away with the money? Will mixed-up teenager Davey auger his stolen plane into the bay? Will all the other sub-plots be resolved?