Steve is on a business trip to Amsterdam, Robbie is in the South Pacific for military reserve training, and Chip is on a school trip to Mexico, so Ernie and Uncle Charley are left home alone together. Charley invites an old shipmate, Toby Chambers (
Douglas Fowley), over for dinner, not realizing he's now a famous TV star that Ernie idolizes. Steve is stuck in his hotel room working, Robbie can't leave camp to visit the local town, and Chip gets tonsillitis and thus misses out on seeing Mexico, meanwhile, Toby invites Ernie and Charley to the television studio where there are filming - coincidentally - scenes in Holland, the South Pacific, and finally Mexico, where the two are given bit parts in Toby's show.
—S Sather