Two longtime alcoholics who live together in a shack by the edge of town are not good candidates to take home a girl about to become a teenager.
Dolly is the daughter of Matt, played by Anthony Caruso. She wants to find out who her father is, so she can move out of the convent/school where Dolly has been living for ten+ years.
Randall gets contacted by Dolly, which seems kind of impossible, since he is always on the road. How did she know who he was, how did she get a mailing address? Randall shows up at the convent to help her find her father.
Unfortunately, her father (Anthony Caruso) and his best friend, played by Robert J. Wilke, are the town drunks, vagrants, and violent trouble-makers. Randall should have just walked away and told the girl that her parents were dead, but instead, he opens up the can of worms.
Caruso wants to be a father to the girl after having dropped her off at the orphanage/ convent when she was a baby. Nobody thought that putting a couple of angry drunks as custodians of a pre-teenage girl was a bad idea? The nuns just went along with Randall's plan without a single question or complaint.
In typical TV show fashion, Randall reforms Caruso by getting him to take a bath, buy some new clothes, and stop drinking. Ta-Da! A couple of weeks later, it is all OK now. Caruso is as sweet as a summer breeze, and ready to care for a young girl that has never met him in over ten years. The nuns turn the girl over to the two worst people that they ever met.
Robert Wilke shows up at the reunion meeting with a new outfit, a shave, and a bath. His recovery from alcoholism and violent anger takes about one minute.
Caruso and Wilke become the first same-sex couple to have custody of a child in the 1950s (on TV). The kid is so happy to get out of the convent / orphanage that she jumps for joy as she meets her two Dads for the first time ever!