Randolf Stonehill and Albert Dudley are respectively the third-generation owner of, and the butler for, Marblehead Manor, a mansion someplace in New England, USA. Randolf is also heir to the Stonehill corn-oil fortune. Life is seldom normal in Marblehead Manor. Along with Randolf's wife Hillary, Jerry the Chauffeur, Duane the Handy Man, Lupe the Cook, Lupe's son Elvis, and Rick the Gardener, comic misunderstandings abound. The inhabitants of Marblehead Manor also have a habit of dressing up as other people to comic effect.