When a lonesome Jewish girl comes to stay at Convent San Tanco while her parents are away on vacation, Sister Bertrille takes on chief babysitting duties--and perhaps goes too far in the Big Sister department before little Linda Shapiro announces she wants to become a nun too.

Sister Bertrille and Carlos try to salvage the convent's bell from the ocean.

Located atop a hill in old San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Convent San Tanco is populated by, among others, Sister Bertrille, a new novice from New York, who is to teach kindergarten, but discovers that the strong winds of San Juan coupled with the wing-like cornette of the nun's habit can make her go airborne.

Psychedelic episode featuring The Sundowners. Sister Bertrille hears that Sonny and the Sundowners will be performing at Casino Carlos A-Go-Go. She knew Sonny and wants to say hello. When they meet, Sonny offers to help the convent and asks Sister Bertrille to write a song, they'll record, and she'll get the royalties. She writes a very sixties image-laden song that the Sundowners turn into an all out acid-fuzz-psychedelic-trip! All the nuns go to the go-go club to hear the song's debut and flip out when presented with a trippy strobe light show, caged go-go dancers and background vocal lines like ""grow your own,"" and ""magic mushrooms!"" Must see rock n roll TV! Paul Peterson, The Sundowners.

Rumors of Sister Bertrille's imminent demise lead to a conspiracy to brighten her last days.

A psychiatrist pays a visit to San Tanco.

Sister Bertrille, Carlos, and one of Carlos's girls are stranded on a desert island.

Sister Sixto's uncle uses Sister Bertrille to help him catch fish.

When Mother Superior goes on a business trip in Saint Thomas, Sister Bertrille uses her powers to give Plaseato something very important that she forgot. When the wind dies down, she lands on a small island where some gamblers are staying.

Sister Bertrille tries to explain her flying ability to Carlos.

One of the convent children takes an interest in Scraples, a kleptomanic dog.

When looking for rocks, Sister Bertrille gets stuck in a mine with an ex-con.

After a day picnicking, the gang are ready to head back to the convent, however their station wagon isn't being cooperative. Sister Bertrille decides that she will fly to a pay telephone and call Carlos to come pick them up. But the stormy weather grounds her, as her cornette becomes sopping wet and limp.

When she and Sister Jaqueline volunteer at a hospital, Sister Bertrille befriends a boy with a knack for telling lies. The boy sees Bertrille flying, but no one else believes him!

Misunderstandings start when a $5,000 donation check is destroyed and the sisters, who have never met the donator, try to find him so that he can write them another one.

Sisters Bertrille and Jaqueline try to stop a civil war between the village of Santa Thomasina.

A hot spell is drifting through San Juan, and with it comes gangster Rufus Morgan, who has vowed to take over Carlos' casino.

Bridgett Faulkner and Joel Bascomb reluctantly accept their prizes donated by Carlos Ramirez as the top students at the convent, the award being a day out on the town and dinner at the Captains Table.

After helping a pelican on the beach, Sister Bertrille has to cope with a lovesick bird.

A hit man's girl poses as Mother Superior's secretary, but makes friends with the Sisters.

Sister Bertrille and Sister Jaqueline try to hide a bird in the convent.

Sister Bertrille goes to a greedy car salesman to get a new station wagon for San Tanco.

To save a children's day camp in a park in San Tanco, Sister Bertrille and the nuns must attract more residents to the town.

Sister Bertrille gets into a fender bender, caused by her running a red light. She can't really remember what happened, and is willing to accept responsibility for the accident if it was her fault. The occupants of the other car are hippies, namely Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart of the singing group, The Paper Balloon, who happen to be appearing at Carlos' casino.

Pedro Alvarez and Juan Cortez are business partners of a produce business, Juan the business oriented partner, Pedro the customer oriented partner. When Pedro reveals he is illiterate and can't read a letter from his girlfriend in Miami, Sister Bertrille suggests that he learn to read and write.

To raise money for the convent, Sister Bertrille and the others try to market sea grape juice under the title ""Nector of San Tanco."" But, however, they get more than they bargain for.

Sister Bertrille helps a sailor who plans on going from San Juan to Miami in a tiny ship.

The Temple Beth Sholom overseen by Rabbi Mendez is the only synagogue in San Juan. Rabbi Mendez has a problem: engaged couple Alfredo Acquilar and Sophia Baldazon want to get married but the temple is too small to hold all their invited guests. So Sister Bertrille convinces all to hold the ceremony on the grounds of the convent.

Sister Bertrille needs to see Dr. Paredes, the dentist, to have a toothache fixed, but Sister Bertrille is scared of dentists. So the Reverend Mother goes with her to hold her hand. To calm Sister Bertrille's nerves, Dr. Paredes puts her under hypnosis.

While everyone else is at a charity benefit, Sister Bertrille is alone at the convent nursing sick child Felix. She hears a news bulletin on the radio that escaped convict Ignacio Ferrante is in the vicinity of San Tanco, and she gets worried for her and Felix's safety.

Captain Fomento has had parking meters installed in San Tanco, but he's the only one who likes them.

There are two upcoming important events: the novices are approaching their rededication ceremony, and the Reverend Mother is attending a conference in Chicago. With the latter, she can take one travel companion, and all the sisters do extra things in hopes that that will sway the decision in their favor.

Carlos is looking for a wife - only temporarily. His grandmother, Amalia Ramirez, is coming for a visit, and once, when it looked as if she was dying, he told her he was married with a family to make her happy.

The 99 year lease of the Convent is up. The Landlord decides to move in for a while, much to the sisters dismay.

Convent orphan Michael Antonio idolizes his uncle, renowned magician and juggler Marko the Magnificient. Marko is coming to San Tanco to visit Michael, an opportunity Sister Bertrille cannot let pass.

While on a retreat with Sister Jacqueline, Sister Bertrille runs into one of her old boyfriends, Randy Putnam.

Farmer Gonzalo, the convent's milk supplier, is moving to St. Thomas and can't take Alicia, his beloved cow with him. Sister Bertrille decides to buy Alicia for the convent as a cheap, constant and reliable milk supply for the kitchen and for the children's needs.

The sisters need to call in accident-prone Brother Paul back to the convent to do some bookkeeping work. The sisters do everything in their power to keep Brother Paul from doing harm to himself, to them or to the convent.

The nuns try to go into busness again, this time they have Sister Sixto baking bread.

San Tanco is getting a new parish priest, Father Walter Larson, an old friend of the Reverend Mother's. But Father Larson has spent most of his life as an archivist, and is used to being alone with his books, and is not a very social person.

When Marcello describes the sisters' to others as "guys", they think that he needs a fatherly male influence in his life.

On a day outing with Marcello, Sister Bertrille breaks three different traffic regulations. She forces Officer Juarez to give her a ticket so show Marcello that even nuns have to obey the law or pay the price.

After Sister Bertrille is partly the cause for Carlos' latest mishap which places him in the hospital, Carlos and Sister Bertrille individually review their relationship.

Rickie Malinas is the sports writer for the San Tanco Tribune. But he's also temporarily Dear Aggie, the paper's advice columnist. He convinces Sister Bertrille to take over Dear Aggie duties until he can find a permanent replacement.

Carlos donates a pool table to the convent. Sister Bertrille thinks it would be a good pastime for convent orphan Armando to partake as his current diversions are wild flights of fancy.

Thomas Martinez, Carlos' uncle, is planning his own funeral to be held next week, this funeral despite him not being ill. He admits to Sister Bertrille that he has witnessed what he calls the Martinez Sign, that which generations of his male ancestors have seen and have passed away exactly seven days following.

A gambler thinks Sister Bertrille is good luck.

Carlos is doing his mandatory two-week active duty with the marine corps, and is stationed on a small remote island near San Juan.