The teleplay by Allan Sloane was based on the Ladies Home Journal article How America Lives by Joe Sparton.

Family Reunion follows Elizabeth Winfield, a New England teacher recently retired after a fifty-year career.

She uses an unlimited bus ticket received as a gift to visit the distant members of her long-estranged family.

During her absence, her small hometown, which bears her family's name, falls prey to dishonest relatives colluding with corrupt shopping mall developers.

She returns in an effort to halt construction on the project and, armed with the moral integrity she has instilled in her students for the past five decades, she manages to resolve the situation in time for the annual Founder's Day festivities.