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Season 1 – Petticoat Junction

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Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters - Bobbie Jo, Billie Jo and Bettie Jo - run the Shady Rest Hotel, a small-town inn where city folks come to enjoy the quiet. Nothing much happens around Hooterville, so it's up to the girls to come up with their own schemes for fun.
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Petticoat Junction — Season 1

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Bea Benaderet

Kate Bradley

Edgar Buchanan

Uncle Joe Carson

Jeannine Riley

Billie Jo Bradley

Linda Kaye Henning

Betty Jo Bradley Elliott

Pat Woodell

Bobbie Jo Bradley

Frank Cady

Sam Drucker

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 24, 1963 Spur Line to Shady Rest A man travels to Hooterville to investigate a line connection. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 2, 1963 Quick, Hide the Railroad Kate wants to hide the Hooterville Cannonball to save it from the scrap heap. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 8, 1963 The President Who Came to Dinner The railroad president decides to scrap the Cannonball himself. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 15, 1963 Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse? Curtis breaks the throttle of the Cannonball and blocks the way to Kate's jamboree. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 22, 1963 The Courtship of Floyd Smoot Kate tries to restore the self-confidence of Floyd Smoot after he is jilted by his mail-order sweetheart, by pretending to be in love with him. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 29, 1963 Please Buy My Violets Uncle Joe decides to go into the cologne business. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 5, 1963 The Ringer Betty Jo becomes the first female contestant in the horseshoe tournament. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 12, 1963 Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb Kate decides it is time for Betty Jo to put down the books and set out to find a significant other. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 19, 1963 The Little Train Robbery A pair of crooks plans to rob the Cannonball of its bank shipment. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 26, 1963 Bedloe Strikes Again Homer returns to Shady Rest in an attempt to scrap the Cannonball. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 3, 1963 Uncle Joe's Replacement General store clerk Herbie Bates, is name assistant general manager of the Shady Rest by Kate, making Uncle Joe feel like he is being replaced. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 10, 1963 Honeymoon Hotel Uncle Joe becomes a justice of the peace with hopes of attracting honeymooners. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 17, 1963 A Night at the Hooterville Hilton A brochure for the Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely distributed. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 24, 1963 Cannonball Christmas Homer plans to keep the Cannonball from making its Christmas caroling tour. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 31, 1963 Herby Gets Drafted Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her, he has just been drafted. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 7, 1964 Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik Bobbie Jo falls for Alan Landman (Dennis Hopper), a poet and beatnik. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 14, 1964 My Daughter the Doctor Billie Jo discovers that her late father wanted her to be a doctor. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 21, 1964 Hooterville vs. Hollywood Kate asks the judge if she can legally keep Billie Jo from going to Hollywood. Details Episode 19 Aired Jan 28, 1964 Visit From a Big Star A movie star escapes from the Hollywood madness in Shady Rest. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 4, 1964 Last Chance Farm Uncle Joe convinces two overweight women that the Shady Rest is really a reducing farm, where their loss is management's gain. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 11, 1964 The Very Old Antique Railroad executive Homer Bedloe arrives in Hooterville with a railroad tycoon, who is determined to purchase the Cannonball. Details Episode 22 Aired Feb 18, 1964 The Art Game After selling a painting, Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to success. Details Episode 23 Aired Feb 25, 1964 Betty Jo's First Love Betty Jo has finally met a man she likes, but he seems more interested in tinkering on cars than he is working on a romance. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 3, 1964 Behind All Silver, There's a Cloud Lining Uncle Joe spreads a rumor of a silver strike has been found in the area as a scheme to get more people to stay at the Shady Rest, and dig his drainage ditch for free. Details Episode 25 Aired Mar 10, 1964 The Talent Contest Uncle Joe tries to rig a talent contest he is promoting, in order to assure that one of his nieces will win. Details Episode 26 Aired Mar 17, 1964 Kate and the Manpower Problem An old friend of Kate tells the girls to dig up some eligible prospects, in order to get Kate married again. Details Episode 27 Aired Mar 24, 1964 The Ladybugs Uncle Joe wants to cash in on the recent Beatlemania fever, by making up a girl group named The Ladybugs, starring his nieces and Sheriff Ragsdale's daughter. Details Episode 28 Aired Mar 31, 1964 The Hooterville Flivverball Uncle Jo plans to use Orville Miggs' flivver to power his own railroad and bankrupt the Hooterville Cannonball. Details Episode 29 Aired Apr 7, 1964 Kate the Stockholder Railroad executive Homer Bedloe tries once again to get rid of the Hooterville Cannonball, this time by getting Floyd and Charley to quit by harassment. Details Episode 30 Aired Apr 14, 1964 Kate and the Dowager The gang at the Shady Rest must make sure that socialite, Clara Watkins, has a comfortable stay if Kate is ever to get a loan again from her. Details Episode 31 Aired Apr 21, 1964 Charley Abandons the Cannonball Charley decides it's time to quit as engineer of the Cannonball when the citizens of Hooterville seem too busy to spend anytime with him. Details Episode 32 Aired Apr 28, 1964 Dog Days at Shady Rest Norman Curtis, the railroad president, sends his basset hound to the Shady Rest to give him a change of scenery. Details Episode 33 Aired May 5, 1964 A Millionaire for Kate Uncle Joe believes an old schoolmate of Kate's is a con artist, instead of the millionaire he says he is. Details Episode 34 Aired May 12, 1964 Bledloe and Son Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with his son Homer Jr., who is a carbon copy of his dad. Details Episode 35 Aired May 19, 1964 Local Girl Makes Good A former resident of Hooterville, Mary Jane Hastings, has returned home as a business executive, impressing everyone with her administrative abilities, and her handling of men. Details Episode 36 Aired May 26, 1964 Cave Woman Kate is missing as a big convention is meeting to decide where to hold their convention, she is stuck in a cave. Details Episode 37 Aired Jun 2, 1964 Kate Flat on Her Back With Kate injured, Uncle Joe and the daughters must corner the convention. Details Episode 38 Aired Jun 9, 1964 The Genghis Keane Story Kate is surprised at her old school teacher's new personality. Details
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Season Info

Director
David Alexander, Jean Yarbrough, Guy Scarpitta, Dick Wesson, Sherman Marks
Screenwriter
Dick Wesson, Ed James, Paul Henning, Hannibal Coons, Richard Baer, Jerry Seelen, Martin Ragaway, Jack Raymond, John Elliotte, Seaman Jacobs, Joel Kane, Mark Tuttle, Harry Winkler, Leo Rifkin
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 24, 1963