Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction

1963 7 Seasons ⭐ 5.817
Comedy Family

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

Seasons

1. Spur Line to Shady Rest

1963-09-24 • ⭐ 6.0

Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, is sent by railroad president Norman P. Curtis to the little community of Hooterville to find out why a branch line doesn't c…

2. Quick, Hide the Railroad

1963-10-01 • ⭐ 7.0

Kate uses a combination of charm, subterfuge, and wiles to prevent Homer Bedloe from catching the Hooterville Cannonball and getting to Pixley in order to initiate proceedings tha…

3. The President Who Came to Dinner

1963-10-08 • ⭐ 7.0

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis is incensed that ace troubleshooter Homer Bedloe utterly failed to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball. Taking matters into his own hands, h…

4. Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse?

1963-10-15 • ⭐ 7.0

Norman Curtis, who has fallen in love with life at the Shady Rest, is still staying there for free without Kate yet knowing his true identity. He accidentally breaks the throttle …

5. The Courtship of Floyd Smoot

1963-10-22 • ⭐ 7.0

Floyd Smoot, the conductor, is courting a woman through the mail. But, when she ends it after receiving a photo of him, he loses all confidence. Kate tries to help him think all t…

6. Please Buy My Violets

1963-10-29 • ⭐ 7.0

Uncle Joe spends Kate's money to buy cases of lousy smelling men and women's cologne to make a fast buck reselling it. The money was intended to put screens in the hotel that will…

7. The Ringer

1963-11-05 • ⭐ 7.0

Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history. But she experiences conflicting emotions when she f…

8. Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb

1963-11-12 • ⭐ 7.0

When Billie Jo has to come up with a fourth for her double date with Junior Hocker and Junior's visiting friend Roger Budd, Kate suggests Bobbie Jo to her. Billie Jo doesn't think…

9. The Little Train Robbery

1963-11-19 • ⭐ 7.0

Two young men, Arthur Gilroy and Lowell Rightmeyer, are on their way to rob the bank in Pixley. They change their plans when they learn that the next day, the Cannonball, without …

10. Bedloe Strikes Again

1963-11-26 • ⭐ 7.0

The Cannonball and its primary passenger, Uncle Joe, are pelted with eggs after the Hooterville Hornets, coached by Uncle Joe, are drubbed in what may be their worst game ever. An…

11. Uncle Joe's Replacement

1963-12-03 • ⭐ 6.0

Kate and the girls go to Drucker's store to pick up the pocket watch they ordered for Uncle Joe's birthday present. While there Kate, in an effort to boost Herby's confidence, ina…

12. Honeymoon Hotel

1963-12-10 • ⭐ 7.0

Uncle Joe has come up with another scheme to attract guests to the hotel: advertise it as a wedding/honeymoon destination. Uncle Joe manages to get Sam, the county judge, to swear…

13. A Night at the Hooterville Hilton

1963-12-17 • ⭐ 7.0

A brochure made by Uncle Joe describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is accidentally mailed to The Centerville Sun Express travel columnist Gladys Stroud. In th…

14. Cannonball Christmas

1963-12-24 • ⭐ 7.0

The Bradleys, Sam Drucker, Herby, Charlie and Floyd are decorating the Cannonball for its annual Christmas Eve trip of caroling, gift-giving and merriment around the valley. But, …

15. Herbie Gets Drafted

1963-12-31

Herby is depressed when he gets drafted, so the girls cheer him up by suggesting he could be an astronaut. Uncle Joe hears this and decides he needs to promote Herby's future poli…

16. Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik

1964-01-07 • ⭐ 7.0

Bobbie Jo brings home Alan Landman, a mad-at-the-world young poet and slacker who has won her heart. Despite Bobbie Jo liking him in every respect, he dismisses her way of life. B…

17. My Daughter the Doctor

1964-01-14 • ⭐ 7.0

Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie Jo wants to go to Hollywood to become an actress. …

18. Hooterville vs. Hollywood

1964-01-21 • ⭐ 6.0

Billie Jo is still determined to use the $500 from her father to go to Hollywood to become a movie star. It doesn't help that Uncle Joe, who wants to go with her, is fueling her d…

19. Visit From a Big Star

1964-01-28 • ⭐ 7.0

Uncle Joe has made a deal with Lucy Wayne, the secretary of movie star Lane Haggard, for them to stay for two weeks at the Shady Rest. Incognito as Mr. Jones, Haggard, according t…

20. Last Chance Farm

1964-02-04 • ⭐ 6.0

Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude Hawley, who are lost and looking for Madame Bovar…

21. The Very Old Antique

1964-02-11

When Kate unexpectedly sees Homer Bedloe in Hooterville, she knows trouble is in store. Bedloe plans on selling the Cannonball, a seemingly one-of-a-kind antique locomotive. His b…

22. The Art Game

1964-02-18

A traveling salesman guest leaves Uncle Joe a set of six paint-by-number canvases in lieu of a cash payment. Joe decides to take up painting and hopes to make money with his new v…

23. Betty Jo's First Love

1964-02-25

Betty Jo has her first crush on a boy named Orville Miggs. But the object of her affections is more interested in tinkering with cars than he is in romance. As such, all Orville s…

24. Behind All Silver, There's a Cloud Lining

1964-03-03

Homer Bedloe is back in Hooterville trying yet again to find a way to shut down the Cannonball. He believes there must be something in the financial books since Charley and Floyd …

25. The Talent Contest

1964-03-10

A regional talent contest is being held in Hooterville with the winner being awarded $50 and a trip to Chicago for the television broadcast final. Kate worries that competition am…

26. Kate and the Manpower Problem

1964-03-17

An old school chum named Emily Mapes thinks it's time Kate was married again. She tells the girls to round up some prospects to go to the Shady Rest to court Kate. The girls do th…

27. The Ladybugs

1964-03-24

Beatlemania has hit Hooterville by storm. Uncle Joe recruits Billy, Bobbie, and Betty Joe along with their friend Sally Ragsdale to form their own band called the Ladybugs. Colone…

28. The Hooterville Flivverball

1964-03-31

Uncle Joe gets angry at Charlie and Floyd when he is left behind by the Cannonball. He decides to start his own transport business by using Orville Miggs' "Flivverball", an old ca…

29. Kate the Stockholder

1964-04-07

Norman Curtis, President of the C&FW Railroad, is currently on vacation in Europe. He left instructions not to do anything to the Cannonball while he's gone. However, Homer Bedloe…

30. Kate and the Dowager

1964-04-14

Mr. Bunce with the bank is doing an inspection of the hotel and is not planning on extending Kate's financing. Wealthy socialite Clara Watkins checks into the hotel with her son S…

31. Charley Abandons the Cannonball

1964-04-21

Charley begins to believe that everyone seems too busy to spend any time with him. Floyd has started to call on the widow Sarah Lawrence. Uncle Joe has a speech he has to prepare,…

32. Dog Days at Shady Rest

1964-04-28

Kate receives a telegram from Railroad President Norman Curtis that he is sending Homer Bedloe with someone named Fred. Fred is actually Mr. Curtis' housekeeper's aged basset houn…

33. A Millionaire for Kate

1964-05-05

An old friend of Kate's from high school is coming for a visit. Kate admits that she had a crush on H.J. Grant back then. His letter implies that he is now wealthy, and is coming …

34. Bedloe and Son

1964-05-12

Homer Bedloe arrives at the Shady Rest with his son, Homer Bedloe Jr., who is as hateful and devious as his father. He even looks like his father down to the horn-rimmed glasses. …

35. Local Girl Makes Good

1964-05-19

Business executive Mary Jane Hastings returns home to Hooterville to receive the Chamber of Commerce award. She commands attention just by her very presence, with everyone being a…

36. Cave Woman

1964-05-26

Uncle Joe wants to dig out an old cave to use as a wine cellar for the hotel. Kate receives a telegram from Brooks T. Webster, who wants to possibly hold a convention at the Shady…

37. Kate Flat on Her Back

1964-06-02

Kate has sprained her ankle which means she will be off her feet for three or four days. Now that Mr. Webster's gone, the family has to prepare for Mr. Feasel's visit. He is the o…

38. The Genghis Keane Story

1964-06-09

Kate's former grade school teacher returns to Hooterville. Kate and her children reminisce how Miss Adelaide "Genghis" Keane was so strict on all the children, and she was a dread…

Top Cast

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Mike Minor
Meredith MacRae
Meredith MacRae
Lori Saunders
Lori Saunders
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan
Frank Cady
Frank Cady
June Lockhart
June Lockhart
Linda Henning
Linda Henning

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