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Petticoat Junction : Season 1
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Air date: 24 Sep '63 - 38 episodesPetticoat Junction is an American situation comedy. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning. The characters "seem" to go to Hooterville for some goods and services, including high school and the hospital, but prefer Pixley for supermarket shopping, beauty parlors, and movies. The petticoat of the title is an old-fashioned garment once worn under a woman's skirt. The opening titles of the series featured a display of petticoats hanging on the side of the railway's water tower where the three originally teenage daughters are apparently bathing in the nude or skinny-dipping. In fact, the show's opening theme contains a hint of sexual innuendo in the line, "Lotsa curves, you bet, and even more when you get to the Junction." This is an obvious double entendre referring to both the train tracks and the Bradley daughters. However, as Linda Kaye states on the official season one DVD set, the name of the town Hooterville was not a reference to the...
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List of Episodes (38)
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1. Spur Line to Shady Rest (1)
24 Sep '63
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2. Quick, Hide the Railroad (2)
01 Oct '63
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3. The President Who Came to Dinner (1)
08 Oct '63C&FW President, Norman Curtis, journeys to Hooterville to take matters into his own hands as far as dissolving the Cannonball, but becomes enchanted by the people of the valley.
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4. Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse? (2)
15 Oct '63No one can attend Kate's Shady Rest Jamboree after Norman Curtis makes the Cannonball inoperative.
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5. The Courtship of Floyd Smoot
22 Oct '63Kate pretends to fall in love with Floyd after his bad experience with a mail-order bride.
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6. Please Buy My Violets
29 Oct '63Joe goes into the cologne business.
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7. The Ringer
05 Nov '63The Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament rolls around, and Pixley Fats is it's main contender. He might have a little speed bump though, in the form of the tournament's first female player, Betty Jo.
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8. Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb
12 Nov '63It's time for Bobbie Jo to put down the books and set out to get a significant other.
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9. The Little Train Robbery
19 Nov '63The Cannonball's bank shipment is the target of two young train robbers.
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10. Bedloe Strikes Again
26 Nov '63Homer Bedloe's,arch-enemy of the Hooterville Cannonball,returns to Hooterville Valley in adject disgrace and poverty.
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11. Uncle Joe's Replacement
03 Dec '63One of Kate's olf flames pays a visit,but his efforts to rekindle their romance are thwarted by his dominating sister.
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12. Honeymoon Hotel
10 Dec '63Uncle Joe's latest scheme involves turning the Shady Rest into a Honeymooners getaway. But when his status as temporary Justice of the Peace turns out to be invalid, can Kate and the girls keep the couple he ""married"" busy until Sam Drucker can be found to make their union legal?
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13. A Night at the Hooterville Hilton
17 Dec '63A brochure describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely mailed to a Hooterville travel columnist.
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14. Cannonball Christmas
24 Dec '63Homer Bedloe plans to stop the Hooterville Cannonball from making its traditional Christmas caroling tour
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15. Herbie Gets Drafted
31 Dec '63Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her--he's just been drafted.
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16. Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik
07 Jan '64Bobbie Jo is entranced with poet Alan Landman, a visiting beatnik who is passing through Hooterville.
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17. My Daughter the Doctor (1)
14 Jan '64Billie 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.
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18. Hooterville vs. Hollywood (2)
21 Jan '64Kate confers with Judge Drucker to see if she can legally prevent Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.
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19. Visit From a Big Star
28 Jan '64A movie-idol wants to hide away from it all at the Shady Rest.
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20. Last Chance Farm
04 Feb '64Uncle Joe tells two plump ladies that Shady Rest is a reducing farm, where their loss is the management's gain.
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21. The Very Old Antique
11 Feb '64Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball
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22. The Art Game
18 Feb '64The art dealer buys one of Uncle Joe's paintings for its valuable frame, but Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to fantastic artistic success.
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23. Betty Jo's First Love
25 Feb '64Betty Jo has her first crush - but the object of her affections (Orville Miggs) is more interested in tinkering with cars than he is in romance.
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24. Behind All Silver, There's a Cloud Lining
03 Mar '64Uncle Joe tries to bring more guests to Shady Rest--and get his drainage ditch dug for free--by spreading rumors about a silver strike in the area.
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25. The Talent Contest
10 Mar '64Uncle Joe is promoting a talent contest, and he tries to make sure that one of his three nieces wins.
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