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Petticoat Junction : Season 2
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Air date: 22 Sep '64 - 36 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 (36)
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1. Betty Jo's Dog
22 Sep '64Betty Jo has a new friend - a little dog that keeps following her around. She'd like to keep the animal, but Kate says the animal must go.
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2. Race Against the Stork
29 Sep '64Kate's friend, Elsie, comes to stay at Shady Rest while waiting to have her baby, and a nervous Uncle Joe immediately works out a master plan to get a doctor to Shady Rest when the crucial time arrives
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3. Have Library, Will Travel
06 Oct '64Uncle Joe has grown extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh, who has set up a traveling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball
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4. The Umquaw Strip
13 Oct '64Homer Bedloe sees an opportunity to close down the Hooterville Cannonball when he learns that an Indian tribe has legal title to the land the Cannonball's tracks are on
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5. As Hooterville Goes
27 Oct '64Hooterville will have to go some to retain its record as the first community in the state to file election returns--Crabwell Corners has got itself an automatic voting machine
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6. My Dog the Actor
10 Nov '64Billie Jo enters a picture of the family dog in a pet-food company's contest, and the mutt is selected one of five finalists.
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7. The Great Buffalo Hunt
17 Nov '64Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! It's part of his scheme to dupe a wealthy British sportsman into coming to ""Shady Rest Hunting Lodge
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8. Betty Jo's Pen Pal
24 Nov '64Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko
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9. Bedloe's Nightmare
01 Dec '64Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball's arch-enemy, has been having terrible nightmares about the train. To get rid of them, his psychiatrist suggests that he ""learn to love"" the Cannonball
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10. Kate's Bachelor Butter
08 Dec '64Food salesman Jack Crandall, a passenger on the Cannonball, is stunned when the train stops just so Charley and Floyd can pick apples for Kate's special recipe: Bachelor Butter
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11. Mother of the Bride
15 Dec '64Rumor has it that Billie Jo is secretly engaged to Dan Plout, who is none other than the son of Kate's arch-enemy, Selma Plout.
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12. The Lost Patrol
29 Dec '64Shady Rest is invaded by the Army, which is conducting maneuvers in the area, and some of the troops are more interested in Kate's daughters than they are in the war games.
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13. Smoke-Eaters
05 Jan '65The members of the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band are trying to raise money because without it, they cannot establish a Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department.
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14. The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth
12 Jan '65Uncle Joe is convinced that Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel some fifty years ago.
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15. There's No Flame Like an Old Flame
19 Jan '65Uncle Joe has begun corresponding with the Widow Perkins, an old flame who left Joe standing at the altar - and then married the best man.
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16. Billie Jo's First Job
26 Jan '65Billie Jo has landed her first job, but Kate's not so sure she approves: Billie's going to be private secretary to novelist Oliver Fenton, whose books have been banned in Hooterville
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17. A Matter of Communication
02 Feb '65It's some miles to the nearest telephone and the girls are beginning to feel like social outcasts, but Kate can't afford to have a special line run to Shady Rest. Uncle Joe devises a scheme to connect all of the phone-less citizens of Hooterville using barbed wire hooked to Army surplus phones.
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18. Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer
09 Feb '65Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.
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19. Hooterville Crime Wave
16 Feb '65As Hooterville's bounty hunter, Uncle Joe may finally get the chance to capture someone: Two escaped convicts are in the area.
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20. For the Birds
23 Feb '65The Cannonball must temporarily cease operations: A bird has established a nest in the train's smokestack. Needless to say, Homer Bedloe tries to turn the situation to his advantage
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21. Modern Merchandising
02 Mar '65Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley
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22. Visit From the Governor
09 Mar '65Uncle Joe wants to invite the governor of the state to visit Hooterville, but no one will support his proposal
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23. A Borderline Story
16 Mar '65Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.
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24. The Shady Rest Hotel Corporation
23 Mar '65The hotel needs a new water heater and Uncle Joe wants to pay for it by selling stock in the Shady Rest Hotel Corporation.
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25. A Tale of Two Dogs
30 Mar '65Hooterville is feuding with neighboring Crabwell Corners over possession of a Spanish-American cannon, and Betty Jo is feuding with Tad Winslow of that town over who has the better dog
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