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Petticoat Junction : Season 3
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Air date: 14 Sep '65 - 34 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 (34)
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1. Dear Minerva
14 Sep '65Kate become an annonymous celebrity when she writes a lovelorn column for the local paper.
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2. The Baffling Raffle
21 Sep '65The Shady Resy pooch becomes wealthy when a lawyer appears at the hotel and announces that the dog has inherited $200.
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3. The Dog Turns Playboy
28 Sep '65
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4. The Good Luck Ring
05 Oct '65Bobbie Jo conts on a ""good luck"" ring to help her win a spelling contest.
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5. Joe Carson, General Contractor
12 Oct '65Uncle Joe pretends he is a general contractor so he can make a few dollars handling the renovation of the Green Acres farmhouse.
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6. Bobbie Jo's Sorority
26 Oct '65Bobbie Joe must accomplish a seemingly impossible feat in order to quality for memership in Hooterville High's School's only sorrity.
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7. A Doctor in the House
02 Nov '65Ths Shady Rest Hotel acquires a house physician, much to the distress of proprietor Kate.
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8. Hooterville A-Go-Go
09 Nov '65Kate's daughters clamor for her to invite rock'n roll star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at a benefit show.
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9. Hooterville Hurricane
16 Nov '65Uncle Joe becomes a fight promoter when he meets up with a young local plumber with the size and strength of a gorilla.
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10. Betty Jo Goes to New York
23 Nov '65A week in New York City transforms Betty Jo from a country girl into a svelte sophisticate.
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11. Bedloe's Successor
30 Nov '65Homer Bedloe's,arch-enemy of the Hooterville Cannonball,returns to Hooterville Valley in adject disgrace and poverty.
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12. The Crowded Wedding Ring
07 Dec '65One 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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13. Uncle Joe Plays Post Office
14 Dec '65Uncle Joe becomes the new postmaster of Hooterville and moves the post office to the Shady Rest hotel.
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14. What's a Trajectory?
21 Dec '65The Shady Rest hotel is visited by a mysterious and affluent guest, whom Uncle Joe deduces is a bank robber.
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15. The Butler Did It
28 Dec '65Bobbie Joe enters a contest sponmsored by Gibney's Old English Tomato Sauce and wins first priza-an English bulter.
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16. Better Never Than Late
04 Jan '66Kate battles rural postmasters to recover an ill-advised letter from the mails.
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17. Betty Jo Catches the Bouquet
11 Jan '66Tomboy Betty Jo goes looking for a husband on the premise that fate has singles her out to become thhe next bride in the community.
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18. Billie Jo's Independence Day
18 Jan '66Billie Jo moves out from under her mother's roof and discovers that independence has it's drawbacks.
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19. Yogurt, Anyone?
25 Jan '66High- schooler Betty Jo poses as a college coed to gain the interest of a handsome college boy.
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20. Only Boy in the Class
01 Feb '66Bobbie Jo takes pity on the only boy in her home economics class and induces her mother to help him win a passing grade.
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21. The County Fair
08 Feb '66All the Bradley's expect to be a big winner in the contests they enter at the county-fair until Uncle Joe gives them a hand.
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22. Jury at the Shady Rest
15 Feb '66Gluttonous jurors,lodged at the Shady Rest hotel, refuse to reach a verdict because they like Kate's food so much.
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23. The Invisible Mr. Dobble
22 Feb '66Kate believes she has lost her mind when she finds that one of her guests at the Shady Rest hotel is invisable.
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24. It's Not the Principle, It's the Money
01 Mar '66Kate tries to refurbish the Shady Rest hotel to attract conventions, while Uncle Joe plans to make it a shambles to reduce taxes.
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25. War of the Hotels
08 Mar '66Kate fights a no0holds-barred ""hotel war"" with Murdock Sneep, unscrupulous operator plane of the rival Pixley Hotel.
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