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Petticoat Junction : Season 4
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Air date: 13 Sep '66 - 32 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 (32)
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1. Young Love
13 Sep '66Uncle Joe starts a Free Wedding and Honeymoon Contest to promote business for the Shady Rest Hotel
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2. Birdman of Shady Rest (1)
20 Sep '66A young crop-dusting pilot makes a crash landing near the Shady Rest Hotel and an equally hard impact on Kate Bradley's daughters
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3. Hooterville, You're All Heart (2)
27 Sep '66Steve Elliott is about to lose his crop-dusting plane unless he can get up an overdue payment
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4. He Loves Us, He Loves Us Not
04 Oct '66
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5. The All-Night Party
11 Oct '66Kate Bradley forbids Bobbie Jo to join her junior-college chums for an all-night outing on the town
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6. Cannonball, Inc.
18 Oct '66Hooterville residents, taking over operation of the Cannonball, demand so many changes that the train's crew decides to quit.
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7. Kate Grounds Selma Plout
25 Oct '66Kate Bradley tangles with Selma Plout when Selma tries to lure pilot Steve Elliott into marriage with her daughter
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8. The Almost Annual Charity Show
01 Nov '66Kate Bradley loses her regular post as producer of Hooterville's almost annual charity show to her conniving arch-enemy, Selma Plout.
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9. How Bugged Was My Valley
15 Nov '66Hooterville is thrown into chaos when Uncle Joe tries to scare up some crop-dusting business for Steve Elliott
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10. Twenty-Five Years Too Late
22 Nov '66The presence of a competitor for Kate's hand motivates storekeeper Sam Drucker to confess his longstanding secret passion for her.
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11. The Runt Strikes Back
29 Nov '66Betty Jo dumbfounds her disdainful elder sisters by landing a date for the dance with two handsome men
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12. Is There a Doctor in the Valley?
13 Dec '66Homer Bedloe tries to stop the Cannonball when he finds that the train's schedule has been altered for medical purposes.
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13. The Santa Claus Special
20 Dec '66Scrooge-like Homer Bedloe derails Kate's plan for Christmas Eve caroling and gift-distributing aboard the Hooterville Cannonball
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14. My Daughter the Secretary
27 Dec '66Kate Bradley's perennial foe, Selma Plout, schemes to cheat Kate's daughter, Billie Jo, out of a weekend in ""Excitement City"".
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15. The Rise and Fall of a Tycoon
03 Jan '67The Cannonball service creaks to a halt when Uncle Joe becomes General Manager of the Hooterville railroad
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16. His Highness the Dog
17 Jan '67The Shady Rest Hotel is beset by dog problems when Uncle Joe tries to make a quick buck as a dog-sitter
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17. Girls! Girls! Girls!
24 Jan '67Jealousy permeates the Shady Rest Hotel when the Bradley girls invite each other's boyfriends to the Turnabout Dance.
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18. Temperance, Temperance
31 Jan '67Kate Bradley sells the virtues of human kindness to a touring temperance lecturer who is neglecting his small son
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19. A Star is Born
07 Feb '67Residents of the Shady Rest Hotel are thrown into a turmoil when a talent contest is held in Hooterville
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20. Shoplifter at the Shady Rest
14 Feb '67
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21. Don't Call Us
21 Feb '67Billie Jo lands her first professional singing engagement, one night at the Flamingo Room in the Springdale Hotel
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22. Hey, Look Me Over
28 Feb '67Billie Jo Bradley becomes jealous of her sweetheart, aviator Steve Elliott, and her youngest sister, Betty Jo.
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23. That's Max???
07 Mar '67Billie Jo is stunned when Steve Elliott all but announces that he is about to marry a former girl friend
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24. The Fishing Derby
14 Mar '67To boost business at the Shady Rest, Uncle Joe and Sam Drucker promote a fishing contest but delay paying for the prize merchandise.
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25. Kate's Big Deal
21 Mar '67Kate Bradley's daughters are first for, then against, their mother's plan to sell the Shady Rest Hotel
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