• Air date: 28 Sep '68 26 episodes
      Petticoat 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...
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Birthplace of a Future President

      28 Sep '68
      Betty Jo and Steve argue about where their unborn baby should be born
    • 2. The Singing Sweethearts

      05 Oct '68
      Betty Jo reluctantly appears on a live television program as a member of ""The Singing Sweethearts.""
    • 3. Only a Husband

      19 Oct '68
      The attention lavished on the expected Betty Jop makes Steve feel left out, so he goes fishing with uncle Joe.
    • 4. The Valley Has a Baby

      26 Oct '68
      The pregnant Betty Jo is ready to have her baby but problems arise when Wendell, the conductor won't wake up and Betty Jo has to drive the train herself
    • 5. Granny, the Baby Expert

      02 Nov '68
      Granny goes to Hooterville to take care of Betty Jo's new baby, but loses her glasses and mistakes the family dog for the child.
    • 6. Wings

      09 Nov '68
      Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers arrive for a premiere of ""Wings""--40 years late.
    • 7. The Lady Doctor

      16 Nov '68
      Doc Stuart's new associate turns out to be a attractive woman, which seems to displease everyone in Hooterville.
    • 8. The Sneaky Ways of a Woman Who is Both Beautiful and Smart

      23 Nov '68
      Dr. Janet Craig,rebuffed as a phsician by the local males, sets out to win them over as a woman--and a good cook.
    • 9. The Strange Case of Joseph P. Carson

      30 Nov '68
      In an attempt to get rid of lady Dr. Craig, Uncles Joe flakes an illness that becomes real.
    • 10. Bye, Bye, Doctor

      07 Dec '68
      A handsome suitor shows up expectedly and threatens to take Dr.Janet Craig from the valley.
    • 11. First Night Out

      14 Dec '68
      Betty JO and Steve enjoy an evening out,unaware that their baby has gone to jail withher sitter.
    • 12. A Cake from Granny

      21 Dec '68
      Granny's eatable gift might be the only thing to save the valley from losing their beloved train, when Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a brand-new scheme to bring about the end of the Cannonball.
    • 13. The Feminine Mistake

      28 Dec '68
      Bobbie Jo decides to become an emancipated woman and leave Hooterville.
    • 14. The Ballad of the Everyday Housewife

      04 Jan '69
      When it appears that Steve is beginning to take his wife too much for granted, Bobbie Jo tries to make him be more demonstrative.
    • 15. The Christening

      11 Jan '69
      Five eminently qualified and extremely jealous rivals volunteer to be baby Kathy Jo's godfather.
    • 16. Billie Jo and the Big Big Star

      18 Jan '69
      A big-city comedian to aliemate all of Hooterville by making fun of local characters.
    • 17. Steve's New Job

      25 Jan '69
      To go to New York or not to go to New York--that is the question faced by Steve and Betty Joafter Steve geta a big job offer.
    • 18. The Cannonball Bookmobile

      01 Feb '69
      Three old friends become rivals for the affections of a charming libarian.
    • 19. A Man Called Cyrus Plout

      08 Feb '69
      Plans for the annual Hotterville Founders' Day celebration are wrecked by generation-gap dissension.
    • 20. Joe Saves the Post Office

      15 Feb '69
      Uncle Joe leads a delegation out to Washington,D.C., to save Sam Ducker's post office.
    • 21. I'm Allergic to Daddy

      22 Feb '69
      Steve Elliott is delcared out of bounds in his house when it appears his baby daughter is allergic to him.
    • 22. Uncle Joe Retires

      01 Mar '69
      Lazy Uncle Joe, who fancies himself a human dynamo,announces his retirement.
    • 23. The Organ Fund

      08 Mar '69
      The Hooterville folks are faced with a larcenous fund-raiser when they try to find enough money to buy the church a new organ.
    • 24. The Great Race

      15 Mar '69
      The future of the Shady Rest hangs on the outcome of a race between the Cannonball and an overland taxi.
    • 25. Tune in Next Year

      22 Mar '69
      The people of Hooterville do everything they can think of to prevent Dr. Craig from leaving to work for a famed neurologist.