PETTICOAT JUNCTION

Season 3 1965-1966

Episode Guide


General Cast:

Kate Bradley - Bea Benaderet

Uncle Joe - Edgar Buchanan

Betty Jo - Linda Kaye

Billie Jo - Gunilla Hutton

Bobbie Jo - Lori Saunders

Charley Pratt - Smiley Burnette

Floyd Smoot - Rufe Davis

Sam Drucker - Frank Cady

 

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6501 Dear Minerva - 9/14/65

Kate Bradley becomes an anonymous celebrity when she writes a lovelorn column for the local paper.

6502 The Baffling Raffle - 9/21/65

Uncle Joe runs into trouble trying to recover his winning raffle ticket from Kate Bradley, who is serving on a jury.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Daniel White as First Juror

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

Jamie Forster as Second Juror

Ray Kellogg as Bailiff

Charlotte Knight as Woman Juror

6503 The Dog Turns Playboy - 9/28/65

The Shady Rest Pooch becomes wealthy when a lawyer appears at the hotel and announces that the dog has inherited $200.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Hank Jones as Herbert

William Lanteau as Bronson

Harvey Grant as Hank

Joseph Mell as Butcher

Paul DeRolf as Jeff

6504 The Good Luck Ring - 10/5/65

Bobbie Jo counts on a "good luck" ring to help her win a spelling contest.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Byron Foulger as Guerney

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

Ollie O'Toole as Carter

Elvia Allman as Cora Watson

Don Edmonds as Chester

Susan Walther as Henrietta

 

6505 Joe Carson, General Contractor - 10/12/65

Uncle Joe pretends he is a general contractor so he can make a few dollars handling the renovation of the "Green Acres" farmhouse.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

 

6506 Bobbie Jo's Sorority - 10/26/65

Bobbie Jo must accomplish a seemingly impossible feat in order to qualify for membership in Hooterville High School's only sorority.

Susan Walther as Henrietta

Susan Benoit as Sandra

Bobby Pickett as Stonewall

Jacqueline Malouf as Muriel

 

6507 A Doctor In The House - 11/2/65

The Shady Rest Hotel acquires a house physician, much to the distress of proprietor Kate Bradley.

Alan Reed, Jr. as Dr. Bailey

Frank Ferguson as Doc Stuart

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

 

6508 Hooterville A-Go-Go - 11/9/65

Kate Bradley's daughters clamor for her to invite rock 'n' roll star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at a benefit show.

Ray Hemphill as Herbie Willets

Milton Frome as Reece Garrett

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Susan Walther as Henrietta

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

 

6509 Hooterville Hurricane - 11/16/65

Uncle Joe becomes a fight promoter when he meets up with a young local plumber with the size and strength of a gorilla.

Brett Pearson as Herman

Michael Ross as Kid Dynamite

Marjorie Bennett as Mrs. Hogan

 

6510 Betty Jo Goes To New York - 11/23/65

A week in New York City transforms Betty Jo Bradley from a country girl to a svelte sophisticate.

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

Garry Goodrich as Gregory Tremayne

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

 

6511 Bedloe's Successor - 11/30/65

Homer Bedloe, arch-enemy of the Hooterville Cannonball, returns in abject disgrace and poverty to Hooterville Valley.

Charles Lane as Bedloe

Donald Curtis as Goodfellow

 

6512 The Crowded Wedding Ring - 12/7/65

One of Kate Bradley's old swains pays a visit, but his efforts to rekindle their romance are thwarted by his dominating sister.

Whit Bissell as Ralph

Hope Summers as Mabel

 

6513 Uncle Joe Plays Post Office - 12/14/65

Uncle Joe becomes the new postmaster of Hooterville and moves the post office to the Shady Rest Hotel.

Damian O'Flynn as Wickersham

Charlotte Knight as Emmy Puddleford

Don Douglas as Browning

Kay Wells as Mrs. Prentiss

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6514 What's a Trajectory? - 12/21/65

The Shady Rest Hotel is visited by a mysterious and affluent guest, whom Uncle Joe deduces is a bank robber.

Arthur O'Connell as Mr. Reynolds

Rand Brooks as Belden

 

6515 The Butler Did It - 12/28/65

Bobbie Jo enters a contest sponsored by Gibney's Old English Tomato Sauce and wins first prize - an English butler.

Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley

Maurice Dallimore as Faversham

 

6516 Better Never Than Late - 1/4/66

Kate Bradley battles rural postmasters to recover an ill-advised letter from the mails.

Herbert Anderson as Norton

Vinton Hayworth as Grant

Vaughn Taylor as Foley

Lenore Kingston as Gloria

6517 Betty Jo Catches The Bouquet - 1/11/66

Tomboy Betty Jo goes looking for a husband on the premise that fate has singled her out to become the next bride in the community.

Terry Phillips as Bernie

Dennis Pepper as Arthur Baker

Bunny Henning as Gladys

Winnie Coffin as Mrs. Jessop

Patrick Campbell as Newcomb

Ruth Thom as Wilma Blodgett

Charles Briles as Doug Keefer

Bunny Sommers as Mrs. Bennessy

Paul DeRolf as Larry

Don Edmonds as Lyle Cabot

 

6518 Billie Jo's Independence Day - 1/18/66

Billie Jo moves out from under her mother's roof and discovers that independence has its drawbacks.

Minerva Urecal as Mrs. Griffin

 

6519 Yogurt, Anyone? - 1/25/66

High-schooler Betty Jo poses as a college coed to retain the interest of a handsome college boy.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

Dennis Pepper as Edward

Kaye E. Kuter as Newt Kiley

Bob Turnbull as Chuck

 

6520 Only Boy In The Class - 2/1/66

Bobbie Jo takes pity on the only boy in her home economics class and induces her mother to help him win a passing grade.

Bobby Pickett as Walter Thorp

Ed Gurren as Gary

Lenore Kingston as Mrs. Coberland

Don Edmonds as Lyle Cabot

Dennis Pepper as Edward

Susan Walther as Henrietta Plout

 

6521 The County Fair - 2/8/66

All the Bradleys expect to be big winners in the contests they enter at the county fair - until Uncle Joe gives them a hand.

Pat Buttram as Mr. Haney

 

6522 Jury At The Shady Rest - 2/15/66

Gluttonous jurors, lodged at the Shady Rest Hotel, refuse to reach a verdict because they like Kate Bradley's food so much.

Emory Parnell as Sheriff Blake

Parley Baer as Bailiff

 

6523 The Invisible Mr. Dobble - 2/22/66

Kate Bradley believes she has lost her mind when she finds that one of her guests at the Shady Rest Hotel is invisible.

Frank Aletter as Benton

Russ Conway as Robinson

 

6524 It's Not The Principle, It's The Money - 3/1/66

Kate tries to refurbish the Shady Rest Hotel to attract conventions while Uncle Joe plans to make it a shambles to reduce taxes.

Don Keefer as Forbes

Don Haggerty as Albright

 

6525 War Of The Hotels - 3/8/66

Kate Bradley fights a no-hands-barred "hotel war" with Murdock Sneep, unscrupulous operator of the rival Pixley Hotel.

J. Pat O'Malley as Sneep

Richard Jury as Elroy

 

6526 The Windfall - 3/15/66

On an excursion to Pixley, ostensibly to look for a job, Uncle Joe stumbles on a fortune in buried money.

Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel

Tom Fadden as Ben Miller

 

6527 Second Honeymoon - 3/22/66

Uncle Joe's solicitude threatens the 10-year marriage of a couple who have returned to the Shady Rest for a second honeymoon.

Steve Dunne as Jeff

Emmaline Henry as Nancy

 

6528 Kate Sells The Hotel - 3/29/66

Convinced that her daughters would like to move to New York, Kate Bradley clinches a deal to sell the Shady Rest Hotel.

Richard St. John as Carter Deming

Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel

 

6529 Kate Bradley, Peacemaker - 4/5/66

Kate acts as peacemaker when a feud between Floyd and Charley threatens to end the operation of the Hooterville Cannonball.

Eddie Albert as Oliver Douglas

John Logan as Farmer

Hank Worden as Farmer

Jim Hayward as Farmer

 

6530 What Ever Happened To Betty Jo? - 4/12/66

Betty Jo fails to return home from school on time, and her alarmed mother, Kate, concludes she has run away to get married.

Charles Briles as Peter Latimer

Gene Tyburn as Ace Gunther

 

6531 The Young Matchmakers - 4/26/66

Widow Kate Bradley's three daughters organize a lonely hearts club to find eligible bachelors for her.

Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas

Patrick Campbell as Willoughby

Norman Leavitt as Rambo

Jack Collins as Thatcher

 

6532 Every Bachelor Should Have A Family - 4/19/66

Kate Bradley and her bickering family stage a display of harmony to impress a long-time bachelor who is considering marriage.

Molly Dodd as Vera

Dennis Pepper as Georgie Davis

Hugh Beaumont as Ronnie

 

6533 Hooterville Valley Project - 5/3/66

Homer Bedloe, the villainous railroad official and perennial foe of Kate Bradley, plans a dam that will flood Kate's hotel.

Tom Fadden as Ben Miller

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel

John Hoyt as Fletcher

Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley

 

6534 Betty Jo's Bike - 5/10/66

The Shady Rest Hotel becomes a giant nursery when Betty Jo's baby-sitting business falls into the lap of her mother, Kate.

Jay Ripley as Willie

Mary Jane Saunders as Susie Davis

Joyce Perry as Clara Begley

 

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