PETTICOAT JUNCTION

Season 1 1963-1964

Episode Guide


General Cast:

Bea Benaderet as Kate Bradley

Edgar Buchanan as Uncle Joe

Jeannine Riley as Billie Jo Bradley

Pat Woodell as Bobbie Jo Bradley

Linda Kaye as Betty Jo Bradley

Frank Cady as Sam Drucker

Rufe Davis as Floyd Smoot

Smiley Burnette as Charley Pratt

 

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6301 Spur Line To Shady Rest - 9/24/63

Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, journeys to the little community of Hooterville to find out why a branch line doesn't connect with a main line.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Richard Whorf Writer: Paul Henning

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Eddie Quillan as Dick

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

John Ashley as Fred

 

6302 Quick, Hide The Railroad - 10/1/63

The Hooterville Cannonball is headed for the last roundhouse, and Kate Bradley decides that the only way to save it from the scrap heap is to hide the ancient engine -- all seven and one-half tons of it.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Paul Henning & Mark Tuttle

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

 

6303 The President Who Came To Dinner - 10/8/63

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis can't get ace trouble-shooter Homer Bedloe to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball, so he decides to do it himself--incognito.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Eve McVeagh as Miss Hammond

Dick O'Shea as Helicopter Pilot

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

 

6304 Is There A Doctor In The Roundhouse? - 10/15/63

Railroad President Norman P. Curtis accidentally breaks the throttle of the Hooterville Cannonball -- and folks can't get to Kate's annual Shady Rest Jamboree.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

Douglas Dumbrille as Dave LaSalle

Cherio Meredith as Nettie

Addison Richards as Frank Newton

Mary Young as Lydia

Charles Meredith as George Prentice

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

 

6305 The Courtship Of Floyd Smoot - 10/22/63

Floyd Smoot has been jilted by his mail-order sweetheart, so Kate pretends to fall in love with him in order to restore his self-confidence.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Sherman Marks Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

Don Washbrook as Herby

 

6306 Please Buy My Violets - 10/29/63

Uncle Joe decides to go into the cologne business.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writer: Richard Baer

Phil Gordon as Mr. Gordon

Olan Soule as Coffee Salesman

George Cisar as Mr. Blake

Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel

 

6307 The Ringer - 11/5/63

Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament against Pixley Fats and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writer: Richard Baer

Don Washbrook as Herbie Bates

Henry Calvin as Pixley Fats

Dick O'Shea as Toby Gates

 

6308 Kate's Recipe For Hot Rhubarb - 11/12/63

Kate is determined to get her book-loving daughter, Bobbie Jo, to go out on a date.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: Dick Wesson & Joel Kane

Russ Horton as Junior Hocker

George Cisar as Mr. Blake

Jack Bannon as Roger

 

6309 The Little Train Robbery - 11/19/63

A couple of respectable-looking young crooks plan to rob the Hooterville Cannonball of its bank shipment.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Sherman Marks Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

John Wilder as Arthur Gilroy

Norman Leavitt as Fred Thompson

Jimmy Hawkins as Lowell Rightmeyer

 

6310 Bedloe Strikes Again - 11/26/63

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe returns to Shady Rest for another try at scrapping the Hooterville Cannonball.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Paul Henning & Mark Tuttle

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

William Benedict as Willie

Don Washbrook as Herby Bates

John Hoyt as John Fisher

John Hubbard as Max Thornton

 

6311 Uncle Joe's Replacement - 12/3/63

Uncle Joe believes he is being "put out to pasture" when Kate gives general store clerk, Herbie Bates, a job as assistant general manager of the Shady Rest.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Dick Wesson & Marty Roth

Beverly Wills as Mrs. Norton

 

6312 Honeymoon Hotel - 12/10/63

Uncle Joe decides to become a justice-of-the-peace and turn Shady Rest into a honeymoon haven.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Keith Fowler & Phil Leslie

Tommy Ivo as Walter Shepherd

Judee Morton as Elsie Gregg

 

6313 A Night At The Hooterville Hilton - 12/17/63

A brochure describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely mailed to a Hooterville travel columnist.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

Elvia Allman as Mrs. Stroud (before she became Selma Plout)

William Benedict as Willie

Shug Fisher as Salesman

 

6314 Cannonball Christmas - 12/24/63

Homer Bedloe plans to stop the Hooterville Cannonball from making its traditional Christmas caroling tour.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Paul Henning & Mark Tuttle

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

William Benedict as Willie

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

Gloria Marshall as Miss Evans

Don Washbrook as Herby Bates

 

6315 Herby Gets Drafted - 12/31/63

Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her--he's just been drafted.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: John Elliotte & Dick Wesson

Don Washbrook as Herby

Russ Horton as Junior Hocker

 

6316 Bobbie Jo And The Beatnik - 1/7/64

Bobbie Jo is entranced with poet Alan Landman, a visiting beatnik who is passing through Hooterville.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writer: Bill Manhoff

Dennis Hopper as Alan Landman

Hugh Sanders as Roger Stanley

6317 My Daughter The Doctor - 1/14/64

Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie Jo wants to go to Hollywood to become an actress.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: Ed James & Seaman Jacobs

Adam West as Dr. Clayton Harris

Russell Horton as Junior Hocker

Paul DeRolf as Paul Henderson

 

6318 Hooterville vs. Hollywood - 1/21/64

Kate confers with Judge Drucker to see if she can legally prevent Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writer: Dick Wesson

Don Beddoe as Dr. Joseph Depew

Adam West as Dr. Clayton Harris

 

6319 Visit From A Big Star - 1/28/64

A movie-idol wants to hide away from it all at the Shady Rest.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Ralph Levy Writer: Bill Manhoff

John Vivyan as Lane Haggard

Vickie King

Joan Marshall as Lucy Wayne

Jaclyn Carmichael

Jack Henderson

Jacque Palmer

Margaret Bert

Rick Murray

 

6320 Last Chance Farm - 2/4/64

Uncle Joe tells two plump ladies that Shady Rest is a reducing farm, where their loss is the management's gain.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler

Dorothy Konrad as Henrietta Boswell

Don Brodie as Mr. Begley

Pearl Shear as Gertrude Hawley

 

6321 The Very Old Antique - 2/11/64

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writer: Jack Raymond

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Dick Patterson as Mr. Cassidy

Everett Sloane as Philip Waterhouse

 

6322 The Art Game - 2/18/64

The art dealer buys one of Uncle Joe's paintings for its valuable frame, but Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to fantastic artistic success.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Jerry Seelen & Leo Rifkin

Lyle Talbot as Mr. Cheever

Ian Wolfe as E.T. Gibbs

Olan Soule as Mr. Parks

6323 Betty Jo's First Love - 2/25/64

Betty Jo has her first crush - but the object of her affections (Orville Miggs) is more interested in tinkering with cars than he is in romance.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler

Jimmy Hawkins as Orville Miggs

Paul DeRolf as Paul Henderson

Jack Bannon as Roger Budd

 

6324 Behind All Silver, There's A Cloud Lining - 3/3/64

Uncle Joe tries to bring more guests to Shady Rest--and get his drainage ditch dug for free--by spreading rumors about a silver strike in the area.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writer: Martin A. Ragaway

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Karen Norris as Miss Hammond

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

Glen Strange as Hawley

Pat Waltz as Assayer

 

6325 The Talent Contest - 3/10/64

Uncle Joe is promoting a talent contest, and he tries to make sure that one of his three nieces wins.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writer: Dick Wesson

Nora Marlowe as Mrs. Whipple

Maxine Semon as Mable Snark

Jay Ripley as Tad Whipple

 

6326 Kate And The Manpower Problem - 3/17/64

An old school chum thinks it's time Kate was married again, and she tells the girls to round up some prospects.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Dick Wesson & Joel Kane

Robert Riordan as Avery Mapes

Jess Kirkpatrick as Rev. Mimms

Walter Reed as Grover Woodstock

Richard Norris as Salesman

Robert Carson as Wilbur Spriggs

Rosemary DeCamp as Emily Mapes

Allen Ray as Tom Hartley

6327 The Ladybugs - 3/24/64 (see photo)

Uncle Joe decides to cash in on "Beatlemania" by casting his nieces and Sheriff Ragsdale's daughter in a musical group called "The Ladybugs".

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Donald O'Connor Writers: Paul Henning & Mark Tuttle

Sheila James as Sally Ragsdale

Mike Ross as Sheriff Ragsdale

Jack Bannon as Roger Budd

Don Washbrook as Herby Bates

Paul DeRolf as Paul Henderson

Stephen Ellsworth as Hopper

 

6328 The Hooterville Flivverball - 3/31/64

Uncle Joe decides to bankrupt the Hooterville Cannonball by starting his own railroad, powered by Orville Miggs' flivver.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writers: Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler

Jimmy Hawkins as Orville Miggs

6329 Kate The Stockholder - 4/7/64

In another attempt to do away with the Hooterville Cannonball, Homer Bedloe embarks on a program of harassment designed to force Charley Pratt and Floyd Smoot to quit.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Jerry Seelen & Leo Rifkin

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Paul DeRolf as Paul Henderson

Lauren Gilbert as JB Giddings

Ned Weaver as 1st Stockholder

Jack Bannon as Roger Budd

William Lally as 2nd Stockholder

 

6330 Kate And The Dowager - 4/14/64

Socialite Clara Watkins is an important guest at Shady Rest. Unless she recommends the place to her friends, the bank won't lend Kate any more money.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Dick Wesson Writer: Dick Wesson

Doris Packer as Clara Watkins

Jonathan Hole as Mr. Bunce

Peter Brooks as Sonny Watkins

 

6331 Charley Abandons The Cannonball - 4/21/64

Everyone seems too busy to spend any time with Charley, so he decides to quit his job as engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler

Bob Hastings as Bill Tuttle

Jimmy Hawkins as Orville Miggs

 

6332 Dog Days At Shady Rest - 4/28/64

Railroad President Norman Curtis thinks that his household's pet basset hound needs a change of scenery, so he sends the dog off to Shady Rest.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writer: Andy White

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Jimmy Hawkins as Orville Miggs

Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis

Donald Kerr as Salesman

 

6333 A Millionaire For Kate - 5/5/64

Kate Bradley is visited by an old schoolmate who's now a millionaire, but Uncle Joe has him pegged as a con artist.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Richard L. Bare Writer: Martin A. Ragaway

Jimmy Hawkins as Orville Miggs

Gladys Holland as Georgette

Michael Ross as Sheriff Ragsdale

Hayden Rorke as HJ Grant

Maxine Semon as Mabel

 

6334 Bedloe And Son - 5/12/64

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with his son, Homer Junior, who is as hateful and devious as his father.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Dick Wesson Writer: Dick Wesson

Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe

Steve Franken as Homer Bedloe, Jr.

 

6335 Local Girl Makes Good - 5/19/64

Business executive Mary Jane Hastings returns home to Hooterville and impresses everyone with her administrative ability, particularly her handling of men.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: David Alexander Writers: Jerry Seelen & Leo Rifkin

Elena Verdugo as Mary Jane Hastings

Jack Bannon as Roger

Peter Hansen as Steve

Bart Patton as Phil

 

6336 Cave Woman - 5/26/64

Shady Rest would stand a better chance of being selected as the site of the big convention if Kate were around, but she's trapped in a cave-in.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Richard Baer & Joel Kane

John Clarke as Brooks Webster

Andy Albin as Ding Woodhouse

 

6337 Kate Flat On Her Back - 6/2/64

Kate is still trying to get Shady Rest chosen as the site for a big convention, but a sprained ankle has incapacitated her and the job of cornering the convention is left to Uncle Joe and the daughters.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Guy Scarpitta Writer: Joel Kane

Barry Kelly as Hurley Feasel

Willis Bouchey as Dr. John Rhone

Don Dubbins as Smokey Harner

 

6338 The Genghis Keane Story - 6/9/64

When Adelaide "Genghis" Keane returns from Europe, Kate is surprised to find that the elderly schoolteacher is no longer the tyrannical disciplinarian she used to be.

Producer: Dick Wesson Director: Jean Yarbrough Writer: Jack Raymond

Lurene Tuttle as Adelaide Keane

Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel

Ken Osmond as Harold Boggs

Barbara Pepper as Ruth Ziffel (not Doris)

Eddie Quillan as Mort

 

 

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