6401 Betty Jo's Dog - 9/22/64
Betty Jo has a new friend - a little dog that keeps following her around. She'd like to keep the animal, but Kate says the animal must go. [In this episode, the dog "Higgins" joins the cast as "Shady Rest Dog".]
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Douglas Evans as Mr. Pierson |
Jay Ripley as Willie |
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Garrison True as Henry Brewster |
Jack Easton, Jr. as Highschool boy |
6402 Race Against The Stork - 9/29/64Kate's friend, Elsie, comes to stay at Shady Rest while waiting to have her baby, and a nervous Uncle Joe immediately works out a master plan to get a doctor to Shady Rest when the crucial time arrives.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Olive Sturges as Elsie Barton |
Frank Ferguson as Doc Stewart |
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Robert Easton as Henry Barton |
Walter Baldwin as Grandpappy Miller |
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Tom Fadden as Ben Miller |
Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
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Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley |
Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel |
6403 Have Library Will Travel - 10/6/64Uncle Joe has grown extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh, who has set up a traveling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Hannibal Coons & Harry Winkler
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Diane Foster as Phyllis Marsh |
Ricky Allen as 1st Boy |
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Robert Marland as Hal Jackson |
Jimmy Gaines as 2nd Boy |
6404 The Umquaw Strip - 10/13/64
Homer Bedloe sees an opportunity to close down the Hooterville Cannonball when he learns that an Indian tribe has legal title to the land the Cannonball's tracks are on.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe |
Benny Rubin as Fleeteagle |
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Roy Roberts as Norman Curtis |
William O'Connell as Martin Evans |
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Bernie Kopell as Black Salmon |
Barney Elmore as Stockholder |
6405 As Hooterville Goes - 10/27/64Hooterville will have to go some to retain its record as the first community in the state to file election returns--Crabtree [not Crabwell] Corners has got itself an automatic voting machine.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
Frank Killmond as Tad Winslow |
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Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel |
6406 My Dog The Actor - 11/10/64Billie Jo enters a picture of the family dog in a pet-food company's contest, and the mutt is selected one of five finalists.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Ross Elliott as Mr. Talbot |
Art Lewis as Johnson |
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Garrison True as Henry Brewster |
6407 The Great Buffalo Hunt - 11/17/64Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! It's part of his scheme to dupe a wealthy British sportsman into coming to "Shady Rest Hunting Lodge". [See photos & article]
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers
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Reginald Gardiner as Lord Faversham |
6408 Betty Jo's Pen-Pal - 11/24/64Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Aki Hara as Nobuko Takamura |
Garrison True as Henry Brewster |
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James Brewer as Roy Redwell |
6409 Bedloe's Nightmare - 12/1/64Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball's arch-enemy, has been having terrible nightmares about the train. To get rid of them, his psychiatrist suggests that he "learn to love" the Cannonball.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe |
Irwin Charone as Dr. Leonard |
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William O'Connell as Martin Evans |
6410 Kate's Bachelor Butter - 12/8/64Food salesman Jack Crandall, a passenger on the Cannonball, is stunned when the train stops just so Charley and Floyd can pick apples for Kate's special recipe: Bachelor Butter.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Stanley Adams as Jack Crandall |
John Alvin as Mr. Kimberly |
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Ray Montgomery as Mr. Stevens |
6411 Mother Of The Bride - 12/15/64 (see photo)
Rumor has it that Billie Jo is secretly engaged to Dan Plout, who is none other than the son of Kate's arch-enemy, Selma Plout. [At this time, the role of Selma Plout was played by Virginia Sale. Her son, in this episode, was portrayed by Mike Minor, who joined the cast as a regular in the fourth season in the role of Steve Elliott.]
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writer: Jay Sommers
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Mike Minor as Dan Plout |
Mary Carroll as Maggie Gordon |
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
Phil Gordon as Harvey |
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Diane Bond as Emily Lawrence |
6412 The Lost Patrol - 12/29/64Shady Rest is invaded by the Army, which is conducting maneuvers in the area, and some of the troops are more interested in Kate's daughters than they are in the war games.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Jack Harvey
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Rick Cooper as Pvt.Tod Longwell |
Jack Bannon as 1st GI |
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Larry Merrill as Pvt. Hank Benton |
Mon Sturges as 2nd GI |
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Ed Platt as General Patterson |
Jan Crawford as 3rd GI |
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Robert Beach as Pvt. Stu Howard |
6413 Smoke-Eaters - 1/5/65The members of the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band are trying to raise money because without it, they cannot establish a Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Parley Baer as Henry Phillips |
Don Douglas as Mr. Wilson |
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Tom Fadden as Ben Miller |
Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley |
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Walter Baldwin as Grandpa Miller |
6414 The Curse Of Chester W. Farnsworth - 1/12/65Uncle Joe is convinced that Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel some fifty years ago.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & John L. Greene
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Hal Smith as Mr. Richardson |
Frank Ferguson as Doc Stewart |
6415 There's No Flame Like An Old Flame - 1/19/65Uncle Joe has begun corresponding with the Widow Perkins, an old flame who left Joe standing at the altar - and then married the best man.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & John L. Greene
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George Cisar as BooBoo Webster |
Lurene Tuttle as Mary Alice Perkins |
6416 Billie Jo's First Job - 1/26/65Billie Jo has landed her first job, but Kate's not so sure she approves: Billie's going to be private secretary to novelist Oliver Fenton, whose books have been banned in Hooterville.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
Ernest Truex as Oliver Fenton |
6417 A Matter Of Communication - 2/2/65It's some miles to the nearest telephone and the girls are beginning to feel like social outcasts, but Kate can't afford to have a special line run to Shady Rest.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Tom Fadden as Ben Miller |
Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley |
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Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
6418 Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer - 2/9/65Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Richard M. Wessel as Bink Sharfells |
Jim Hayward as Ernie Caufield |
6419 Hooterville Crime Wave - 2/16/65As Hooterville's bounty hunter, Uncle Joe may finally get the chance to capture someone: Two escaped convicts are in the area.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Jay Sommers & Larry Miller
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Marc Lawrence as Barney Dawson |
Mousie [Paul] Garner as Max James |
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Bert Freed as Detective Horton |
6420 For The Birds - 2/23/65The Cannonball must temporarily cease operations: A bird has established a nest in the train's smokestack. Needless to say, Homer Bedloe tries to turn the situation to his advantage.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writer: Jay Sommers
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Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe |
William O'Connell as Martin Evans |
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Frank Ferguson as Doc Stuart |
Warren Parker as Mr. Williams |
6421 Modern Merchandising - 3/2/65Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Frank Ferguson as Doc Stuart |
Jack Searl as Jack Hull |
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Willis Bouchey as O'Donnell |
Dee Carroll as Mrs. Williams |
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Kay E. Kuter as Newt Kiley |
Gail Bonney as Mrs. Robinson |
6422 Visit From The Governor - 3/9/65Uncle Joe wants to invite the governor of the state to visit Hooterville, but no one will support his proposal.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Walter Baldwin as Grandpa Miller |
Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
Florence Lake as Emily Simpson |
6423 A Borderline Story - 3/16/65Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Milton Frome as Mr. Dixon |
Sam Edwards as Ned Balsam |
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J. Edward McKinley as Mr. Travis |
Murray Apler as Mr. Lindley |
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William Blakewell as Ralph Craig |
6424 The Shady Rest Hotel Corporation - 3/23/65The hotel needs a new water heater and Uncle Joe wants to pay for it by selling stock in the Shady Rest Hotel Corporation.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Byron Foulger as Mr. Guerney |
Phil Gordon as Mr. Osgood |
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Al Eben as Mr. Parker |
6425 A Tale Of Two Dogs - 3/30/65Hooterville is feuding with neighboring Crabwell Corners over possession of a Spanish-American cannon, and Betty Jo is feuding with Tad Winslow of that town over who has the better dog.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Frank Killmond as Tad Winslow |
Robert Shayne as Mr. Fillmore |
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Minerva Urecal as Martha Winslow |
6426 The Black Box - 4/6/65A top-secret Air Force camera, equipped with a detonating device to prevent its capture, falls out of a plane--and lands at Shady Rest.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Howard Harris
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Fred Clark as General Loomis |
Jack Bannon as Technical Sergeant |
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Richard Erdman as Colonel Millbank |
6427 Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme - 4/13/65Homer Bedloe has arranged for the Pixley Bank to foreclose on Kate Bradley's mortgage, so Uncle Joe and the daughters are forced to seek employment.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe |
Peter Leeds as Gus Clegg |
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Frank Ferguson as Doc Stuart |
Byron Foulger as Mr. Guerney |
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Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
6428 Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance - 4/20/65In this second half of a two-part story, Homer Bedloe is still pressuring Kate for the mortgage payment and he plans to evict the Shady Rest folks unless they come up with money in a hurry.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Jay Sommers & Lou Huston
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Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe |
Jay Ripley as Willie |
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Harold Peary as Mr. Davis |
6429 The Mayor Of Hooterville - 4/27/65Uncle Joe thinks it's time Hooterville elected a mayor and he has an excellent candidate in mind: himself.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Stan Dreben & Howard Merrill
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
6430 Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx? - 5/4/65No one in Hooterville wants any part of Uncle Joe, for the word's around that he is a jinx.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Al Schwartz & Lou Huston
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Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
Susan Walther as Sarah Jane |
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William Fawcett as Pip Winslow |
Don Douglas as Mr. Rogers |
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Jack Pepper as Mr. Harrington |
6431 The Chicken Killer - 5/11/65Dog Catcher Hinky Mittenfloss, who's been after the Bradley dog for some time, locks up the pooch on charges of killing a farmer's chickens.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Al Schwartz & Lou Huston
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Percy Helton as Hinky Mittenfloss |
Guy Wilkerson as Luther Craig |
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Marshall Bradford as Judge Murdock |
Hal Taggart as Professor Horace Enright |
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Hank Patterson as Fred Ziffel |
Len Hendry as Bailiff |
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Walter Reed as Melvin Randall |
6432 Why Girls Leave Home - 5/18/65A music professor recommends that would-be singer Bobbie Jo go to New York for singing lessons.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writer: John Bradford
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Sig Ruman as Professor Lieberschmit |
Jesse White as Col. Patridge |
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Byron Foulger as Mr. Guerney |
6433 There's No Stove Like An Old Stove - 5/25/65Fed up with chopping wood for Kate's old wood-burner, Uncle Joe cooks up a scheme to get her to buy a new stove.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Hugh Wedlock, Jr. & Allan Manings
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Alan Mowbray as Lucius J. Penrose |
Grady Sutton as Chef |
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Virginia Sale as Selma Plout |
Guy DeVestal as Maitre'd |
6434 The Brontosaurus Caper - 6/1/65Betty Jo has given up baseball to dedicate her life to science--or at least to her handsome new science teacher.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Howard Merrill & Stan Dreben
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Steve Lander as Roland Barrett |
Jonathan Hole as Mr. Earnshaw |
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Ken Drake as Mr. McGill |
6435 The Hairbrained Scheme - 6/8/65Uncle Joe buys a goat which he hopes to milk for millions--by peddling the milk as a hair-growing balm to aid Hooterville's numerous bald citizens.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Guy Scarpitta Writers: Lila Garrett & Bernie Kahn
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Robert Easton as Hector |
6436 There's No Business With Show Business - 6/15/65
Circus boss Harry Harmon has heard about Uncle Joe's reputation as an easy mark, and he plans to con Joe into letting the flat-broke circus troupe take up lodging at Shady Rest.
Producer: Paul Henning Director: Richard L. Bare Writers: Charles Tannen & George O'Hanlon
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Iris Adrian as Mary Sills |
Felix Silla as Baron Munchin |
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George O'Hanlon as Harry Harmon |
Jack Catron as Max |
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Charles Tannen as Mr. Haley |
Roy Rogers as Fire Eater |
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Don Megowan as Freddie |