The BEST episodes of Petticoat Junction
Every episode of Petticoat Junction ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Petticoat Junction!
Rural sitcom revolving around a widow, her uncle and three daughters who run the Shady Rest Hotel along the Hooterville Cannonball railroad line.
#1 - Dog Days at Shady Rest
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/28/1964
Railroad president Norman Curtis sends his dog on a vacation at the Shady Rest.
#2 - Race Against the Stork
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1964
Kate'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
#3 - Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1965
Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.
#4 - As Hooterville Goes
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1964
Hooterville will have to go some to retain its record as the first community in the state to file election returns--Crabwell Corners has got itself an automatic voting machine
#5 - The Good Luck Ring
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1965
Bobbie Jo conts on a "good luck" ring to help her win a spelling contest.
#6 - The Genghis Keane Story
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/9/1964
When a notoriously tough former schoolteacher visits, Kate and the girls plot to get her back into teaching.
#7 - Charley Abandons the Cannonball
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/21/1964
Feeling neglected, Charley quits his job as engineer of the Cannonball.
#8 - A Borderline Story
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1965
Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.
#9 - Cannonball Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1963
Bedloe plans to stop the Cannonball from making its traditional Christmas caroling tour.
#10 - A Millionaire for Kate
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/5/1964
Kate is visited by an old schoolmate who has become a millionaire, but Uncle Joe has him pegged as a con artist.
#11 - Cave Woman
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/26/1964
Kate is trapped by a cave-in just when the Shady Rest is a candidate for hosting a big convention.
#12 - Kate's Bachelor Butter
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1964
Food 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
#13 - Smoke-Eaters
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1965
The members of the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band are trying to raise money because without it, they cannot establish a Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department.
#14 - Kate's Homecoming
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 3/30/1968
Kate comes home and finds everything normal--there's a mix up on where to meet her, and fireworks set the Pixley depot ablaze.
#15 - The Valley Has a Baby
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1968
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
#16 - Wings
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1968
Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers arrive for a premiere of "Wings"--40 years late.
#17 - My Dog the Actor
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1964
Billie Jo enters a picture of the family dog in a pet-food company's contest, and the mutt is selected one of five finalists.
#18 - The Brontosaurus Caper
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/1/1965
Betty Jo has given up baseball to dedicate her life to science--or at least to her handsome new science teacher
#19 - The Hairbrained Scheme
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/8/1965
Uncle 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.
#20 - There's No Business With Show Business
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/15/1965
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.
#21 - Hooterville A-Go-Go
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1965
Kate's daughters clamor for her to invite rock'n roll star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at a benefit show.
#22 - The Great Buffalo Hunt
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1964
Uncle 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
#23 - The Baffling Raffle
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1965
Uncle Joe gets into trouble trying when he tries get his winning raffle ticket from Kate Bradley who is serving on a jury.
#24 - The Dog Turns Playboy
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1965
The Shady Rest Dog becomes wealthy when a lawyer arrives at the hotel to announces that the dog has inherited $200
#25 - Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx?
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/4/1965
No one in Hooterville wants any part of Uncle Joe, for the word's around that he is a jinx