The BEST episodes of Petticoat Junction

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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

#3 - 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

#4 - 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.

#5 - Wings

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1968

Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers arrive for a premiere of "Wings"--40 years late.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Shoplifter at the Shady Rest

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1967

#10 - 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

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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

#13 - 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

#14 - 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.

#15 - Cannonball Christmas

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1963

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

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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

#19 - 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

#20 - There's No Stove Like an Old Stove

Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/25/1965

Fed up with chopping wood for Kate's old wood-burner, Uncle Joe cooks up a scheme to get her to buy a new stove.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - A Tale of Two Dogs

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1965

Hooterville 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

#24 - Charley Abandons the Cannonball

Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/21/1964

Feeling neglected, Charley quits his job as engineer of the Cannonball.

#25 - Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/13/1965

Homer 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