The BEST episodes of Petticoat Junction season 2
Every episode of Petticoat Junction season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Petticoat Junction season 2!
Rural sitcom revolving around a widow, her uncle and three daughters who run the Shady Rest Hotel along the Hooterville Cannonball railroad line.
#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 - 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
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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
#10 - 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
#11 - 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
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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
#16 - Betty Jo's Pen Pal
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1964
Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko
#17 - The Chicken Killer
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/11/1965
Dog 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.
#18 - Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/20/1965
Betty Jo's pal, Willie, has a knack for predicting the right outcome of each roulette spin. Uncle Joe tries to use his ability to save the whole valley from the foreclosing wrath of Pixley Bank President, Homer Bedloe.
#19 - Modern Merchandising
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1965
Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley
#20 - A Matter of Communication
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1965
It'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. Uncle Joe devises a scheme to connect all of the phone-less citizens of Hooterville using barbed wire hooked to Army surplus phones.
#21 - Bedloe's Nightmare
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1964
Homer 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
#22 - Visit From the Governor
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1965
Uncle Joe wants to invite the governor of the state to visit Hooterville, but no one will support his proposal
#23 - The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1965
Uncle Joe is convinced that Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel some fifty years ago.
#24 - There's No Flame Like an Old Flame
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1965
Uncle Joe has begun corresponding with the Widow Perkins, an old flame who left Joe standing at the altar - and then married the best man.
#25 - The Black Box
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1965
A top-secret Air Force camera, equipped with a detonating device to prevent its capture, falls out of a plane--and lands at Shady Rest.