The BEST episodes of Petticoat Junction season 4

#1 - Shoplifter at the Shady Rest

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

#2 - The Fishing Derby

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1967

To boost business at the Shady Rest, Uncle Joe and Sam Drucker promote a fishing contest but delay paying for the prize merchandise.

#3 - Author! Author!

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/28/1967

Kate Bradley becomes worried when Bobbie Jo begins associating with a strange group of friends after she wins a poetry award.

#4 - Cannonball, Inc.

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1966

Hooterville residents, taking over operation of the Cannonball, demand so many changes that the train's crew decides to quit.

#5 - The Santa Claus Special

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1966

Scrooge-like Homer Bedloe derails Kate's plan for Christmas Eve caroling and gift-distributing aboard the Hooterville Cannonball

#6 - Young Love

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1966

Uncle Joe starts a Free Wedding and Honeymoon Contest to promote business for the Shady Rest Hotel

#7 - Kate Grounds Selma Plout

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1966

Kate Bradley tangles with Selma Plout when Selma tries to lure pilot Steve Elliott into marriage with her daughter

#8 - A Star is Born

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1967

Residents of the Shady Rest Hotel are thrown into a turmoil when a talent contest is held in Hooterville

#9 - The Runt Strikes Back

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1966

Betty Jo dumbfounds her disdainful elder sisters by landing a date for the dance with two handsome men

#10 - Birdman of Shady Rest

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1966

A young crop-dusting pilot makes a crash landing near the Shady Rest Hotel and an equally hard impact on Kate Bradley's daughters

#11 - The All-Night Party

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1966

Kate Bradley forbids Bobbie Jo to join her junior-college chums for an all-night outing on the town

#12 - His Highness the Dog

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1967

The Shady Rest Hotel is beset by dog problems when Uncle Joe tries to make a quick buck as a dog-sitter

#13 - That Was the Night That Was

Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/11/1967

Kate Bradley's Shady Rest Hotel is patronized by a guest who gives every indication of being from outer space.

#14 - My Daughter the Secretary

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1966

Kate Bradley's perennial foe, Selma Plout, schemes to cheat Kate's daughter, Billie Jo, out of a weekend in "Excitement City".

#15 - Girls! Girls! Girls!

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1967

Jealousy permeates the Shady Rest Hotel when the Bradley girls invite each other's boyfriends to the Turnabout Dance.

#16 - Kate's Big Deal

Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1967

Kate Bradley's daughters are first for, then against, their mother's plan to sell the Shady Rest Hotel

#17 - Is There a Doctor in the Valley?

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1966

Homer Bedloe tries to stop the Cannonball when he finds that the train's schedule has been altered for medical purposes.

#18 - He Loves Us, He Loves Us Not

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1966

#19 - The Almost Annual Charity Show

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1966

Kate Bradley loses her regular post as producer of Hooterville's almost annual charity show to her conniving arch-enemy, Selma Plout.

#20 - The Rise and Fall of a Tycoon

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1967

The Cannonball service creaks to a halt when Uncle Joe becomes General Manager of the Hooterville railroad

#21 - Hooterville, You're All Heart

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1966

Steve Elliott is about to lose his crop-dusting plane unless he can get up an overdue payment

#22 - How Bugged Was My Valley

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1966

Hooterville is thrown into chaos when Uncle Joe tries to scare up some crop-dusting business for Steve Elliott

#23 - Don't Call Us

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1967

Billie Jo lands her first professional singing engagement, one night at the Flamingo Room in the Springdale Hotel

#24 - Hey, Look Me Over

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1967

Billie Jo Bradley becomes jealous of her sweetheart, aviator Steve Elliott, and her youngest sister, Betty Jo.

#25 - Temperance, Temperance

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1967

Kate Bradley sells the virtues of human kindness to a touring temperance lecturer who is neglecting his small son