The WORST episodes of Petticoat Junction

#1 - Steve's Uncle George

Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1970

Steve's Uncle George visits the Shady Rest hotel and lives up to his repulation as a troublemaker.

#2 - A House Divided

Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/2/1967

It's the males vs. the females when an increase in population requires the election of a new county supervisor

#3 - The Valley's New Owner

Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1970

Shy Orrin Pike becomes a big man when an old deed indicates he is the legal owner of the entire Hooterville Valley.

#4 - How to Arrange a Marriage

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1970

Bobbie Jo attempts to soften up Billie's Jo's new boyfriend for marriage.

#5 - The Ballad of the Everyday Housewife

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1969

When it appears that Steve is beginning to take his wife too much for granted, Bobbie Jo tries to make him be more demonstrative.

#6 - Love Rears Its Ugly Head

Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1970

Billie Jo tries to spread love through the valley with a new theory of sensitivity training.

#7 - The Eternal Rectangle

Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/18/1967

Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo compete for the favor of Steve Elliott, heretofore the boyfriend of their sister, Billie Jo.

#8 - Whiplash, Whiplash

Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1970

Selma Plout tries to slap a lawsuit against Uncle Jo for a whiplash injury suffered in a fall from a hammock.

#9 - With This Ring...

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1970

Orrin Pike is osserved buying a ring, and the family jumps to the conclusion that he's going to propose to Bobbie Jo.

#10 - But I've Never Been in Erie, PA

Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1969

An industrialist registers at the Shady Rest and offers Uncle Joe a chance to make a fortune.

#11 - The Glen Tinker Caper

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1969

An unknown singer tries to smuggle an adorable Vietnamese orphan into the United States by bringing her to Hooterville.

#12 - The Other Woman

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1969

Betty Jo finds herself growing jealous of the attention Steve is giving to their daughter, so the pair go on a second honeymoon together, at their old cottage. But the couple's romantic mood is spoiled by a lack of electricity, Mr. Haney's intrusive realty service, and a bunch of hobos.

#13 - The Christening

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1969

Five eminently qualified and extremely jealous rivals volunteer to be baby Kathy Jo's godfather.

#14 - Kate's Cousin Mae

Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/25/1967

#15 - Susan B. Anthony, I Love You

Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1970

Bille Jo returns from Chicago with a visionary zeal for the women's liberation movement, and enlists her sisters in "the cause."

#16 - Spare That Cottage

Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1970

It becomes a tragic matter when it appears that Steve and Betty Jo's honeymoon cottage will be demolished for a new highway.

#17 - Selma Plout's Plot

Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1970

Selme Plout's scheme to snag a husband for her daughter almost forces Steve out of the crop-dusting business.

#18 - Kathy Jo's First Birthday

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1969

Baby Kathy Jo almost misses her ffirst birthday party when she lands in jail with Uncle Joe.

#19 - The Three Queens

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1969

Sparks fly when the three Bradley sisters and Dr. Craig find themself competitors in a beauty contest.

#20 - By the Book

Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1969

Steve Elliott hurriedly takes off on a crop-dusting job, not knowing he underbid for the assignment by $1800.

#21 - The Cannonball Bookmobile

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1969

Three old friends become rivals for the affections of a charming libarian.

#22 - The Feminine Mistake

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1968

Bobbie Jo decides to become an emancipated woman and leave Hooterville.

#23 - No, No, You Can't Take Her Away

Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/28/1970

The Bradley's are shaken by the news that a handsome and wealthy male doctor is coming to visit their own Dr. Janet Craig, with intentions of offering her a place at his side at a new practice in Hawaii.

#24 - The Strange Case of Joseph P. Carson

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1968

In an attempt to get rid of lady Dr. Craig, Uncle Joe fakes an illness that becomes real.

#25 - Betty Jo's Business

Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1970

Betty Jo Elliott starts a day nursery to augment the family income.