The BEST episodes written by Lou Huston

Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer
star
8.75
4 votes

#1 - Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 18

Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.

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As Hooterville Goes
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8.56
9 votes

#2 - As Hooterville Goes

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 5

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

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Race Against the Stork
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8.50
6 votes

#3 - Race Against the Stork

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 2

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

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My Dog the Actor
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8.40
10 votes

#4 - My Dog the Actor

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 6

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.

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Kate's Bachelor Butter
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8.33
9 votes

#5 - Kate's Bachelor Butter

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 10

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

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Smoke-Eaters
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8.29
7 votes

#6 - Smoke-Eaters

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 13

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.

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Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx?
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8.25
4 votes

#7 - Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx?

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 30

No one in Hooterville wants any part of Uncle Joe, for the word's around that he is a jinx

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Shoplifter at the Shady Rest
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8.25
4 votes

#8 - Shoplifter at the Shady Rest

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 20

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Kate Bradley, Peacemaker
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8.20
5 votes

#9 - Kate Bradley, Peacemaker

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 29

Kate acts as peacemaker when a feud between Floyd and Charley threatens to end the operation of the Hooterville Cannonball.

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Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme
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8.14
7 votes

#10 - Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 27

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

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The Dog Turns Playboy
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8.14
7 votes

#11 - The Dog Turns Playboy

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 3

The Shady Rest Dog becomes wealthy when a lawyer arrives at the hotel to announces that the dog has inherited $200

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Betty Jo's Pen Pal
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8.09
11 votes

#12 - Betty Jo's Pen Pal

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 8

Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko

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Bedloe's Nightmare
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8.00
7 votes

#13 - Bedloe's Nightmare

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 9

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

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A Matter of Communication
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8.00
7 votes

#14 - A Matter of Communication

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 17

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.

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Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance
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8.00
7 votes

#15 - Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 28

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.

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The Chicken Killer
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8.00
5 votes

#16 - The Chicken Killer

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 31

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.

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Betty Jo's Dog
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7.82
11 votes

#17 - Betty Jo's Dog

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 1

Betty Jo has a new friend, a little dog that follows her around, but Kate says the animal must go.

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Kate Grounds Selma Plout
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7.80
5 votes

#18 - Kate Grounds Selma Plout

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 7

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

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The Invisible Mr. Dobble
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7.75
4 votes

#19 - The Invisible Mr. Dobble

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 23

Kate believes she has lost her mind when she finds that one of her guests at the Shady Rest hotel is invisable.

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The Umquaw Strip
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7.63
8 votes

#20 - The Umquaw Strip

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 4

Homer Bedloe sees an opportunity to close down the Hooterville Cannonball when he learns that an Indian tribe has legal title to the land the Cannonball's tracks are on

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Betty Jo Goes to New York
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7.63
8 votes

#21 - Betty Jo Goes to New York

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 10

A week in New York City transforms Betty Jo from a country girl into a svelte sophisticate.

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The Addams Family Splurges
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7.61
75 votes

#22 - The Addams Family Splurges

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 19

Gomez and Pugsley build a new computer, Wizzo, because the family wants somewhere new and interesting to visit.

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The Ugly Duckling
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7.56
18 votes

#23 - The Ugly Duckling

Green Acres - Season 2 - Episode 5

Ralph Monroe is devastated when Mr. Kimball turns her down again. Lisa decides to help Ralph out, by making her more feminine. Oliver is forced to sleep in the barn with Eb, while Lisa works day and night to doll up Ralph. Later, at a dinner party, the new Ralph is presented to the unsuspecting Mr. Kimball, who likes Ralph even less now, for Lisa claims she didn't have enough time to make Ralph fully feminine.

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Dear Minerva
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7.56
9 votes

#24 - Dear Minerva

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 1

Kate become an anonymous celebrity when she writes a lovelorn column for the local paper.

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Joe Carson, General Contractor
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7.50
8 votes

#25 - Joe Carson, General Contractor

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 5

Uncle Joe pretends he is a general contractor so he can make a few dollars handling the renovation of the Green Acres farmhouse.

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Bobbie Jo's Sorority
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7.50
10 votes

#26 - Bobbie Jo's Sorority

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 6

Bobbie Joe must accomplish a seemingly impossible feat in order to quality for memership in Hooterville High's School's only sorrity.

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The Butler Did It
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7.50
8 votes

#27 - The Butler Did It

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 15

Bobbie Joe enters a contest sponmsored by Gibney's Old English Tomato Sauce and wins first priza-an English bulter.

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Whatever Happened to Betty Jo?
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7.50
4 votes

#28 - Whatever Happened to Betty Jo?

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 30

Beety Jo fails to return home fro school on time, and her alarmed mother concludes she has run away to get married.

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Bedloe's Successor
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7.30
10 votes

#29 - Bedloe's Successor

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 11

Homer Bedloe's,arch-enemy of the Hooterville Cannonball,returns to Hooterville Valley in adject disgrace and poverty.

The Addams Family Tree
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7.28
210 votes

#30 - The Addams Family Tree

The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 5

Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families, with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than their family. This prompts the Addams family to look back in their family tree.

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Jury at the Shady Rest
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7.25
4 votes

#31 - Jury at the Shady Rest

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 22

Gluttonous jurors,lodged at the Shady Rest hotel, refuse to reach a verdict because they like Kate's food so much.

The Windfall
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7.25
4 votes

#32 - The Windfall

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 26

On an excursion to Pixley[ostensibly to look for a job], Uncle Joe stumbles on a fortune in buried money.

The Young Matchmakers
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7.25
4 votes

#33 - The Young Matchmakers

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 32

Widow Kate's three daughters organize a lonely hearts club to find eligible bachelors for her.

My Daughter the Secretary
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7.25
4 votes

#34 - My Daughter the Secretary

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 14

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

The Addams Family Tree
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7.20
5 votes

#35 - The Addams Family Tree

The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 9

Wednesday gave Harold Pomeroy a black eye at school after he said his family was better than hers. His smug father, Cecil Pomeroy comes to the Addams family house for an apology. Cecil and Harold get to ""enjoy"" the family Addams. But with their interest now aroused in their own genealogy, the family hires professor Sims to do some research for them.

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Billie Jo's Independence Day
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7.20
5 votes

#36 - Billie Jo's Independence Day

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 18

Billie Jo moves out from under her mother's roof and discovers that independence has it's drawbacks.

Betty Jo Catches the Bouquet
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7.14
7 votes

#37 - Betty Jo Catches the Bouquet

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 17

Tomboy Betty Jo goes looking for a husband on the premise that fate has singles her out to become thhe next bride in the community.

Uncle Joe Plays Post Office
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7.00
10 votes

#38 - Uncle Joe Plays Post Office

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 13

Uncle Joe becomes the new postmaster of Hooterville and moves the post office to the Shady Rest hotel.

Billie Jo's First Job
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6.83
6 votes

#39 - Billie Jo's First Job

Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 16

Billie Jo has landed her first job, but Kate's not so sure she approves: Billie's going to be private secretary to novelist Oliver Fenton, whose books have been banned in Hooterville

Only Boy in the Class
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6.83
6 votes

#40 - Only Boy in the Class

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 20

Bobbie Jo takes pity on the only boy in her home economics class and induces her mother to help him win a passing grade.

War of the Hotels
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6.80
5 votes

#41 - War of the Hotels

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 25

Kate fights a no0holds-barred "hotel war" with Murdock Sneep, unscrupulous operator plane of the rival Pixley Hotel.

He Loves Us, He Loves Us Not
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6.50
4 votes

#42 - He Loves Us, He Loves Us Not

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 4

Big Man on Little Stick
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6.47
169 votes

#43 - Big Man on Little Stick

Gilligan's Island - Season 1 - Episode 21

Handsome surfer Duke Williams rides a giant tsunami to the island. At first, the castaways are excited as Duke thinks he will turn around and surf back to Hawaii (and send help). However, after seeing Mary Ann and Ginger, he decides he may want to stay for a while. The castaways must come up with a plan to make him want to leave for Hawaii.

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How Bugged Was My Valley
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6.33
3 votes

#44 - How Bugged Was My Valley

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 9

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

That's Max?
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5.67
3 votes

#45 - That's Max?

Petticoat Junction - Season 4 - Episode 23

Billie Jo is stunned when Steve Elliott all but announces that he is about to marry a former girl friend

Hooterville Valley Project
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5.50
2 votes

#46 - Hooterville Valley Project

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 33