Betty Jo and Steve argue about where their unborn baby should be born

Betty Jo reluctantly appears on a live television program as a member of ""The Singing Sweethearts.""

The attention lavished on the expected Betty Jop makes Steve feel left out, so he goes fishing with uncle Joe.

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

Granny goes to Hooterville to take care of Betty Jo's new baby, but loses her glasses and mistakes the family dog for the child.

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

Doc Stuart's new associate turns out to be a attractive woman, which seems to displease everyone in Hooterville.

Dr. Janet Craig,rebuffed as a phsician by the local males, sets out to win them over as a woman--and a good cook.

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

A handsome suitor shows up expectedly and threatens to take Dr.Janet Craig from the valley.

Betty JO and Steve enjoy an evening out,unaware that their baby has gone to jail withher sitter.

Granny's eatable gift might be the only thing to save the valley from losing their beloved train, when Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a brand-new scheme to bring about the end of the Cannonball.

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

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

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

A big-city comedian to aliemate all of Hooterville by making fun of local characters.

To go to New York or not to go to New York--that is the question faced by Steve and Betty Joafter Steve geta a big job offer.

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

Plans for the annual Hotterville Founders' Day celebration are wrecked by generation-gap dissension.

Uncle Joe leads a delegation out to Washington,D.C., to save Sam Ducker's post office.

Steve Elliott is delcared out of bounds in his house when it appears his baby daughter is allergic to him.

Lazy Uncle Joe, who fancies himself a human dynamo,announces his retirement.

The Hooterville folks are faced with a larcenous fund-raiser when they try to find enough money to buy the church a new organ.

The future of the Shady Rest hangs on the outcome of a race between the Cannonball and an overland taxi.

The people of Hooterville do everything they can think of to prevent Dr. Craig from leaving to work for a famed neurologist.

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

Folks at the Shady Rest hotel find Betty Jo extremely changed after a trip to Europe[her graduation present].

Kate puts herself in a foolish position when she becomes overly suspicious of one of her daughter's actions.

A romantic problem develops when Betty Jo finds she has a secret admirer.

Kate faces a mother's problem when the youngest of her three daughters falls in love.

Thanks to Uncle's Joe's loose tongue, everybody in the valley knows that steve is going to marry Betty Jo-- except Betty Jo.

Betty's Jo's ramshackle""dream house""momentarily disrupts her romance with Steve.

Floyd Smoot, suddenly engaged to none other than Selma Plout, convinces Steve Elliott that he and Betty Jo should have a double wedding.

Steve's parents pay an unexpected visit to meet the Bradley family--and to sample Betty's Jo highly touted cooking.

Betty Jo faces a perplexing problems as her wedding day draws near--she has four gowns to wear.

Kate expects a long-distance call at Sam's store from Betty Jo and Steve in Hawaii, and Hooterville goes wild with excitement.

Kate fears that her honeymooning daughter and son-in-law have forgotten her birthday.

Newlyweds Steve and Betty Jo Elliott have first spat--over Steve's first night out with the boys.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe shows up again with a new scheme to get the Cannonball discontinued.

Kate decides to contest a jaywalking ticket she receives in Pixley.

Uncle Joe attempts to upgrade the facilies of the Shady Rest hotel to impress representative of a hotel association.

Uncle Joe's entry into the beekeeping business disrupts newlyweds Steve and Betty JO Elliott.

Steve and Betty Jo each bor new furniture fro their home without telling the other about it.

As two crusading newpapers reporters,Bobbie Jo and her boyfriend take overe the ""Hooterville World Guardian.""

Newlywed Betty Jo encourages husband Steven to become an apple polisher to secure a lucative crop--dusting contract.

Uncle Joe's proclivity for off-key singing prompts his dismissal from a barber shop quartet-- just before a local talent contest.

A feud develops over the Bradley family dog's apparently divided loyalty.

Changes due to middle age make Uncle Joe and Sam Drucker unrecognizable to a girl they both once courted.

Uncle Joe takes over the Shady Rest and is almost run out of town for allegedly tossing out on old for non-payment of rent.

A slick, big--city promotion man concocts a phony publicity build-up to promote Billie Jo's first record.

Cousin Mae wrecks havoc at the Shady Rest hotel, until Aunt Helen comes to the rescue.

""Deputy"" Joe Carson captures a desperate bank robber with the help of Aunt Helen and a war-surplus life raft.

Sam Drucker's vacation at the Shady Rest hotel turns out to be a big disappoitment for Uncle Joe.

Betty Jo and Steve swear never to remove their wedding rings,but the next day she accidentally drops hers down the drain of the kitchen sink.

Kate comes home and finds everything normal--there's a mix up on where to meet her, and fireworks set the Pixley depot ablaze.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The presence of a competitor for Kate's hand motivates storekeeper Sam Drucker to confess his longstanding secret passion for her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The arrival of an old Air Force buddy endangers Steve Elliott's status with the Bradley sisters

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

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

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

The Shady Rest Hotel becomes a ""diet farm"" when Cousin Mae brings in an overweight girl and starts a weight reduction program.

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

The Shady Resy pooch becomes wealthy when a lawyer appears at the hotel and announces that the dog has inherited $200.

Bobbie Jo conts on a ""good luck"" ring to help her win a spelling contest.

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

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

Ths Shady Rest Hotel acquires a house physician, much to the distress of proprietor Kate.

Kate's daughters clamor for her to invite rock'n roll star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at a benefit show.

Uncle Joe becomes a fight promoter when he meets up with a young local plumber with the size and strength of a gorilla.

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

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

One of Kate's olf flames pays a visit,but his efforts to rekindle their romance are thwarted by his dominating sister.

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

The Shady Rest hotel is visited by a mysterious and affluent guest, whom Uncle Joe deduces is a bank robber.

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

Kate battles rural postmasters to recover an ill-advised letter from the mails.

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.

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

High- schooler Betty Jo poses as a college coed to gain the interest of a handsome college boy.

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

All the Bradley's expect to be a big winner in the contests they enter at the county-fair until Uncle Joe gives them a hand.

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

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

Kate tries to refurbish the Shady Rest hotel to attract conventions, while Uncle Joe plans to make it a shambles to reduce taxes.

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

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

Uncle's Joe solicitude threatens the 10-year marriage of a couple who have returned to the Shady Rest for a second honeymoon.

Convinced that her daughters would like to move to New York, Kate clinches a deal to sell the Shady Rest hotel.

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

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

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

The Shady Rest hotel becomes a giant nursery when Betty's Jo's baby-sitting business falls into the lap of her mother, Kate.

Betty Jo has a new friend - a little dog that keeps following her around. She'd like to keep the animal, but Kate says the animal must go.

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

Uncle Joe has grown extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh, who has set up a traveling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Rumor has it that Billie Jo is secretly engaged to Dan Plout, who is none other than the son of Kate's arch-enemy, Selma Plout.

Shady Rest is invaded by the Army, which is conducting maneuvers in the area, and some of the troops are more interested in Kate's daughters than they are in the war games.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

As Hooterville's bounty hunter, Uncle Joe may finally get the chance to capture someone: Two escaped convicts are in the area.

The Cannonball must temporarily cease operations: A bird has established a nest in the train's smokestack. Needless to say, Homer Bedloe tries to turn the situation to his advantage

Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley

Uncle Joe wants to invite the governor of the state to visit Hooterville, but no one will support his proposal

Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.

The hotel needs a new water heater and Uncle Joe wants to pay for it by selling stock in the Shady Rest Hotel Corporation.

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

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.

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

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.

Uncle Joe thinks it's time Hooterville elected a mayor and he has an excellent candidate in mind: himself.

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

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.

A music professor recommends that would-be singer Bobbie Jo go to New York for singing lessons, Billie Jo wins a chance for a screen-test in Hollywood, and Betty Jo earns a scholarship at a school in New Hampshire. Kate only has enough money to send one off to take advantage of their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so who will it be?

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.

Betty Jo has given up baseball to dedicate her life to science--or at least to her handsome new science teacher

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.

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.

C&FW President, Norman Curtis, journeys to Hooterville to take matters into his own hands as far as dissolving the Cannonball, but becomes enchanted by the people of the valley.

No one can attend Kate's Shady Rest Jamboree after Norman Curtis makes the Cannonball inoperative.

Kate pretends to fall in love with Floyd after his bad experience with a mail-order bride.

Joe goes into the cologne business.

The Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament rolls around, and Pixley Fats is it's main contender. He might have a little speed bump though, in the form of the tournament's first female player, Betty Jo.

It's time for Bobbie Jo to put down the books and set out to get a significant other.

The Cannonball's bank shipment is the target of two young train robbers.

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

One of Kate's olf flames pays a visit,but his efforts to rekindle their romance are thwarted by his dominating sister.

Uncle Joe's latest scheme involves turning the Shady Rest into a Honeymooners getaway. But when his status as temporary Justice of the Peace turns out to be invalid, can Kate and the girls keep the couple he ""married"" busy until Sam Drucker can be found to make their union legal?

A brochure describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is prematurely mailed to a Hooterville travel columnist.

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

Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her--he's just been drafted.

Bobbie Jo is entranced with poet Alan Landman, a visiting beatnik who is passing through Hooterville.

Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie Jo wants to go to Hollywood to become an actress.

Kate confers with Judge Drucker to see if she can legally prevent Billie Jo from going to Hollywood.

A movie-idol wants to hide away from it all at the Shady Rest.

Uncle Joe tells two plump ladies that Shady Rest is a reducing farm, where their loss is the management's gain.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with a retired railroad tycoon who's interested in buying the Cannonball

The art dealer buys one of Uncle Joe's paintings for its valuable frame, but Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to fantastic artistic success.

Betty Jo has her first crush - but the object of her affections (Orville Miggs) is more interested in tinkering with cars than he is in romance.

Uncle Joe tries to bring more guests to Shady Rest--and get his drainage ditch dug for free--by spreading rumors about a silver strike in the area.

Uncle Joe is promoting a talent contest, and he tries to make sure that one of his three nieces wins.

An old school chum thinks it's time Kate was married again, and she tells the girls to round up some prospects.

Uncle Joe decides to cash in on ""Beatlemania"" by casting his nieces and Sheriff Ragsdale's daughter in a musical group called ""The Ladybugs"".

Uncle Joe decides to bankrupt the Hooterville Cannonball by starting his own railroad, powered by Orville Miggs' flivver.

Homer Bedloe becomes superintendent of the Hooterville Cannonball. He forces Charley & Floyd to keep to a strict schedule, all in his latest attempt to shut the train line down. It's up to Kate to foil his plans by buying stock in the C&FW Railroad and speaking out at the stockholders meeting.

Socialite Clara Watkins is an important guest at Shady Rest. Unless she recommends the place to her friends, the bank won't lend Kate any more money.

Everyone seems too busy to spend any time with Charley, so he decides to quit his job as engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball.

Railroad President Norman Curtis thinks that his household's pet basset hound needs a change of scenery, so he sends the dog off to Shady Rest.

Kate Bradley is visited by an old schoolmate who's now a millionaire, but Uncle Joe has him pegged as a con artist.

Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with his son, Homer Junior, who is as hateful and devious as his father.

Business executive Mary Jane Hastings returns home to Hooterville and impresses everyone with her administrative ability, particularly her handling of men.

Shady Rest would stand a better chance of being selected as the site of the big convention if Kate were around, but she's trapped in a cave-in.

Kate is still trying to get Shady Rest chosen as the site for a big convention, but a sprained ankle has incapacitated her and the job of cornering the convention is left to Uncle Joe and the daughters

When Adelaide ""Genghis"" Keane returns from Europe, Kate is surprised to find that the elderly schoolteacher is no longer the tyrannical disciplinarian she used to be.

Some of the classic in-character product advertisements with the cast of Petticoat Junction.

Paul Henning talks about his life and Petticoat Junction.

Interview with Linda Kaye Henning and Pay Woodell: Interview with Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo Bradley, who discuss their time on Petticoat Junction (Part 1)

Interview with Linda Kaye Henning and Pay Woodell: Interview with Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo Bradley, who discuss their time on Petticoat Junction (Part 2)

Promotional photos of the cast

A documentary talking about the history of Hooterville and Petticoast Junction. From interviews with the actors that are still presents to old stories of the making of the show.