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, wh...

Interview with Linda Kaye Henning and Pay Woodell: Interview with Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo Bradley, wh...

Promotional photos of the cast

A documentary talking about the history of Hooterville and Petticoast Junction. From interviews with...

Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, is sent by railroad president Norman P. Curtis...

Kate uses a combination of charm, subterfuge, and wiles to prevent Homer Bedloe from catching the Ho...

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis is incensed that ace troubleshooter Homer Bedloe utterly f...

Norman Curtis, who has fallen in love with life at the Shady Rest, is still staying there for free w...

Floyd Smoot, the conductor, is courting a woman through the mail. But, when she ends it after receiv...

Uncle Joe spends Kate's money to buy cases of lousy smelling men and women's cologne to make a fast...

Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament and becomes the first female contestant i...

When Billie Jo has to come up with a fourth for her double date with Junior Hocker and Junior's visi...

Two young men, Arthur Gilroy and Lowell Rightmeyer, are on their way to rob the bank in Pixley. They...

The Cannonball and its primary passenger, Uncle Joe, are pelted with eggs after the Hooterville Horn...

Kate and the girls go to Drucker's store to pick up the pocket watch they ordered for Uncle Joe's bi...

Uncle Joe has come up with another scheme to attract guests to the hotel: advertise it as a wedding/...

A brochure made by Uncle Joe describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is accidenta...

The Bradleys, Sam Drucker, Herby, Charlie and Floyd are decorating the Cannonball for its annual Chr...

Herby is depressed when he gets drafted, so the girls cheer him up by suggesting he could be an astr...

Bobbie Jo brings home Alan Landman, a mad-at-the-world young poet and slacker who has won her heart....

Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to...

Billie Jo is still determined to use the $500 from her father to go to Hollywood to become a movie s...

Uncle Joe has made a deal with Lucy Wayne, the secretary of movie star Lane Haggard, for them to sta...

Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets H...

When Kate unexpectedly sees Homer Bedloe in Hooterville, she knows trouble is in store. Bedloe plans...

A traveling salesman guest leaves Uncle Joe a set of six paint-by-number canvases in lieu of a cash...

Betty Jo has her first crush on a boy named Orville Miggs. But the object of her affections is more...

Homer Bedloe is back in Hooterville trying yet again to find a way to shut down the Cannonball. He b...

A regional talent contest is being held in Hooterville with the winner being awarded $50 and a trip...

An old school chum named Emily Mapes thinks it's time Kate was married again. She tells the girls to...

Beatlemania has hit Hooterville by storm. Uncle Joe recruits Billy, Bobbie, and Betty Joe along with...

Uncle Joe gets angry at Charlie and Floyd when he is left behind by the Cannonball. He decides to st...

Norman Curtis, President of the C&FW Railroad, is currently on vacation in Europe. He left instructi...

Mr. Bunce with the bank is doing an inspection of the hotel and is not planning on extending Kate's...

Charley begins to believe that everyone seems too busy to spend any time with him. Floyd has started...

Kate receives a telegram from Railroad President Norman Curtis that he is sending Homer Bedloe with...

An old friend of Kate's from high school is coming for a visit. Kate admits that she had a crush on...

Homer Bedloe arrives at the Shady Rest with his son, Homer Bedloe Jr., who is as hateful and devious...

Business executive Mary Jane Hastings returns home to Hooterville to receive the Chamber of Commerce...

Uncle Joe wants to dig out an old cave to use as a wine cellar for the hotel. Kate receives a telegr...

Kate has sprained her ankle which means she will be off her feet for three or four days. Now that Mr...

Kate's former grade school teacher returns to Hooterville. Kate and her children reminisce how Miss...

It's the first day of school and Kate is having trouble getting a couple of her daughters motivated...

Henry Barton is dropping off his pregnant wife Elsie at the Shady Rest. While the baby isn't due for...

Uncle Joe isn't thrilled with the idea of turning the Cannonball's baggage car into a mobile library...

Sam, Charley, Floyd and Uncle Joe are rehearsing a reenactment of the signing of the treaty between...

Hooterville has a long standing record of being the first community to have their political votes su...

Betty Jo wants to enter Dog in a contest to make a commercial for Tailwagger Dog Food. The winner al...

Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! Kate tells him to take it back, but all sales were...

The girls are trying to learn some Japanese to make Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal, Nobuko Takamura, fe...

Billie Jo is upset that the Cannonball is late and she believes it has outlived its usefulness. Mean...

Jack Crandall, who is with H-D-L Food Products, is a passenger on the Cannonball. He is stunned when...

Kate doesn't have anything against Dan, Billie Jo's boyfriend, that is except his mother is Selma Pl...

Kate learns from Sam that the US Army is conducting war games in the area around the Shady Rest. Kat...

Uncle Joe has formed the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Volunteer Band. The band is so bad th...

Mr. Richardson is a guest at the hotel. Uncle Joe tells him about the curse of Chester W. Farnsworth...

Uncle Joe has been receiving and sending what appears to be love letters. Kate eventually learns tha...

Billie Jo wins a contest at secretarial school and is offered her first job. She will be private sec...

The girls are upset that they don't have a telephone at the hotel. They can't communicate with their...

Volunteer fire chief Uncle Joe has designed a new nighttime alarm system. When a valley resident set...

Convicts Barney Dawson and Max James have escaped from the state penitentiary. Meanwhile, Uncle Joe,...

The Cannonball has temporarily ceased operations. The reason is a bird has built a nest on top of th...

O'Donnel's, a new supermarket, has just opened in Pixley. Sam hasn't had a customer since it opened....

The Governor announces that he will make a grassroots tour of the state. Uncle Joe is excited by the...

Uncle Joe sees some surveyors down by the railroad tracks next to the hotel. He mistakenly believes...

Uncle Joe mentions investing in the stock market and Kate reminds him about the bad stock he had her...

Crabwell Corners is suing the Town of Hooterville for possession of a Spanish-American War cannon. C...

Kate's spring cleaning coincides with the US Air Force doing maneuvers over the valley. Part of thos...

Kate has a lot of outstanding debts, plus she hasn't made a mortgage payment in six months. Mr. Guer...

In this second half of a two-part story, Homer Bedloe has controlling interest in the Pixley Bank an...

Because they don't have one, Uncle Joe wants to be named the Mayor of Hooterville. And as mayor, he...

Lately, bad things have been happening to people whenever Uncle Joe is around. He is now getting the...

Hinky Mittenfloss, the new dog catcher, is constantly trying to catch Dog. Hinky now believes that D...

Music Professor Lieberschmit recommends that would-be singer Bobbie Jo go to New York City for three...

Fed up with chopping wood for Kate's old wood-burner, Uncle Joe tries to convince Kate to buy a new...

Betty Jo is giving up baseball to devote her life to science. The family finds out that she has a cr...

Uncle Joe gets his friends Sam, Charley and Floyd to invest $15 in his latest get rich quick scheme....

Their latest traveling salesman guest sneaks out of the hotel without paying his bill. Kate and Uncl...

Sam has added an advice column called Dear Minerva to the newspaper, and Sam is Minerva. Kate thinks...

Oliver Wendell Douglas and Lisa Douglas are staying overnight at the hotel. They are moving into the...

Betty Jo and Bobbie Jo and a group of friends are trying to plan a fund-raising stage production to...

Bobbie Jo is entering an upcoming spelling bee, but it may be a losing battle against stuck up but e...

Because Uncle Joe is supposed to paint the Hotel, he gets the idea that he can go into business as a...

Bobbie Jo has been nominated for membership into Hooterville High's only sorority. She is worried as...

Uncle Joe answers the ad of Dr. Mathew Bailey. Dr. Bailey is looking for office space in return for...

The Every Other Wednesday Afternoon Discussion Club, with its new member Lisa Douglas, is planning o...

Boxer Kid Dynamite is offering $100 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for three rounds wit...

Mrs. Douglas asks an excited Betty Jo to accompany her on a week long trip to New York City as her g...

Homer Bedloe, arch-enemy of the Hooterville Cannonball, returns in abject disgrace and poverty to Ho...

One of Kate Bradley's old swains named Ralph Denton sends a telegram stating that he is coming by th...

Joe insults Sam about the way he runs the post office, so Sam lets Joe take over. Joe decides to set...

It's been a month since there have been any guests at the hotel. But then a Mr. Reynolds checks in....

Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo are entering contests where they are required to send in food can and box top...

Uncle Joe advertises to hotel guests Billie Jo's services as a stenographer. Mr. Norton, a salesman...

Gladys Knockleheimer and Bernie McKenzie are holding their wedding reception at the hotel. They are...

Billie Jo wants to move out of the hotel and into her own apartment in Pixley. Kate repeatedly says...

High-schooler Betty Jo is on the verge of breaking up with her latest boyfriend Edward. He believes...

It's the start of the new semester at Hooterville High and there are seven new girls and one new boy...

The annual county fair is coming soon. Betty Jo picks Everett the pig for Hooterville High's cutest...

An accident at the county courthouse has blown off the roof of the building. Uncle Joe gets the jury...

Kate receives a letter from a Mr. Donald Dobble requesting a reservation for two rooms for him and a...

Kate hopes to have a convention take place at the hotel. But, they are in competition with the Pixle...

The Shady Rest is full with guests, while the Pixley Hotel is just about empty. The Pixley Hotel's u...

The hotel is empty and bills piling up. In order to get some money, Kate suggests Uncle Joe find a p...

Uncle Joe is excited by a letter from Jeff and Nancy Anderson. They honeymooned at the hotel and are...

Carter Deming is a writer and the only current guest at the hotel. He tells Kate that he gets ten ti...

The cheap refrigerator that Uncle Joe bought isn't working, so Kate sends him into Pixley to get som...

Kate is cleaning out the storage closet. She wants the family members to go through their belongings...

Kate's widowed friend Vera Wilson has been dating Ronnie Beckman, a bookkeeper who moved to the vall...

It seems that every night everyone has something to do except for Kate. Uncle Joe tells Kate that sh...

Uncle Joe is excited about a new capital works project for the valley. The plan is to dam up Bleeker...

Betty Jo wants to buy her friend Willie's motorized bicycle. Kate says she can if she is able to com...

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

While the girls are swimming in the water tower, a bi-plane flies overhead. The pilot, distracted by...

Steve's plane is still sitting damaged where it crashed near the railroad tracks by the hotel. Henry...

Steve spends time individually with Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo doing their favorite activitie...

Since she is now in junior college, Bobbie Jo thinks she's all grown up. She decides to go to an all...

Charley and Floyd derail the Cannonball going around Deadman's Curve. They believe the reason for th...

Kate Bradley tangles with Selma Plout when Selma tries to lure pilot Steve Elliott into marriage wit...

It's almost time for the Almost Annual Charity Show, and everyone is looking forward to Steve and Bi...

Kate sees Steve as a possible future son-in-law. She believes his life as a pilot is too dangerous a...

Kate's first boyfriend, Walter O'Connor, who is now a major league baseball manager, is coming to st...

There's a dance on Saturday. Billie Jo and Bobbie Jo will only accept a date from either Steve or Do...

Young Doctor Craig announces that he's leaving the valley since there just isn't enough business for...

It's the Christmas season, and everyone's in a rush to decorate the Cannonball in preparation for th...

The local Discussion Club is sending their secretary to the weekend long national conventional, all...

Homer Bedloe shows up unexpectedly. He's come to announce there will be a new general manager for th...

A crew is filming a commercial at Lost Lake. The commercial stars Prince Hamlet of Kronenberg von Au...

Jealousy will permeate the Shady Rest Hotel. After he agrees to go to the turnabout dance with Bobbi...

Jeremiah Priddy, a temperance lecturer, is coming to the valley. Meanwhile, Betty Jo has a quiet lit...

The National Amateur Hour is screening for new talent, and are holding auditions through the valley'...

Pixley's Sheriff Crandall is going on a fishing vacation. Uncle Joe makes an arrangement with Sam, t...

Billie Jo is excited by the news that Sydney Sparks, the talent agent that approached her and Steve...

Steve has been spending a lot of time with Betty Jo. He's giving her flying lessons and she's his gr...

Steve receives a telegram from his old flying buddy, Max Donohue. Max wants Steve as a business part...

Business at the Shady Rest is worse than usual. Uncle Joe speaks to Sam about the Shady Rest and Dru...

Without telling anyone in the valley the reason why, Kate takes a trip to the big city. When she ret...

Bobbie Jo is ecstatic that the poem she submitted to a magazine has been accepted for publication. S...

After Steve sends him several letters inviting him to Hooterville, his best friend Jeff Maxwell, an...

Late one evening, Uncle Joe and Sam, following a lodge meeting, run across a mysterious fellow looki...

An excited Billie Jo has a one week singing engagement in Omaha. The only problem is that it is one...

Kate's southern belle of a cousin, Mae Belle Jennings, comes to Hooterville for an unexpected visit....

Henry and Wilma Tuttle have decided to move into Hooterville Valley. With their arrival Hooterville...

Kate's cousin Mae visits and tells everyone that with some backing from a wealthy banker, she plans...

Betty Jo has been traveling through Europe for the past three months. Billie Jo and Bobbie Jo believ...

Betty Jo thinks she's at that point in her life where she needs to learn how to cook in order to get...

Betty Jo has been receiving a large number of floral bouquets, all signed "From an Admirer". Billie...

While flying back from Springdale, Steve and Betty Jo are caught in an unexpected thunderstorm. Alth...

Uncle Joe tells Kate that he believes that Steve and Betty Jo will get married sooner rather than la...

Secluded in the woods, Betty Jo has found what she believes is the perfect house for herself and Ste...

Floyd is in love. He eventually confides in Kate about it, but doesn't mention who the girl is. Floy...

Steve and Betty Jo's wedding is approaching fast. They are working hard trying to complete the renov...

In this touching episode, Betty Jo finds what she thinks is the perfect wedding dress. Kate was hopi...

Sam receives a cablegram for Kate from Betty Jo and Steve on the cruise ship as they're sailing to H...

It's Kate's birthday. She is grateful for all the presents and the birthday good wishes, but she is...

Steve and Betty Jo are back from their honeymoon and have settled into their cottage. Betty Jo and S...

Kate receives a surprisingly sweet letter from Homer Bedloe saying he will be coming to the Shady Re...

Kate received a traffic ticket for jaywalking against a new traffic light in Pixley. She refuses to...

Billie Jo and Uncle Joe have just arrived back from Omaha, where Billie Jo had a singing engagement....

Uncle Joe's latest scheme has him keeping bees, hoping to make a fortune selling honey. Joe borrows...

Betty Jo is writing checks faster than Steve is putting money into the account. They make a deal: Be...

Bobbie Jo tells everyone that she and the man of her dreams, Jeff Powers, will be working on a newsp...

J.P. Marshall, who recently bought much of the farm land in the valley, has checked into the hotel....

Uncle Joe's barbershop quartet have entered the Winter Festival competition. One member is singing a...

Everyone at the hotel is worried since Dog has been missing for most of the day. He actually ran off...

Florabelle Campbell, the valley's beauty while Uncle Joe's was growing up, is coming to stay at the...

While Kate is away, Uncle Joe has been left to manage the hotel. Uncle Joe believes he needs to coll...

Billie Jo is thrilled that her first 45 has been produced. The record company has plans to market it...

Life at the Shady Rest is going well despite Kate's absence. The girls and Uncle Joe receive a lette...

Jeff Powers is looking for a big story in his final week working as a reporter for the Hooterville W...

The Cannonball arrives at the Shady Rest with a "For Sale" sign and Homer Bedloe. The train will go...

Sam has decided to remodel the general store. It will be closed for five days while he goes on vacat...

Steve's is returning from a crop dusting convention and Betty Jo is celebrating with a large homecom...

In this valentine to Kate Bradley the citizens of Hooterville pull out all the stops to welcome Kate...

Betty Jo's due date is fast approaching. Everyone is excited that another baby will being born in th...

Ted Swift, a booking agent, hears the Bradley Sisters singing on the radio. He wants to book them fo...

Steve feels like he's playing second fiddle to his yet unborn child and that he is not needed. That...

Betty Jo and Steve's baby is due anytime now. Steve thinks it's a good idea if they move back to the...

Betty Jo and the baby are coming home from the hospital. They'll be staying at the Shady Rest tempor...

Gus Huffle, the owner of the Pixley Bijou movie theater, has decided to close due to lack of busines...

Doc Stuart surprises the people of the valley by announcing that he is going into semi-retirement. H...

Joe continues his campaign to get Dr. Janet Craig to leave the valley. He concocts a plan with Sam a...

Joe's campaign to get rid of Dr. Janet Craig continues when she opens her office just off the lobby...

Dennis Roberts, a friend of Janet's, arrives in the valley. Janet seems happy to see him, but is som...

Steve wants to take Betty Jo out on the town, but Betty Jo doesn't want to leave the baby with sitte...

The Cannonball's arch enemy, Homer Bedloe, has arrived in the valley. All he seems to be doing is ri...

Bobbie Jo really likes a new book she is reading called "The Feminine Mistake". It talks about how w...

Bobbie Jo is babysitting Kathy Jo while Betty Jo is out shopping. Bobbie Jo tells Steve that she bel...

Betty Jo has arranged with Reverend Barton to hold Kathy Jo's christening this Sunday. Janet reminds...

Billie Jo arrives back home from a gig in Omaha with her new boyfriend, comedian Rick Wayne. Rick do...

Steve receives a lucrative job offer from his old Air Force commanding officer to work in his new co...

Janet's friend, Adelle Colby, arrives in the valley. Sam, Bert and Uncle Joe are each attracted to h...

The valley folk are preparing for the annual Founder's Day celebrations. Janet's idea is to have a m...

After Sam makes some renovations and introduces some streamlined processes to the post office, he le...

Janet gives Kathy Jo a clean bill of health as the rash that she had has cleared. She figures Kathy...

Uncle Joe announces his retirement. He learns that his big news has made him the laughing stock of t...

Reverend Barton has hired Freddie Kirby, a professional fund-raiser, to raise money for their organ...

Hank Thackery is the owner of the Shady Rests rival hotel, the Pixley House. He plans to set up a ji...

Janet returns from a business trip with some news. She has decided to work with the famous neurologi...

Steve is going to submit a bit for a lucrative government contract. Meanwhile, Bobbie Jo tries to ge...

The dog suddenly becomes a second-class citizen at the Shady Rest hotel when Steve and Betty Jo and...

Uncle Joe, caught with too many fish in his possessions by Game Warden Orrin Pike, is threatened wit...

Betty Jo finds herself growing jealous of the attention Steve is giving to their daughter, so the pa...

Two rough motorcyclists,suspected of poaching, are too many and too tough for Game Warren Orrin Pike...

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

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

When a glamorous author, with her eyes on Steve, moves into the Shady Rest hotel to write a novel, t...

Dr. Craig mobilizes an effort to inoculate the whole valley with flu shots, but a hillbilly family w...

Bickering over sharing a bathroom with Uncle Joe leads to Steve & Betty Jo considering moving out. T...

Bobby Jo's boyfriend Orrin finally manages to make friends with Uncle Joe when he rescues the old fe...

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

Uncle Joe tries to get rid of the pet chimp who is gradually wrecking the Shady Rest hotel.

Uncle Joe discovers that the 75th anniversary of the railroad between Hooterville & Pixley is approa...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Floyd retires, leaving Uncle Joe to take over the duties of running the Cannonball, once again. His...

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

The Bradley's are shaken by the news that a handsome and wealthy male doctor is coming to visit thei...

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