Petticoat Junction

Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, journeys to the little community of Hooterville to find out why a branch line doesn't connect with a main line.

Kate Bradley decides that the only way to save it from the scrap heap is to hide the ancient engine - all seven and one-half tons of it.

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis can't get ace trouble-shooter Homer Bedloe to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball, so he decides to do it himself - incognito.

Railroad President Norman P. Curtis accidentally breaks the throttle of the Hooterville Cannonball - and folks can't get to Kate's annual Shady Rest Jamboree.

Floyd Smoot has been jilted by his mail-order sweetheart, so Kate pretends to fall in love with him in order to restore his self-confidence.

Uncle Joe decides to go into the cologne business.

Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament against Pixley Fats and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history.

Kate is determined to get her book-loving daughter, Bobbie Jo, to go out on a date.

A couple of respectable-looking young crooks plan to rob the Hooterville Cannonball of its bank shipment.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe returns to Shady Rest for another try at scrapping the Hooterville Cannonball.

Uncle Joe believes he is being "put out to pasture" when Kate gives general store clerk, Herbie Bates, a job as assistant general manager of the Shady Rest.

Uncle Joe decides to become a justice-of-the-peace and turn Shady Rest into a honeymoon haven.

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

Herbie 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 Film-idol wants to hide away from it all at the Shady Rest.

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