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Petticoat Junction (1963–1970)

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The misadventures of the family staff of The Shady Rest Hotel and their neighbors of Hooterville.

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Paul Henning
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22 April 2003 | Sargebri
The Inventor of Jiggle T.V.
When this show first premiered its biggest attraction were the three Bradley daughters. However, you really got to see a great comedy and the real stars were the late great Bea Benederet as Kate and the late and equally great Edgar Buchanan as Uncle Joe, who was always looking to get rich quick. The girls themselves were pretty well fleshed out characters themselves. Billie Jo was the ambitious star-struck one, Bobbie Jo was the somewhat dim bulb and Betty Jo was the tomboy. Betty Jo became the most evolved character as you saw her grow up from being a girl who was pretty much pre-occupied with sports into a beautiful young woman who eventually settled down and married the man of her dreams. Too bad Bea Benederet passed away. When that happened the wind seemed to go out of the show and within two years it was gone. Perhaps it was a precursor of things to come becuase within a year after it had gone off the air all the great rural television shows were virtually wiped out in the infamous purge of 1971.

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A running gag on the show was the animosity/competition between Joe and the dog. Ironically, whenever they shot publicity stills, Higgins would almost always sit in the lap of Edgar Buchanan because he behaved better for him than other members of the cast.

Goofs

Even though the Cannonball is supposed to be a wood burning locomotive, and the tender car is loaded with chopped wood, the smokestack is blowing pitch black smoke. It should be blowing mostly white or light gray smoke from the wood. The black smoke reveals the real-life locomotive actually burned oil. In episode 1, this is explained away by saying that they're burning ties from the railroad.

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2003 DVD release of four first-season episodes by Brentwood Entertainment replaces the well-known opening theme with an uncredited, instrumental piece of music.

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Release Date:

24 September 1963

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English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Tuolumne County, California, USA

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