![]() Drucker's is the local hub, where menfolk come to play checkers and chat. Trips on the Cannonball usually include a stop in Hooterville at Drucker's Store, run by Sam Drucker ( Frank Cady). ![]() Occasionally, youngest daughter Betty Jo can be found with her hand on the Cannonball's throttle running the train is one of her favorite pastimes, as she is something of a tomboy with an interest in mechanics. Many plots involve railroad executive Homer Bedloe's futile attempts to cease operation and scrap the Hooterville Cannonball. Charley and Floyd are alternately depicted as retired employees of the railroad receiving pensions and salaried railroad workers. The single-tracked Hooterville to Pixley spur line was cut off from the rest of the railroad 20 years before the start of the show by the demolition of a trestle. It was not uncommon for the Cannonball to make an unscheduled stop for the crew to go fishing, or to pick fruit for Kate's apple butter and pies. Uncle Joe, when he is not idling in his favorite porch chair, frequently comes up with half-baked get-rich-quick schemes and ill-conceived hotel promotions which end up with him making a fool of himself.Įarly on, much of the show also focuses on the Hooterville Cannonball, an 1890s vintage steam-driven train run more like a taxi service by engineer Charley Pratt ( Smiley Burnette) and fireman/ railway conductor Floyd Smoot ( Rufe Davis). Her lazy but lovable Uncle Joe Carson ( Edgar Buchanan) supposedly helps her in the day-to-day running of the hotel, while she serves as a mediator in the various minor crises that befall her three beautiful daughters: redhead Betty Jo ( Linda Kaye Henning) brunette Bobbie Jo (first Pat Woodell, later Lori Saunders) and blonde Billie Jo (first Jeannine Riley, then Gunilla Hutton, and finally Meredith MacRae). Widowed Kate Bradley ( Bea Benaderet) is the proprietress. The show centers on the goings-on at the rural Shady Rest Hotel. Petticoat Junction was produced by Filmways, Inc. The success of Petticoat Junction led to a spin-off, Green Acres (1965–1971). Petticoat Junction was created upon the success of Henning's previous rural/urban-themed sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971). ![]() The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters produced by Paul Henning. The series takes place at the Shady Rest Hotel, which is run by Kate Bradley her three daughters Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo and her uncle Joe Carson. Petticoat Junction is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970. L-R: Pat Woodell (Bobbie Jo), Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo) and Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo)
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