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Songwriter Paul Simon said it best: Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Especially when that train is the Hooterville Cannonball ("the train thats loved by all"), whose heralding whistle sets this charming series classic theme song in motion. An instant hit in its first season, Petticoat Junction, like The Andy Griffith Show is the chance to spend quality time with "some decent folks." The series is set at the bucolic, but run-down, Shady Rest Hotel, remotely situated between Hooterville and Pixley (the Mt. Pilot to Hootervilles Mayberry). The Shady Rest has seen better days. The last time there were three guests at one time, someone observes, was when "Mrs. Pritchard gave birth to twins in the lobby." Widow Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet, the voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones) runs the place with her three beautiful daughters, flirtatious Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley), bookworm Bobbie Jo (Pat Woodall), and pigtailed tomboy Betty Jo (Linda Kaye). Kates finagling Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) complicates matters with ill-fated get rich schemes. Other colorful characters include Cannonball engineers Charlie (Smiley Burnette) and Floyd (Rufe Davis), more interested in lifes simple pleasures, like fishing, than running the train on time, and Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), the "self-described general store keeper, notary republic, and town wit." Throughout the first season, Kate and company thwart efforts by Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), "the most ruthless man since Ivan the Terrible," to put the Shady Rest out of business and shut down the Cannonball, the antiquated steam train that time, and the C.F. & W Railroad forgot. Created by Paul Henning, Petticoat Junction is not as widely syndicated or popularly known as his other series, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, but its a pleasure to rediscover. One episode for the '60s time capsule, broadcast just a little over a month after the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, is "The Ladybugs" in which Beatlemania hits the valley, and Uncle Joe transforms the Bradley girls into a girl rock group. Dennis Hopper, of all people, appears as a beatnik in the episode, "Bobby Joe and the Beatnik." Vintage TV fans will have fun spotting Ken "Eddie Haskell" Osmond as a suitor for Billie Jo in "The Genghis Keane Story" (the same episode introduces future Green Acres scene stealer Hank Patterson as pit-toting farmer Fred Ziffel); Sheila James (Zelda on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) as a fellow Ladybug, and Steve Franken (Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. on Gillis) as Homer Bedloes chip off the old block son, who has a change of heart after spending time at the Shady Rest in "Bedloe and Son." This set benefits from episode introductions and affectionate recollections by Kaye and Woodall. So, like the song says, forget about your cares, it is time to relax at the Junction. As Bedloe, Jr. proclaims, "A fella could get used to a life like this." --Donald Liebenson
- Movie Genre: TV Show Series
- Running Time: 16 minutes
- Release Date: 16 Dec, 2008
- Format: DVD
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 6.72 ounces
- Media Format: NTSC, Closed-captioned, Black & White, Full Screen, Mu
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Better than I remembered!
This was one of my favorite shows while growing up and it has not gotten old with age. I love this DVD and am looking forward to buying the next season when it come available and with site to store no shipping costs!!
Come ride the little train
A most joyful return to Hooterville and Sam Drucker's store! Having watched the majority of the episodes in original syndication it is refreshing to find Uncle Joe even more irrascible and ascerbically funny than I remember. A much better creation of Paul Henning than the "Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction" is a warm, family-friendly series that brings the best of an idealized view of small town Americana into today's much different world. My only complaint is the Paul Henning estate has only authorized the release of the first two seasons!
Excellent
Petticoat Junction is cute and is a good wholesome family show.I have already ordered the second season and am looking for the third second now. I would recommend Petticoat Juction to everyone.
