Betty Jo has a new friend - a little dog that keeps following her around. She'd like to keep the animal, but Kate says the animal must go.

Petticoat Junction

Betty Jo's Dog

Kate's friend, Elsie, comes to stay at Shady Rest while waiting to have her baby, and a nervous Uncle Joe immediately works out a master plan to get a doctor to Shady Rest when the time arrives.

Race Against The Stork

Uncle Joe has grown extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh, who has set up a traveling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball.

Have Library, Will Travel

Homer Bedloe sees an opportunity to close down the Hooterville Cannonball when he learns that an Indian tribe has legal title to the land the Cannonball's tracks are on.

The Umquaw Strip

Hooterville will have to go some to retain its record as the first community in the state to file election returns-- Crabwell Corners has got itself an automatic voting machine.

As Hooterville Goes

Billie Jo enters a picture of the family dog in a pet-food company's contest, and the mutt is selected one of five finalists.

My Dog, The Actor

Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! It's part of his scheme to dupe a wealthy British sportsman into coming to ""Shady Rest Hunting Lodge.

The Great Buffalo Hunt

Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko.

Betty Jo's Pen Pal

Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball's arch-enemy, has been having terrible nightmares about the train. To get rid of them, his psychiatrist suggests that he ""learn to love"" the Cannonball.

Bedloe's Nightmare

Food salesman Jack Crandall, a passenger on the Cannonball, is stunned when the train stops just so Charley and Floyd can pick apples for Kate's special recipe: Bachelor Butter.

Kate's Bachelor Butter

Rumor has it that Billie Jo is secretly engaged to Dan Plout, who is none other than the son of Kate's arch-enemy, Selma Plout.

Mother Of The Bride

Uncle Joe is convinced that Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel some fifty years ago.

The Curse Of Chester W. Farnsworth

Uncle Joe has begun corresponding with the Widow Perkins, an old flame who left Joe standing at the altar - and then married the best man.

There's No Flame Like An Old Flame

Billie Jo has landed her first job, but Kate's not so sure she approves: Billie's going to be private secretary to novelist Oliver Fenton, whose books have been banned in Hooterville.

Billie Jo's First Job

It's some miles to the nearest telephone and the girls are beginning to feel like social outcasts, but Kate can't afford to have a special line run to Shady Rest.

A Mater Of Communication

Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.

Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer

As Hooterville's bounty hunter, Uncle Joe may finally get the chance to capture someone: Two escaped convicts are in the area.

The Hooterville Crime Wave

The Cannonball must temporarily cease operations: A bird has established a nest in the train's smokestack. Needless to say, Homer Bedloe tries to turn the situation to his advantage.

For The Birds

Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley.

Modern Merchandising

Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.

A Border Line Story

The hotel needs a new water heater and Uncle Joe wants to pay for it by selling stock in the Shady Rest Hotel Corporation.

The  Shady Rest Hotel Corporation

Hooterville is feuding with neighboring Crabwell Corners over possession of a Spanish-American cannon, and Betty Jo is feuding with Tad Winslow of that town over who has the better dog.

A Tale Of Two Dogs

A top-secret Air Force camera, equipped with a detonating device to prevent its capture, falls out of a plane--and lands at Shady Rest.

The Black Box

Homer Bedloe has arranged for the Pixley Bank to foreclose on Kate Bradley's mortgage, so Uncle Joe and the daughters are forced to seek employment.

Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme

Betty Jo's pal, Willie, has a knack for predicting the right outcome of each roulette spin.

Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance

Uncle Joe thinks it's time Hooterville elected a mayor and he has an excellent candidate in mind: himself.

The Mayor Of Hooterville

No one in Hooterville wants any part of Uncle Joe, for the words around that he is a jinx.

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Jinx

Dog Catcher Hinky Mittenfloss, who's been after the Bradley dog for some time, locks up the pooch on charges of killing a farmer's chickens.

The Chicken Killer

A music professor recommends that would-be singer Bobbie Jo go to New York for singing lessons, Billie Jo wins a chance for a screen-test in Hollywood.

Why Girls Leave Home

Fed up with chopping wood for Kate's old wood-burner, Uncle Joe cooks up a scheme to get her to buy a new stove.

There's No Stove Like An Old Stove

Betty Jo has given up baseball to dedicate her life to science--or at least to her handsome new science teacher.

The Brontosaurus Caper

Uncle Joe buys a goat which he hopes to milk for millions--by peddling the milk as a hair-growing balm to aid Hooterville's numerous bald citizens.

The Hair-brained Scheme

Circus boss Harry Harmon has heard about Uncle Joe's reputation as an easy mark, and he plans to con Joe into letting the flat-broke circus troupe take up lodging at Shady Rest.

There No Biz With Show Biz

Pluto

Betty Jo faces a perplexing problem as her wedding day draws near--she has four gowns to wear.

With This Gown I Thee Wed

Folks at the Shady Rest hotel find Betty Jo extremely changed after a trip to Europe[her graduation present].

Is This My Daughter

A romantic problem develops when Betty Jo finds she has a secret admirer.

One Dozen Roses

Kate faces a mother's problem when the youngest of her three daughters falls in love.

You Know I Can't Hear You When the Thunder is Clapping

Thanks to Uncle Joe's loose tongue, everybody in the valley knows that steve is going to marry Betty Jo-- except Betty Jo.

Pop Goes the Question

Steve's parents pay an unexpected visit to meet the Bradley family--and to sample Betty's Jo highly touted cooking.

Meet the In-Laws

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe shows up again with a new scheme to get the Cannonball discontinued.

A Horse On You, Mr. Bedloe

Kate decides to contest a jaywalking ticket she receives in Pixley.

Kate's Day in Court

Uncle Joe's entry into the beekeeping business disrupts newlyweds Steve and Betty JO Elliott.

All That Buzzes Ain't Bees

Newlywed Betty Jo encourages her husband Steven to become an apple polisher to secure a lucrative crop--dusting contract.

Steve, the Apple Polisher

A feud develops over the Bradley family dog's apparently divided loyalty.

Higgins Come Home

Uncle Joe takes over the Shady Rest and is almost run out of town for allegedly tossing out an old tenant for non-payment of rent.

Uncle Joe Runs the Hotel

"Deputy" Joe Carson captures a desperate bank robber with the help of Aunt Helen and a war-surplus life raft.

Bad Day at Shady Rest

Betty Jo and Steve swear never to remove their wedding rings, but the next day she accidentally drops hers down the drain of the kitchen sink.

Ring-a-Ding-Ding

The lives of the residents of Hooterville are the setting for this rural situation comedy. Kate Bradley is the widowed owner of the Shady Rest Hotel which she runs with her three beautiful daughters. The girl's Uncle Joe acts as a handyman.

With This Gown I Thee Wed

Full Episodes

Season 5, 14 episodes