What is Petticoat Junction?
A: Petticoat Junction is an American television
sitcom.
When did it originally air?
A: On CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.
Where does the series take place?
A: At the Shady Rest Hotel.
Who runs the Shady Rest Hotel?
A: Kate Bradley; her three daughters Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo; and
her uncle Joe Carson.
The series is one of three interrelated shows about
rural characters produced by whom?
A: Paul Henning.
Petticoat Junction was created upon the success of what
Henning's previous rural/urban-themed sitcom?
A: The Beverly Hillbillies.
The success of Petticoat Junction led to what spin-off?
A: Green Acres (1965–1971).
Petticoat Junction was produced by whom?
A: Filmways, Inc.
What does the show center on?
A: The goings-on at the rural Shady Rest Hotel.
Widowed Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet) is the proprietor.
What does her lazy but lovable Uncle Joe Carson
supposedly do?
A: He helps her in the day-to-day running of the hotel.
She serves as a mediator in the various minor crises
that befall whom?
A: Her three beautiful daughters.
Uncle Joe, when he is not idling in his favorite porch
chair, frequently comes up with what?
A: Half-baked get-rich-quick schemes and ill-conceived hotel promotions.
Early on, much of the show also focuses on what?
A: The Hooterville Cannonball, an 1890s vintage steam-driven
train.
Who is the engineer?
A: Charley Pratt and fireman/railway conductor Floyd Smoot.
It was not uncommon for the Cannonball to make an
unscheduled stop for what?
A: For the crew to go fishing, or to pick fruit for Kate's apple
butter and
pies.
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 what?
A: The demolition of a trestle.
Charlie and Floyd are alternately depicted as retired
employees of the railroad receiving pensions and what?
A: Salaried railroad workers.
Many plots involve railroad executive Homer Bedloe's
futile attempts to do what?
A: To cease operation and scrap the Hooterville Cannonball.
Occasionally, youngest daughter Betty Jo can be found
with her hand on what?
A: Running the train, one of her favorite pastimes.
She is something of a tomboy with an interest in what?
A: Mechanics.
Trips on the Cannonball usually include a stop where?
A: In Hooterville at Drucker's Store run by Sam Drucker.
Drucker's is the local hub, where menfolk come to do
what?
A: Play checkers and chat.
The Shady Rest Hotel is located at a what?
A: A water stop along the isolated branch line of the C. & F.W. Railroad.
Where does the railroad run?
A: It runs between the rural farm community of Hooterville and the small
town of Pixley.