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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Petticoat Junction' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Petticoat Junction':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)





September 27, 1969: Make Room For Baby
Season 7, episode 1
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Guy Scarpitta

With J. Pat O'Malley (Hobo). The Shady Rest dog, accustomed to the run of the place, discovers he's got compettion from a baby when Betty Jo and Steve Elliott move back from their honeymoon cottage.

October 4, 1969: The Game Warden
Season 7, episode 2
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Charles Seel (Judge Clayton). When the game warden issues a citation to Uncle Joe for catching too many fish, he tries to secure some help in getting out of the fine.

October 11, 1969: The Other Woman
Season 7, episode 3
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Alice Nunn (Mrs. Birdwell), Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney), Bill McLean (Mr. Birdwell), Marvin Kaplan (Stanley), Herbie Faye (Oliver). Just about the time Betty Jo and Steve are beginning to enjoy their overnight stay in the honeymoon cottage, along comes real estate agent Haney with prospective buyers.

October 18, 1969: One Of Our Chickens Is Missing
Season 7, episode 4
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Jack Bannon (Buck), Harry Dean Stanton (Ringo). Game warden Orrin Pike has his hands full with a pair of motorcyclists, suspected of poaching in the Hooterville area.

October 25, 1969: The Three Queens
Season 7, episode 5
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Harold Peary (Jack King), Virginia Sale (Myra King). Used car dealer Jack King decides to hold a beauty contest to help his sales and in the process names Betty Jo, Billie Jo and Dr. Janet Craig as candidates for the crown.

November 8, 1969: The Tenant
Season 7, episode 7
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Leslie Parrish (Jackie), Frank Aletter (Arthur Lewis). Betty Joe and her two sisters create a musical disturbance that drives Steve's casual acquaintance out of the Shady Rest Hotel and into the Elliott homeymoon cottage.

November 15, 1969: Sorry Doctor, I Ain't Taking No Shots
Season 7, episode 8
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Kay E. Kuter (Newt Kiley), Jay Ripley (Claude Tweedy), Peter Whitney (Jasper Tweedy). All goes smoothly when Dr. Craig and her assistants set out to administer flu shots in the valley -- until they run into the Tweedy family.

November 22, 1969: A Most Momentous Occasion
Season 7, episode 9
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney). Betty Jo and Steve decide to move out of the Shady Rest Hotel because, among other things, the plumbing facilities are inadequate.

November 29, 1969: The Camping Trip
Season 7, episode 10
W: Dick Conway, Charles Stewart   D: Elliott Lewis
Billie Jo invites her new boyfriend, game warden Orrin Pike, to go along on the family's camping trip, hoping he'll get a chance to change Uncle Joe's unfavorable opinion of him.

December 6, 1969: Kathy Jo's First Birthday (1)
Season 7, episode 11
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Karl Lucas (Charlie Hanks), John Cliff (Sheriff Daly), Alice Nunn (Lady with wallet), Herbie Faye (Jack Stewart), Natalie Core (Woman with baby), Buck Buchanan (Vendor), Bill McLean (Elbert Quimby). Kathy Jo's first birthday is celebrated by a most unlikely trio -- a chimp with crooked tendencies, a one-year-old baby girl and Uncle Joe.

December 13, 1969: Goodbye, Mr. Chimp (2)
Season 7, episode 12
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Herb Vigran (Al). The chimp that Uncle Joe bought for Kathy Jo's birthday begins to cause havoc at the Shady Rest Hotel and all hands agree that the chimp has got to go.

January 3, 1970: How To Arrange A Marriage
Season 7, episode 15
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Greg Mullavey (Jerry Roberts). Billie Jo brings home her newest boyfriend for the family's approval -- plus a little help in "landing" him.

January 10, 1970: Selma Plout's Plot
Season 7, episode 16
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Elvia Allman (Selma Plout), Lynette Winter (Henrietta Plout), Jack Sheldon (Ronnie Coleman). The girls take over when Selma Plout imports a rival pilot. They bury the guy with charm as part of a plot to protect Joe and Steve's crop-dusting business.

January 17, 1970: With This Ring. . .
Season 7, episode 17
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo Elliott), Jean Corbett (Lydia), Merlin Olsen (Merlin Fergus). A huge mountain boy becomes the next suitor for Bobbie Jo's hand.

January 24, 1970: The Valley's New Owner
Season 7, episode 18
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With William Mims (Mayor Potts). Uncle Joe kicks Orrin Pike out of the hotel for keeping Bobbie Jo out too late, then he's horrified to learn that an old deed has been uncovered naming Orrin owner of all Hooterville.

January 31, 1970: Steve's Uncle George
Season 7, episode 19
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Don Ameche (Uncle George), Rufe Davis (Floyd Smoot). Uncle George arrives in Hooterville for a visit and to spread a few pleasantries, but as it so often happens, when he leaves everybody gets into an argumentative mood.

February 7, 1970: Susan B. Anthony, I Love You
Season 7, episode 20
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Walter Baldwin (Grandpappy Miller), Frank Ferguson (Barber), Jean Corbett (Cashier), Paul Todd (Jerry). Bille Jo returns from Chicago with a visionary zeal for the women's liberation movement, and enlists her sisters in the cause.

February 14, 1970: Spare That Cottage
Season 7, episode 21
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo Elliott), Robert Rockwell (Norbert Thompson), Stu Wilson (Ben Miller). Uncle Joe heads for the state capitol to straighten out matters when he learns they want to demolish Steve and Betty Jo's cottage to make room for a new highway.

February 28, 1970: Whiplash, Whiplash
Season 7, episode 22
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Elvia Allman (Selma Plout), Lynette Winter (Henrietta Plout), Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo Elliott), Buddy Lester (Timothy T. Temkin). Selma Plout takes a tumble out of a worn-out hammock at the Shady Rest Hotel and immediately screams "whiplash!" and calls for an attorney.

March 7, 1970: Last Train To Pixley
Season 7, episode 23
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Sarah Selby (Mrs. Frisby), Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo), Parley Baer (Mr. Bellingham), Bob Jellison (Ben Miller), Percy Helton (Mr. Benton), Rufe Davis (Floyd Smoot), June Lockhart Jr. (Girl). Right after Uncle Joe takes over the Hooterville Cannonball and puts the train on a split-second schedule, he learns a railway executive is planning on junking the run and writing the whole operation off as a tax loss.

March 21, 1970: Love Rears Its Ugly Head
Season 7, episode 24
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Roy Roberts (Game Warden Hughes). Billie Jo instructs her sisters in "sensitivity awareness."

March 28, 1970: No, No, You Can't Take Her Away
Season 7, episode 25
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Elna Hubbell (Kathy Jo), Keith Andes (Dr. Peter Marlow). The town is shook by news that the handsome and wealthy Dr. Peter Marlow is coming to visit their Dr. Janet Craig.

April 4, 1970: Betty Jo's Business
Season 7, episode 26
W: Charles Stewart, Dick Conway   D: Elliott Lewis

With Peggy Russell (Mrs. Frisby), Nora Denney (Mrs. Graham), Nancy Marlow (Mrs. Hughes). Things get a little slow for Steve and his crop-dusting business, so Betty Jo decides to bring in some money herself by doing baby-sitting at the Shady Rest. (Last show of the series.)


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