I'm glad they've released the first few season on DVD. I found the Official First Season at Big Lots on Black Friday, for only $6.00! It would've been $20.00 or $30.00 anywhere else!
Pat Woodell, the first Bobbie Jo, must have had a good dialect coach. She must have worked hard at sounding like country girl. If any of you have the DVD's, and hear how she REALLY sounds, you know that in reality, Pat speaks with a heavy northern BOSTON(that's where she's from) accent! That's Jeannine Riley doing the Filmways announcement. Linda Kaye took over that duty when the show went to color. A male announcer was heard in the first ten shows, probably Curt Massey; the theme performer.
Billie-Jo was played by three different actresses Jeannine Riley (1963-1965) Gunilla Hutton (1965-1966) Meredith MacRae (1966-1970) Bobbie-Jo was portrayed by two actresses .Pat Woodell (1963-1965) Lori Saunders (1965-1970) Actress Linda Kaye Henning played Betty-Jo for the entire seven year run of the series.
@shaithis80 That's nice, That means you don't have to record it or get up at 4:30 AM to watch it. Have you noticed how much smarter Bobbie Jo is on the earlier episodes.
@Sheri451 I'm actually just getting into the series at the moment. What has kind of hooked me in is seeing Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert from Green Acres. Makes for some interesting episodes and something new for me to watch. I don't keep up as much with modern day programming and some of the old shows are new to me. Love the early TV heritage.
@Sheri451 and that is correct I don't have to get up at 4:30AM. Only exception to getting up early is to watch Patty Duke and Mister Ed if I want a fix but normally sleep right through the early AM.
@shaithis80 We have THIS Network too. I love watching The Outer Limits. It's really so rediculous with the funny looking monsters and plots on the episodes. The Twilight Zone was a far better program In My Opinion But still I like watching The Outer Limits.
@Sheri451 I liked the Rod Serling intros from the Twilight Zone series. I've seen a few Outer Limit episodes as well. The creativity was very good and the shows very effective back then. I think it was just the calibre of talent which really made both series effective from a shocking/emotional standpoint. That and both series being shot in black and white just seemed to have that old style classic/chilling effect. Quite effective even from kids point of view growing up in the '80s/'90s.
@Sheri451 I just hope these black and white classics are preserved well into the future as that is part of our TV heritage and the thing is, they can marketed again and again to new audiences. It's nice to still see channels dedicated to showing the classics. I rarely get into or keep up with what's on TV nowadays and just find myself getting into older TV shows because I can connect with that.
@Sheri451 shows I wasn't interested in growing up I seem to get more out of as an adult anyway and that is what makes its good. I might not catch every single classic episode out there but it has me watching. It's all in the acting and the talent and we just had really good talent back then. Oh yeah I'm also '70s movie nut as well and do appreciate some ealier 20th century classics like North by Northwest, Mildred Pierce, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. I miss the simpler times.
@shaithis80 I'm 48 years old, and I love all the clasical TV shows from the 1950s through the 1970s,I used to watch TV land more, but the only time I watch it anymore is when Leave It To Beaver comes on. MeTV and Antenna TV have got almost all the programs Tv Land had. My favorite one on now is Family Affair. and Father Knows Best on Antenna TV
The sister show to the legendary 'Green Acres". I personally like ''Green Acres'' way better. Billie Jo, Bettie Jo, and Bobbie Jo, just don't click with me!!!!!
This show sure was CUTE (girls screwable) and yes the theme was also CUTE ! Just a CUTE show unless your am ol' fat girl who objects to young girls doing girl things (yes you maybe can figure it out) and as to the response about BORING - this reviewer probably liked watching CAVE FEVER (season 1 episode 1) the ONE and ONLY !
I met Pat Woodell when I was about 12 years old in Edmonton she was singing at Meadowlark mall and she started singing 'baby face' to me in front of a hundred people I freaked and ran into the Sears store lol...she sher wuz cute to a young kid like me ...
@GreekGuy9999 It was a popular show back in the 60s. I enjoyed it. Vietnam was raging with 300 American deaths weekly and people needed an escape from the bad news.
The only thing cute about this series was the theme song. Uncle Joe was always trying to be a slickster and boy were the women stuck in "traditional" roles.
One has to love youtube! I was just talking to some friends about this series the other day and got to thinking about the opening theme song...and HERE IT IS!
This has to be a pilot, because the blonde and brunette are played by different actresses for the run of the series. Every other acter/actress, including the red head, were in the entire series, except for the engineer, he died about 3/5 of the way into the series - I remember when that happened, and they didn't sugar coat it in the series, the character died too.
@ryoushii Sorry, but you're incorrect. The three actresses pictured here are the original "sisters". The only sister to remain throughout the entire run of the show was Linda Henning who played Betty Jo. Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo #1) and Pat Woodell (Bobbi Jo #1) were there from 1963-65. They were replaced by Lori Saunders (Bobbie Jo #2, who stayed through the series end) and Gunilla Hutton (Billie Jo #2, 1965-1966) and finally Meredith MacRae (Billie Jo #3, 1966-1970).
@ryoushii More than just the pilot: the blonde (Billie Jo) and brunette (Bobbie Jo) were played by different actresses during the black-and-white seasons than in the color episodes. In fact, the role of Billie Jo was played by *three* different actresses over the course of the series.
@primogennaio Yeah because most viewers had moved on from lame scripts and childish foolishness. People wanted to see The Rookies, The Mod Squad and Mission Impossible. Popular culture is always reflective of the sociopolitics of the era.
@primogennaio I read that the sponsors insisted CBS come up with more contemporary shows. It was called the Rural Purge. So out with "Green Acres" and in with "All In The Family".
@CokeCookies1 That's what brought me to this video today. I had been saying to my wife and daughter for days that the "pumped up kicks" song sounded like a sample of the Petticoat Junction theme. I'm glad to see it's not just me.
@annut123 No, that's the water tank (jug) for the locomotive. There is at least one scene where one of the girls complains that after the water tank in the tender for the "Hooterville Cannonball" has been refilled, they won't be able to go swimming until the windmill-driven water pump refills the tank.
Charles Lane who played the heavy Mr. Bedlow who was always going to shut the railroad down. Only died last year. I think he was over 100 and the oldest living member of SAG when he died.
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
When I was a kid in the 1960's it never dawned on me that these girls were skinny-dippin' in the water tank and the town's name was "HOOTERVILLE" I must of been a dumb kid.
@mojavegreen17 Someone asked me about the similarities last week. I see a resemblance but not enough that someone would even consider suing. They are obviously two very different songs.
METV(Memorable Entertainment Television) is now showing season 3 of Petticoat Junction, and I would have to say, season 3 is my personal favorite season of all. This was the first season in color.
This is when the series was at it's all time wacky and slapstick, and sometimes even absurd. There's also a lot of interplay with the cast of Green Acres in the first few, and it's the one year that Gunilla Hutton was on as Billie Jo, who also played her as a dumb blonde the same way Jeannine had...
@1beamer11 Originally written by Paul Henning and Curt Massey. The version in the video above is sung by Curt Massey. Flatt and Scruggs had a version along with others.
@nutsaboutclara Yes they did. In fact, I have both of the first two seasons of that show and have Pat Woodell and Linda Henning talking about the episodes. They still look hot too. I'd nail them.
@garywayne1966 Part 2... A year later, as we all know Meredith MacRae would take over the role, and change the character entirely; no longer a boy crazy dumb blonde as before, but now a strong single independent young woman with a singing career. The tone of the series would change drastically from season 4 onward; Slapstick comedy would take a back seat to more singing and musical numbers; whereas in previous seasons it was the other way around
Ugh - Kate was using water that the girls bathed in? On the other hand, there are many people around today who wouldn't mind drinking bathwater used by hot girls.
@montyite That's prolly where they went to take a bath or swim on a hot day. Those tanks were very common along railroad tracks to refill the steam engines that needed water to make steam. I remember an old decrepit one around here. People swimming in them was kind of common.
@montyite If you pause the vid at :19 a "water chute" is visible on the right hand side of the tank. It's a pipe like thing with a hole in the end. There was a rope attached to it, and the engineer would pull the rope and the pipe would swing down with the hole right over the top of the hole in the top of the engine boiler allowing water to flow in. I'm sure people drank water out of those tanks, I'm equally sure people did other things in those tanks as well.
@tubeyouuser Oh geez! I guess he hasn't been movin' for quite a while. I wonder if they buried him in that silly hat and sweater he use to wear on the show.
1:37 YouTube video: Opening and closing titles of television show Petticoat Junction; at 0:40 is "And that's Uncle Joe [Edgar Buchanan]; he's a movin' kinda slow..."
March 20, 1903: birth of Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979); most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
1:37 YouTube video: Petticoat Junction, opening and closing titles; at 1:01 is credit for Smiley Burnette.
March 18, 1911: birth of Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967); in the 1960s, he portrayed railway engineer Charley Pratt on the CBS-TV programs Petticoat Junction (106 episodes) and Green Acres (7 episodes).
nice little bluesy folksey # . i was a tot when this was on t v. i always like to see,if people who are on a given show, are on the rise in their career, and, become famous latter on,or, already established, and moving along, or going downward in acting jobs.
I use to watch this with my Grandparents on an old B&W TV! They both passed away in the 1990s, but this was their favorite TV show by far. They didn't watch much TV, they didn't believe in it, but they LOVED this show. Whenever I hear the Petticoat Junction theme song I am instantly reminded of them. In fact, Joe and Kate remind me of my grandparents. They had the same mannerisms. I bought the first season on DVD last year, 38 episodes on 5 discs. I watched it during Christmas, I cried!!!
@Krismann First, there's is an actual rural town in California for which this show based the name. Second, the Hooters reference was created DUE to this show, not the other way around, starting with jokes about Hooterville which segued into Hooters. The jokes actually came after the show went off the air and in syndication.
I agree 100%. I was also very small at that time, as I was born in 1963. My parents usually watched tv after the farm work was done (in then rural Harford County Maryland) Since I am an only child, I watched what they did. I am glad of it too. Looking back, it's easy to see that our country, for the most part, was so much better than it is now.
I agree 100%. I was also very small at that time, as I was born in 1963. My parents usually watched tv after the farm work was done (in then rural Harford County Maryland) Since I am an only child, I watched what they did. I am glad of it too. Looking back, it's easy to see that our country, for the most part, was so much better than it is now.
Bea Benaderet was Lucille Ball's first choice to play Ethel Mertz on I love Lucy but Benaderet was already committed to the Burns and Allen show at the time. She portrayed Lucille Ball's best friend on Lucy's radio hit My Favorite Husband so the 2 were already close friends. When Benaderet declined the Ethel Mertz role, they picked a totally unknown theater actress named Vivian Vance...and the rest is history. Can't imagine Ethel as anyone else other than Vivian Vance though.
I can't believe some newspaper in Chicago said this was the worst show of all time. Was it hokey? Yeah, but so was life back then, and this show wouldn't have run for so many years if it had sucked that bad. I remember my dad liked Uncle Joe who was movin' kinda slow.
@squeapler you put your right hand in, you put your right hand out....you put your HOLE self in....then you shake it all about. Remember shake and bake? And Shakey's, the sing along to Mitch Miller songs/pizza/spaghetti place?
@etbella3 my folks only took me to Shakeys like, once because it was too far away or went out of business or something. I liked that it had big glass windows where you could watch underpaid college guys in vests and straw hats tossing the pizza dough. Shake n' Bake, I still eat that a couple times a year with applesauce, it's gooood.
The Beverly Hillbillies never visited Petticoat Junction while Bea Benaderet was on the show. Those crossovers only started after Bea's death, in order to prop up the faltering PJ.
Jeannine Riley was one of the original Hee Haw Honeys, along with fellow Petticoat Junction girl Gunilla Hutton. I always found it strange that when the Beverly Hillbillies visited Hooterville and saw Bea Benaderet that Jed never called her "Pearl" by mistake (she was Jethro's Mom Pearl on that show). And for those who have forgotten, Bea was also the original voice of Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. When she got on Beverly Hillbillies she was replaced as Betty by Gerry Johnson.
I was just up next to where they filmed all the "Rail Scenes" yesterday. All along Hwy. 108 Tuolumne County. Jamestown and Sonora California.............. Ever since I was really little, I always appreciated the fact every time I saw that old steamer coming down the Sierra Railroad Line along Hwy 108 in the ending and begining credits. that was my mountains!!
Yeah lycanthrope, I still like the Cannonball express as well. In fact, Tyco made a replica of it in HO scale at the time, but it is a very high dollar collectable if you should find one. I've seen one go for $3000.00 on Evil Bay recently. It was mint in the box to boot.
I like that the end included the Filmways Presentation announcement. I haven't seen this in decades. I wonder if someone can post a test pattern for old times sake.
@filthyunderpants Even though it may sound a little bit like Kate(Bea Benaderet)that's actually Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo #1) who says the announcement here. When the show went to color is season 3(my favorite season as stated before) Linda Kaye Henning(Betty Jo) took over as the Filmways announcer.
@1clarinet1981 Bud I know where there is a place similar to the junction. I was there a couple of days ago, it's called Cass in West Virginia. They have an antique train that runs 3 times a day. We sat on the porch of the company store and talked to some railroad guy for several hours. There are some great vids of the place on YouTube. Type in "Cass Scenic Railway". Cheers!!
Arnett1ABC, I could't agree more! As much as I love the Andy Griffith Show, it seems that is all TV land plays for hours on end.and as I write this they are showing Boston Legal...BOSTON LEGAL! I thought TV Land was created to show all the show that Nick at Nite dumped so they could play more contemporary fare. Now there is not outlet for shows like Petticoat Junction, and the other shows you mentioned. Thanks goodness for Youtube!
It would be nice if T.V. Land would air some of the classic shows such as: Petticoat Junction, Dennis the menace, That girl, My favorite martian, Green Acres, and so on. The classic shows I grew up on seems to have been forgotton about. I wonder will T.V. Land or some other network will air many of the classic T.V. shows that were once on?
My mother-in-law recieved a Petticoat Junction DVD for Christmas. We sat down to watch some of the shows, and they do not include any of the original music including these opens and closes.
I was a little squirt when this show was first on TV. I liked it because of the train. When I got older, I liked it because of the girls in that show.
thumbs up if Jamestown brought you here!
notnerdiforthgrade 5 days ago
How about the later opening sequence with Benji?
TammiWayKewl 1 week ago
I'm glad they've released the first few season on DVD. I found the Official First Season at Big Lots on Black Friday, for only $6.00! It would've been $20.00 or $30.00 anywhere else!
travis7310 2 weeks ago
Loved this back in the day...good memories.
1atheist2 1 month ago
Actually Pat's from Winthrop Mass. But nonetheless she sounds very different from her character.
cmulwee001 1 month ago
Pat Woodell, the first Bobbie Jo, must have had a good dialect coach. She must have worked hard at sounding like country girl. If any of you have the DVD's, and hear how she REALLY sounds, you know that in reality, Pat speaks with a heavy northern BOSTON(that's where she's from) accent! That's Jeannine Riley doing the Filmways announcement. Linda Kaye took over that duty when the show went to color. A male announcer was heard in the first ten shows, probably Curt Massey; the theme performer.
cmulwee001 1 month ago
love how uncle Joe looks turned on by Kate's suspender snapping.
steelboned 1 month ago
Bobbie Jo put the "hooters" in Hootersville.
steelboned 1 month ago
I haven't seen this in ages...thanks for posting, it brings back plenty of pleasant memories! This is when we had real TV!
zasco1957 1 month ago
Billie-Jo was played by three different actresses Jeannine Riley (1963-1965) Gunilla Hutton (1965-1966) Meredith MacRae (1966-1970) Bobbie-Jo was portrayed by two actresses .Pat Woodell (1963-1965) Lori Saunders (1965-1970) Actress Linda Kaye Henning played Betty-Jo for the entire seven year run of the series.
TheTheo58 1 month ago
I used to love this show, but i haven't seen reruns of it in years!
nicolevsreason 1 month ago
@nicolevsreason Do you have MeTV network? If you do, they air it at 7:30AM eastern.They only show the color episodes from 1965 until 1970.
Sheri451 1 month ago
@Sheri451 I like how they integreted Green Acres into Petticoat Junction. Also it airs 7:30AM pacfic time as well.
shaithis80 1 month ago
@shaithis80 That's nice, That means you don't have to record it or get up at 4:30 AM to watch it. Have you noticed how much smarter Bobbie Jo is on the earlier episodes.
Sheri451 1 month ago
@Sheri451 I'm actually just getting into the series at the moment. What has kind of hooked me in is seeing Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert from Green Acres. Makes for some interesting episodes and something new for me to watch. I don't keep up as much with modern day programming and some of the old shows are new to me. Love the early TV heritage.
shaithis80 1 month ago
@Sheri451 and that is correct I don't have to get up at 4:30AM. Only exception to getting up early is to watch Patty Duke and Mister Ed if I want a fix but normally sleep right through the early AM.
shaithis80 1 month ago
@shaithis80 We have THIS Network too. I love watching The Outer Limits. It's really so rediculous with the funny looking monsters and plots on the episodes. The Twilight Zone was a far better program In My Opinion But still I like watching The Outer Limits.
Sheri451 4 weeks ago
@Sheri451 I liked the Rod Serling intros from the Twilight Zone series. I've seen a few Outer Limit episodes as well. The creativity was very good and the shows very effective back then. I think it was just the calibre of talent which really made both series effective from a shocking/emotional standpoint. That and both series being shot in black and white just seemed to have that old style classic/chilling effect. Quite effective even from kids point of view growing up in the '80s/'90s.
shaithis80 4 weeks ago
@Sheri451 I just hope these black and white classics are preserved well into the future as that is part of our TV heritage and the thing is, they can marketed again and again to new audiences. It's nice to still see channels dedicated to showing the classics. I rarely get into or keep up with what's on TV nowadays and just find myself getting into older TV shows because I can connect with that.
shaithis80 4 weeks ago
@Sheri451 shows I wasn't interested in growing up I seem to get more out of as an adult anyway and that is what makes its good. I might not catch every single classic episode out there but it has me watching. It's all in the acting and the talent and we just had really good talent back then. Oh yeah I'm also '70s movie nut as well and do appreciate some ealier 20th century classics like North by Northwest, Mildred Pierce, and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. I miss the simpler times.
shaithis80 4 weeks ago
@shaithis80 I'm 48 years old, and I love all the clasical TV shows from the 1950s through the 1970s,I used to watch TV land more, but the only time I watch it anymore is when Leave It To Beaver comes on. MeTV and Antenna TV have got almost all the programs Tv Land had. My favorite one on now is Family Affair. and Father Knows Best on Antenna TV
Sheri451 4 weeks ago
The sister show to the legendary 'Green Acres". I personally like ''Green Acres'' way better. Billie Jo, Bettie Jo, and Bobbie Jo, just don't click with me!!!!!
1967mansfield 2 months ago
I always liked the theme song!
yocuzz100 2 months ago
@yocuzz100 me2
muse4life61 1 month ago
when tv was tv
NewOrleansRipGut 2 months ago
I would definitely drink the water.
ACERAMGAD 2 months ago
Gee-zus! How many times did they recast the daughters on this show??
RichYan33 2 months ago
This show sure was CUTE (girls screwable) and yes the theme was also CUTE ! Just a CUTE show unless your am ol' fat girl who objects to young girls doing girl things (yes you maybe can figure it out) and as to the response about BORING - this reviewer probably liked watching CAVE FEVER (season 1 episode 1) the ONE and ONLY !
Jashuh1 2 months ago
I always wondered why the water tasted fishy at the junction..........Whooo...Whooooo!
diefIater 2 months ago 2
@diefIater lol:-)))
ACERAMGAD 2 months ago
I met Pat Woodell when I was about 12 years old in Edmonton she was singing at Meadowlark mall and she started singing 'baby face' to me in front of a hundred people I freaked and ran into the Sears store lol...she sher wuz cute to a young kid like me ...
donorgreeter 2 months ago
I want that engine!
bowecho 2 months ago
This looks like a VERY boring show.
GreekGuy9999 2 months ago
@GreekGuy9999 It was a popular show back in the 60s. I enjoyed it. Vietnam was raging with 300 American deaths weekly and people needed an escape from the bad news.
VanWADebbie 2 months ago
Gr8 show and lots of gr8 memories too!!!
carlmed60 3 months ago
"It is run by Kate, cum and masturbate at the Junction...
And that's Uncle Joe...he's a big fat 'MO...at the Junction."
At least, those were the lyrics this here gay boy made up back then...
nycruise 3 months ago
The only thing cute about this series was the theme song. Uncle Joe was always trying to be a slickster and boy were the women stuck in "traditional" roles.
kariebeez 3 months ago
One has to love youtube! I was just talking to some friends about this series the other day and got to thinking about the opening theme song...and HERE IT IS!
bajaman123X 3 months ago
This has to be a pilot, because the blonde and brunette are played by different actresses for the run of the series. Every other acter/actress, including the red head, were in the entire series, except for the engineer, he died about 3/5 of the way into the series - I remember when that happened, and they didn't sugar coat it in the series, the character died too.
ryoushii 3 months ago
@ryoushii Sorry, but you're incorrect. The three actresses pictured here are the original "sisters". The only sister to remain throughout the entire run of the show was Linda Henning who played Betty Jo. Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo #1) and Pat Woodell (Bobbi Jo #1) were there from 1963-65. They were replaced by Lori Saunders (Bobbie Jo #2, who stayed through the series end) and Gunilla Hutton (Billie Jo #2, 1965-1966) and finally Meredith MacRae (Billie Jo #3, 1966-1970).
tubeyouuser 3 months ago
@ryoushii More than just the pilot: the blonde (Billie Jo) and brunette (Bobbie Jo) were played by different actresses during the black-and-white seasons than in the color episodes. In fact, the role of Billie Jo was played by *three* different actresses over the course of the series.
kbirdus 3 months ago
@ryoushii Charley the engineer was originally Gene Autry's sidekick "Frog"
in several westerns. Smiley Burnette came down with Leukemia and died
quickly, and it made a difference because for most boys the "Cannonball"
was actually the star of the show. One of the sweetest of the episodes is
called "Cannonball Christmas". The Hooterville folks decorate the train
with lights then chug through the valley singing Christmas carols on
Christmas Eve. If you've ever seen it you never forget it!
GooglFascists 3 months ago
CBS took the show off the air in 1970 along with "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Green Acres" claiming they didn't have "urban appeal".
primogennaio 4 months ago
@primogennaio Yeah because most viewers had moved on from lame scripts and childish foolishness. People wanted to see The Rookies, The Mod Squad and Mission Impossible. Popular culture is always reflective of the sociopolitics of the era.
kariebeez 3 months ago
@primogennaio I read that the sponsors insisted CBS come up with more contemporary shows. It was called the Rural Purge. So out with "Green Acres" and in with "All In The Family".
bedroombody1 2 months ago
swejehtkcuf & neworleans39 what a shame at your age to be so stupid!
mrleo2 4 months ago
Sharon Tate appeared as a secretary on the "Beverly Hillbillies."
waynestanleyify 4 months ago
Wasn't Sharon Tate on this show?
zazozung 4 months ago
what about pixly, you know for your info Bea Benderet was the original Betty Rubble on the Flintstones cartoon!
johnny0g 4 months ago
does this somewhat sound like pumped up kicks to anyone else?
CokeCookies1 4 months ago 2
@CokeCookies1 That's what brought me to this video today. I had been saying to my wife and daughter for days that the "pumped up kicks" song sounded like a sample of the Petticoat Junction theme. I'm glad to see it's not just me.
leadguy001 4 months ago
@CokeCookies1 yes exactly......i was listening to pumped up kicks right now and my mom told me to look this up
SuperCameraguy1 2 months ago
Gross. They're taking a bath in the town's drinking water!
annut123 4 months ago
@annut123 No, that's the water tank (jug) for the locomotive. There is at least one scene where one of the girls complains that after the water tank in the tender for the "Hooterville Cannonball" has been refilled, they won't be able to go swimming until the windmill-driven water pump refills the tank.
Mikey300 4 months ago
@Mikey300 The thing that confuses me, is the Cannon Ball's tender car is filled with wood, but the thick black smoke looks like a coal burning train.
Martywt43 2 months ago 2
@Martywt43 lmao! AWESOME VID! :)
hevy99 2 months ago
I'd rather watch PETTICOAT JUNCTION any day of the week compared to the junk on now.
Buffalobigboy69 4 months ago
@neworleans39. That took a lot of courage to say that online. What a coward!
bedroombody1 4 months ago
no niggers thank god almighty
neworleans39 4 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@neworleans39 You know better than that.
Juliaflo 4 months ago
what a shitty show
ThatGuyTooHigh 4 months ago
Did he sing 'forget about your kid'? What's so great about this .. junction!!
Tyskie01 4 months ago
Charles Lane who played the heavy Mr. Bedlow who was always going to shut the railroad down. Only died last year. I think he was over 100 and the oldest living member of SAG when he died.
Boots2140 5 months ago
I absolutely agree w/all of AmettABC1 choices. That was great tv! Even in b&w!
princessgraification 5 months ago
didnt care for it when i was 2-7yrs old but when it came out in reruns later in 70s bobbijo did it for me
TheWelderman1962 5 months ago
This mus be befor niggers where invented
SWEJEHTKCUF 5 months ago
I thought that they owned a dog that looked like Benji in the series.
Wellch 5 months ago
@Wellch that dog was Benji
emmers57 5 months ago
@Wellch he was the dog that played Benji.
mpm1125 4 months ago
@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
Sheri451 1 month ago
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@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
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@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
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@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
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@Wellch It was Benji in the movie, but his given name was Higgins. He was saved from being killed in a dog pound by Frank Inn. I saw that in a book. I have an episode where "Dog" runs away and when he comes back, Betty Jo says as she picks him up "Oh Higgins!" He didn't come on until season two. He followed Betty Jo home from school.
Sheri451 1 month ago
When I was a kid in the 1960's it never dawned on me that these girls were skinny-dippin' in the water tank and the town's name was "HOOTERVILLE" I must of been a dumb kid.
MrYaesu840 5 months ago
No matter HOW vile, degrading, and downright filthy they make today's TV shows, they'll never be able to touch the wonderful shows of yesteryear.
islamstillsucksallah 5 months ago
One of the best TV intros,love the snare drums then switching over to the hotel.I wish all of the TV shows on the air had great themes like this one
Isotec1 5 months ago
This brings back lots of memories.
chandlerherbert2 5 months ago
Whoever wrote this song should check out "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster The People -there might be some infringement going on.
mojavegreen17 6 months ago
@mojavegreen17 Someone asked me about the similarities last week. I see a resemblance but not enough that someone would even consider suing. They are obviously two very different songs.
thedt 5 months ago
Silly You, GaryWayne1966;
Those are mine exact sentiments,
yeah, the train especially,
until one grew older and learned the women have more 'go' power!
I'm a vintage 1966 listener too!
trains are still terrific!
B/W is just fine - never outdated.
TheWinnowingFan 6 months ago
Uncle Joe was a big weed smoker he was always doing the nod.
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METV(Memorable Entertainment Television) is now showing season 3 of Petticoat Junction, and I would have to say, season 3 is my personal favorite season of all. This was the first season in color.
This is when the series was at it's all time wacky and slapstick, and sometimes even absurd. There's also a lot of interplay with the cast of Green Acres in the first few, and it's the one year that Gunilla Hutton was on as Billie Jo, who also played her as a dumb blonde the same way Jeannine had...
cmulwee001 7 months ago
Love the theme music which you do not hear on many of the TV shows today.
quarqill 7 months ago
These days I feel like Uncle Joe moving kinda slow LMAO
Glambert345 7 months ago
Lots of facts and lore....but I recognized that Smiley
Burnette was Gene Autry's old sidekick.....
ShattyMcPants 7 months ago
And there's Uncle Joe he's a movin' kinda slow at the junction! Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs I believe wrote and sang it.
1beamer11 7 months ago
@1beamer11 Originally written by Paul Henning and Curt Massey. The version in the video above is sung by Curt Massey. Flatt and Scruggs had a version along with others.
kd8bud 7 months ago
And there's Uncle Joe he's a movin' kinda slow at the junction!
1beamer11 7 months ago
Who sang the theme song?
imthedorf1964 7 months ago
@nutsaboutclara Yes they did. In fact, I have both of the first two seasons of that show and have Pat Woodell and Linda Henning talking about the episodes. They still look hot too. I'd nail them.
garywayne1966 7 months ago
@garywayne1966 Part 2... A year later, as we all know Meredith MacRae would take over the role, and change the character entirely; no longer a boy crazy dumb blonde as before, but now a strong single independent young woman with a singing career. The tone of the series would change drastically from season 4 onward; Slapstick comedy would take a back seat to more singing and musical numbers; whereas in previous seasons it was the other way around
cmulwee001 7 months ago
Always wanted to take a dip in that watertower...
rpm371 7 months ago
That background beat is catchy. One of the best theme songs out there.
mullethunter711 8 months ago
Call me crazy but I thought that Aunt Kate was hot..
skinsman3 8 months ago
Ecoli in the town water supply
RFKFANTS67 8 months ago
Ah, those were the good old days, when we could take a massive dump on a roll of film, and anyone would buy it!!!
cobrachoppergirl 8 months ago
Ugh - Kate was using water that the girls bathed in? On the other hand, there are many people around today who wouldn't mind drinking bathwater used by hot girls.
paktype 8 months ago
@paktype Nah - that water tower wasn't a drinking supply. It was used to refill the steam engine on the train.
kbirdusa 8 months ago
I always got a kick at the girls in the water tower. What's up with that?
montyite 8 months ago
@montyite That's prolly where they went to take a bath or swim on a hot day. Those tanks were very common along railroad tracks to refill the steam engines that needed water to make steam. I remember an old decrepit one around here. People swimming in them was kind of common.
clintonearlwalker 8 months ago
@clintonearlwalker
Thanks - didn't know that. Now it makes sense. I thought it was a tank for drinking water for the guests on the train!
montyite 8 months ago
@montyite If you pause the vid at :19 a "water chute" is visible on the right hand side of the tank. It's a pipe like thing with a hole in the end. There was a rope attached to it, and the engineer would pull the rope and the pipe would swing down with the hole right over the top of the hole in the top of the engine boiler allowing water to flow in. I'm sure people drank water out of those tanks, I'm equally sure people did other things in those tanks as well.
clintonearlwalker 8 months ago
Good old Uncle Joe. I wonder if he's still movin kinda slow???
ChowHallCommando 9 months ago
@ChowHallCommando i bet v-e-r-r-y slow by now!! lol
bduhe219 9 months ago
@ChowHallCommando He hasn't moved in over 30 years. Edgar Buchanon the actor who played Uncle Joe died back in 1979
choosing2lookeast 8 months ago
@ChowHallCommando I don't think he's moving at all. He died in 1979.
tubeyouuser 3 months ago
@tubeyouuser Oh geez! I guess he hasn't been movin' for quite a while. I wonder if they buried him in that silly hat and sweater he use to wear on the show.
ChowHallCommando 3 months ago
hahahhahahaahah...i could i forget!!!
samsudinabubakar 9 months ago
i have always loved this show
rebeccaarnold8 9 months ago
i'm doing a pointe dance to this song!
sc1592 9 months ago
I wish I was around when stuff like this was on tv rather than the garbage that's on now.
duke0219 10 months ago
swiming out of where they get the water no wonder it tasted fishy
lovelace64 11 months ago
1:37 YouTube video: Opening and closing titles of television show Petticoat Junction; at 0:40 is "And that's Uncle Joe [Edgar Buchanan]; he's a movin' kinda slow..."
March 20, 1903: birth of Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979); most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
mkworkman 11 months ago
1:37 YouTube video: Petticoat Junction, opening and closing titles; at 1:01 is credit for Smiley Burnette.
March 18, 1911: birth of Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967); in the 1960s, he portrayed railway engineer Charley Pratt on the CBS-TV programs Petticoat Junction (106 episodes) and Green Acres (7 episodes).
mkworkman 11 months ago
I always remember cranky Homer Bedloe trying to stop the Cannonball from running.
MrBallyTechnologies 11 months ago
Lots of curves you bet even MORE when you get to the Junction.
No wonder it was called Hooterville.
jasong19711 1 year ago
nice little bluesy folksey # . i was a tot when this was on t v. i always like to see,if people who are on a given show, are on the rise in their career, and, become famous latter on,or, already established, and moving along, or going downward in acting jobs.
brainsareus 1 year ago
I wondered why the water tasted better at the PETTICOAT JUNCTION. ;)
robfergusonjr 1 year ago 13
Love the snare drum!!
elzbieta52 1 year ago
I use to watch this with my Grandparents on an old B&W TV! They both passed away in the 1990s, but this was their favorite TV show by far. They didn't watch much TV, they didn't believe in it, but they LOVED this show. Whenever I hear the Petticoat Junction theme song I am instantly reminded of them. In fact, Joe and Kate remind me of my grandparents. They had the same mannerisms. I bought the first season on DVD last year, 38 episodes on 5 discs. I watched it during Christmas, I cried!!!
packthepit 1 year ago
@packthepit really cool and touching......thanks
brainsareus 1 year ago
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emmers57 1 year ago
"Does it bother anyone else that these women live in Hooterville ?" haha
Krismann 1 year ago 5
@Krismann First, there's is an actual rural town in California for which this show based the name. Second, the Hooters reference was created DUE to this show, not the other way around, starting with jokes about Hooterville which segued into Hooters. The jokes actually came after the show went off the air and in syndication.
Gnillob802 11 months ago
@Krismann Lots of curves, you bet! And even more when you get to the Junction!
tubeyouuser 3 months ago
whos drunk..iam!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
Of course, you know; THAT'S BETTY RUBBLE. ....Bea benedaret.
imbaaackk 1 year ago
A wood-burning wagon-top boilered 4-4-0 American steam locomotive. Now there's a star performer!
htc6600 1 year ago
I agree 100%. I was also very small at that time, as I was born in 1963. My parents usually watched tv after the farm work was done (in then rural Harford County Maryland) Since I am an only child, I watched what they did. I am glad of it too. Looking back, it's easy to see that our country, for the most part, was so much better than it is now.
The5thGen 1 year ago
I agree 100%. I was also very small at that time, as I was born in 1963. My parents usually watched tv after the farm work was done (in then rural Harford County Maryland) Since I am an only child, I watched what they did. I am glad of it too. Looking back, it's easy to see that our country, for the most part, was so much better than it is now.
The5thGen 1 year ago
Bea Benaderet was Lucille Ball's first choice to play Ethel Mertz on I love Lucy but Benaderet was already committed to the Burns and Allen show at the time. She portrayed Lucille Ball's best friend on Lucy's radio hit My Favorite Husband so the 2 were already close friends. When Benaderet declined the Ethel Mertz role, they picked a totally unknown theater actress named Vivian Vance...and the rest is history. Can't imagine Ethel as anyone else other than Vivian Vance though.
doetim 1 year ago
I can't believe some newspaper in Chicago said this was the worst show of all time. Was it hokey? Yeah, but so was life back then, and this show wouldn't have run for so many years if it had sucked that bad. I remember my dad liked Uncle Joe who was movin' kinda slow.
squeapler 1 year ago
@squeapler Like the hokey pokey.
etbella3 1 year ago
@squeapler you put your right hand in, you put your right hand out....you put your HOLE self in....then you shake it all about. Remember shake and bake? And Shakey's, the sing along to Mitch Miller songs/pizza/spaghetti place?
etbella3 1 year ago
@etbella3 my folks only took me to Shakeys like, once because it was too far away or went out of business or something. I liked that it had big glass windows where you could watch underpaid college guys in vests and straw hats tossing the pizza dough. Shake n' Bake, I still eat that a couple times a year with applesauce, it's gooood.
squeapler 1 year ago
@squeapler They liked thongs, not petticoats. Petty.
etbella3 1 year ago
Ah yes, the Boomer brain, ground into dust by this sh*t.
Dontcha wish we had all the neat stuff kids have now to keep their brains sharp and their hand-eye coordination lightning fast.
prestush 1 year ago
The Beverly Hillbillies never visited Petticoat Junction while Bea Benaderet was on the show. Those crossovers only started after Bea's death, in order to prop up the faltering PJ.
kbirdusa 1 year ago
Add this to the long list of "Shows Black people loved to watch growing up and wont admit it" LMBO!!!
zQween45 1 year ago
Mrs. Baranderet was the Voice of Betty rubble in the Flintstone and Played oppisite Max Baer jr's Mom in Beverly Hillbillies
shoshone69123 1 year ago
I can still remember the words to this ....lol
mylesmj 1 year ago
REMEMBERING THIS WITH THE FONDEST MEMORIES OF MY GRANDPARENTS, RALPH AND CATHERINE WEEDEN.......LOVE ALWAYS......
billyralphweeden 1 year ago
hey...there's Smiley Burnette aka" Frog"
mysticmrsam 1 year ago
Jeannine Riley was one of the original Hee Haw Honeys, along with fellow Petticoat Junction girl Gunilla Hutton. I always found it strange that when the Beverly Hillbillies visited Hooterville and saw Bea Benaderet that Jed never called her "Pearl" by mistake (she was Jethro's Mom Pearl on that show). And for those who have forgotten, Bea was also the original voice of Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. When she got on Beverly Hillbillies she was replaced as Betty by Gerry Johnson.
elc1960 1 year ago
@elc1960 My mistake, that should have been "when she got on Petticoat Junction".
elc1960 1 year ago
Cool video !!!!
lionellance 1 year ago
I was just up next to where they filmed all the "Rail Scenes" yesterday. All along Hwy. 108 Tuolumne County. Jamestown and Sonora California.............. Ever since I was really little, I always appreciated the fact every time I saw that old steamer coming down the Sierra Railroad Line along Hwy 108 in the ending and begining credits. that was my mountains!!
narutofightindreamer 1 year ago
Beautiful memories. Thank you for sharing this video
Cupertino, Ca.
1961
carbon4me 1 year ago
Anyone know what rail line the train sequence was filmed on? 2nd hand info. is it was filmed outside Jamestown, Ca. on the Sierra Railway.
justaworkinstiff 1 year ago
thats so cool...
lisakatplay 1 year ago
Yeah lycanthrope, I still like the Cannonball express as well. In fact, Tyco made a replica of it in HO scale at the time, but it is a very high dollar collectable if you should find one. I've seen one go for $3000.00 on Evil Bay recently. It was mint in the box to boot.
garywayne1966 1 year ago
I like that the end included the Filmways Presentation announcement. I haven't seen this in decades. I wonder if someone can post a test pattern for old times sake.
filthyunderpants 1 year ago
@filthyunderpants Even though it may sound a little bit like Kate(Bea Benaderet)that's actually Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo #1) who says the announcement here. When the show went to color is season 3(my favorite season as stated before) Linda Kaye Henning(Betty Jo) took over as the Filmways announcer.
cmulwee001 7 months ago
tired of living in the city & ready to move to the JUNCTION!
looking for the juction to move my family!
1clarinet1981 1 year ago 2
@1clarinet1981 Bud I know where there is a place similar to the junction. I was there a couple of days ago, it's called Cass in West Virginia. They have an antique train that runs 3 times a day. We sat on the porch of the company store and talked to some railroad guy for several hours. There are some great vids of the place on YouTube. Type in "Cass Scenic Railway". Cheers!!
clintonearlwalker 1 year ago
One of the best TV Theme songs ever, catchy tune that got my attention right away. When the little things are done right success follows.
jim102353 2 years ago 2
Loved the train. Suckered me in to watching this show when I was a kid.
cochranexyz 2 years ago 2
Arnett1ABC, I could't agree more! As much as I love the Andy Griffith Show, it seems that is all TV land plays for hours on end.and as I write this they are showing Boston Legal...BOSTON LEGAL! I thought TV Land was created to show all the show that Nick at Nite dumped so they could play more contemporary fare. Now there is not outlet for shows like Petticoat Junction, and the other shows you mentioned. Thanks goodness for Youtube!
celtkilt 2 years ago
It would be nice if T.V. Land would air some of the classic shows such as: Petticoat Junction, Dennis the menace, That girl, My favorite martian, Green Acres, and so on. The classic shows I grew up on seems to have been forgotton about. I wonder will T.V. Land or some other network will air many of the classic T.V. shows that were once on?
Arnett1ABC 2 years ago 9
@Arnett1ABC they do!! i watch this show all the time...
thexcoreissilent 5 months ago
My mother-in-law recieved a Petticoat Junction DVD for Christmas. We sat down to watch some of the shows, and they do not include any of the original music including these opens and closes.
scason 2 years ago
@scason
There are official season one and two releases of the show available on DVD with the correct music.
greennice 1 year ago
"Puffy" 2248 which is now at Grapevine Railroad was once in this show
gbnnn 2 years ago
I was a little squirt when this show was first on TV. I liked it because of the train. When I got older, I liked it because of the girls in that show.
garywayne1966 2 years ago 34
@garywayne1966 So did I LOL!!! But i still have a place in my heart for the Cannonball Express you dog!!! :)
lycanthrope1962 1 year ago
@garywayne1966 I want to be a famous celebrity.
etbella3 1 year ago
@garywayne1966 Does anyone know what instruments were uses to make the theme song for Petticoat Junction? Just curious.
MarkFFHH 1 year ago
@garywayne1966 Girls and trains. Underpants.
etbella3 1 year ago
In the closing credits I see they had a "Special Effects" guy lol Classic
fraggle2rocks 2 years ago