Petticoat Junction - The Official First Season
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Actor: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Frank Cady, Linda Henning, Lori SaundersBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Ron McManus
Producer: Al Simon
Writer: Paul Henning
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Original Language), Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 974 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
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DVD Review: "It's run by Kate, come and be her guest"
Summary: 5 Stars
Bea Benaderet can do anything, from co-starring with Gracie Allen to voicing Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. But she's never been better than here, as Kate, proprietess of the Shady Rest, and a woman for all seasons. My title, of course, comes from the instantly likable theme song, perfectly matched to the steaming train, and restored in this official first season release. It's impossible to imagine how great a show CBS once had, and moreso to realize this was the first of the Paul Henning trilogy that would include The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies: Two Season Pack and Green Acres Green Acres - The Complete First Season (1965-66). When has TV writing ever been this good?
Here are all 38 episodes on five one-sided discs, somehow all in a standard sized snap case. But don't despair, they are cleverly and safely packaged. Open the case and the inside cover has blurbs for each show. You have to take out the fifth disc to read those bits, but the other discs are on hinged panels. Finally some studio suit realized that classic TV fans are willing to pay a bit more for a quality product, which this is. Of course, it would help if it had extras.
And it does! These include video intros and interviews with Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo (Pat Woodell and Linda Kaye Henning, respectively); original sponsor shorts; a photo gallery; and a 1990 interview with Paul Henning. Everyone knows classic TV fans like to pass their DVDs (and even VHS tapes) around to their family and friends. Who needs Netflix when you can pass around these DVDs? All aboard for great TV viewing. Petticoat Junction: The Official Second Season.
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/16/2008 Run time: 974 minutes Rating: NrSongwriter 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 that?s 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 Hooterville?s 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). Kate?s 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 life?s 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 it?s 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 Bedloe?s 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
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