This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The greatest movie ever made..!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Amazing that no-one called the producers for this obvious sexual come on. I was six when the first advertisements for the show were shown and I immediately recognized the bait and switch. Everything about the show was suggestively sexual and it never delivered. In the opening we have three gorgeous girls swimming nude in a water tower. The water tower is used to service a 100-year-old steam locomotive. Why, in heaven's name would any intelligent woman get into a 100-year-old filthy, unfiltered water tower? And why be (apparently) nude with your sisters? Why because the producers are telling you this is a sexy show. The theme song invites you to ride the train that goes along the tracks to the junction. Petticoat Junction! The question I have is why would anyone want to do that? The Shady Rest is a run-down hotel in the middle of the sticks. Do you have to ride a train to get there? Isn't there a modern hotel off the interstate? Obviously, the hotel has no pool. Why else would the girls get in that rancid water tower. Maybe they had to bathe in the tower, because this hotel has no plumbing. Ewww. Then there is the hotel name. It's the Shady Rest. Shady as in "suspicious, suspect, questionable, disreputable, dishonest, illegal, dishonorable, unscrupulous or unethical." Oh sure, throw in the word "Rest" so the owners can claim innocence, but really would you board a 100-year-old train to go to a run-down dump hotel, that offers the opportunity to get out of direct sunlight? Then there are the other cast members. Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benadaret, Smiley Burnette and Rufe Davis. Benadaret was a classic whore house madam. She was there to collect the cash and keep the girls in line. The other old men would be chosen because they were no longer a threat to the girls and would not corrupt the "merchandise". They were sort of octogenarian Eunuchs. Even though I was six I saw through this bait and switch. The show itself was as asexual as possible. The plots were always about the has-been old comedians. After the suggestive opening, he girls were no where to be seen. This was in the age of strict censorship. Barbara Eden couldn't even show her navel in her Jeanie costume. If you were lured in to see an adult sexy program, you were taken for a ride on a 100 year-old train. As a comedy, the shows weren't funny. It was as bland as any show has ever been. I think people tuned in to see something happen. It never did.

I liked Petticoat better than the other two shows that came from the same people. I was told as a child I liked Green Acres. After having seen it as an adult, more like having been forced to sit through it, I can safely say I definitely like Petticoat Junction better of the three. What's to say about it. It was a TV show about a widow, Kate, who was going through the empty nest syndrome, unfortunately, she never really got to the empty part. Not that she didn't push.Because of the show I wanted to learn how to fly a plane as a child. Thinking of my driving record I think the world can heave a huge sigh of relief that I never did. I also like to watch Beverly Hillbillies sometimes, but not often.

.......Very enjoyable. I picked up the DVD set of the 20 episode first season-63-64, all black and white. Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres had Nothing over this, it was quieter than either and seemed to have more of a center. Bea Bernadette there was a Fine actress who I don't think I saw in many other things. As always Edgar Buchanon was reliable along w/ Frank Cady and Smiley Burnett.I think of this show sort of like the Virginian from the same era--they were popular, long-running, not badly made, people remember them--but they just have dropped from the landscape. And that is sad. It looks like they changed some things in '65, when they went to color, two of the sisters for example. I've not seen any of the later episodes so I can't speak to the hippie era stuff when Bea Bernadette there was dying from cancer.*** at least. Check out the DVD set, it's a fine show.

I think that Petticoat Junction was one of the finest shows of all times! It was a show that you could watch and just enjoy! I do hope that it will soon be recognized as one of the Great Classic Shows of all time! Some may think of it as "corny" but that was part of the charm of the show. It was good wholesome entertainment and is still remembered fondly by so many. I hope to see it aired again so that a new generation can see it and enjoy it as much as those of us who grew up with it!! Although several actors/actresses have left us, there are still several that are still with us today and they are the most gracious and wonderful people!! The ones that have left us, are still dear to us and alive in our Hearts!