Petticoat Junction
Last Chance Farm
Season 1, Episode 20 · Aired 1964-02-04
Synopsis
Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude Hawley, who are lost and looking for Madame Bovary's Hideaway Reducing Farm. He convinces them that the Shady Rest is the most exclusive reducing farm and charges them $200 for a week. The catch is that Uncle Joe provides them with a money back guarantee. Uncle Joe tries to hide from Kate why the women are staying at the hotel. With a rigged scale, Joe has to convince the two that the secret to weight loss is to eat whatever they want as long as it is combined with turnip greens. He also has them do what would normally be considered all his chores. Ultimately, the two women do whatever they can to find what they believe is Kate's miracle weight loss and youth secret.
In the series
This episode is part of Petticoat Junction (1963–1970) on CBS.
Shady Rest Hotel, three daughters, and the Cannonball train — rural comedy's cozy hub.
Key cast
- Bea Benaderet as Kate Bradley
- Edgar Buchanan as Uncle Joe Carson
- Linda Kaye Henning as Betty Jo Bradley
- Gunilla Hutton as Billie Jo Bradley