Petticoat Junction
A Borderline Story
TV Flash files “A Borderline Story” as hour 61 of 222 in the TV Flash guide — Petticoat Junction (1963–1970) on CBS, season 2, episode 23, aired 1965-03-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E23: listed hour 61 of 222 in the Petticoat Junction guide, hour 23 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1965-03-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Visit from the Governor” (S02E22). Next is “The Shady Rest Hotel Corporation” (S02E24).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Uncle Joe sees some surveyors down by the railroad tracks next to the hotel. He mistakenly believes that a new road is going to be built there. Joe thinks the hotel will get a lot more customers. Kate learns from surveyor Ralph Craig that the last survey done twenty-five years ago was incorrect. The new survey shows that the border between Hooterville County and Pixley County runs right through the Shady Rest. Now Joe thinks there's money to be made from curiosity seekers. Kate and the girls are shocked when they see that Joe has painted a line through the hotel. He makes a sign calling the place Twin County Hotel. The hotel does do a lot more business. Mr. Travis, from the Pixley License Division, tells Kate there's a lot of red tape in operating a business in two counties. Licenses and fees required could cost her in the thousands. Mr. Lindley, from the Pixley Health Dept., also finds costly problems. Mr. Dixon from the Pixley Building Dept., finds more issues. Having half the hotel in Pixley also causes problems for the girls. Kate comes up with a permanent solution with the help of the Cannonball moving the hotel.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Borderline Story sit in the Petticoat Junction guide?
S02E23 is listed hour 61 of 222 — hour 23 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 23.
When did Petticoat Junction S02E23 air?
A Borderline Story aired 1965-03-16 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Kate, the Shady Rest, and the Cannonball in a Benaderet-era hour is the porch contract. Uncle Joe is the layabout comic engine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Petticoat Junction is the porch at the center of Paul Henning's rural map: Bea Benaderet's Kate running the Shady Rest, three daughters, Uncle Joe, and the Hooterville Cannonball. Less fish-out-of-water than hometown sitcom — a hotel as social club. Benaderet's warmth is the connective tissue that made Hillbillies and Green Acres feel like one county.
The porch is the network night. Paul Henning's *Petticoat Junction* (CBS, 1963–1970) sits at the center of the rural map: Bea Benaderet's Kate running the Shady Rest, three daughters, Uncle Joe, and the Hooterville Cannonball. Seven seasons of hometown sitcom rather than fish-out-of-water — a hotel as social club. Edgar Buchanan's Uncle Joe and Linda Kaye Henning's Betty Jo kept the Cannonball on schedule. Gunilla Hutton's Billie Jo among the daughters. Soft rural farce with crossover DNA. On the palate: porch,…
Filed against
- Bea Benaderet as Kate Bradley
Bea Benaderet’s Blanche Morton needled The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as next-door vaudeville, then The Flintstones’ Wilma and Petticoat Junction’s Kate Bradley made her 1950s–60s catalog warmth a three-stop map. TV Flash files…
- Edgar Buchanan as Uncle Joe Carson
Edgar Buchanan’s Red Connors kept Hopalong Cassidy in tobacco-and-advice weather — 1950s catalog kids’-western merch machine, then Petticoat Junction stretching the drawl into Uncle Joe on a hotel porch. TV Flash files him as the sidekick…
- Linda Kaye Henning as Betty Jo Bradley
Linda Kaye Henning kept the Shady Rest humming as Betty Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction — one of three daughters on Paul Henning’s rural porch map, Hooterville Cannonball included. Hometown sitcom, not fish-out-of-water panic. TV Flash…
- Gunilla Hutton as Billie Jo Bradley
Gunilla Hutton played Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction — Paul Henning's rural porch, Bea Benaderet's Kate at the Shady Rest, three daughters, Uncle Joe, the Hooterville Cannonball. Hometown sitcom, hotel as social club. TV Flash…