Petticoat Junction
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx?
TV Flash files “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx?” as hour 68 of 222 in the TV Flash guide — Petticoat Junction (1963–1970) on CBS, season 2, episode 30, aired 1965-05-04, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E30: listed hour 68 of 222 in the Petticoat Junction guide, hour 30 of 36 in season 2. It aired 1965-05-04 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Mayor of Hooterville” (S02E29). Next is “The Chicken Killer” (S02E31).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lately, bad things have been happening to people whenever Uncle Joe is around. Betty Jo loses her voice. Mr. Harrington gets fired. Sam's printing press breaks down. The Cannonball rides off the tracks. Fred Ziffel's new well dries up. Joe is now getting the reputation of being a jinx. Joe is initially upset by all the talk of him being a jinx. But then he decides to offer his services as a jinx for a fee. Sam hires Joe to jinx Crabwell Corners so they don't get the new box factory. Then hopefully it will instead come to Hooterville. As hard as Joe tries, the factory still winds up going to Crabwell Corners. Kate says that proves that Joe is not a jinx. But, could there be another jinx at the Shady Rest and could it be Dog?
Viewer FAQ
Where does Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx? sit in the Petticoat Junction guide?
S02E30 is listed hour 68 of 222 — hour 30 of 36 in season 2, season 2 episode 30.
When did Petticoat Junction S02E30 air?
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx? aired 1965-05-04 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…