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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368878242
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageMonoEnglishUnknownMono
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 887824
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Running Time: 974 minutes
Studio: Paramount
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/16/2008 Run time: 974 minutes Rating: Nr
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Songwriter 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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These shows bring back memories of when TV was funny without relying on sex and/or foul language. The video and audio quality are fine. Watching these episodes are a great way to spend an evening with the entire family without the worry of children being exposed to inappropriate topics and language.
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What a joy it is to see our old favorites on DVD again. I'm probably watching episodes I've never seen before. They sure are better than the trash on TV today.
Picture & Sound quality seem fine to me.
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Petticoat Junction is as good now as when my wife and I watched it as kids. The DVD's are packaged very well and the digital quality is excellent. We have started buying all the old TV shows we watched as kids. Our 10 year old is enjoying them as are we. With what little quality programing cable and satellite TV offers today but with rates going up at least once every year we are seriously considering doing away with our satellite and going with local FREE digital broadcast channels AND the DVD's ... Read More
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These are just good old fashion comedy shows. Take a look and see if you don't agree!!
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I've really enjoyed this DVD. Great quality for an old black & white show. Content-wise, if you enjoy the old-style comedies of the '60's, I think this show ranks right up there. We've gotten lots of viewing enjoyment out of this, and look forward to future releases of other seasons.
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