William edgar buchanan ii march 20, 1903 april 4, 1979 was an american actor with a long career in both film and television. Watch petticoat junction online stream full episodes. The series was created after the success of the beverly hillbillies and the success. The little metallic gold stripe took this paint project from just another black chest of drawers to a dramatic statement piece. It also appeared in high noon, the great race, bound for glory, back to the future iii and unforgiven and on many tv shows, including lone ranger, petticoat junction, rawhide, death valley days, lassie.
This site is for research, and is not meant to infringe on the rights of the owners of this motion picture. Frequently, these scenes featured characters boarding or getting off the hooterville cannonball in front of the shady rest. Hooterville location green acres discussion moviechat. The cannonball arrives into the shady rest stop an hour early with two associated distresses. Like season one, season two of petticoat junction was filmed in blackandwhite and as a result, has been removed from the series allcolor syndicated package. The dog on petticoat junction, whose real name was higgins, was named simply dog on the show.
I was already hooked on the beverly hillbillies and had grown fond of the rural sensibilities of that show. From 1963 to 1970 petticoat junction was a show that featured the many characters that people came to know and love at the shady rest hotel and at various others spots in the show. Although no longer the fourth most popular series in the u. We have also included the video of the opening and closing credits, plus the lyrics to the theme tune so you can sing along. Three of the most popular tv sitcoms of the 1960s were the beverly hillbillies, green acres, and petticoat junction. A wikipedia article notes that the state borders tennessee, limiting the options. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Inspiration for petticoat junctions shady rest hotel. There was an amusement park in panama city beach, florida named petticoat junction amusement park, which opened in 1963 the same year that the show first aired and closed in 1984, 14 years after the show ended. The train and scenes were filmed on the sierra railway in california and the water tank is. Petticoat junction remake to be filmed on the bulb reader paul kamen reports on the potential for albany bulbs becoming a movie set for the remake of the. The only original elements of the 1938 water tank the one appearing in petticoat junction are the three concrete footings, the spout and other hardware. Although the cannonball was everpresent on petticoat junction, there was really very little film shot each season.
Someone strung together the first four episodes of this paul henning created series and edited it together like a film. The characters seem to go to hooterville for some goods and services, including high school and the hospital, but prefer pixley for supermarket shopping, beauty parlors, and movies. My home town, fresno california, was a lot like hooterville in the 50s and 60s. It was his opinion that if the old shain hotel could be made a part of the tour, he might be able to get linda kaye henning, who played bobbi jo on petticoat junction, to appear at the. Petticoat junction was produced by wayfilms a joint venture of filmways television and penten productions. Bobbie jo lori saunders, betty jo linda henning, and billie jo meredith macrae bradley bobby jo, betty jo, and billie jo from petticoat junction. The series takes place at the shady rest hotel, which is run by kate bradley, her three daughters billie jo, bobbie jo, and betty jo, and her uncle joe carson. Petticoat junction shares some characters and its locale, the fictional town of hooterville, with green acres. Did the green acres ever do a crossover with petticoat junction or the beverly hillbillies. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of of petticoat junction with exclusive news, photos, videos and more at. In 1963, she was cast in the sitcom petticoat junction in the role of billie jo bradley, set in the shady rest hotel run by kate bradley, her three daughters and her uncle.
The cast petticoat junction exclusively opens up to closer weekly about behindthescenes show secrets get the details. Petticoat junction wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Linda kaye henning, lori saunders and gunilla hutton return to the shady rest water tower for metv. Petticoat junction is an american situation comedy. The iconic jamestown water tank railtown 1897 state. The great dick wesson was the producer of the series with henning. Most of petticoat junction was filmed indoors with a full size wood model of the cannonball that the studio had made for the 1950 western, ticket to tomahawk with dan dailey and rory calhoun. Petticoat junctions shady rest hotel, springfield, il. The show was filmed in southern californiamostly indoors. Now, come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction. The success of petticoat junction led to a spinoff, green acres 19651971.
Created by paul henning, the same mastermind behind the beverly hillbillies, petticoat junction ranked. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by paul henning. According to author tim hollis, the parks owners the churchwell family, were friends with edgar buchanan. The longrunning television classic petticoat junction cbstv, 19631970 was one of the most successful and beloved situation comedies of the 1960s. Petticoat junction carries shoes and apparel for all types of dancers. The petticoat junction cast shares behindthescenes. Widow kate bradley and her three daughters bobbie jo, billie jo and bettie jo run the shady rest hotel, a smalltown inn where city folks come to enjoy the quiet. Petticoat junction was already halfway through its first season when i first got to view it. Do you have any new or corrected filming details to add.
He is most familiar today as uncle joe carson from the petticoat junction, green acres, and the beverly hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. Behindthescenes details from petticoat junction they. Petticoat junctionloved this show when i was a child and had their paper dolls. The misadventures of the family staff of the shady rest hotel and their neighbors of hooterville. Petticoat junction was created upon the success of hennings previous ruralurbanthemed sitcom the beverly hillbillies 19621971. Petticoat junctions shady rest hotel photos facebook. The hooterville cannonball is a fictional railroad train featured in petticoat junction, an american situation comedy that originally aired on cbs from 1963 to 1970, and was produced by filmways, inc. Pat woodell, who played bobbi jo on 1960s cbs sitcom petticoat junction, died sept. Linda kaye henning one of the three daughters on petticoat junction talks about this on the pj dvds which came out just a year or so ago. Metallic gold stripe adds drama to bedroom furniture. Petticoat junction tv series 19631970 movies, tv, celebs, and more. The emma sweeny played the hooterville cannonball in petticoat junction studio scenes shot at general service studios, now known as hollywood center studios.
The creator and executive producer of all three series was paul henning. There were tons of little crossover shows where green acres cast members would show up on petticoat junction or the beverly hillbillies, and viceversa. June lockhart quietly turned petticoat junction into a somewhat progressive sitcom. Petticoat junction season 1, episode 26 1964 rosemary decamp kate and the manpower problem. I believe she said the hotel was run by her maternal grandmother ruths mother and that her dad, paul henning, was taken with the rustic beauty of the place. Hooterville was the setting for both petticoat junction and green acres, so it was no surprise that the two shows crossed over fairly often. Petticoat junction is an american sitcom that originally aired on cbs from september 1963 to april 1970. Nothing much happens around hooterville, so its up to the girls to come up with their own schemes for fun.
The current water tank is a reconstruction, based on photographic evidence and is similar to the earliest known water tank on the site. Painting the metallic gold stripe was simple and im going to show you how to do it. I read somewhere maybe on that site that the reason for changing it to 8 was so they could use a front angle shot and reverse it to look like different footage later in the series, they filmed all the shots of the train at one time, then. This would be february 1964 and i was nine going on ten. The show never says the state where fictional hooterville was located. The hooterville cannonball, shown chugging slowly along its way to town in the the 60s sitcom classic petticoat junction, was the very same train seen in the wild wild west, but apparently just in the pilot. These website pages are a sampling of our product line. Petticoat junctions shady rest hotel home facebook. Whatever happened to the cast of petticoat junction.
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