Petticoat Junction: The Official Second Season
Starring: Petticoat JunctionStudio: Paramount
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 919 minutes
DVD Release: July 7th 2009
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User Reviews
Question about P.J. - Rating: 3/5
Loved this show but I have a question about this edition.
Is the theme song with vocals on each episode?
In a DVD I bought with 5 episodes the theme song is instrumental only.
One of the best parts of this show is the theme. ..."There's Uncle Joe he's moving kinda slow at the Junction." Let me know before I invest in TV history! Thanks!
Tennessee Fan Thanks Linda Kaye Henning - Rating: 5/5
Thank you to Linda Kaye Henning and to the powers involved in releasing season 2 of this classic program. Petticoat Junction is a gem and it deserves to be released to the many patient fans who have waited for years to take the ride to the Shady Rest once again.
Special recognition goes to Linda Kaye Henning who graces the screen in the Ultimate Collection with extraordinary intros filled with trivia and rich detail. It was easy to see that Linda Kaye Henning is very proud of this remarkable series. (My next 2 wishes are that 1) all the seasons of Petticoat Junction will be released and that 2) you write a book on your Petticoat Junction experience. (I will be first in line to buy it.)
Thank you and HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Classic CBS rural comedy from the 60's - Rating: 4/5
This was one of a group of CBS rural comedies popular in the 1960's that were actually grouped together as far as having interdependent casts - "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Green Acres" being the other two series.
The show is about life at the rural Shady Rest Hotel, owned and operated by widow Kate Bradley (Bea Benaderet). Action centers around guests at the hotel as well as Kate's three attractive daughters, Betty Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Billie Jo. The actresses portraying Billie Jo and Bobbie Jo changed over the years. In fact, season two is the last of two seasons for the first actresses to portray these roles. Betty Jo, the youngest and the tomboy, was played by the Linda Henning, daughter of the series creator Paul Henning, for the entire run of the series. The hotel is literally in the middle of nowhere, halfway between two very small towns. The actual location (state for example) is never given, and the issue of how exactly it is that Kate manages to make what seems to be quite an adequate living running a hotel that theoretically should have few if any guests is never even addressed. This is a show very much rooted in the early 60's, and the idea is escapism and fun, not realism.
The first season of this show that was put out a few months ago is excellent. They were not the cut down versions that TVLand showed, so I expect these to be the same, although you never know with Paramount, The Odd Couple being exhibit A.
This season is from the 1964-1965 TV season, and thus there are lots of episodes (36 I believe), since production costs were lower and thus reruns were fewer. This is not something you'll want to sit down and watch back-to-back marathon style. Instead, I'd watch a couple of episodes a week. That way you maximize the fun of the show, and it still holds up pretty well today, and minimize the sameness you might feel if you just watch one episode after another.
