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00:00Come ride the little train that is rollin' down the tracks to the junction Forget about
00:12your cares, it is time to relax at the junction Lots of curves, you bet, even more when you're
00:23getting to the junction
00:26Petticoat Junction
00:31There's a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the junction
00:36Petticoat Junction
00:38It is run by Kate, come and be her guest at the junction
00:43Petticoat Junction
00:45And that's Uncle Joe, he's a-movin' kinda slow at the junction
00:49Petticoat Junction
00:56Petticoat Junction
01:04Ma, train's comin'
01:06Yeah, I've heard it
01:08Swimming in the water tower again, weren't you?
01:10Yes
01:11Someday, that train's gonna sneak in, drain out all the water before you can get out,
01:17and leave you high, dry, and bare
01:20Mom, it's hot
01:21Where else can we swim?
01:23Don't worry about that, girls, I got plans for a big swimming pool
01:27We're gonna put it right out here in front
01:29A swimming pool?
01:31Olympic size, Kate, and in the wintertime, we'll turn it into a skating rink
01:34It'll give the hotel class
01:37Uncle Joe, with business as slow as it is, we're losin' money now
01:41I know we are, but with a swimming pool and a skating rink, we can raise the rates
01:48Goin' to Hooterville, Kate? Give you a free ride
01:52Oh, yeah, Charlie, be right there
01:54What's the matter, you hear somethin'?
01:56The cannonballs are wheezin' this morning
01:58Everything all right, Charlie?
02:00Yeah, she's just gettin' a little old like the rest of us
02:04I wonder what kind of engines they're runnin' on the main line now
02:07I wouldn't know, Floyd, it must be 20 years since we've seen the main line
02:11Yeah, you reckon they'll ever put that trestle back up so we can get there?
02:15No, Floyd, if you ask me, the folks have forgotten all about us back at the CNFW
02:23Gentlemen, this supercharged diesel locomotive is now standard equipment on the entire CNFW system
02:31Five short years ago, you brought me out here from the East to do a job for you
02:36Well, gentlemen, I think you'll agree that today we have the most modern, the most progressive, the most...
02:49What is that?
02:52Looks like a branch line
02:54Branch line to where? For what?
02:56That doesn't even connect to the main line
02:58I'll check into it
02:59Well, fast
03:00You charter a plane to this town of Hooterville and ride that branch to the end of the line
03:04I want a complete report right away
03:07Gentlemen, Mr. Bedlow here is flying out to Hooterville to look into a branch line
03:12Morning, boys
03:13Hi, Charlie
03:14Hi, Charlie
03:15Sorry to keep you waitin'
03:16Well, it's all right, we're in no hurry
03:19Kate, should I put on my conductor suit or is it just home folks gettin' on?
03:23Just home folks, Floyd
03:25Well, in that case...
03:33Drop us off at Drucker's Tower, will you, Charlie?
03:35All right
03:36Come on, girls
03:37Hey, Charlie, I'd go along too, but I'm afraid with one more passenger, the old Hooterville meatball couldn't make the grade
03:44That's cannonball
03:46Come on, Charlie
03:47Kate's in a hurry to get to Hooterville
03:49She is?
03:50Well, in that case, I better go tell her to get off of this thing and start walkin'
03:55Don't pay any attention to him, Charlie
04:08Hi, Kate
04:16Hi, girls
04:17Hi, Kate
04:18Have a good time in Hooterville
04:31Hey, it didn't stop
04:34They overshot the station
04:36Oh, they didn't, they stopped down at the General Store
04:40General Store, but the station's up here
04:42Yeah, but they're lettin' Kate and her girls off to do their shoppin'
04:46Who in the blue blazes is Kate?
04:48Runs the hotel between here and Pixley
04:51Well, you must be from a long ways off, you ain't never heard of Kate Bradley and her girls
04:59Hi, Mrs. Bradley
05:00Hello, Herbie
05:01Hi, Herbie
05:02Hi, Herbie
05:03Hi, Herbie
05:04Hi, Billy
05:07Herbie, we don't want to keep the train waitin' too long
05:10Yes, Mrs. Bradley
05:11I've already got some of your regular order ready in the back
05:14We figured you'd be in today
05:15Come on, girls, let's get busy
05:17Are they just gonna park there and wait while that woman does her shopping?
05:21They usually do
05:22The boys are real fond of Kate
05:25But what do the boys think they're operating?
05:27A train or a taxi?
05:29Well, a little of both, I reckon
05:34When I get through, it won't be either one
05:37I'll melt that thing down for paperweights
05:42Oh, Floyd and Charlie must be tired of waitin'
05:45Let's get the rest of the supplies out to the platform
05:47I'll go see if Billy needs any help
05:49Mom, can we get some new swimming suits?
05:51No, we cannot, summer's over and put them back
05:54Okay
05:55I'll help you, Billy
05:57Come on, girls
06:02Come on
06:03Get a move on, girls, train's waitin'
06:07Sorry, Kate, but them travelin' salesmen we picked up
06:10are anxious to get to Pixley
06:13Yeah
06:14Sure, sorry to rush you, Kate
06:16Worked out fine, Charlie, got all our shopping done
06:19Good
06:23All right, let's get the baggage aboard
06:25Don't bother about it, ladies
06:26We'll Floyd and I will take care of it
06:28All right, let's go
06:29Come on, girls
06:30Come on, girls
06:31Come on, girls
06:32Come on, girls
06:33Come on, girls
06:34Come on, girls
06:35All right, ladies
06:36We'll Floyd and I will put her on there for you
06:37They can help a little
06:38Here
06:43When they get their supplies loaded
06:45are they gonna back up that train for me?
06:48Wouldn't count on it
06:49They don't even know you're here
06:51Well, then, by Sunday
06:52you're gonna high-tail it down that track and tell them
06:54I wouldn't count on that either
06:57What's your name?
06:59Sam Drucker
07:00What's yours?
07:01Homer Bedlow
07:02And you're fired
07:03There's another thing I wouldn't count on
07:06Mr. Drucker, I happen to run this railroad
07:09and you're no longer working for it
07:11Never did
07:12I happen to run the general store
07:15What the devil are you doing here?
07:16Why aren't you down at your store?
07:18Well, I tell you
07:19You see, Kate ain't got the money to pay
07:21for all them supplies she just bought
07:23And it's a heap less embarrassing for her
07:25if I ain't there
07:27Well, if this isn't a nothingness
07:30Looks like that'll do it, Floyd
07:34Well, best we get rolling now
07:37Billy Joe, would you like to take the throttle?
07:39Can I, Mom?
07:40You always do going home
07:43Get me up a good head of steam, Charlie
07:46I'll have to highball it
07:47to make the hotel in time for supper
07:49Right
07:50Take it easy on Dead Man's Curb
07:52Come on, Billy Joe
07:54In a minute, Mom
07:55Bobby Joe?
07:56I'm here, Mom
07:58Oh
08:02Floyd!
08:03Hey!
08:04He yelled all aboard
08:06Yeah, if you want to cash your train
08:08you'd better start shanking it down your track
08:11I'll melt the whole works down for paperweights
08:16Hey, look at that!
08:17Stop the train!
08:19Hey, wait!
08:24Hey, come here!
08:29Come on, train!
08:32Wait a minute!
08:44You got a lot to learn about trains, mister
08:47The Hooderville Cannonball waits for nobody
08:50That's what I melt them down for
08:51Cannonball!
08:59Where's your sister?
09:01You mean Billy?
09:03Who else would I mean?
09:05I think she's back there, Mom
09:10Back there, all right
09:15Excuse me
09:16Excuse me
09:18I want to talk to my daughter
09:20about the menu for my hotel
09:22Train, get in the car
09:23I want to talk to my daughter
09:25about the menu for my hotel
09:27Train gets there just about supper time
09:29She and her sisters wait at the table in the dining room
09:32Sisters? You got more like her?
09:34Oh, three in all
09:37Uh, Billy Joe, I think this evening we'll have fried chicken
09:41mashed potatoes with cream gravy
09:43corn on the cob with fresh churned butter
09:46hot biscuits and jam
09:48fresh apple pie with homemade ice cream
09:50and, um, let's see, what else?
09:55Does the train stop long enough for us to eat at your hotel?
09:58Oh, I think it can be arranged
10:01But the safe thing to do is plan to spend the night
10:04You'll never get up to a better breakfast than at the Shady Rest
10:08Come on, Billy Joe
10:20What kind of a railroad signal is that?
10:22Gang man's curve, you better grab hold of something
10:32Where is I, Paul, and that locomotive up there?
10:34Is either drunk or crazy
10:36I'll thank you not to talk like that about my little girl
10:39Your little girl's running this locomotive?
10:42She always does on the way back from town
10:45She and Charlie just like this
10:47Who's Charlie?
10:48The engineer
10:50Look, scoot over, it's hard to talk across the aisle
11:01You one of those reporters?
11:03In a way, yes
11:05Well, Charlie Pratt's the best engineer that ever popped ahead of Steve
11:10And he's letting your child drive this locomotive?
11:12Been driving it since she was knee-high to a cowcatcher
11:21How come she's spouting so much black smoke?
11:24Boy, it's been burning railroad ties again
11:27Charlie, take a look
11:29All the pressure I can get's 135
11:31Well, that'll hold you, don't push her too hard
11:34You know what I think?
11:36The cannonball needs a boiler wash
11:38Yeah, I reckon she's got some mud in her belly, all right
11:42Let's wash her out when we get to the hotel
11:45And I can clean the grease and ash pad off
11:47Betty Jo, you're getting to an age where the boys have got their eye on you
11:51And it just ain't the most romantic thing in the world
11:54For the love of your life to come crawling out of a locomotive boiler
12:00As far as I'm concerned, Billy Jo can have the boys
12:03I'm in love with the Hooderville cannonball
12:07Well, that's fine for now, hon
12:09But one of these days, you're gonna want to be hugging something that can hug you back
12:13But one of these days, you're gonna want to be hugging something that can hug you back
12:44Uh, Betty Jo, you change places with your sister
12:47Mom, I like riding backwards
12:49I know what you like, that's what I say
12:52Bobby Jo, take Betty's seat
12:58Only one thing on her mind, boys
13:02Oh, Bobby, don't you ever get tired of just reading about love?
13:05Don't you ever want to do something about it?
13:09Sure
13:11If I could meet a man like Robert Browning
13:14Well, where we live, we don't get much chance
13:18Unless he's a traveling salesman
13:21Gee, I wish we lived in the city
13:24Love can happen anyplace, Billy
13:27Who knows if Prince Charming could come walking right through that door?
13:32That's quite a load of supplies you put on, Kate
13:35Now, Floyd, how much are you gonna charge me for freighting all that up to my hotel?
13:39I reckon that's gonna cost you two chicken dinners
13:43That's robbery
13:45But I guess I'll have to pay it
13:47Isn't Floyd a cop?
13:49Sure is, what's his last name?
13:51Smoot, Floyd Smoot
13:54He and Charlie have been on this line for years
13:57They say they'll never stop running this old train
13:59Well, I wouldn't bet on that
14:01All right, folks, get your fares ready
14:03Oh, um, how much for me and my three daughters, Mr. Conductor?
14:07Well, let's see, all over 12?
14:10Mm, yeah, including me
14:15That's gonna cost you two fresh-baked apple pies
14:19What a crisis
14:21The railroad's gotta make a profit
14:26Say, if you want fresh apple pie, you better get up to the locomotive
14:30and tell Betty Jo to stop the train at Ben Miller's Orchard
14:33Right you are, Kate
14:35Did I hear right you're gonna stop this train to pick apples?
14:38Well, I kind of think we have to
14:40The tree's set a quarter mile from the track
14:43This isn't a train, it's a rolling booby hatch
15:01Hi there, mind if I have an apple?
15:04Help yourself
15:08Excuse me
15:13This what you're after?
15:15Oh, yes, ma'am
15:17I was just looking out the window there
15:19Oh, I sure love this country, everything's so green
15:22Oh, not as green as you think
15:25Well, uh, thanks for the apple
15:31Put your feet down, sit up like a lady
15:39Ah, we're almost there
15:41Almost where?
15:43My hotel, the Shady Rest
15:45I don't see any hotel
15:47It sets off above the tracks on a little rise
15:56Folks, there'll be a two to three hour layover here
15:59whilst we go up to Kate's hotel for supper
16:01What do you mean two or three hour layover?
16:03According to this timetable, this train's not supposed to stop here at all
16:07Is that a fact?
16:09Hey, Charlie, come on in and take a look
16:11Fella in here's got a timetable
16:14We ain't seen one of these in 20 years
16:17Anybody want to help me and my daughters throw up the supplies?
16:20Why, just come right this way
16:22This train's supposed to go to the end of the line, pixley
16:25As a matter of fact, we're due there already
16:27So am I, so let's get rolling
16:30What seems to be the trouble here, Floyd?
16:32Fella here wants to go on to the end of the line right away
16:35It says it's a schedule
16:36Is that a fact?
16:38What do you think we ought to do?
16:39Well, I reckon the fair thing to do is to put it to a vote
16:42A vote?
16:43Good idea
16:45All those in favor of going up to Kate's cool little hotel
16:49All those in favor of going up to Kate's cool, comfortable, shady rest hotel
16:54For some delicious fried chicken and apple pie
16:58Served by her three beautiful daughters
17:00Hold up your right hand
17:02Here's to me you're outvoted
17:06Right through there to the kitchen
17:08Johnny, Floyd, show them the way
17:10I appreciate this very much
17:11Just set it down in the kitchen, that's all
17:17Oh, me
17:18How come Joe found us Indian?
17:20Hide it again, girls
17:22Oh!
17:25Oh, I'm so sorry
17:26Oh, I'm so sorry
17:27Oh, I'm so sorry
17:28Oh, I'm so sorry
17:29Oh, I'm so sorry
17:30Oh, I'm so sorry
17:31Oh, I'm so sorry
17:32Oh, I'm so sorry
17:33Oh, I'm so sorry
17:35Hey, this is quite a place
17:37Even got an elevator, huh?
17:38Oh, it doesn't run
17:39Uncle Joe bought it
17:40He said it gives the hotel class
17:42Oh, yeah?
17:44Honey, I'm gonna tell you what gives this hotel some class
17:48Step back
17:51Going up, going up
17:53It's Uncle Joe's minor bird
17:55We use this for a cage
17:57Yeah
17:59Now then
18:00Going up, second floor
18:01On the way
18:02My daughter gets off in the kitchen
18:06Charlie, Floyd, show the gentleman where to wash up for supper
18:09Sure, I'll show you, feller
18:21Hey
18:22Huh?
18:23This place got a telephone
18:25Yeah, you betcha it has
18:27It's the only telephone between Hooterville and Pixley
18:29I was the one that got it and put it in
18:31Never mind that
18:32Where is it?
18:34Hey, mister, I'd like to tell you a story about that telephone
18:38Just tell me where it is
18:42Go through that door there
18:44It's on your wall to the right
18:45Right
18:57Hello, operator
19:00Operator, operator
19:04What you trying to do, mister?
19:06What's it look like I'm trying to do?
19:07I'm trying to get the operator
19:10You ain't gonna get her on that phone
19:12Why not?
19:13It ain't connected
19:14What do you mean?
19:15Ain't no telephone wires connected, too
19:17What's it doing here, then?
19:18It gives a hotel class
19:20That's the only telephone between Hooterville and Pixley
19:23Why didn't you tell me that outside?
19:25Well, I did start and you cut me off
19:27Never mind now
19:28Where can I wash my hands?
19:29Oh, second floor
19:35Going up, all aboard
19:36Oh, good
19:40Step back
19:41Step back in the car
19:45What you doing in there, mister?
19:47I'm going up to the second floor
19:49No, that elevator you ain't
19:51What do you mean?
19:52Ain't connected
19:53Oh, my aching ulcer
19:55Going up, going up
19:57She's a minor bird
19:58The only minor bird between Hooterville and Pixley
20:00Answer me a question
20:02What have you got an elevator for that doesn't run?
20:04Oh, gives a hotel class
20:07That's the only elevator...
20:08Oh, shut up!
20:11Don't worry about the washroom
20:13It's connected
20:18Hey
20:21Somebody hit my Indian again
20:29Woo-hoo!
20:30Kate, that was the best meal I'd ever stoked a man's boiler
20:33Really delicious
20:34I always did say if this hotel was in town
20:37I always did say if this hotel was in town
20:39Kate, it'd be turning the people away
20:41Who built it way out here in the middle of nowhere?
20:44Her muley grandpa, that's who
20:46Stubbornest man that ever lived, wasn't he, Kate?
20:48Well, the way it happened
20:51He was planning to build down the track at Pixley
20:54But the flat cars that were hauling his lumber
20:56Tipped over when they hit the curb out in front
20:59So, grandpa just went ahead and built a hotel right here
21:02Well, let's all go in and do some singing
21:06We're four hours late for Pixley now
21:08We always sing after supper, Mr. Bedlow
21:10Nothing better for settling your food
21:12I'm gonna go to Pixley and you're gonna take me now
21:16I don't think these folks want to leave yet
21:19We wouldn't pay to make the run with just one passenger
21:22No, they say the railroad's losing money now
21:25Look at that thing
21:26Well, the answer's simple
21:27Those folks up at the main office
21:29They just don't know anything about running a railroad
21:32That's a fact
21:33That's a fact
21:34Well, let's all go in and do some singing
21:36Now you just hear this
21:39For your information
21:40I'm one of the fellows at the main office
21:42As a matter of fact
21:43I'm one of the main fellows at the main office
21:46And I've got news for you
21:48The train from Pixley to Hooderville is no longer in operation
21:51It's scrapped, junked
21:53And everybody connected with it is discharged
21:56Fired
21:58Now go and sing on that
22:00If you scrap the train, it'll ruin this hotel
22:03That's your problem
22:05Well, you no good
22:06Now, Uncle Joe, angry words never settled any problem
22:10Let's just...
22:11Let's just all go in and decide what we're gonna do
22:31Those in favor, raise your hands
22:35Well, have you decided what you're gonna do?
22:38Yes, we have, Mr. Bedlow
22:40We put it to a vote
22:41Again with that vote?
22:43That's the democratic way, ain't it?
22:46Well, what'd you vote?
22:48Everybody voted to spend the night here
22:51And settle the problem of the train tomorrow
22:54Can't you get a train tomorrow?
22:58Can't you get it through your heads
23:00That that train hasn't got any tomorrow?
23:02It's through, finished
23:04Now I'm going to Pixley
23:05How? You fired Floyd and Charlie
23:08Listen, if your little daughter can run that train
23:11I can run it
23:20What's the matter? Why won't you run?
23:28Maybe you haven't got enough pressure
23:30Try the whistle
23:37Mr. Bedlow, you've been working now for three hours
23:41Why don't you come on up, take a nice hot bath and go to bed?
23:45No, this is my train and I say it'll run
23:52My hand's full of splinters from that stupid wood
23:55I smashed my finger on that stupid firebox door
23:58Now I've busted my stupid foot
24:01You know what I think?
24:02What?
24:03I think I ought to go back to the hotel, have a hot bath and go to bed
24:07And we'll settle the problem of the train tomorrow
24:10That's a good idea, tomorrow
24:12Help him down, boys
24:15How do you two fellas run this crazy thing?
24:18I've been railroading for 32 years
24:21But I couldn't get a pound of pressure
24:26Don't you worry, old girl
24:28We've been through a lot together and we'll get through this too
24:55THE END
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