S1 E1: Spur Line to Shady Rest
The struggling Shady Rest Hotel is thrown into more jeopardy when a man is sent to Hooterville to investigate a line connection.
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Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters - Bobbie Jo, Billie Jo and Bettie Jo - run the Shady Rest Hotel, a small-town inn where city folks come to enjoy the quiet. Nothing much happens around Hooterville, so it's up to the girls to come up with their own schemes for fun.
Cast: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Jeannine Riley
The struggling Shady Rest Hotel is thrown into more jeopardy when a man is sent to Hooterville to investigate a line connection.
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Homer Bedloe of the CandFW Railroad makes the first of many attempts to shut down the Cannonball. Kate decides he can't close it if he can't find it, so she looks for it first.
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Railroad president Norman Curtis decides to scrap the Cannonball himself, but has a change of heart after experiencing Kate's kindness.
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Railroad CEO Norman Curtis breaks the throttle of the Cannonball and blocks the way to Kate's jamboree.
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Kate tries to restore the self confidence of Floyd Smoot after he is jilted by his mail-order sweetheart, by pretending to be in love with him.
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After a series of auto-related thefts, the shadow of suspicion looms ever longer over Jimmy--a youth with a troubled past. How long can Andy rush to Jimmy's defense before his own faith in the boy is shaken?
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The Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament rolls around, and Pixley Fats is it's main contender. He might have a little speed bump though, in the form of the tournament's first shocker.
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Kate decides the time has arrived for Betty Jo to put down the books and set out to find a significant other.
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Two crooks decide to rob the bank in Pixley, but their plans change when they learn that the Cannonball bank shipment won't be guarded.
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Homer comes back to Shady Rest in the hope of scrapping the Cannonball, and The Hooterville Hornets suffer their worst game ever.
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Uncle Joe feels as though he's being replaced when Kate promotes general store clerk Herbie Bates to assistant general manager of the Shady Rest.
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When Opie's efforts fail to attract classmate Karen's personal interest, Thelma Lou steps in to boost Opie's confidence but destroys Barney's along the way. Can Andy realign this skewed love quadrangle?
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Uncle Joe feels as though he's being replaced when Kate promotes general store clerk Herbie Bates to assistant general manager of the Shady Rest.
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Uncle Joe's latest scheme involves turning the Shady Rest into a Honeymooners getaway. But then his status as temporary Justice of the Peace turns out to be inval
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Uncle Joe accidentally distributes a brochure for the Shady Rest Hotel of the future, and a renowned hotel critic decides to review the establishment.
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Uncle Joe, Kate Bradley and her daughters at the Shady Rest Hotel find their holiday disrupted when the Scrooge-like Homer Bedloe of the CandFW Railroad threatens them.
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Herby Bates, who is sweet on Billie Jo, won't be seeing much more of her, as he has just been drafted.
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Bobbie Jo falls for Alan Landman, an angst ridden poet and slacker, and Kate must find a way to show her what Alan is really like.
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Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie Jo wants to go to Hollywood.
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Kate confers with Judge Drucker to see if she can legally prevent Billie Jo from heading to Hollywood.
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Uncle Joe makes a deal with the secretary of movie star Lane Haggard; the actor wishes to escape the madness of Hollywood and stay at the Shady Rest incognito.
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Uncle Joe convinces two overweight women that the Shady Rest is really a reducing farm, where their loss is management's gain.
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Railroad executive Homer Bedloe arrives in Hooterville with a railroad tycoon, who is determined to purchase the Cannonball.
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After selling a painting, Uncle Joe thinks he's on the road to success.
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Betty Jo has finally met a man she likes, but he seems more interested in tinkering on cars than he is working on a romance.
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Uncle Joe spreads a rumour of a silver strike has been found in the area as a scheme to get more people to stay at the Shady Rest, and dig his drainage ditch for free.
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Uncle Joe tries to rig a talent contest he is promoting, in order to assure that one of his nieces will win.
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Uncle Jo plans to use Orville Miggs' flivver to power his own railroad and bankrupt the Hooterville Cannonball.
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Railroad executive Homer Bedloe tries once again to get rid of the Hooterville Cannonball, this time by getting Floyd and Charley to quit by harassment.
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The gang at the Shady Rest must make sure that socialite, Clara Watkins, has a comfortable stay if Kate is ever to get a loan again from her.
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Charley decides it's time to quit as engineer of the Cannonball when the citizens of Hooterville seem too busy to spend anytime with him.
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Norman Curtis, the railroad president, sends his basset hound to the Shady Rest to give him a change of scenery.
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Uncle Joe believes an old schoolmate of Kate's is a con artist, instead of the millionaire he says he is.
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Homer Bedloe returns to Hooterville with his son Homer Jr., who is a carbon copy of his dad.
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A former resident of Hooterville, Mary Jane Hastings, has returned home as a business executive, impressing everyone with her administrative abilities, and her handling of men.
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Kate is missing as a big convention is meeting to decide where to hold their convention, she is stuck in a cave.
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With Kate injured, Uncle Joe and the daughters must corner the convention.
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Kate is surprised at her old school teacher's new personality.
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