Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

db-beurylaw Amazing that no-one called the producers for this obvious sexual come on. I was six when the first advertisements for the show were shown and I immediately recognized the bait and switch. Everything about the show was suggestively sexual and it never delivered. In the opening we have three gorgeous girls swimming nude in a water tower. The water tower is used to service a 100-year-old steam locomotive. Why, in heaven's name would any intelligent woman get into a 100-year-old filthy, unfiltered water tower? And why be (apparently) nude with your sisters? Why because the producers are telling you this is a sexy show. The theme song invites you to ride the train that goes along the tracks to the junction. Petticoat Junction! The question I have is why would anyone want to do that? The Shady Rest is a run-down hotel in the middle of the sticks. Do you have to ride a train to get there? Isn't there a modern hotel off the interstate? Obviously, the hotel has no pool. Why else would the girls get in that rancid water tower. Maybe they had to bathe in the tower, because this hotel has no plumbing. Ewww. Then there is the hotel name. It's the Shady Rest. Shady as in "suspicious, suspect, questionable, disreputable, dishonest, illegal, dishonorable, unscrupulous or unethical." Oh sure, throw in the word "Rest" so the owners can claim innocence, but really would you board a 100-year-old train to go to a run-down dump hotel, that offers the opportunity to get out of direct sunlight? Then there are the other cast members. Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benadaret, Smiley Burnette and Rufe Davis. Benadaret was a classic whore house madam. She was there to collect the cash and keep the girls in line. The other old men would be chosen because they were no longer a threat to the girls and would not corrupt the "merchandise". They were sort of octogenarian Eunuchs. Even though I was six I saw through this bait and switch. The show itself was as asexual as possible. The plots were always about the has-been old comedians. After the suggestive opening, he girls were no where to be seen. This was in the age of strict censorship. Barbara Eden couldn't even show her navel in her Jeanie costume. If you were lured in to see an adult sexy program, you were taken for a ride on a 100 year-old train. As a comedy, the shows weren't funny. It was as bland as any show has ever been. I think people tuned in to see something happen. It never did.

dgsimpson175-924-579280 I will say Petticoat Junction is an enjoyable show. I am 56 with grandchildren if they were watching this show I would not worry something inappropriate popping up and surprising me or my grandchildren. I used to watch this show with my grandfather good times. This is a feel good show Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres are also enjoyable. I realize times change and people taste in television will change. These show would not make it today.These shows are still popular with those of us who grew up watching them. When I watched these shows I knew most problems could not be fixed in a half hour. Kate was great her death at such a young age was very sad she was the show. I am glad she got a starring role before her death Paul Henning was a great man for giving Bea this opportunity. Her supporting cast was also wonderful. This was a simpler time.

SanteeFats I watched Petticoat Junction from its first airing, (yeah, I am that old). I enjoyed it then and am enjoying it even more as I watch the series on DVD. It is a time when shows not only did not but could not be extremely suggestive as they are nowadays. I am not a prude by any means but sometimes it is nice to just have good looking women who are funny and not running around in as skimpy a bikini as possible. The reason I did not give it a ten is because after Bea Benaderet, the mom,died during season 3 I believe the shows lost some of their zing. The interactions between mother-daughters and Uncle Joe (a champion loafer) were no longer there and they couldn't find a really good replacement. June Lockhart was okay but no Kate.

BumpyRide Being just old enough to remember watching this show during its first run, I always wondered why those girls and their dog were swimming naked in the water tank? I mean really, isn't it a little unsanitary to be swimming nude in Hooterville's drinking water? And why would you go swimming in your petticoats to begin with, plus why would a dog need a petticoat too? I know country folk aren't like regular people, drinking dandelion wine and smoking who knows what in their corn cob pipes, but someone must have noticed something when they turned on their tap water and out came something unmentionable. Surely Aunt Bea didn't know of those girl's naked antics in the water tank. Don't you agree?