As of July 2026, Petticoat Junction Season 2 aired in 1964 with 36 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Petticoat Junction Season 2

1964 36 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 6/10

Petticoat Junction Season 2 is currently streaming on and , and it delivers exactly the kind of comedy that earns a loyal following. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Smiley Burnette — stay for everyone else around them. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Petticoat Junction Season 2 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Petticoat Junction Season 2 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 2 of Petticoat Junction includes 36 episodes. It aired from September 1964 to June 1965. This season stars Smiley Burnette, Bea Benaderet and Edgar Buchanan. Smiley Burnette and Bea Benaderet lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1964. Petticoat Junction Season 2 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Petticoat Junction Season 2. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Smiley Burnette's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

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🎬 Petticoat Junction Season 2 — Episode Guide

E1
Betty Jo's Dog
1964-09-22
It's the first day of school and Kate is having trouble getting a couple of her daughters motivated to go. Betty Jo has a new friend, a little dog that follows her back from school. Kate refuses to let Betty Jo keep the dog, despite it being cute and well trained. Kate believes that he must belong t...
E2
Race Against the Stork
1964-09-29
Henry Barton is dropping off his pregnant wife Elsie at the Shady Rest. While the baby isn't due for two weeks, Henry still wants someone to watch Elsie as he will be gone for three days. The women aren't at all worried, but Uncle Joe is quite concerned. Joe gets even more panicked when Kate tells h...
E3
Have Library, Will Travel
1964-10-06
Uncle Joe isn't thrilled with the idea of turning the Cannonball's baggage car into a mobile library. He likes even less having to build the library shelves. But after meeting her, Uncle Joe grows extremely fond of pretty librarian Phyllis Marsh. Despite their age difference, among other things, Joe...
E4
The Umquaw Strip
1964-10-13
Sam, Charley, Floyd and Uncle Joe are rehearsing a reenactment of the signing of the treaty between the Umquaw Indians and the C&FW Railroad. The treaty gave Indian land in the vicinity of Deadman's Curve to the company. Joe thinks the reenactment will bring in tourists to the area and guests to the...
E5
As Hooterville Goes
1964-10-27
Hooterville has a long standing record of being the first community to have their political votes submitted to the state. Pip Winslow from Crabwell Corners is taking bets that they will beat Hooterville this year, because they have a new automatic voting machine. Hooterville may lose regardless beca...
E6
My Dog the Actor
1964-11-10
Betty Jo wants to enter Dog in a contest to make a commercial for Tailwagger Dog Food. The winner also receives a $500 cash award. Kate tries to discourage Betty Jo because Dog doesn't have a chance against purebreds. The girls are thrilled when they receive a letter telling them that Dog is one of ...
E7
The Great Buffalo Hunt
1964-11-17
Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! Kate tells him to take it back, but all sales were final. It's part of his scheme to dupe wealthy British sportsman Lord Harold Faversham into coming to "Shady Rest Hunting Lodge" to hunt wild buffalo. But, the buffalo is far from wild and the girls ...
E8
Betty Jo's Pen Pal
1964-11-24
The girls are trying to learn some Japanese to make Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal, Nobuko Takamura, feel at home for her visit. Nobuko has come to the US to attend college to improve her English so that she can teach it back in Japan. She would also like to learn American customs. Nobuko tells Joe tha...
E9
Bedloe's Nightmare
1964-12-01
Billie Jo is upset that the Cannonball is late and she believes it has outlived its usefulness. Meanwhile, Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball's arch-enemy, has been having terrible nightmares about the train. To get rid of them, his psychiatrist Dr. Leonard suggests that he "learn to love" the...
E10
Kate's Bachelor Butter
1964-12-08
Jack Crandall, who is with H-D-L Food Products, is a passenger on the Cannonball. He is stunned when the train stops just so Charley and Floyd can pick apples for Kate's special recipe: Bachelor Butter. She gives it to the bachelors of the valley as a thank you for all they do for her over the cours...
E11
Mother of the Bride
1964-12-15
Kate doesn't have anything against Dan, Billie Jo's boyfriend, that is except his mother is Selma Plout, her arch-enemy. Kate and Selma are once again arguing at the Every Other Wednesday Afternoon Discussion Club. Kate doesn't even mind talk of Billie Jo and Dan perhaps getting married. Uncle Joe t...
E12
The Lost Patrol
1964-12-29
Kate learns from Sam that the US Army is conducting war games in the area around the Shady Rest. Kate is worried about her three daughters because they are swimming in the water tower and wearing bikinis. Three lost soldiers from the Blue Squad - Hank Benton, Tod Langwell and Stu Howard - come to th...
E13
Smoke-Eaters
1965-01-05
Uncle Joe has formed the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Volunteer Band. The band is so bad that it is driving paying guests away from the hotel. Joe hoped to raise money with the band to form an actual Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department. An upset Joe tells Kate she should come up with a be...
E14
The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth
1965-01-12
Mr. Richardson is a guest at the hotel. Uncle Joe tells him about the curse of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel fifty years ago. He was a traveling drummer and notorious hotel towel thief. Since then, Chester has been haunting all the hotels that he stole towels from. He has to return the...
E15
There's No Flame Like an Old Flame
1965-01-19
Uncle Joe has been receiving and sending what appears to be love letters. Kate eventually learns that Joe is writing to Mary Alice Perkins. Kate is upset because Mary Alice stood Joe up at the altar several years ago and ran off with his best man, George Perkins. Joe tells Kate that George has passe...
E16
Billie Jo's First Job
1965-01-26
Billie Jo wins a contest at secretarial school and is offered her first job. She will be private secretary to author Oliver Fenton. World traveling Fenton is coming to Hooterville because his next book is based in a small town. He has rented one of the houses in town. Selma tells Kate that Fenton wr...
E17
A Matter of Communication
1965-02-02
The girls are upset that they don't have a telephone at the hotel. They can't communicate with their friends and are social outcasts. Kate says it would cost $800 for the telephone company to install two miles of line just to get to the hotel. The girls have to get their calls at Drucker's Store and...
E18
Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer
1965-02-09
Volunteer fire chief Uncle Joe has designed a new nighttime alarm system. When a valley resident sets off a skyrocket in the event of a fire, a volunteer will fire off a cannon. But there soon is opposition to Joe's plan because, even though the canon fires blanks, things still get damaged. A fire b...
E19
Hooterville Crime Wave
1965-02-16
Convicts Barney Dawson and Max James have escaped from the state penitentiary. Meanwhile, Uncle Joe, a member of the CIA (Criminal Investigators' Alliance), accuses Sam of running a lax and inefficient post office. Joe believes that if Sam posted photos of some criminals, he could capture them for t...
E20
For the Birds
1965-02-23
The Cannonball has temporarily ceased operations. The reason is a bird has built a nest on top of the smokestack and has laid five eggs. Charley and Floyd refuse to move the train until the eggs have hatched. They figure it will be two weeks before they hatch. When Homer Bedloe hears of this news, h...

🎭 Cast of Petticoat Junction Season 2

Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
Charley Pratt
Bea Benaderet
Bea Benaderet
Kate Bradley
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan
Uncle Joe Carson
Jeannine Riley
Jeannine Riley
Billie Jo Bradley
Pat Woodell
Pat Woodell
Bobbie Jo Bradley
Frank Cady
Frank Cady
Sam Drucker
Rufe Davis
Rufe Davis
Floyd Smoot
Linda Henning
Linda Henning
Betty Jo Bradley

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