As of July 2026, Petticoat Junction Season 4 aired in 1966 with 32 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Petticoat Junction Season 4

1966 32 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 6/10

Petticoat Junction Season 4 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on and . A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. 41 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Smiley Burnette is the obvious draw, but the whole ensemble earns its laughs. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Petticoat Junction Season 4 is worth clearing space for. Petticoat Junction Season 4 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 4 of Petticoat Junction includes 32 episodes. It aired from September 1966 to May 1967. This season stars Smiley Burnette, Mike Minor and Meredith MacRae. Smiley Burnette and Mike Minor lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1966. Petticoat Junction Season 4 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.

For viewers who want something light without wanting something stupid, Petticoat Junction Season 4 respects your intelligence. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Smiley Burnette is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.

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🎬 Petticoat Junction Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Young Love
1966-09-13
Uncle Joe starts a Free Wedding and Honeymoon Contest to promote business for the Shady Rest Hotel. Out of all the entries, one stands out: that of Laura Bentley and Tony Allison, a young couple whose parents will not allow them to get married. However, when they arrive at the hotel, they are actual...
E2
Birdman of Shady Rest
1966-09-20
While the girls are swimming in the water tower, a bi-plane flies overhead. The pilot, distracted by the beautiful girls he sees in the water tower, crashes the plane by the railroad tracks next to the hotel. The family manage to get the unconscious injured pilot up to the hotel. For all three girls...
E3
Hooterville, You're All Heart
1966-09-27
Steve's plane is still sitting damaged where it crashed near the railroad tracks by the hotel. Henry Sharp, from the finance company, comes by because Steve has missed a payment. Steve has barely enough money to repair the plane let alone make his regular payments. Trying to get Sharp to give Steve ...
E4
He Loves Us, He Loves Us Not
1966-10-04
Steve spends time individually with Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo doing their favorite activities. Because of this, each girl believes that Steve has chosen her to be his girl. Meanwhile, Uncle Joe tries to talk Steve into starting Carson-Elliot Air Express. Steve has no intention on marrying an...
E5
The All-Night Party
1966-10-11
Since she is now in junior college, Bobbie Jo thinks she's all grown up. She decides to go to an all night party with her friends. Kate refuses to let her go to the all-nighter, despite Bobbie Jo telling her that all the other mothers are letting their daughters go. Kate learns that none of the moth...
E6
Cannonball, Inc.
1966-10-18
Charley and Floyd derail the Cannonball going around Deadman's Curve. They believe the reason for the derailment was that Floyd had removed too many of the railroad ties to stoke the engine. Uncle Joe calls the C&FW Railroad, who agree to pay the necessary $300 insurance deductible for the repairs. ...
E7
Kate Grounds Selma Plout
1966-10-25
Kate Bradley tangles with Selma Plout when Selma tries to lure pilot Steve Elliott into marriage with her daughter, Henrietta. Selma tries to throw both money into Steve's crop dusting business and gourmet meals to entice Steve. Selma ramps up her fight one notch by moving herself and Henrietta into...
E8
The Almost Annual Charity Show
1966-11-01
It's almost time for the Almost Annual Charity Show, and everyone is looking forward to Steve and Billie Jo performing a duet together. Selma strong-arms Sam, the overseer of the show, into appointing her the show's committee chair, a job usually held by Kate. Selma wants a few changes to the perfor...
E9
How Bugged Was My Valley
1966-11-15
Kate sees Steve as a possible future son-in-law. She believes his life as a pilot is too dangerous and she would like to see him get a different job. When she learns that Steve has a journalism background, she convinces Sam to turn over the running of the Hooterville World Guardian to Steve. With no...
E10
Twenty-Five Years Too Late
1966-11-22
Kate's first boyfriend, Walter O'Connor, who is now a major league baseball manager, is coming to stay at the Shady Rest. While Kate is excited to see Walter, she is still just as anxious and nervous about him actually asking her to marry him. Regardless of Walter's intentions, his being there makes...
E11
The Runt Strikes Back
1966-11-29
There's a dance on Saturday. Billie Jo and Bobbie Jo will only accept a date from either Steve or Don, the new young doctor in the valley. Neither Steve or Don have asked anyone to the dance yet. Billie Jo believes she has the right of first choice being the oldest. Left out is Betty Jo, who feels s...
E12
Is There a Doctor in the Valley?
1966-12-13
Young Doctor Craig announces that he's leaving the valley since there just isn't enough business for him and Doc Stuart. Kate thinks she's come up with a solution for him to stay. He should specialize in house calls for people who can't make it into the office. He enlists the help of Floyd and Charl...
E13
The Santa Claus Special
1966-12-20
It's the Christmas season, and everyone's in a rush to decorate the Cannonball in preparation for their annual caroling and gift delivery runs. Their plans are placed into jeopardy with the arrival of Homer Bedloe. He says that what they are doing is against railroad policy and he won't allow it. Ka...
E14
My Daughter the Secretary
1966-12-27
The local Discussion Club is sending their secretary to the weekend long national conventional, all expenses paid. That means Billie Jo, but she doesn't really want to leave Steve for an entire weekend. However, Selma doesn't ever remember voting for someone to fill the position permanently. She wan...
E15
The Rise and Fall of a Tycoon
1967-01-03
Homer Bedloe shows up unexpectedly. He's come to announce there will be a new general manager for the Cannonball, who will oversee the train's operations. That person is Uncle Joe. Uncle Joe begins to act like a tyrant in bossing around Charley and Floyd. Charley, Floyd and everyone in the valley ar...
E16
His Highness the Dog
1967-01-17
A crew is filming a commercial at Lost Lake. The commercial stars Prince Hamlet of Kronenberg von Auschwile III, a rather large and imposing but valuable dog. Mr. Morton, the film crew director, needs Steve to fly him immediately to make a connection to a flight to New York. Hamlet can't risk the fl...
E17
Girls! Girls! Girls!
1967-01-24
Jealousy will permeate the Shady Rest Hotel. After he agrees to go to the turnabout dance with Bobbie Jo, Tommy Johnson has to back out due to another commitment. As Billie Jo and Steve recently had a fight and Billie Jo isn't speaking to him anymore, Bobbie Jo feels that Steve is fair game. Steve a...
E18
Temperance, Temperance
1967-01-31
Jeremiah Priddy, a temperance lecturer, is coming to the valley. Meanwhile, Betty Jo has a quiet little boy following her around, even back to the hotel. They learn his name is Clint and try to make sure he's OK until they find out who he belongs to. Eventually they find that his father is Mr. Pridd...
E19
A Star is Born
1967-02-07
The National Amateur Hour is screening for new talent, and are holding auditions through the valley's own radio Station K. The winning performer is to receive $200. Once Uncle Joe hears about the prize money, he thinks that Steve and Billie Jo should enter. Sydney Sparks, a talent agent who heard St...
E20
Shoplifter at the Shady Rest
1967-02-14
Pixley's Sheriff Crandall is going on a fishing vacation. Uncle Joe makes an arrangement with Sam, the valley's justice of the peace, to house kleptomaniac shoplifter Eustace Pockle at the hotel. Kate doesn't like the idea, but allows Eustace to stay. Unfortunately for Kate and the hotel guests, Unc...

🎭 Cast of Petticoat Junction Season 4

Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
Charley Pratt
MM
Mike Minor
Steve Elliott
Meredith MacRae
Meredith MacRae
Billie Jo Bradley
Lori Saunders
Lori Saunders
Bobbie Jo Bradley
Bea Benaderet
Bea Benaderet
Kate Bradley
Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan
Uncle Joe Carson
Frank Cady
Frank Cady
Sam Drucker
Rufe Davis
Rufe Davis
Floyd Smoot
Linda Henning
Linda Henning
Betty Jo Bradley

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