Season 1 (1963)

Spur Line to Shady Rest
6.0

September 24, 1963 • 25m

Homer Bedloe, trouble-shooter for the C&F W Railroad, is sent by railroad president Norman P. Curtis to the little community of Ho...Read more

Quick, Hide the Railroad
7.0

October 1, 1963 • 25m

Kate uses a combination of charm, subterfuge, and wiles to prevent Homer Bedloe from catching the Hooterville Cannonball and getti...Read more

The President Who Came to Dinner
7.0

October 8, 1963 • 25m

C&F W Railroad President Norman P. Curtis is incensed that ace troubleshooter Homer Bedloe utterly failed to scrap the Hooterville...Read more

Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse?
7.0

October 15, 1963 • 25m

Norman Curtis, who has fallen in love with life at the Shady Rest, is still staying there for free without Kate yet knowing his tr...Read more

The Courtship of Floyd Smoot
7.0

October 22, 1963 • 25m

Floyd Smoot, the conductor, is courting a woman through the mail. But, when she ends it after receiving a photo of him, he loses a...Read more

Please Buy My Violets
7.0

October 29, 1963 • 25m

Uncle Joe spends Kate's money to buy cases of lousy smelling men and women's cologne to make a fast buck reselling it. The money w...Read more

The Ringer
7.0

November 5, 1963 • 25m

Betty Jo enters the annual Shady Rest Horseshoe Tournament and becomes the first female contestant in the tournament's history. Bu...Read more

Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb
7.0

November 12, 1963 • 25m

When Billie Jo has to come up with a fourth for her double date with Junior Hocker and Junior's visiting friend Roger Budd, Kate s...Read more

The Little Train Robbery
7.0

November 19, 1963 • 25m

Two young men, Arthur Gilroy and Lowell Rightmeyer, are on their way to rob the bank in Pixley. They change their plans when they ...Read more

Bedloe Strikes Again
7.0

November 26, 1963 • 25m

The Cannonball and its primary passenger, Uncle Joe, are pelted with eggs after the Hooterville Hornets, coached by Uncle Joe, are...Read more

Uncle Joe's Replacement
6.0

December 3, 1963 • 25m

Kate and the girls go to Drucker's store to pick up the pocket watch they ordered for Uncle Joe's birthday present. While there Ka...Read more

Honeymoon Hotel
7.0

December 10, 1963 • 25m

Uncle Joe has come up with another scheme to attract guests to the hotel: advertise it as a wedding/honeymoon destination. Uncle J...Read more

A Night at the Hooterville Hilton
7.0

December 17, 1963 • 25m

A brochure made by Uncle Joe describing the incomparable Shady Rest Hotel of the future is accidentally mailed to The Centerville ...Read more

Cannonball Christmas
7.0

December 24, 1963 • 25m

The Bradleys, Sam Drucker, Herby, Charlie and Floyd are decorating the Cannonball for its annual Christmas Eve trip of caroling, g...Read more

Herbie Gets Drafted
0.0

December 31, 1963 • 25m

Herby is depressed when he gets drafted, so the girls cheer him up by suggesting he could be an astronaut. Uncle Joe hears this an...Read more

Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik
7.0

January 7, 1964 • 25m

Bobbie Jo brings home Alan Landman, a mad-at-the-world young poet and slacker who has won her heart. Despite Bobbie Jo liking him ...Read more

My Daughter the Doctor
7.0

January 14, 1964 • 25m

Billie Jo receives a $500 insurance endowment, which her late father set aside for his first-born to become a doctor. But Billie J...Read more

Hooterville vs. Hollywood
6.0

January 21, 1964 • 25m

Billie Jo is still determined to use the $500 from her father to go to Hollywood to become a movie star. It doesn't help that Uncl...Read more

Visit From a Big Star
7.0

January 28, 1964 • 25m

Uncle Joe has made a deal with Lucy Wayne, the secretary of movie star Lane Haggard, for them to stay for two weeks at the Shady R...Read more

Last Chance Farm
6.0

February 4, 1964 • 25m

Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude ...Read more

The Very Old Antique
0.0

February 11, 1964 • 25m

When Kate unexpectedly sees Homer Bedloe in Hooterville, she knows trouble is in store. Bedloe plans on selling the Cannonball, a ...Read more

The Art Game
0.0

February 18, 1964 • 25m

A traveling salesman guest leaves Uncle Joe a set of six paint-by-number canvases in lieu of a cash payment. Joe decides to take u...Read more

Betty Jo's First Love
0.0

February 25, 1964 • 25m

Betty Jo has her first crush on a boy named Orville Miggs. But the object of her affections is more interested in tinkering with c...Read more

Behind All Silver, There's a Cloud Lining
0.0

March 3, 1964 • 25m

Homer Bedloe is back in Hooterville trying yet again to find a way to shut down the Cannonball. He believes there must be somethin...Read more

The Talent Contest
0.0

March 10, 1964 • 25m

A regional talent contest is being held in Hooterville with the winner being awarded $50 and a trip to Chicago for the television ...Read more

Kate and the Manpower Problem
0.0

March 17, 1964 • 25m

An old school chum named Emily Mapes thinks it's time Kate was married again. She tells the girls to round up some prospects to go...Read more

The Ladybugs
0.0

March 24, 1964 • 25m

Beatlemania has hit Hooterville by storm. Uncle Joe recruits Billy, Bobbie, and Betty Joe along with their friend Sally Ragsdale t...Read more

The Hooterville Flivverball
0.0

March 31, 1964 • 25m

Uncle Joe gets angry at Charlie and Floyd when he is left behind by the Cannonball. He decides to start his own transport business...Read more

Kate the Stockholder
0.0

April 7, 1964 • 25m

Norman Curtis, President of the C&FW Railroad, is currently on vacation in Europe. He left instructions not to do anything to the ...Read more

Kate and the Dowager
0.0

April 14, 1964 • 25m

Mr. Bunce with the bank is doing an inspection of the hotel and is not planning on extending Kate's financing. Wealthy socialite C...Read more

Charley Abandons the Cannonball
0.0

April 21, 1964 • 25m

Charley begins to believe that everyone seems too busy to spend any time with him. Floyd has started to call on the widow Sarah La...Read more

Dog Days at Shady Rest
0.0

April 28, 1964 • 25m

Kate receives a telegram from Railroad President Norman Curtis that he is sending Homer Bedloe with someone named Fred. Fred is ac...Read more

A Millionaire for Kate
0.0

May 5, 1964 • 25m

An old friend of Kate's from high school is coming for a visit. Kate admits that she had a crush on H.J. Grant back then. His lett...Read more

Bedloe and Son
0.0

May 12, 1964 • 25m

Homer Bedloe arrives at the Shady Rest with his son, Homer Bedloe Jr., who is as hateful and devious as his father. He even looks ...Read more

Local Girl Makes Good
0.0

May 19, 1964 • 25m

Business executive Mary Jane Hastings returns home to Hooterville to receive the Chamber of Commerce award. She commands attention...Read more

Cave Woman
0.0

May 26, 1964 • 25m

Uncle Joe wants to dig out an old cave to use as a wine cellar for the hotel. Kate receives a telegram from Brooks T. Webster, who...Read more

Kate Flat on Her Back
0.0

June 2, 1964 • 25m

Kate has sprained her ankle which means she will be off her feet for three or four days. Now that Mr. Webster's gone, the family h...Read more

The Genghis Keane Story
0.0

June 9, 1964 • 25m

Kate's former grade school teacher returns to Hooterville. Kate and her children reminisce how Miss Adelaide "Genghis" Keane was s...Read more