Petticoat Junction — Season 1, Episode 20: Last Chance Farm
Comedy, Family • 25 min • 7 seasons, 222 episodes • ★ 5.8/10
Episode synopsis
Business is bad at the Shady Rest and Kate needs to make a $200 bank loan payment. Uncle Joe meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude Hawley, who are lost and looking for Madame Bovary's Hideaway Reducing Farm. He convinces them that the Shady Rest is the most exclusive reducing farm and charges them $200 for a week. The catch is that Uncle Joe provides them with a money back guarantee. Uncle Joe tries to hide from Kate why the women are staying at the hotel. With a rigged scale, Joe has to convince the two that the secret to weight loss is to eat whatever they want as long as it is combined with turnip greens. He also has them do what would normally be considered all his chores. Ultimately, the two women do whatever they can to find what they believe is Kate's miracle weight loss and youth secret.
About Petticoat Junction
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Spur Line to Shady Rest
- E2Quick, Hide the Railroad
- E3The President Who Came to Dinner
- E4Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse?
- E5The Courtship of Floyd Smoot
- E6Please Buy My Violets
- E7The Ringer
- E8Kate's Recipe for Hot Rhubarb
- E9The Little Train Robbery
- E10Bedloe Strikes Again
- E11Uncle Joe's Replacement
- E12Honeymoon Hotel