Petticoat Junction — Season 1, Episode 38: The Genghis Keane Story

Episode synopsis

Kate's former grade school teacher returns to Hooterville. Kate and her children reminisce how Miss Adelaide "Genghis" Keane was so strict on all the children, and she was a dreaded teacher. Kate and the girls are surprised to find that the elderly schoolteacher is no longer the tyrannical disciplinarian she used to be. They all get together to bring Miss Keane's confidence back. It doesn't take long for Miss Keane to become a disciplinarian again and Kate and the girls are beginning to regret what they did. Before Kate can confront her, Adelaide acknowledges that she has gone too far and is scaring people off. Kate finds a way for Miss Keane to be happy again.

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