Petticoat Junction/Visit From a Big Star

Visit From a Big Star
Season 1, Episode 19
Airdate	January 28, 1964
Written by	Bill Manhoff
Directed by	Ralph Levy
Produced by	Dick Wesson
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Petticoat Junction — Season One

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Visit From a Big Star is the nineteenth episode of the first season of Petticoat Junction.

Starring: Bea Benaderet (Kate Bradley)

with Edgar Buchanan (Joe Carson)

Co-Starring: Jeannine Riley (Billie Jo Bradley), Pat Woodell (Bobbie Jo Bradley), Linda Kaye (Betty Jo Bradley), Smiley Burnette (Charley Pratt), Rufe Davis (Floyd Smoot)

Guest Star: John Vivyan (Lane Haggard)

Additional Cast: Joan Marshall (Lucy Wayne), Frank Cady (Sam Drucker), Jack Henderson (Middle-Aged Man), Margaret Bert (Older Woman), Vickie King (Teenage Girl), Jaclyn Carmichael (Teenage Girl), Jacque Palmer (Teenage Girl), Rick Murray (Boy)

Plot Overview

Uncle Joe has made a deal with Lucy Wayne, the secretary of suave movie star Lane Haggard, for them to stay for two weeks at the Shady Rest. Incognito as Mr. Jones, Haggard, according to Miss Wayne, needs to get some rest and relaxation away from prying public eyes. But upon their arrival, Miss Wayne believes Uncle Joe has duped her. First, Uncle Joe has told what seems like the entire valley about their stay. And second, Miss Wayne wanted no attractive women around to fall under Haggard's reflex movie idol charms, with Kate and the girls what she considers not quite homely as Uncle Joe described them. The problem arises that those reflex charms do surface without Haggard realizing what he is doing, and the three girls, not used to such words from a big city man, believe what he tells each of them instead of those words being niceties which he says to every attractive female.