Petticoat Junction/Last Chance Farm

Last Chance Farm
Season 1, Episode 20
Airdate	February 4, 1964
Written by	Hannibal Coons and Harry Winkler
Directed by	Guy Scarpitta
Produced by	Dick Wesson
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Petticoat Junction — Season One

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Last Chance Farm is the twentieth 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)

Guest Starring: Dorothy Konrad (Mrs. Henrietta Boswell), Pearl Shear (Mrs. Gertrude Hawley), Don Brodie (Mr. Begley)

Plot Overview

Business is so bad at the Shady Rest that Kate plans on getting Uncle Joe to pawn her beloved gold necklace and locket to make the $200 bank loan payment due at the end of the week. Uncle Joe has other plans to make the repayment, but comes upon one that falls into his lap when he meets Henrietta Boswell and Gertrude Hawley, who are lost and looking for Madame Bovary's Hideaway Reducing Farm, one of the most exclusive resorts of its kind. He convinces them that the Shady Rest is *the* most exclusive reducing farm and charges half the $200 per week per person at Madame Bovary's, which, as luck would have it, is exactly what Kate needs to pay the loan. The catch is that Uncle Joe provides them with a money back guarantee. As Uncle Joe hides from Kate the nature of the women's stay at the hotel, he, with a rigged scale, also 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.