Petticoat Junction/My Daughter the Doctor

My Daughter the Doctor
Season 1, Episode 17
Airdate	January 14, 1964
Written by	Ed James and Seaman Jacobs
Directed by	Jean Yarbrough
Produced by	Dick Wesson
← 1x16 Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik	1x18 → Hooterville vs. Hollywood
Petticoat Junction — Season One

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My Daughter the Doctor is the seventeenth 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)

Cast: Russell Horton (Junior Hocker), Paul Derolf (Paul Henderson)

and Adam West (Dr. Clayton Harris)

Plot Overview

Kate has some exciting news for Billie Jo: the endowment policy that her father, who Billie Jo is named after, invested for her has matured. William's last wish was for Billie Jo to use the money to go to medical school. Kate expects Billie Jo to fulfill that last wish. But Billie Jo has a trip to Hollywood and acting stardom on her mind with that $500 instead. Kate thinks that Hooterville's long time doctor, Dr. Depew, can talk Billie Jo into it. But Kate's thinks that Dr. Depew's handsome new assistant, Dr. Clayton Harris, would be able to convince Billie Jo even more. Kate needs to use a little deceit as she knows Billie Jo won't stick around if she knows a doctor wants to talk her into becoming a doctor, and Dr. Harris wouldn't come if he knew that Billie Jo really had no interest in becoming a doctor at all. So using Uncle Joe as a patient with non-existing symptoms...