It was nice seeing this again, it's been awhile. Combining Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction was a nice treat. Merry Christmas y'all. 🎄🦌🎅☃️
Yeah, we were entertained. Kids now a days could care less about this kinda thing. They’ve got technology we never dreamed of as a kid. I can appreciate this, because I’m middle aged. Kids really can’t, because they didn’t grow up w it. Too bad. I think Christmas use to be so charming and special. Now it’s all about the best tech your family can get their hands on.
I agree. However being a bit older now some of them are just to silly for me. Mainly The Munsters , Adams Family, and the Hillbillys. Guess Ive become a grumpy old man.
This sure brings back memories. My brother and I used to watch the Beverly Hillbillies religiously...but there were only two channels to watch anyway. It was a great show. Now when I was about 6 or 7, I got to meet Ms. Jane. My older brother and I were 'riding the elevators' at a hotel we stayed at in Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada). She saw what we were doing and requested she take us to her floor...thanking us 'little bellhops' for getting her there. She was very nice.
For anyone not familiar with the story CBS had the top rated shows for most of the 1960s. The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Gomer Pyle were all in the top 10 when CBS decided to Cancel all of them. It turns out that the head of CBS, Mr. Wm. Paley had a socialite wife who was close friends with Truman Capote, and the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, Lee Radzwill and she was embarrassed by her husbands TV Shows so they cancelled them all. These wonderful, corny, shows that we watched with our families. I missed that America.
The published version was that, because North American values had shifted from an "unsophisticated" rural style of life, to a more "cosmopolitan" style, big money advertisers put pressure on television executives to cater to a more sophisticated urban/city audience. According to census data, by the 1960s, far more people than ever before, were living in cities rather than on farms. Much of this was due to the fact that in 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau adopted a population density threshold of at least 1,000 people per square mile for urbanized areas, and that meant that even small towns were now "cities". Advertisers wanted the general population to move away from old fashioned, mail-order catalog shopping (created originally for farmers to buy their tools & seeds), and get out to the sprawling, new concrete department stores and malls. Live like you're Marlo Thomas and Mary Tyler Moore! Actor Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney on Green Acres) referred to 1971 as "the year CBS killed everything with a tree in it"!
I love those hair styles in here! 😀 Everything about these shows is so wonderful, especially the family friendly aspect, and it is really great to see all three combined into one show! A wonderful treat indeed! 🙂
The rural purge at CBS got rid of all these popular shows we still watch today while nobody remembers the shows they were replaced with. This shows the “ wisdom” of corporate executives.
Yeah. Nobody remembers Mary Tyler Moore or All in the Family. They won a ton of Emmys between them, but Green Petticoat Hillbilly Junction Acres was MUCH better.🤣
Another episode that I never knew existed. Kind of a strange one, especially that song, I guess the writers were running out of material. Loved the Hooterville connection.
CBS was getting rid of shows like this in what was called "The Rural Purge" so getting all three shows in one was a very special treat because the public had never seen that before on a show. This was close to the end for all the good shows on CBS.
Great episode. Sam Drucker was on 3 shows if memory serves me. Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. Hooterville the center of the universe!
Christmas in Hooterville Episode aired Dec 25, 1968 30m Irene Ryan in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas. Mr. Drysdale, convinced that Mr. Clampett intends to move all of his money to Mr. Drucker's bank, drives to Hooterville to stop him.
didn't know irene ryan until the series learned she had a pretty long acting career prior to the series....she had to be in her 70's when the series started and by god just as wiry and energetic and funny as can be. calling Irene a'hoot' is an understatement for sure!!
Petticoat Junction was before my time, but l recently discovered it and LOVE Lori Saunders - she's lovely. Like me some Higgins, Bea Benaderet & Uncle Joe too!
I rather enjoyed this episode. Mike Minor had a lovely voice. But, Smiley Burnett and Bea Benaderet had both died by then. Donna Douglass was just great. Granny was delightful. Jethro was a riot. Thanks for posting.
It would have been strange if Bea Benaderet had been alive to be in this episode. She initially played Jethro's mom, cousin Pearl. Was a regular in Season One of Beverly HIllbillies.
I don't know if that was Mike Minor singing, but you could tell it was only a lip synch because when Billie Jo sat down at the piano, it started playing full orchestral music, with background vocals, and that wasn't possible at the time this was filmed.
Drysdale's bookkeeper puts on his glasses at 4:11, then puts on his glasses at 4:16. Thought I was FINALLY experiencing the promised Acid Flashback... Shucks.
Michael Fedderson (December 7, 1940 - January 28, 2016), known as Mike Minor, was best known for his role as Steve Elliott on Petticoat Junction (1966-1970) Minor recorded two albums, including This Is Mike Minor (1966), and numerous singles, including the successful "Silver Dollar" and "One Day at a Time". Minor sang the theme song ("Primrose Lane") on season one of the Henry Fonda television series The Smith Family.[8]
Thanks so much! Have not seen for a LONG time! LOL, when I was a kid, I used to record the audio of fave shows on cassette, and heard it so many times, I remembered many of the lines!
I always wanted to live in Hooterville. The beautiful girls swimming naked in the drinking water. They even named the town after them. What could be better!
@@MarcelLWalker Shows like this served to paper over the true reality of those times. Andy Griffith played a sheriff in a North Carolina completely devoid of African Americans, and Gomer Pyle PFC spent the Viet Nam war marching around a base in California.
@cindybin2001 It was nice for us white people when the country was mostly white. Others suffered unfairly. The way the country is "supposed to be" is liberty and justice for all, regardless of race, creed color or national origin. Other than the native inhabitants of this continent, we are all either immigrants ourselves, or the descendants of immigrants. I welcome anyone who values liberty, representative government and the rule of law, as do the immigrants that I work with at my job every day. I still cling to the hope that our nation will live up to the true meaning of it's creed, but those that share your view cause me to fear that we'll head down the same path as Nazi Germany and some of the fascist governments that are on the rise around the world today.
@@jacklow9611 Yes he was a singer before he was an actor. or so it says so on the net. "An early interest in professional baseball led to an avid interest in golf in later years. He had been a member of the Hollywood Hackers, an organization of show business amateurs who travel and play golf while entertaining at the same time. Mike was a singer and had recorded two albums on the sly.
@@jerrysullivan8424 Nepotism was taken to a whole new level with these shows. Paul Henning's daughter was on "Petticoat Junction," and Mike Minor was actually the son of Don Fedderson, who produced "My Three Sons." Meanwhile Curt Massey actually sang the "Petticoat" theme song, as he'd been a big band singer before doing the music for several TV shows.
Miss Hathaway was in real life as well, her character - she was a liberal left wing woke communist democrat. Buddy Ebsen and her did not get alone at all due to her crazy communist ways. Great show eventhough.
Betty Jo sure is a talented Piano Player. She got all of those instrument sounds out of one old fashioned Piano. 😆 Where are the backup singers? Hiding in the Kitchen? Lol I wonder why these Shows don’t record a version of the song that only has the instruments used in the Scene?
It was cool that the 3 shows Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction were all connected. But after 6 years The Network CEOs canned the shows because they were down in the ratings and they grew tired of the 3 shows being old fashioned in theme while the other networks were having more updated themes. I liked Green Acres the best.
LOL - they reused the footage of the lit-up train from the 1963 xmas episode of Pettiocoat Junction (which PJ itself reused in 1966), even though it was shot in B&W.
I noticed that when MeTV showed them back-to-back last Sunday. I was amazed @ how alike they were!! Pat Woodell was the songstress in the '63 version. McCrae in '66.
@@ks2xgaks2xga Ha - it’s so funny to see pretty much an exact remake of an episode they had done three years earlier. But even at that point, they likely knew that the B&W episodes were going on the shelf and they wanted a color episode for the syndication package.
It was nice seeing this again, it's been awhile. Combining Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction was a nice treat. Merry Christmas y'all. 🎄🦌🎅☃️
Merry Christmas .to you 2🎄
@@janicedelorenzo4924 Hi,
Thank you! And a Happy New Year too! 🎉
Jethro must have love/ ❤️ all the very pretty woman
Merry Christmas to all
Yes, very nice! Merry Christmas to you too my friend!
Petticoat junction was never the same without Kate.
It sure wasn't.
I feel the same way.
No, but they tried.
It was common back in these days for current shows to have Christmas episodes. Usually a story about caring, giving, redemption, etc.
Those were the great days of television.
It really really wasn't
@@chemistryguyThese shows made us happier than the sleazy shows of today.
You've got that right.
RIP everyone and thanks for the memories.
Max Baer (Jethro), Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo), Lori Saunders (Bobbie Jo) and Elna Danelle Hubbell (baby Kathy Jo) are still living.
I had such a crush on Lori Saunders as a young teenager growing up in southern Indiana in the 60s!
So did I and I wasn't even 10 years old yet! Maryanne of G.I. looked real good to me too!
It was nice to go back to a time when people said Merry Christmas regularly.
I had never seen or even heard of this episode until now. Very enjoyable and timeless.
Its so nice to see these shows again. oved watching them week to week when I was little. These shows made you forget everything and laugh at anything.
and thats why they called it entertainment.
Yeah, we were entertained. Kids now a days could care less about this kinda thing. They’ve got technology we never dreamed of as a kid. I can appreciate this, because I’m middle aged. Kids really can’t, because they didn’t grow up w it. Too bad. I think Christmas use to be so charming and special. Now it’s all about the best tech your family can get their hands on.
@@thelastminmom5251 Kids nowadays could care less because their parents are none the smarter.
I agree. However being a bit older now some of them are just to silly for me. Mainly The Munsters , Adams Family, and the Hillbillys. Guess Ive become a grumpy old man.
We gotta go back or our society is finished.
This sure brings back memories. My brother and I used to watch the Beverly Hillbillies religiously...but there were only two channels to watch anyway. It was a great show.
Now when I was about 6 or 7, I got to meet Ms. Jane. My older brother and I were 'riding the elevators' at a hotel we stayed at in Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada). She saw what we were doing and requested she take us to her floor...thanking us 'little bellhops' for getting her there. She was very nice.
The Good Old Day's Wish I Could Go Back
Love /❤️ 1960s super great 📺 tv & movies 🎬 & music 😢
Happy Birtday Jesus Merry Christmas to one and all.
For anyone not familiar with the story CBS had the top rated shows for most of the 1960s. The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Gomer Pyle were all in the top 10 when CBS decided to Cancel all of them. It turns out that the head of CBS, Mr. Wm. Paley had a socialite wife who was close friends with Truman Capote, and the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, Lee Radzwill and she was embarrassed by her husbands TV Shows so they cancelled them all. These wonderful, corny, shows that we watched with our families. I missed that America.
The published version was that, because North American values had shifted from an "unsophisticated" rural style of life, to a more "cosmopolitan" style, big money advertisers put pressure on television executives to cater to a more sophisticated urban/city audience. According to census data, by the 1960s, far more people than ever before, were living in cities rather than on farms. Much of this was due to the fact that in 1960, the U.S. Census Bureau adopted a population density threshold of at least 1,000 people per square mile for urbanized areas, and that meant that even small towns were now "cities". Advertisers wanted the general population to move away from old fashioned, mail-order catalog shopping (created originally for farmers to buy their tools & seeds), and get out to the sprawling, new concrete department stores and malls. Live like you're Marlo Thomas and Mary Tyler Moore!
Actor Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney on Green Acres) referred to 1971 as "the year CBS killed everything with a tree in it"!
And CBS went from first place to last place in the ratings.
These shows are timeless to me...Define the season...A better time...
Beautiful 😢 There's nothing like Friends and Family 😢 especially during the holidays 🎄🎅🎁
I emailed Lori Saunders about 10 years ago just to say hi and ask a question. She wrote back the next day. She's 82! Geez time flies.
Cool!!
Awesome! :)
I love those hair styles in here! 😀 Everything about these shows is so wonderful, especially the family friendly aspect, and it is really great to see all three combined into one show! A wonderful treat indeed! 🙂
HILLBILLIES. ARE. ONE OF M Y. FAVORITE. OF. ALL. TIME. LOVE. GRANDMA MERRY. CHRISTMAS
I loved whenever they combined all three shows, Beverly Hillbilies, Petticoat Junction and Green acres. Such a treat!❤
This would have been a perfect opportunity to do a Dickens "Christmas Carol" send up with Mr. Drysdale as "Scrooge"!
There certainly were "hints' of a Christmas Carol early in the storyline, in my opinion.
Mr. Drysdale would've made the perfect Scrooge.
The rural purge at CBS got rid of all these popular shows we still watch today while nobody remembers the shows they were replaced with. This shows the “ wisdom” of corporate executives.
Yeah. Nobody remembers Mary Tyler Moore or All in the Family. They won a ton of Emmys between them, but Green Petticoat Hillbilly Junction Acres was MUCH better.🤣
So true
Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney on "Green Acres") said it best: "CBS canceled everything with a tree in it, including 'Lassie'."
Lori Saunders was an absolute doll as Bobbie Jo Bradley. I think she was better suited for the role than the original cast member.
Pat Woodell too was very good as Bobbie Joe.
I think she was the prettiest of a bunch of pretty actresses
I slightly prefer Lori to Pat.
Pat Woodell had more personality. The original Bobbie Jo and Billy Jo had more personality and flavor. These two are wooden and boring.
Brilliant, its actuall one i had not seen as a kid so it was a great surprise for me. Put a big smile on the dial for me. Cheers from Australia 👍🍻🇦🇺🐨😊
I’m glad you’re free to roam your beautiful country without lockdowns or masks 🎭 🎉❤
The best of the best. Irene Ryan was phenomenal. As they all were but I always loved Granny. Thanks for sharing.
Such sweet shows.
The Beverly Hillbillies Season 7, Episode 14: "Christmas in Hooterville" (December 25, 1968)
I was 3 years old when this episode first aired on TV!
2 years before I was born. Still better than most programs now
I remember this episode.
Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOL.
I was 3yrs and 2 months old when this aired December 25, 1968
I had just turned 5 lol
I was 5 years old.!! You were just "a baby"..lol💕❤️❣️stay well
i was 3yrs and 5 months pam.....my where did the time go!
I was not yet born.
Yup and I was 9 years old back then. It was definitely a funny show. Wonderful memories for sure.
Weee doggi!!!! Used to watch Beverly Hills Billies when I was young! ❤
I LOVE CHRISTMAS SO MUCH HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JESUS CHRIST
😇
Amen.
You know it! Blessings for all! NZ. ✌❤😁
Amen praise God! 🙂
Hallelujah! 💗🎄🎀
Wow, that piano had a full jazz orchestra inside!
Yeah - it opened right up! My piano never sounded like that!
It’s a stunt piano..
@@ericb5194Yep, and included background vocals too!
The magic of television!
This is the kinda show they need at Xmas. Such greatness.
THat was a brilliant Chistmas special, I'm can't believe I never saw it before.
me as well! You are right!
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 🍭🎅🏻👼🏻👼🏿⛸️⛸️☃️☃️☃️⛷️🥂
Merry Christmas 2022! ⛄️🎄🎅 🎁
Merry 🎄 Christmas 2023 less than two weeks away
Pretty woman was Jethro Christmas 🎄 🎁 present
My God, Bobbie Jo was stunning! Had the biggest crush on her when I was a kid watching Petticoat Junction.
I met Lori on the set of a show we did together. She became a good friend. You'd be happy to know that she's as terrific a person as she is a looker.
@@yankee2666 You're a very lucky man,to have encountered and befriended the beautiful lori saunders!.
They were all pretty but she was my favorite also.
If a six-year-old can be in love, I was in love with Bobbi Jo.
@@argelbargel7680 I understand.
SILLY AS THEY WERE, I LOVED THEM IN MY YOUTH.
Beverly Hillbillies meets Hooterville, sounds like my town here in KEntucky
1968, and don't they all look amazing! And in color!!🥰
Never saw this one. Thanks for posting.
Me either
CLASSIC TV!
It was a fun simple time. it was ok to be fun and campy and simple.
Steves singing was so good - and Grannys emotions...great part👏👏👏👏👏 ❤when there's a holiday theme show
Another episode that I never knew existed.
Kind of a strange one, especially that song, I guess the writers were running out of material.
Loved the Hooterville connection.
CBS was getting rid of shows like this in what was called "The Rural Purge" so getting all three shows in one was a very special treat because the public had never seen that before on a show. This was close to the end for all the good shows on CBS.
dislike the singing- not why i watch
One day at a time comes from the Bible. It's not a Christmas carol but still fitting.
Great episode. Sam Drucker was on 3 shows if memory serves me. Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres. Hooterville the center of the universe!
@@leonardhughes5461 Bugtussle.
I watched Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction when new, as a child, and loved both. I remember this ep.
This has been a FILMWAYS Christmas DAHLING!!!
😂
OLIVAH!!😅😅
As corny as they were , I loved these shows growing up , light , and easy to watch.....it was a sad day when the networks did the"rural purge" thing.
16:20 I can't drive through the streets with a bear. What will people think?
They'll think it is the 60s.
Come on, say the 1960's punch line, "Put some clothes on him and people will think he is a hippie."
One lady playing piano & he's got a whole orchestra in the background, haha... 😝
Best Christmas special because it's almost Christmas and im watching it today.
About as close as it can get! Dec 25, 1968!
Less than two weeks away Christmas 🎄 day 2023,
Lori Saunders, dark-haired Bobbie Jo Bradley, was one of the most exquisitely beautiful women in the world. (physically)
Love the way these shows overlapped
Christmas in Hooterville
Episode aired Dec 25, 1968
30m
Irene Ryan in The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
The Clampetts return to Hooterville to celebrate Christmas. Mr. Drysdale, convinced that Mr. Clampett intends to move all of his money to Mr. Drucker's bank, drives to Hooterville to stop him.
I grew loving the Bradley girls names , in 94 i called my second daughter Billie ann ! I will have to make her watch this , Australia
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, I stumbled into this one on the eve of Christmas Eve, 2023.
And it was a good laugh. Thanks.
geez i remember these first run as a kid.. granny came to my home town Mobile for Mardi Gras was in the parade
Mobile Alabama?????? I live in Spanish fort Alabama
Who comes to Mobile for Mardi Gras in 2024, I want to come, anybody famous???
I loved petticoat junction since I was a child. And I still love it even now.
I always loved Granny, Irene Ryan was a hoot...I love that makeover...XD
didn't know irene ryan until the series
learned she had a pretty long acting career prior to the series....she had to be
in her 70's when the series started and by god just as wiry and energetic and funny as can be.
calling Irene a'hoot' is an understatement for sure!!
Thank you for all the great memories🌟🎄🎄🌨️⛄⛄⛄🍪🍪
I watched this when new. Steve sang so good, love this song. I think he only made one LP. He should have made 50. He was cute, too.
Agree. He could of been a successful Vegas act.
❤
Christmas Day 1968.
That toupee is in the Smithsonian.
Remember when Jethro was born he had a full set of teeth according to uncle Jed
He also drove his mother home from the hospital.
Two great shows joined together
Would have been nice if the Douglas's were their since Eb was.
Same thing with Kate not being there.
@@jacklow9611 Yes, very sad as she had just passed away a coupler of months before this episode aired.
Yes, I missed them as well
Poor Jethro got the short end of the deal so many times. Mr. Drysdale got stung as well. He did it to himself. Ouch!
Best part of this video is LORI SAUNDERS. ❤️❤️❤️
Agreed! Stunningly beautiful!
Petticoat Junction was before my time, but l recently discovered it and LOVE Lori Saunders - she's lovely. Like me some Higgins, Bea Benaderet & Uncle Joe too!
I rather enjoyed this episode. Mike Minor had a lovely voice. But, Smiley Burnett and Bea Benaderet had both died by then. Donna Douglass was just great. Granny was delightful. Jethro was a riot. Thanks for posting.
Love it 😂🎉😢😮😅😊
It would have been strange if Bea Benaderet had been alive to be in this episode. She initially played Jethro's mom, cousin Pearl. Was a regular in Season One of Beverly HIllbillies.
Thanks for saying who Mike minor was I couldn’t remember
I don't know if that was Mike Minor singing, but you could tell it was only a lip synch because when Billie Jo sat down at the piano, it started playing full orchestral music, with background vocals, and that wasn't possible at the time this was filmed.
Drysdale's bookkeeper puts on his glasses at 4:11, then puts on his glasses at 4:16. Thought I was FINALLY experiencing the promised Acid Flashback... Shucks.
i had never seen this episode.. well done and merry Christmas
Michael Fedderson (December 7, 1940 - January 28, 2016), known as Mike Minor, was best known for his role as Steve Elliott on Petticoat Junction (1966-1970) Minor recorded two albums, including This Is Mike Minor (1966), and numerous singles, including the successful "Silver Dollar" and "One Day at a Time". Minor sang the theme song ("Primrose Lane") on season one of the Henry Fonda television series The Smith Family.[8]
Thank you for this information.👏
Those two young women are truly beautiful.
Jethro Christmas 🎁 present
😂😂. You tired of Pumping Eb ? " 😂😂. Nobody would get tired of pumpin Elly Mae 😂😂
indeed😆
Writers were smoking that Holiday stuff that episode. lol
Thanks so much! Have not seen for a LONG time! LOL, when I was a kid, I used to record the audio of fave shows on cassette, and heard it so many times, I remembered many of the lines!
Steve has hair like a Ken Doll.😊
This is 2024 and we could use all of the comedy now these days!!! Christmas episode is funny and awesome!!
Meredith MacRae, prettiest blonde woman I think I ever grew up watching!
I agree 1000%
Bobbie Jo was my first crush. To this day a beautiful woman with dark hair and brown eyes makes my heart go boom boom.
For me too. There is a straight line from Lori Saunders to Jenna Coleman.
Pat Woodell was the first Bobbie Jo. She was a beauty as well!
I find "Hooterville" a very interesting name for a town featuring 3 pretty young women.!
I always wanted to live in Hooterville. The beautiful girls swimming naked in the drinking water. They even named the town after them. What could be better!
To think how far we have fallen as a Nation. One day someone in the future will see this episode and realize we were not that bad after all.
And it happened in less than a lifetime.
Dude, it's Hooterville, not _To Kill a Mockingbird_ -- if this is what you want society to be measured against, God help us all.
@@MarcelLWalker If you like the way things are now good luck
@@MarcelLWalker Shows like this served to paper over the true reality of those times. Andy Griffith played a sheriff in a North Carolina completely devoid of African Americans, and Gomer Pyle PFC spent the Viet Nam war marching around a base in California.
@cindybin2001 It was nice for us white people when the country was mostly white. Others suffered unfairly. The way the country is "supposed to be" is liberty and justice for all, regardless of race, creed color or national origin. Other than the native inhabitants of this continent, we are all either immigrants ourselves, or the descendants of immigrants. I welcome anyone who values liberty, representative government and the rule of law, as do the immigrants that I work with at my job every day.
I still cling to the hope that our nation will live up to the true meaning of it's creed, but those that share your view cause me to fear that we'll head down the same path as Nazi Germany and some of the fascist governments that are on the rise around the world today.
The singing part was a little cringy, and I loved it!! Love these old Christmas shows! Ty!!
Great seeing Uncle Joe and Benji.
Higgins, actually
Lori Sanders in the first few seasons was the most beautiful sister.
Betty Jo was my childhood crush. I think she was the only original one. Memories.
That's for sure. She was the best looking sister. Meredith McCrae was a close second.
The prettiest, but my favorite was her predesessor Pat Woodell
@@petercena9497 And Jeannine Riley was no plain Jane herself!.
Have to disagree with you on that. Meredith McCrae wins by a country mile!
I laughed so hard when I saw Granny dressed up! I believe that's got to be the funniest moment in that series!
Kate and Pearl were supposed to be cousins. Betty Joe, or one of her sisters, mention it when Dr. Granny comes to take care of Kathy Jo.
I didn't know Steve could sing, miss these shows so much.
Sounds like Sinatra.
That wasn't him singing. A piano does not sound like a full orchestra with backup vocals. The lip synch was very well done though.
@@jacklow9611 Yes he was a singer before he was an actor. or so it says so on the net. "An early interest in professional baseball led to an avid interest in golf in later years. He had been a member of the Hollywood Hackers, an organization of show business amateurs who travel and play golf while entertaining at the same time. Mike was a singer and had recorded two albums on the sly.
@@jerrysullivan8424 Nepotism was taken to a whole new level with these shows. Paul Henning's daughter was on "Petticoat Junction," and Mike Minor was actually the son of Don Fedderson, who produced "My Three Sons." Meanwhile Curt Massey actually sang the "Petticoat" theme song, as he'd been a big band singer before doing the music for several TV shows.
One of the few times I have seen Sterling Holloway on screen. Great character voice actor!
What an unexpected treat!
I've never seen this episode- Thanks for posting!
Miss Hathaway was in real life as well, her character - she was a liberal left wing woke communist democrat. Buddy Ebsen and her did not get alone at all due to her crazy communist ways. Great show eventhough.
Betty Jo sure is a talented Piano Player. She got all of those instrument sounds out of one old fashioned Piano. 😆
Where are the backup singers? Hiding in the Kitchen? Lol
I wonder why these Shows don’t record a version of the song that only has the instruments used in the Scene?
It cost too much for live singing and musicians. Lighten up and enjoy the show, its make believe. Merry Christmas!
Love all these
It was cool that the 3 shows Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction were all connected. But after 6 years The Network CEOs canned the shows because they were down in the ratings and they grew tired of the 3 shows being old fashioned in theme while the other networks were having more updated themes. I liked Green Acres the best.
I think our family only had a black and white tv when these shows aired. 😂
LOL - they reused the footage of the lit-up train from the 1963 xmas episode of Pettiocoat Junction (which PJ itself reused in 1966), even though it was shot in B&W.
I noticed that when MeTV showed them back-to-back last Sunday. I was amazed @ how alike they were!! Pat Woodell was the songstress in the '63 version. McCrae in '66.
@@ks2xgaks2xga Ha - it’s so funny to see pretty much an exact remake of an episode they had done three years earlier. But even at that point, they likely knew that the B&W episodes were going on the shelf and they wanted a color episode for the syndication package.
True. Pretty sure they just put it through a colored filter.
Mike Minor was the hillbilly who sang all the hillbilly music throughout this episode.
The good old days!!!
The bear sleeping and drinking is a riot.
And driving.
Petticoat junction was one of my favorite shows it was great
Despite of what is happening in the world today, yes; Happy Birthday to sweet JC.
When he started singing with orchestra in background & perfect studio recorded vocals.