Petticoat Junction was a popular TV show in the early 1960s, but it could have been the nickname for a section in my closet set aside for hanging my petticoats also known as bouffants, crinolines, and ...

Writer and producer Paul Henning was the brain behind three hit TV shows: Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. The third show was a hit on CBS between 1963 and 1970, and ...

When “Petticoat Junction” premiered in 1963, it quickly became a beloved classic — and according to its cast it’s easy to see why. The show, a spinoff of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” explored the ...

Actress-singer Joan O’Brien, who starred with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in “Operation Petticoat” and was Elvis Presley’s love interest in “It Happened at the World’s Fair,” has died. She was 89.

Actress Pat Woodell, who starred as one of a trio of sisters in the wholesome 1960s sitcom “Petticoat Junction” before she went on to be featured in a series of not-so-wholesome exploitation films, ...

It’s hard to believe, but even after writing hundreds of articles about classic TV, this is my very first one about Petticoat Junction. I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to it, because ...

Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope worked together once, in “The Iron Petticoat.” The only screen teaming of screen legends Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn is finally making its US TV debut on Turner ...

The son of producer Don Fedderson, he married Linda Kaye Henning (Betty Jo Bradley) on the CBS series and then in real life, too. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mike Minor, a singer and actor who wed ...

The Bradley sisters — Linda Kaye Henning was Betty Jo and Jeannine Riley was Billie Jo — were the comely daughters of Bea Benaderet’s Kate Bradley, the owner of the Shady Rest Hotel. The characters ...

Mike Minor, whose hunky, dashing “Petticoat Junction” character Steve Elliott was memorably introduced at the beginning of season four, crashing next to the train tracks as “Petticoat’s” trio of ...