Petticoat Junction 1963 - 1970 Opening and Closing Theme HQ
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2016
- Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.
The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning. Petticoat Junction was created upon the success of Henning's previous rural/urban-themed sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (1962--1971). The success of Petticoat Junction led to a spin-off, Green Acres (1965--1971).
The setting for the series is The Shady Rest Hotel, just outside the farming town of Hooterville (later the location of Green Acres). The hotel is situated on the train line of the C. & F.W. Railroad, halfway between the towns of Pixley and Hooterville, each 25 miles (40 km) away. The characters "seem" to go to Hooterville for some goods and services, including high school and the hospital, but prefer Pixley for supermarket shopping, beauty parlors, and movies. - Розваги
I am SO happy and grateful to have been a 60's - 70's kid!!!😁😁😁
Me too
my song theres uncle joe hes movin kind of slow in the white house stimulus is a joke last one was a joke trump wanted to give us 2000dulars it tok for ever to get uncle joes 1400 cant by food to feed your kids keep the heat on
@CARLOS ITOIZ it rained every day i was a kid we played tag a lot at nite cant swim in lake all that lightning
@@kevanrice1496 Is that some kind of avant garde poetry or are you actually trying to say something?
Same
I had a cousin who worked at that studio and when I was a little kid my mom and I got a tour by my cousin including the "cement pond" and front facade where The Beverly Hillbillies" was filmed, and next to it was the set of Petticoat Junction and we happened upon Bea and Linda Kay sitting in directors chairs. They were very nice and kind to us. My cousin was friends with Linda Kay who later came to his wedding. Brings back lots of fond memories.
The way a TV theme song from this era can uncork so many sweet memories of childhood is astonishing.
How can a tv theme song make me feel so good? Ahhhh....the memories.
Someone posted it on FB about a month ago and it has stuck in my mind every since. Can't get the tune out of my head. Hahahahaha
Windsong1a
Agreed 100%
I just got the first 2 seasons on DVD. I am reliving my childhood.
It wasn’t my favourite show, I liked it a lot....but there’s just something about the theme song that makes me stop and remember...the show, my 8 year old self, the world around me back then. Maybe it’s because I’ve always been a sucker for trains, I don’t know.
@@IanForsythWestCoast
I agree with you .
One of the warmest feeling and good hearted shows in television history.
Who can ever forget the Xmas episode with the train all lighted up? Good times and comradery!
When tv shows were tolerated and well family oriented
@@jessebraithwaite1689 Well it was a family show, but when you think things through, I don't know. How did the mom produce (genetically speaking) a natural blonde, brunette and a redhead from the same dad? What nice, hygienic girls would bathe in a water tower just above a train station, how does that even work? And was Joe moving slow because he was old, or because these "Hooterville" girls wore him out?
Anno I tried to say you remember this from P1
I was born in 61 and by two years old I stood in front of the tv watching this! 🥰🤗❤️🌈♾
I really enjoyed Petticoat Junction and especially when they did some cross over shows with Green Acres. A warmhearted show it was! Some of television's greatest times non violent shows!
And, they could be funny, without being crass, or stooping to the lowest common denominator.
Green Acres theme song was just as good, too! Beverley Hillbillies, Mr Ed... so many great theme songs.
My wife’s granddad liked that show for one weird reason. They actually had a railroad engineer that knew how to properly operate a steam engine. He said that you could tell by the smoke. Evidently if you tried to force a steam engine to run it would blow thick black smoke. If you took the time and did it right the smoke would be nonexistent to a pale gray. He was a retired brakeman for Canadian pacific railroad and couldn’t stand to see an old steam engine abused.
What he probably doesn't know is that this locomotive burns oil. The firewood on the top of the tender is for show. There's a cistern in the tender that holds the oil which is pumped into the firebox. The heavy black smoke comes mostly from burning coal in too rich of an environment. Fuel for this loco is free; it's waste crankcase oil from oil change garages.
Canadian Pacific owns one of the railroads in the Chicago area now along with Canadian National .
Good taste xx
The Train was furnished by barbary coast hoyt hotel, In my neck if the woods Portland Oregon
@@rotunda57 I sure didn't know that engine burned oil. I know my dad said once a kid he knew wanted to shovel coal on a steam engine on a short hop going maybe 20 miles. Dad said the kid couldn't keep up and the train stopped. I think dad said they had to call in a fireman to finish the run.
I remember seeing every single episode of "Petticoat Junction" every single time that it was on the air.
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Back in the days when the television themes were classics all on their own!
Billie Jo, Bobbi Jo, Bettie Jo---so which was the redhead, which was the blonde, and which was the brunette?
When television learned you morals and somehow showed you how a functional family should be, with ups and downs but together conquer it al. The shows nowadays are FUCKED!
Parks and Rec
Game of Thrones
The Office
Big Bang Theory
Stranger Things
Breaking Bad
Sherlock
Dexter...
All iconic themes
@@oxidatie Aside from The Office, do any of the shows you listed have theme songs that last for more than ten seconds? I can't imagine Bing Bang Theory's opening music being called a song. Perhaps there's an expanded version I'm not aware of. If you can prove me wrong, please do so.
@@stephenalessini8556 little house on the prairie.
Born in 1960 in California I'm so glad to have been alive to see such great TV!
I loved this show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Green Acres growing up. But, I thought as a kid and still think now in my 60s that Petticoat Junction had the best theme song. Watching reruns as a teenager, I had a crunch on Lori Saunders.
One of the best tv themes of all time. A real short n sweet masterpiece.
This is One of my favorite theme songs and I wasn't born until 1970.
And I like the show too.
@@emilysanders4807 ...same here and born same year!
13 channels on TV back then and still better than the hundreds put together today.
so true.. a innocent time. Girls were girls then.
Because everything on now is either a rerun, or a reboot of a remake of a reimagining.
GlowingGold The 60’s were never an innocent time
13? We had 3.
Cliff Brown 3 is what we had too .
The steam locomotive used for the show was Sierra Railway #3, a 4-6-0 built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in 1891, which the engine is now owned by Railtown 1897 in Jamestown, California. Railtown 1897 is one of the railroad attractions in Great American Train Rides Volume 2 from Pentrex. I got the 2-Volume set on VHS.
The Hooterville Cannonball, shown chugging slowly along its way to town in the the '60s sitcom classic "Petticoat Junction," was the very same train seen in "The Wild Wild West," but apparently just in the pilot.
The engine, called Sierra Railroad No. 3, may have been the same one seen in "The Iron Horse," but no one's really sure at this point. All of the "Iron Horse's" train footage was shot on Sierra Railway property, but No. 3 wasn't the only engine they had.
However, the No. 3 is clearly its star. The Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, Calif., which currently houses the No. 3, says that the engine has appeared in more than 100 productions. Among the other titles are "Gunsmoke," "Little House on the Prairie," "Lassie" and "Rawhide," and that latter series made its hitherto unknown young star into a lifelong fan of the No. 3.
"The Sierra No. 3 is like a treasured old friend," the museum quotes Clint Eastwood as saying. "Even in the business of 'make believe,' you can't beat the real thing."
It's fitting, then, that when Eastwood returned to the western genre that made him a star after a years-long exile, he returned to the No. 3 as well -- the train appeared in his Oscar-winning 1992 film "Unforgiven," 33 years after he first rode it in "Rawhide."
The Sierra No. 3 was used extensively for the pilot for the quirky late-'60s action comedy "The Wild Wild West," and stock footage of it appeared periodically in later episodes, but the train used for the bulk of the regular-season episodes was reportedly called the Inyo, a train built in 1875 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.
decoy.tvpassport.com/q_a/q-steam-locomotives-used-petticoat-junction-wild-wild-west-and-iron-horse-were-they-same-engine-
You could teach Sheldon Cooper a thing or two !
Yeah...This is the place to find FOAMERS! 😅
Sheldon Cooper is that you??
@@brianhenson8083 !!!!!SHELDON????? he is just an actor named Jim Parson, who only reads whatever wrong lines the script writers write fir him, but Jim don't the difference 'twixt a cow-catcher or a caboose!!!!! LOL 😂 😆 🤣 😹 😂 😆 🤣 😹 😂 😆 🤣 😹!!!!!!!!!!!!
very very sweet series... I remember watching it in 70's in my teens..these kinds of series like bewitched, green acres were so sweet they created image of the world as being only sweet...no ills and violence...no animosities...no terrorism...only little little issues making life so sweet...loved it...pray I go to that utopia where only happiness exists...no disease...no hostilites...no poverty...just a paradise..beautiful kind people of sweet manners....!!!
Good clean entertainment that made us laugh in a time that seemed so simple !
Best theme song 🎵 for comedy sitcom ...this has so many layers ...earthy, swings, confident, fun, etc
I use to watch this show as a kid , I'm so old 😪
Love that song in the 60s when I was a kid...
One of the best light-hearted comedies ever and the theme song always makes me smile
One of my all-time favorite TV shows. I've gotten my 40 year old stepson watching some episodes, most recently the last episode, and the first, which both ran the same day on Decades earlier this week.
Every time my dog, Peanut, hears the theme to this show, he can be in the deepest sleep, he'll jump up and start barking his head off. I just put this song on to show my husband what happens and he's laughing his head off at Peanut barking his head off at the computer screen. Silly little dog!! LOL!!
Cute ♥
Gives me a reason to go on during these horrible times in which we live.
My hearts full of nostalgia right now!😭😭🥰😍❤️💜💞💓
Still one of my favorite TV sitcom themes. Thanks!
This really feeds the dream. Wondering what life was like in 1965.
Depends on where it was but if you want a small town watch "Andy Griffith". I recently watched it and it was just like being back in that time all over again, so much of it I could relate to the small town where I started my life. If you like living it rich in the big city watch "Family Affair".
@@regsun7947 I'd like a little village lifestyle but with a fat English butler. I want it all.
For those who know The Golden State, the towns of Green Acres and Pixley are only an hours' drive apart in the San Joaquin Valley. And " The Hooterville Cannonball " shown in the closing credits was actually filmed on the Sierra Railway, located a bit further North in California's Gold Rush Country.
When you drive down “Lower Sonora Pass Highway 108”. That’s the Sierra Railroad Line. Where this stock footage was shot at. Just before Jamestown, CA.
Wow I remember my dad worked on a dam near Jamestown back in the late 70's.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you on the matter of “New Melones Dam”. It’s where I currently work near.
The “New Dam” was quite controversial in its’s time. I just barely remember the “Stanislaus River Canyon” prior to it being filled up with water and being driven across “The Old Bridge”.
: It;s nice to see this old, historic train restored or preserved. Is it still in operation these days?
@@makaha5750 Fully restored in 2010 and used on excursions on the weekends in Jamestown Ca . Railtown 1897 State historic park. No operations now due to Covid-19
What fella didn't wanna take a little peek in that water tower at the beginning?! 😜
🤔😱😁
every red-blooded american boy ;)
I would go snorkeling in it :D
Hee, Hee, Hee!
Oh man! Just dive right in!
As a 6yr old at the time,I can say that I was in love with them ladies
Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo and Betty Jo.....I never missed this show on Saturday nights.
This is my favorite theme song of all time!! And my fave "rustic comedy" too!!
It reminds me of being a kid on my grandma's ranch!
Quinton Reviews 38 hour doc brought me here. Quinton's dad was right right...MSTK's references was accurate and not accurate.
Lori Saunders was lovely!
Would anybody else like to travel back to 1965!
My Dad went to Texas out of Harrisburg Pa back in the 60's. When we went to pick him up. The 3 girls were sitting there. All 3 in diff colored mini skirts boots and turtleneck sweaters. I was just a kid. They sure looked good. Betty Jo Bobby Jo and Billie Jo. That was over 50 years ago. Time flies.
I watched this in the 90s on tv land when I was a kid. Glad my mom gave me the chance to watch these amazing classic tv shows
I got this song stuck in my head. We did a hard Rock cover of it in 78. I wish I would of kept it.
I loved this themesong when I was 9!
I freaking love this show.
I loved this song! One of the first songs I played on the piano. 🥰
Bea Benaderet voice: Betty Rubble
I posted that too ! Yay !
@Qunicy Holman And on the 1959 test pilot, titled The Flagstones, she was voiced by June Foray, who five years earlier succeeded Bea Benaderet as the voice of Granny and most other female voices at Warner Bros. Cartoons!
@Qunicy Holman Neither she nor Gay Autterson (nee Hartwig), who did the voice of Betty in the 1970s and early '80s, are as fondly remembered for it as Bea was.
She also did some voices on Looney Toon cartoons, too. I think she did Little Red Riding Hood, in one of the cartoons she did voices in.
@@ProudKansan08 "I brought a little bunny rabbit for you, Grandma. TA HAVE!" lol Classic
Back when TV was great and fun,even the commercials were good
Hello Kelly, how are you doing?
In the 1990s, I spoke with Harry Wolf, who was the Director of Photography on the filming of these opening credits (you can see his name in the end credits of many "Beverly Hillbillies" episodes). He said he filmed the footage for the opening credits of "Petticoat Junction" on a beautiful day with "deep blue skies and white, puffy clouds." He said the lab ruined the footage and he had to re-shoot it, without the white, puffy clouds. Bummer.
Some train scenes of SRR 3 were actually filmed with a "O" scale model of SRR 3 and the combination car 5 for luggage and passengers. One episode is about Bobby Jo's, daughter 2 in the middle Laurie Saunders, and her high school dance party in the coach area after most seats were removed, and the "0" scale model moved to and fro, with a small amount of smoke coming out of the locos smokestack.
Oh how I love watching this! Simply life .
Enjoyable.. and the theme song the best ❤
How did I get so old?😪
I don't know who the drummer was on the PJ theme song, but what an outstanding job he did, especially right after the "curves" part of the lyrics. Bravo!
Enjoyed this family show from age 7 till i was 14 when it was on TV
Hello Patti, how are you doing?
YESSSS!!!!!!! This warms my heart!
The Real loco SRR 3 was extensively rebuilt several years ago, when 3 received a Brand new Welded boiler that was installed in Sacremento and custom built to comply with modern boiler regulations and inspections. And to replaced the very old riveted boiler which was extremely worn out so that it couldn't be operated safely. And the Tender to carry water and fuel with oil, was also rebuilt with most of the water cistern built with New Steel. Because the Old tender was quite rusty with holes, and metal patches covering the holes. There is a TV show from PBS that shows this loco being rebuilt called "INCREDIBLE RESTORATIONS" now on Y.T. that shows many different historical Restorations.
We will never see quality shows like this ever again
Absolutely loved this show and the theme
The TV shows/theme songs of the 60's and 70's - we will never see TV shows like this anymore. Watching the re-runs bring back the good Ole memories of yesteryear.
Sweet memories!
I live in a very rural area with train tracks everywhere and I sing this song everytime I get held up by a Southern Pacific train 😄😂😊
If I could turn back time....those were the days!
I remember I sung this theme song in my 2nd grade class and my teacher was overly impressed that I knew the theme song let alone the show. Oh yeah, I was in second grade in 1996-97. Lol Thanks TV Land!!
Every time I hear the interstitial that damn thing is in my head for at least a week
Hell I would bang all of them that's the only reason I watched it besides it being a decent show back in the day
What a great time that was . We watched it every week. Great theme song and Music. The train was on lone to them from our Barbary Coast , Hoyt Hotel in Portland 🥀 Oregon. It’s now gone also. One of the Best Entertainment Center’s in Portland in the Day. 🚂🚂🚂Chris, ♥️🎶🥀🎶♥️🥰
The theme song is so incredibly catchy! I watched it recently and can't get it out of my head.
That theme is #16 on Television's Greatest Hits CD no.1!!
I love watching this show as as kid and always dreamed of arriving @ Petticoat Junction on the 🚂 to stay @ the Shady Rest! 😸
My happy childhood tv watching.
The "curves" in the lyrics then cut to the three girls in the water tower. Lol. Never got that as an innocent kid.
I did, and I remember being little and kind of embarrassed by hearing it with my parents in the living room. I was only little, but I knew what they were singing about!
This show definitely had a Flintstones connection to it, the voice of Betty Rubble was the main star and the voices of Fred and Wilma made guest appearances.
P.J. theme, classic 4 part harmony, with piano, Harmonica, drums and whisks, and slap bass fiddle on cello.
My all time favorite TV theme song!
i would get up at 6:30 in the morning to watch it a few years ago. I hope the ME channel brings it back.
They might just swap out green acres for petticoat junction at the end of summer.
If you get Decades tv they show two episodes back to back during the day
the snare drum section is what made the theme music better
Yesss! thank you for saying that! I didn't know what it was called but listened to "snare drum" on another channel and that is indeed what it is ♥
Played with brushes no less! I love it!
oh man I miss that show
I like this show!!!
(Thank you, Cozy TV!) Cozy TV (Ch. 24.5 in St. Louis, Mo.) just ran a Petticoat Junction weekend marathon, May, 18 and 19th. I always found myself anticipating the train whistle at the end of the opening theme song. Such serenity! And such a feel-good show! ~ What surprised me was the fact that they already had a P.J. marathon, probably in the last year! How much fun that was!
Just the way i remembered Petticoat Junction theme. I love this show to this day. I am a Railroader & like the Cannonball Express been wanting scale models of them forever. Awesome show & theme music.
my grandmother loves this song
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When tv was still innocent
Real tv
What part of a female body is considered the "petticoat junction"? The name of the town was Hooterville. The train lets out a wolf whistle at the beginning of the theme. ;o)
They probably were on uppers, downers, drunk and who knows what they had to do to get the parts. Who knows.
well, it *seemed* innocent but some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that went on was not, sadly
@michael Sykes - I don't mean this show specifically but for Hollywood in general, for example, abuse, exploitation, drug use - even in those days
had a crush on Lori Saunders as a kid. gosh.
You’re not the only one 😉
The first time I watched this show (as a kid) I felt funny in my pajamas
Could the reason have been Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo & Betty Jo?
We had only a few channels back then !! Enjoyed the show
I loved this show when I a kid in the 90’s. I was so happy when we got TV Land. That’s how I discovered it and I would sing the theme song!
Had no idea it had innuendos in it. 🤣🤣
I loved this show
I feel so nostalgic watching this even though i wasnt even close to being alive while it was running...
always loved this theme song, so light and breezy
Nice train... I remember this series👍
I love this classic television show and the classic theme song! I was born in 1978. I love watching the reruns of this classic and fun television show! Thank you for posting and sharing this!
I am old! What a flash back.
Loved the women in the water tank portion'/!!!
This version is the 1966 - 1967 season, I believe. It's in color, but the blonde actress was replaced during the final years. 1963 - 1965 was filmed in black and white and featured a different brunette who was subsequently replaced by the gorgeous Lori Saunders (seen in this version). The actress who played Kate left in the 1968 due to cancer. A new version of the opening was produced in order to eliminate her and introduce Uncle Joe as the new managing operator. The final version included June Lockhart as a female doctor who resided at the Shady Rest. That was 1969 - 1970, with June coming fresh off the recently cancelled "LOST IN SPACE."
also charlie DIED IN 1967
1965-1966 season (season 3).
Blondewise, Gunilla Hutton was replaced by Meredith MacRae. Brunettewise, Pat Woodell preceded Ms. Saunders. Kate was played by Bea Benaderet.
Kaye Bradley is Bea Benadarette, and us the voices of Many, Many cartoon women, like especially BETTY RUBBLE in the FLINTSTONES And some of her cast mates from FLINTSTONES also were on P.J. like Jean Vander Peryle as Wilma as one of the Hooterville folks; also Alan Reed as FRED was also a guest on P.J.; Yet I haven't seen Mell Blanc as Barney as a guest on P.J., but on older B/W shows he was on others like Jack Benny!! OK IN sept. 2023A.D.
@@chuckschafer6728 !!YES!! "Charlie Pratt the engineer" was Mr. SMILEY BURNETTE, and already very FAMOUS in the Westen Movies 🎬 as the sidekicks for Gene Autrie and Roy Roger's and John Wayne and many serialized adventures; plus ➕ he knows his steam locomotives 🚂 and Railroad phrases to perfectly fit his role as Engineer of the CANNONBALL,!!, ALL ABOARD,!!, FULL SPEED AHEAD, HIGHBALL,!! In Addition his friendly co-star was Mr. RUFE DAVIS as the dual role, and many more, as Fireman, conductor, baggage 🧳 handler, track repair, and cow milker 🥛 lol 😂; also Smiley and Rufe recorded a popular novelty song 🎵 named, "#Steam Cinders and Smoke", and cut a 45 r.p.m. record that you can hear on Y.T., as both a sad ballad for the retired steam locomotive 🚂 engineers 😢 or a happy 😊 😃 jaunty country song 🎵! Have FUN!! CLEAR THE TRACKS!!!!! THE CANNONBALL EXPRESS IS COMING THROUGH,!!-! TOOT-TOOT. TOOT. Toooooooot.....i.y.k.y.k.!!!!! ("Q"). L.O.L.!!!!! OK. SEPT 29, 2023A.D.
Loved this show ! Great cast. Great song. Crushed Lori. And Benji !
I remember when I used to hear my mom watching this, I would get excited LOL more than a decade later and I still get this way!
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Always enjoy watch the reruns. A good clean show.Wished we all lived that way today.
Reminds me of the time when I was kid a steam train was going to come through this area. Me and relative knew where there was a railroad bridge that went over the tracks so we decided to get a really good view no one else would get. We climbed up into steel grid work of the bridge and waited.
Here comes that steam train puffing around the hill belching fire, black smoke and burning coal cinders about 200 feet in the air. We didn't have time to climb down out of the trestle. Burning cinders in my eyes, hair, up my nose and in my clothes. We got a good view alright.
I. Watch. This. Show. Every. Morning. On Decades. TV. Channel. I ❤️. It.
I’m so happy a found this!
Amen. I Love and .miss this classic. They took you back to another place and time. Family Affair My Three Sons The Beverly Hillbillies Gilligan's Island Leave it to Beaver Gentle Ben Andy Griffith etc Happy Times ☺
I use to watch this show back in my youth brings back fond memories
I like that dog on petticoat junction rest in peace Betty rubble
He was Benji later.
Thank you for doing this just for me. I always loved this song
I still remember the first time I seen this show on TV Land back in 1997 when my cable provider started carrying the network. I was 8 and could recite the theme song like there was no tomorrow.
I have you beat by 30 years. LOL
harddrivin1le - Rub it in that you grew up in a time of good TV. Lol
binge watching this. Once i start watching, i cant stop. Ty the music brings back such good memories & the train sound in the song is nice too. Thank you TeeVees Greatest & UA-cam