Last Train to Hooterville: The Petticoat Junction Quiz

Much of the action in "Petticoat Junction" centers around the local train, so it's no surprise that a train whistle serves as the intro to the theme song, which invites viewers to, "Come ride the little train that is going down the tracks at the junction...."

The Hooterville Cannonball is owned by the C.F. and W. Railroad Company and travels along a forgotten spur line between Hooterville and Pixley.

Sam Drucker, played by Frank Cady, runs Drucker's Store, the best place to buy anything from food to linens. He often gives the Bradleys a break on payment because he likes them all so much.

The Bradley sisters include red-haired Betty Jo, raven-haired Bobbie Jo and blond Billie Jo.

The town had a well-established Volunteer Fire Department Band long before it ever had an actual Volunteer Fire Department. In Season 2 the band decides to put on a show to raise money to start a fire department to accompany the band.

The widowed Kate Bradley -- played by Bea Benaderet -- runs the hotel with her three lovely daughters. She spends as much time chasing boys away from her girls as she does trying to keep both the hotel and the railroad afloat.

The people of Hooterville are shocked when a female doctor come to town. After the death of Bea Benaderet, June Lockhart was brought in to serve as a female lead in the role of Dr. Janet Craig.

The three Bradley girls love to take a dip in the water tower, usually sans clothing. Their petticoats left hanging over the side of the tower help give the junction its name.

The bumbling Uncle Joe helps Kate keep the Shady Rest running, while coming up with plenty of hair-brained schemes to boost business or add "class" to the hotel.

The success of "The Beverly Hillbillies," which premiered in 1962, helped spur the development of both "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres," which hit the air in 1963 and 1965, respectively.

The Shady Grove Hotel's location was chosen by accident, when the lumber brought in for building the hotel happened to fall off the train as it went 'round a curve. This might explain why the inn was placed in the middle of nowhere, instead of in one of the nearby towns.

Railroad executive Homer Bedloe wants nothing more than to shut down the Pixley-Hooterville branchline, but the mighty Hooterville Cannonball rolls on down the tracks despite his best efforts.

Even Petticoat Junction wasn't immune to Beatlemania, and the three sisters joined friend Sally Ragsdale to form a band called The Ladybugs during Season 1. The four girls actually performed "I Saw Him Standing There" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to promote "Petticoat Junction."

Charley Pratt serves as engineer on the train, with Floyd Smoot as conductor. Both men welcome tomboy Betty Joe into the engine room, where she often drives the train back from Hooterville to the hotel.

The family dog never gets a proper name and is known simply as Dog. Played by a pup named Higgins, Dog had more star power than the rest of the cast and would go on to play Benji.

Before she was running a hotel at the Junction, Bea Benaderet played Betty Rubble from "The Flintstones."

Billie Jo was played by three different actresses throughout the run of the show. Jeannine Riley filled the role for the first two seasons, followed by Gunilla Hutton in Season 3 and Meredith MacRae in the final three seasons.

Linda Kaye played Betty Jo for the entire run of "Petticoat Junction." She was the only one of the three sisters to be played by a single actress for the entire series.

Kate's character was largely written out of the show after Bea Benaderet's tragic death from lung cancer in 1968.

While the location of the Junction was never revealed, one potential title for the show was "Ozark Widow." Another clue to the Ozark setting is the fact that creator Paul Henning based the show on stories his wife told him about growing up in rural Missouri, in a hotel near the Ozarks.

The show ran for 222 episodes over seven seasons from 1963 to 1970. The first two seasons were black and white, followed by five seasons shot in color.

While all three sisters fall for the crop duster Steve Elliot at one point, it's Betty Jo who wins his heart. They get married in Season 5 and head for a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon.

Betty Jo and Steve choose the name Kathy for their firstborn. Like her mother and her two aunts, she is given the middle name of Jo.

Kate often finds herself at odds with Selma Plout, who is willing to stop at nothing to help her daughter Henrietta succeed.

Billie Jo is the first of the sisters to find work, as a secretary to novelist Oliver Fenton. The only problem? Fenton's books are banned in Hooterville.

When Dog is accused of killing the neighbors chickens, dogcatcher Hinky Mittenfloss puts the poor pooch on trial.

Although her late father left money for her to go to school and become a doctor, Billie Jo dreams of going to Hollywood and almost makes it there in Season 2 of "Petticoat Junction."

Longtime Shady Rest foe Homer Bedloe takes a novel approach in Season 2. After he starts having nightmares about Petticoat Junction and its branch line, his psychologist recommends that he learn to love the train to put his mind at ease.

Despite the valiant efforts of Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball keeps on rolling down the tracks until a family of birds builds a nest in the smokestack, forcing the gang to shut down the train.

In the Season 2 storyline "Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme," the railroad executive convinces the Pixley Bank to foreclose on the Shady Rest, putting Kate and her family out of business.