QUESTION: I’ve been watching Petticoat Junction on TV Land and was wondering what happened to Kate. Why did she leave the show? I also wonder what happened to the original Billie Jo. S.Z., Kissimmee.

Here, we climb aboard the Hooterville Cannonball and take a trip back in time to the Shady Rest for a look at the Petticoat Junction cast. The voice actors for The Flintstones', circa 1962. Left to ...

QUESTION: On TV’s Petticoat Junction, Bea Benaderet’s character, Kate Bradley, left and was replaced by June Lockhart. Was Kate’s absence ever revealed? Please, I need to know! K.R., Maitland. ANSWER: ...

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 ...

Can a 45-year-old black-and-white CBS hillbilly sitcom that once catered to lower levels of country-bumpkin humor still evoke a few laughs out of us modern-day sophisticates? If you're talkin' Paul ...

Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the ...

Petticoat Junction actress Pat Woodell, who played one of the three original Bradley sisters on CBS’ rural sitcom stalwart of the 1960s, died of cancer September 29. She was 71. Woodell, a native of ...