My wife and I rediscovered Petticoat junction on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago. This weekend we discovered The Andy Grifith show.
I’m shocked at how entertaining those shows were, and yet absurdly wholesome. Also, they were filmed with quality black and white film and on a 55” 4k set it’s movie quality, which means you also see flaws that I’m sure they treated as, back in the day, “It’s close enough for a 19” tube TV.” But that is part of the charm.
Petticoat Junction started out to be not such a wholesome show. It had its origins in the old “traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughter” jokes....except now there were 3 daughters. The fact that they named the town Hooterville tells you where they were going with this.
But it evolved into a more wholesome family show.
I could think of worse ways to spend an evening than
staring at Lori Saunders.
We were on a massive Petticoat kick last year.
What a great show that was.
” you also see flaws that “
I get a good laugh every time I see the boom microphone slip into the top of the pic!