Petticoat Junction Bad Day at Shady Rest (1963–1970) Online
- Original Title :
- Bad Day at Shady Rest
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Comedy
- Year :
- 1963–1970
- Directror :
- Ralph Levy
- Cast :
- Bea Benaderet,Edgar Buchanan,Linda Henning
- Writer :
- Paul Henning,Charles Stewart
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 25min
- Rating :
- 7.4/10
Bobbie Jo's wannabe boyfriend, aspiring journalist Jeff Powers, is looking for a big story in his final week working as a reporter for the Hooterville World Guardian. While Jeff is away from the newspaper's headquarters at Drucker's Store looking for that big story, he misses what may be the biggest story to hit Hooterville in quite some time: Sam and Joe are held up by an armed masked bandit at the store. It is just the first robbery, with the bank in Pixley the next to be hit. As Joe bad mouths Pixley's Sheriff Crandall for not doing enough to stop the bandit, Sheriff Crandall decides to deputize him. Despite being truly frightened as a deputy, Uncle Joe is certain that he could identify the bandit if he saw him again. For example, the bandit is at least a foot taller than the newly checked-in hotel guest, Mr. Lawson. What Uncle Joe and the rest of the family are unaware of is that Mr. Lawson is the bandit. Will Uncle Joe ultimately get his man, who is unknowingly right under his ...
| Episode complete credited cast: | |||
 | Bea Benaderet | - | Kate Bradley (credit only) |
 | Edgar Buchanan | - | Uncle Joe Carson |
 | Linda Henning | - | Betty Jo Bradley (as Linda Kaye) |
 | Mike Minor | - | Steve Elliott |
 | Meredith MacRae | - | Billie Jo Bradley |
 | Lori Saunders | - | Bobbie Jo Bradley |
 | Frank Cady | - | Sam Drucker |
 | Rosemary DeCamp | - | Aunt Helen |
 | Geoff Edwards | - | Jeff Powers |
 | Barry Kelley | - | Sheriff Vic Crandall |
 | Paul Hartman | - | Bert Smedley |
 | Alan Reed | - | Bandit Lawson |
One of the episodes filmed without Bea Benaderet as illness gradually forced her to exit from the series. Rather than continue to write her character out of scripts, the producers hired veteran actress Rosemary DeCamp to portray Aunt Helen during the final six episodes of the fifth season.
Alan Reed, who portrays Bandit Lawson, employs many of the same vocal quirks that defined his most famous character, Fred Flintstone.