Oh, and let's not forget the ULTIMATE: the crossover character episodes! Do you recall how sometimes characters would "visit" and guest star in each other's shows?! Too funny!!
Hooterville was the background setting for both Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Uncle Joe Carson, Floyd Smoot, Mr. Haney, Betty Jo and Bobbie Jo Bradley, Oliver & Lisa Douglas, and Sam Drucker, etc., crossed over between the shows. Actually, I think there were even a few crossover episodes from Granny of the Beverly Hillbillies, if I'm not mistaken.
Possum Day, I Didn't Raise my Pig to be a Soldier, The Woodchucks, and other "cultural" episodes all contributed to the erosion of my brain!
But, I wouldn't change one moment of it! (And, as silly as all these shows were, they're leaps and bounds ahead of the reality show crap that's on tv now!!
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