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Every Christmas, the Hooterville Cannonball goes on a caroling tour throughout the community. All this may come to a screeching halt this year, thanks to the machinations of Scroogelike railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), who has cracked down on unauthorized stopovers. This episode was rebroadcast on December 19, 1964, suggesting that it was intended for annual Yuletide showings--which probably would have happened had not Petticoat Junction switched from black and white to color in 1965 (and at the same time replacing two of the actresses playing the Bradley girls!)