Petticoat Junction : A Little Train Robbery (1963)
Directed by Sherman Marks
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
The folks at the Shady Rest are quite impressed by Arthur (John Wilder) and Lowell (Jimmy Hawkins, a pair of nice, polite young men who have shown up at the hotel asking a lot of seemingly innocuous questions. Little does anyone realize that the two gentlemen are actually would-be train robbers, intent upon stealing the Hooterville Cannonball's bank shipment. Though he plays a crook in this episode, Jimmy Hawkins would later "reform" in the recurring role of car-happy Orville Miggs, the boyfriend of Betty Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye).