Petticoat Junction: Don't Call Us
05:30 am - 06:00 am, Saturday, May 9 on WJLP MeTV (33.1)
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Don't Call Us
Season 4, Episode 21
A star is born: Billie Jo lands a singing job.
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1967
English
Comedy
Sitcom
Family
Cast & Crew
Bea Benaderet
(Actor)
.. Kate Bradley
Meredith MacRae
(Actor)
.. Billie Jo Bradley
Jan Arvan
(Actor)
.. Waiter
Frank Nelson
(Actor)
.. Austin
Frank Cady
(Actor)
.. Sam
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Did You Know..
Bea Benaderet
(Actor)
.. Kate Bradley
Meredith MacRae
(Actor)
.. Billie Jo Bradley
Born:
May 30, 1944
Died: July 14, 2000
Died: July 14, 2000
Trivia:
The daughter of Sheila and Gordon MacRae, actress/singer Meredith MacRae was virtually born into a show business career, and with her voice and good looks it would have been difficult for her to have avoided such a choice, even if she'd wanted to. Her parents actually led a surprisingly unpretentious middle-class life-style, and she earned all of her breaks, whether they were roles in movies (Bikini Beach) or a chance at a recording career -- she cut a handful of records in the early/middle 1960s. But it was on the series My Three Sons in 1963 that she first became widely known on the small-screen, when she took the role of Sally Morrison. After two years in that part, she moved on to Petticoat Junction, where she took over the role of Billie Jo Bradley from Guinilla Hutton -- she kept the part for the five years remaining in the series' run, and the producers enabled MacRae to feature her singing ability in the part. Following the cancellation of the series, MacRae went on to do guest spots of series ranging from Fantasy Island to The Rackford Files, and she was also a frequence guest on game shows. She was also active in summer stock and regional theater productions of such shows as Bye Bye Birdie and Take Me Along, and raised money for various medical charities. MacRae died of complications from brain cancer in the summer of 2000.
Jan Arvan
(Actor)
.. Waiter
Born:
January 01, 1912
Died: January 01, 1979
Died: January 01, 1979
Frank Nelson
(Actor)
.. Austin
Born:
January 01, 1871
Died: January 01, 1932
Died: January 01, 1932
Frank Cady
(Actor)
.. Sam
Born:
September 08, 1915
Died: June 08, 2012
Died: June 08, 2012
Trivia:
Balding, long-necked character actor Frank Cady was a stage actor of long standing when he moved into films in 1947. He was usually cast as a quiet, unassuming small town professional man, most memorably as the long-suffering husband of the grief-stricken alcoholic Mrs. Daigle (Eileen Heckart) in The Bad Seed (1957). A busy television actor, he spent much of the 1950s on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as Ozzie Nelson's neighbor Doc Willard. The "TV Generation" of the 1960s knows Cady best as philosophical storekeeper Sam Drucker on the bucolic sitcoms Petticoat Junction (1963-1970) and Green Acres (1965-1971). Whenever he wanted to briefly escape series television and recharge his theatrical batteries, Frank Cady appeared with the repertory company at the prestigious Mark Taper's Forum.
