The only time I recall one getting punished was the time Betty Jo put a frog in the principal's lunch box. Kate got called to the school and was furious. Betty Jo was grounded from playing baseball for a week. I guess the Hawks' back-up shortstop had to play, LOL. Were there any other times that the girls got punished for something? The Bradley sisters were pretty good kids, very well-mannered and respectful. I remember Kate scolding them sometimes or not allowing them to do certain things, such as not letting Bobbie Jo go to the all-night party, etc. Were kids really like this back then? I don't remember any punishments for the other girls and just that one time for Betty Jo. I do recall once in a very early episode where Betty Jo is being disrespectful to Uncle Joe because she thinks he is a jinx. Kate puts a stop to that immediately by saying something like Betty Jo wouldn't be sitting down very well if she continued.

Seems there were times when I remember Kate telling the girls to go to their rooms. Or to get busy doing some household chore. But can't remember her ever being furious with the girls.

Kate was very mad at Betty Jo about the frog incident, and she was starting to become upset when Betty Jo kept calling Uncle Joe a jinx. Other than that, I don't remember her getting too upset either. Kate had a lot of patience. And if the worst thing your kid does is put a frog in the principal's lunch box, then you're doing pretty good as a mother!

I have to start watching this show again. In what episode did Betty Jo call Uncle Joe a jinx? I don't remember that one at all..or the one with the frog, for that matter.

In what episode did Betty Jo call Uncle Joe a jinx?

Season 2, Episode 30-- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Jinx?"
Season 2, it should be noted, was IMO too much like what Green Acres would become; and in fact Jay Sommers, given the most credit for bringing the radio show "Granby's Green Acres" to Henning's Hooterville on television, executive-produced most of the shows and wrote many that season and into the next, when GA had begun and there were many crossover scenes.

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In today episode season 4 episode 5 , Bobbie Jo wanted to go the all night party and Kate said No. In the end the after midnight party was held on the Train with Kate and Kate's friends chaperoning. So Kate put her foot down about Bobbie being out all night with out proper supervision.

I have to start watching this show again. In what episode did Betty Jo call Uncle Joe a jinx? I don't remember that one at all..or the one with the frog, for that matter.

I think the jinx one is from season 2. It's called something like, "Whose Afraid of a Big Bad Jinx?". I know it has jinx in the title so it would be easy to find. I think it's on youtube.

As far as the frog one, I don't remember the name of the episode. I think it is a season 3 episode because I know it is a color episode, and I'm 99% sure that Gunilla Hutton is Billie Joe so that would be season 3. The plot of the episode is that the girls are trying to find a man for Kate. Betty Jo suggested her principal. That's why she put the frog in his lunchbox, to where Kate would have to go see him.

IIRC, girls of the early 1960s, did not get into much mischief trouble. Very few got "in the family way." A few still are well behaved, but in the in-between decades, the mix has went from as - was to totally bad.

I strongly suspect a first cause, or a contributing trait, is when girls stopped wearing dresses to school. Now, seeing a girl in school wearing a dress can evoke a peculiar question, and I am not interested in that rabbit hole, but it serve as compare and contrast. As Betty Jo show, it is easier for her to behave as a young lady when she wear a dress. But get her into britches, and she is hard - core tomboy.