Hooterville is a fictional agricultural community that is the setting for the American situation comedies Petticoat Junction (1963–70) and Green Acres (1965–1971), two rural-oriented television series created or produced by Paul Henning for Filmways and CBS. Prior to the airing of Petticoat Junction, Hooterville is mentioned in an early episode in the first season of The Beverly Hillbillies, another Paul Henning sitcom. In this episode, Jethrine Bodine, Jethro Bodine's sister (also played by Max Baer, Jr.) has a budding romance with a slick traveling salesman, Jasper, who invites her to a dance in Hooterville. Hooterville is a town, a valley, and a county, and has been described as "a place simultaneously Southern and Midwestern, but in a vague sort of way." Little concrete or reliable information can be gleaned from the two shows about the place, as references in individual episodes are rife with inconsistencies, contradictions, geographic impossibilities and continuity errors. The writers of the two shows often changed the details about the Hooterville community at will for the purpose of cracking a joke, and they left certain details (such as its home state) intentionally vague and unexplained. Citizens Citizens include Oliver Wendell Douglas and Lisa Douglas, the new residents from New York City; Eb Dawson, their farmhand; Newt Kiley, who farms over 80 acres (32 ha); Ben Miller, the apple farmer; Mr. Haney (first name disputed, Eustace or Charlton), the county antiques dealer and grifter; Hank Kimball, the dimwitted repetitiously conversational county agent; Sam Drucker, owner of Sam Drucker's General Store; Sarah Hotchkiss Trendell, the telephone operator; the Monroe Brothers, Alf and Ralph (despite Ralph's name and status as a brother, Ralph is a woman —typically, only Oliver Wendell Douglas questions the bizarre contradiction); Fred Ziffel, a pig farm owner; Doris "Ruthie" Ziffel, Fred's shrewish wife; Arnold Ziffel, Fred and Doris's porcine "son"; and Charley Pratt and Floyd Smoot, the engineer and conductor, respectively, of the local train, the Hooterville Cannonball. Kate Bradley and her Uncle Joe Carson and her three daughters, Betty Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Billie Jo reside at the Shady Rest Hotel, 25 miles outside of Hooterville. The citizens of Hooterville are out of touch with the times to the point of thinking that Calvin Coolidge is still President, although they later believe the current President to be Coolidge's successor, Herbert Hoover. They are also quite provincial: they have never heard of the Federal income tax