Petticoat Junction S2E26: The Black Box

Overview

Kate's spring cleaning coincides with the US Air Force doing maneuvers over the valley. Part of those maneuvers includes testing out a new high powered camera. It looks like an ordinary black box with wires coming out of it. For security, it is set to explode twelve hours after any unauthorized removal from the plane. Colonel Millbank, who is flying the aircraft, accidentally loses the camera. It winds up landing on Shady Rest property. Meanwhile, General Elmer Loomis and Millbank try to narrow down where the camera may have landed. Joe finds it and thinking it might be valuable, brings to the hotel. But as often as Kate and the girls try to get rid of it, Dog keeps bringing it back. Loomis and Millbank finally make it to Hooterville. They learn from Charley and Floyd it may be at the Shady Rest. With little time to spare, they get to the hotel and start searching for the box. They mess everything up that had just been cleaned. Dog brings them the box with no time left. However, the box winds up being a dud and doesn't explode.