Airdate: 12/14/72
John Boy wants to buy his mother one of them newfangled washin’ machines, so he starts doing odd jobs for the Baldwin sisters to get the money. This coincides with a visit by the sisters’ cousin, Homer (Denver Pyle), who takes everyone, along with Grandpa, to a picture show in Charlottesville. His true intentions come to light as it is discovered that he has been secretly selling the recipe and plans to take all the whiskey, which had been made for a family reunion, into town to sell. The sheriff uses John Boy as a stool pigeon to nab Homer on one of his runs.
Bootlegging comes up again as a plot point, and this time it is Denver Pyle as the ostensibly innocent but ultimately nefarious Cousin Homer who commits the dirty deed. Olivia once again expresses her disapproval of the Baldwins’ sinful ways, but ultimately allows the family pay a visit to the sisters when she realizes the house is empty of alcohol.
Of course, Denver Pyle went on the play Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazzard, but does anyone else also remember him as Mad Jack on The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams? The role he played on that was similar to Will Geer’s in Jeremiah Johnson, so it’s definitely cool to see both in the same scene together in this episode.
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