Green Acres: Season 1

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Green Acres

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: September 15, 1965

Starring: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor

Summary: Successful New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas gives up the rat race to fulfill his dream: living the life of the traditional American farmer. Fighting the move to rural life is his glamorous, boa-wearing, city-loving wife, Lisa. This quaint premise, however, doesn't begin to capture the screwball absurdity of Green Acres. After a fewSuccessful New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas gives up the rat race to fulfill his dream: living the life of the traditional American farmer. Fighting the move to rural life is his glamorous, boa-wearing, city-loving wife, Lisa. This quaint premise, however, doesn't begin to capture the screwball absurdity of Green Acres. After a few episodes that were somewhat rooted in reality, the series' true oddness started to bloom. The characters see the opening credits as they appear on screen (or on chicken eggs); they talk with baseball-playing pigs who become movie stars; fife music accompanies Oliver's patriotic speeches and is heard by everyone but him; a full-sized Eiffel tower is built on the Douglases' lawn. Hooterville is clearly operating in its own bizarre universe where Oliver is the only normal, reasonable person--and that's questionable at times. The tiny town revolves around Sam Drucker's General Store, where Sam acts as shopkeeper, postmaster, justice of the peace and publisher of the "Hooterville World Guardian". He's one of the more level-headed residents of the valley, but that's relative. The other locals are considerable more bizarre and are a constant frustration to Oliver. Hank Kimball, the county agricultural agent, is a prime example. His short-term memory is so poor he regularly forgets what he's talking about mid-sentence. Fellow farmer Fred Ziffel is an elderly overalls-wearing man who, with his wife Doris, treats their pig Arnold like an actual child. Arnold attends school, reads, writes, skates, and speaks several languages (though they all sound like oinking). Con man Eustace Haney, who sold Oliver his dump of a farm, is always trying to fleece someone out of their cash. Apparently possessing ESP, he shows up outside of Oliver's door with whatever he and Lisa have just been discussing. The Douglases' farmhand, Eb, lives in their barn and considers Oliver and Lisa to be his parents. Lisa, a stylish Hungarian woman who Oliver met during the war, is hardly cut out for domestic life. Wearing ostrich feathers and diamonds around the farm, she can only cook "hotscakes" (badly) and her mangling of the English language is impressive. Matt Groening once accurately described Green Acres as "Oliver Douglas in hell". All he wants to do is farm, but the constant interruptions from the loony locals, the endless double-talk, the ambitious pig all conspire to make it impossible. Oliver earns his reputation as a "hothead" as his face turns red and he bellows about the latest aggravation. Green Acres began when CBS handed Paul Henning, the very successful producer of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction… Expand

Creator: Jay Sommers

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E32. Uncle Ollie
Air Date: June 1, 1966
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S1:E31. Culture
Air Date: May 25, 1966
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S1:E30. The Rains Came
Air Date: May 18, 1966

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Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: September 15, 1970
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 27, 1969
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 25, 1968
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 6, 1967
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 14, 1966
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 15, 1965
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  S1:E32. Uncle Ollie
  Air Date: June 1, 1966
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  S1:E31. Culture
  Air Date: May 25, 1966
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  S1:E30. The Rains Came
  Air Date: May 18, 1966
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  S1:E29. Horse? What Horse?
  Air Date: May 11, 1966
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  S1:E28. Send a Boy to College
  Air Date: May 4, 1966
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  S1:E27. Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth
  Air Date: April 27, 1966
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  S1:E26. The Ballad of Molly Turgis
  Air Date: April 6, 1966
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  S1:E25. Double Drick
  Air Date: March 23, 1966
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  S1:E24. The Deputy
  Air Date: March 16, 1966
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  S1:E23. A Pig In a Poke
  Air Date: March 9, 1966
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  S1:E22. The Day of Decision
  Air Date: February 23, 1966
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  S1:E21. What's In a Name?
  Air Date: February 16, 1966
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  S1:E20. The Price of Apples
  Air Date: February 9, 1966
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  S1:E19. Sprained Ankle, Country Style
  Air Date: February 2, 1966
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  S1:E18. Lisa Bakes a Cake
  Air Date: January 26, 1966
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  S1:E17. I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman
  Air Date: January 19, 1966
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  S1:E16. Give Me Land, Lots Of Land
  Air Date: January 5, 1966
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  S1:E15. How to Enlarge a Bedroom
  Air Date: December 29, 1965
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  S1:E14. What Happened in Scranton?
  Air Date: December 22, 1965
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  S1:E13. The Wedding Anniversary
  Air Date: December 15, 1965
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  S1:E12. Lisa Has a Calf
  Air Date: December 8, 1965
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  S1:E11. Parity Begins at Home
  Air Date: November 24, 1965
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  S1:E10. Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
  Air Date: November 17, 1965
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  S1:E9. You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6
  Air Date: November 10, 1965
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  S1:E8. Lisa the Helpmate
  Air Date: November 3, 1965
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  S1:E7. Neighborliness
  Air Date: October 27, 1965
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  S1:E6. Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?
  Air Date: October 20, 1965
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  S1:E5. My Husband, the Rooster Renter
  Air Date: October 13, 1965
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  S1:E4. The Best Laid Plans
  Air Date: October 6, 1965
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  S1:E3. The Decorator
  Air Date: September 29, 1965
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  S1:E2. Lisa's First Day On the Farm
  Air Date: September 22, 1965
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  S1:E1. Oliver Buys A Farm
  Air Date: September 15, 1965