Green Acres (1965)
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Episode 1 - The Man For the Job
Release Date: 1967-09-06The committee to select a new state senator considers Oliver Douglas for the job.
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Episode 2 - Lisa's Jam Session
Release Date: 1967-09-13Oliver decides it would be a great idea for Lisa to make her own jam preserves.
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Episode 3 - Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel
Release Date: 1967-09-20An unlikely but hilarious love affair between Arnold the pig and Cynthia the basset hound captivates the residents of Hooterville.
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Episode 4 - Oliver vs. the Phone Company
Release Date: 1967-09-27Oliver starts a feud with the Hooterville Phone Company and launches a campaign to recall its management.
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Episode 5 - Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company
Release Date: 1967-10-04Mr. Trendell turns over the keys of the Hooterville Phone Company to Oliver Douglas.
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Episode 6 - A Kind Word For the President
Release Date: 1967-10-11Oliver sets out to accomplish to changes at the Hooterville Phone Company, now that he's president.
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Episode 7 - Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked
Release Date: 1967-10-18Oliver sets out to harvest his tomato crops.
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Episode 8 - Eb Elopes
Release Date: 1967-10-25Oliver and Lisa wake up one morning to find that their handyman has eloped.
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Episode 9 - The Thing
Release Date: 1967-11-01Oliver stops paying storage rates for an item that neither he nor Lisa can remember owning, and the unknown item is shipped to the farm.
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Episode 10 - Das Lumpen
Release Date: 1967-11-08Lisa tells another war story - this one details how she saved Oliver from the Nazis during World War II and how their romance began.
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Episode 11 - Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?
Release Date: 1967-11-15The residents of Hooterville are in an uproar when Arnold Ziffel the pig is missing.
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Episode 12 - Jealousy, English Style
Release Date: 1967-11-22Oliver informs Lisa that he plans to attend a farm symposium without her.
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Episode 13 - Haney's New Image
Release Date: 1967-11-29When Mr. Haney finds out first that the Douglas farm is the possible site for an interchange for a proposed new highway, he offers to buy back the farm.
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Episode 14 - Alf and Ralph Break Up
Release Date: 1967-12-13Ralph, the lady carpenter, runs away from home and stays with the Douglases after having a fight with her brother, Alf.
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Episode 15 - No Trespassing
Release Date: 1967-12-20Oliver shows symptoms of overwork, so Lisa talks him into going on a picnic.
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Episode 16 - Eb Returns
Release Date: 1967-12-27The Douglas' handyman returns home from his honeymoon and reveals that he did not get married.
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Episode 17 - Not Guilty
Release Date: 1968-01-03Eb is accused of taking $300 from Sam Drucker's safe when he shows up with a new car, which just happens to cost $300.
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Episode 18 - Home is Where You Run Away From
Release Date: 1968-01-10A mysterious young boy shows up at the Douglas farm and claims to be from another world.
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Episode 19 - How to Suceed in Television Without Really Trying
Release Date: 1968-01-24Lisa invests $28 in a 10-year-old's "Electric Company;" to show his gratitude, the young wizard "electronificates" the Douglases' farm.
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Episode 20 - Arnold, Boy Hero
Release Date: 1968-01-31Lisa and Oliver are taken hostage by two bank robbers who hide out in their farmhouse.
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Episode 21 - Flight to Nowhere
Release Date: 1968-02-07As part of an agricultural exchange program, Oliver and other Hooterville farmers are offered a chance to join a chartered government flight to Europe.
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Episode 22 - My Mother, the Countess
Release Date: 1968-02-14Lisa reveals that her mother, the Countess, is going to pay a visit to Green Acres.
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Episode 23 - The Spring Festival
Release Date: 1968-02-21Spring fever sets in at Green Acres when Lisa sets out to produce a Spring festival celebration.
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Episode 24 - Our Son, the Barber
Release Date: 1968-02-28Eb decides on a career as a barber and talks Oliver into putting him through a do-it-yourself mail-order barber college.
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Episode 25 - Oliver's Jaded Past
Release Date: 1968-03-06Lisa reminds Oliver that he promised her a New York vacation if she stayed with him on the farm for two years.
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Episode 26 - The Hungarian Curse
Release Date: 1968-03-13A fellow Hungarian, Lazlo Broslav, visits Lisa and becomes an unwanted house guest. It is revealed that Lazlo once saved the life of Lisa's uncle, and now her family must repay the debt.
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Episode 27 - The Rutabaga Story
Release Date: 1968-03-20Oliver decides that all Hooterville farmers should plant rutabagas as their primary cash crop, and initiates a publicity campaign to make America more "rutabaga conscious."
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Episode 28 - Instant Family
Release Date: 1968-03-27When an expectant mother goes into labor, Oliver takes her to the hospital, and Lisa takes her seven other children to live with the Douglases until she recovers.
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Episode 29 - A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 1)
Release Date: 1968-04-03Arnold the pig appears in a play at the Hooterville Theater. Lisa arranges for an old friend to give him a chance in show business.
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Episode 30 - A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)
Release Date: 1968-04-10Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold's trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.