8.6/10128 votesLoading...#1 - The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1970
Oliver unintentionally provides the motive for the residents of Hooterville to illegally receive more than $500,000 from the Internal Revenue Service. The locals think all they have to do is write in and state their losses--not understanding that they actually have to file taxes first. Eventually, to get its cash back, the IRS invests in Haney's monkey racing track.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10120 votesLoading...#2 - I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1966
When the Ziffels go on a second honeymoon at Niagra Falls, they leave Arnold with Oliver and Lisa. While there, Arnold is drafted by the U.S. Army.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10107 votesLoading...#3 - Getting Even With Haney
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1967
Tired of Doris' nagging about having to beat their laundry on a rock in the creek, Fred buys a Grabwell washing machine from Mr. Haney. The boat motor in a barrel goes berzerk, spraying water and clothes everywhere before chasing the Ziffels out their front door. Oliver is more than happy to take their case and stick it to Haney in the courtroom.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10107 votesLoading...#4 - How to Suceed in Television Without Really Trying
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1968
Lisa invests $28 in a 10-year-old's "Electric Company;" to show his gratitude, the young wizard "electronificates" the Douglases' farm.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10104 votesLoading...#5 - Arnold, Boy Hero
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1968
Lisa and Oliver are taken hostage by two bank robbers who hide out in their farmhouse.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10100 votesLoading...#6 - Flight to Nowhere
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1968
As part of an agricultural exchange program, Oliver and other Hooterville farmers are offered a chance to join a chartered government flight to Europe.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10110 votesLoading...#7 - A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 4/10/1968
Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold's trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10108 votesLoading...#8 - Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1968
Peterson's Poi Juice is giving away a trip to Hawaii and Arnold Ziffel is chosen as the winner. When the ad agency rep meets Arnold and discovers he's not a human, he tries to disqualify the swine. Famous pig lawyer Oliver Douglas is retained to fight for Arnold's winnings.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10102 votesLoading...#9 - A Prize in Every Package
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1969
Criminals rob a jewelry store in Chicago and stash their haul in a grain bin. The expensive gems end up packed in boxes of Crickly Wickly cereal shipped to Hooterville. Lisa knows real jewels when she sees them, but Oliver's sure they're just costume. After taking them to be appraised, the sheriff arrests Oliver for the jewelry store heist.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/1099 votesLoading...#10 - The Confrontation
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1970
In just his first day as the School Board President, Oliver has started a grammar school protest. The kids are upset that their mascot, Arnold, has been thrown out for popping his teacher with a pea shooter. Fred asks Oliver to represent his "son" on grounds that he was discriminated against, but all Oliver can do is talk to the school's determined principal.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10122 votesLoading...#11 - Exodus to Bleedswell
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1967
The residents of Hooterville flock to nearby Bleedswell for jobs at the new defense plant. To keep people from leaving, Hooterville reopens its old airplane factory to fulfill its contract with the Army--signed during WWI.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
8.3/10105 votesLoading...#12 - Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1967
Oliver has to choose between being a farmer or lawyer when he gets an offer to practice in Washington, D. C. The official-looking letter, however, has the locals convinced that Oliver is hiding an juicy secret from them. After ruling out tax cheat and counterfeiter, that leaves only one choice: CIA agent.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10117 votesLoading...#13 - Music to Milk By
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/26/1967
Eb becomes obsessed with winning a contest on a Pixley radio station. To identify all the songs, he has to listen day and night. That becomes even harder after Elenaor the cow swallows the radio Oliver just bought Eb for his birthday.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10102 votesLoading...#14 - Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1967
An unlikely but hilarious love affair between Arnold the pig and Cynthia the basset hound captivates the residents of Hooterville.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10105 votesLoading...#15 - Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1967
Oliver sets out to harvest his tomato crops.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/1098 votesLoading...#16 - Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1967
The residents of Hooterville are in an uproar when Arnold Ziffel the pig is missing.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10107 votesLoading...#17 - Haney's New Image
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/1967
When 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.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: N/A
8.3/10104 votesLoading...#18 - Alf and Ralph Break Up
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/1967
Ralph, the lady carpenter, runs away from home and stays with the Douglases after having a fight with her brother, Alf.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/1099 votesLoading...#19 - How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1968
After Oliver orders the Monroe brothers to finish work on the bedroom, they confess that they never got a building permit. Oliver storms off to get one himself, only to discover his barn is in Hooterville but his house is in Pixley. Haney, who sold them the farm, offers to hook a rope to the house and pull it to Hooterville with his truck.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/1095 votesLoading...#20 - A Tale of a Tail
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1969
Oliver takes Arnold the Pig Chicago to receive Arnold's inheritance of $20,000,000. Arnold is a direct discendant of Herman, a pig who could predict the weather with his tail. However, Oliver soon finds it difficult watching after a pig in the hotel.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/1092 votesLoading...#21 - You and Your Big Shrunken Head
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1969
When the Douglases, Eb, and Arnold return from Chicago, Arnold becomes a gift-bearing pig. He gives Mr. Kimball a wristwatch, Lisa an expensive braclet, and Oliver a shrunken head. Arnold soon finds himself the target of every seller from Hooterville, Pixley, and Crabwell Corners, who want their hands on Arnold's inheritance.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/1090 votesLoading...#22 - The Road
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1969
Oliver's angry over Hooterville's dirt road, especially after learning the money to pave it was appropriated thirty years earlier. Never content to leave well enough alone, he descends on the state capitol demanding that something be done. He makes little headway until Lisa mentions the name of powerful hot dog vendor Big Joe Haney.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.2/10117 votesLoading...#23 - The Hooterville Image
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1966
The Hooterville farmers have decided that Oliver is ruining the town's image by doing his farming chores in a suit. Oliver eventually gives in to their demand to wear overalls, but they weren't planning on the fur-covered pair that Lisa's dressmaker has designed.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.2/10122 votesLoading...#24 - You Ought to Be in Pictures
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1966
James Stuart from the agricultural department wants to do a film on the pitfalls of new farmers. The locals think "Jimmy Stewart" is coming to make a big Hollywood movie so they all enroll in Haney's acting school. In the meantime, Oliver's farming practices prove especially embarrassing for the camera.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.2/10133 votesLoading...#25 - A Square is Not Round
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1966
The Douglases try to determine which of their hens is laying square eggs. Once word gets out, Haney and a chicken breeder both want in on the action. Oddly, the cube-shaped eggs don't worry Oliver nearly as much as their toaster that operates when you say the number "five".
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
The Best Episodes of Green Acres
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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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Top Episode Ratings Summary
"The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres". It scored 8.6/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 2/28/1970. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier".