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The Best Episodes of Green Acres

Every episode of Green Acres ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Green Acres!

The Best Episodes of Green Acres

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...

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  1. 8.6/10(129 votes)

    #1 - The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud

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    S5:E21

    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.

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  2. 8.5/10(107 votes)

    #2 - Getting Even With Haney

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    S2:E26

    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.

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  3. 8.5/10(108 votes)

    #3 - Arnold, Boy Hero

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    S3:E20

    Lisa and Oliver are taken hostage by two bank robbers who hide out in their farmhouse.

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  4. 8.5/10(111 votes)

    #4 - Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?

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    S4:E1

    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.

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  5. 8.5/10(103 votes)

    #5 - A Prize in Every Package

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    S4:E16

    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.

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  6. 8.4/10(120 votes)

    #6 - I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier

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    S2:E3

    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.

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  8. 8.4/10(121 votes)

    #7 - Music to Milk By

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    S2:E30

    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.

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  9. 8.4/10(106 votes)

    #8 - Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel

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    S3:E3

    An unlikely but hilarious love affair between Arnold the pig and Cynthia the basset hound captivates the residents of Hooterville.

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  10. 8.4/10(108 votes)

    #9 - Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked

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    S3:E7

    Oliver sets out to harvest his tomato crops.

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  11. 8.4/10(111 votes)

    #10 - Haney's New Image

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    S3:E13

    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.

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  12. 8.4/10(112 votes)

    #11 - How to Suceed in Television Without Really Trying

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    S3:E19

    Lisa 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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  13. 8.4/10(102 votes)

    #12 - Flight to Nowhere

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    S3:E21

    As 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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  14. 8.4/10(113 votes)

    #13 - A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)

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    S3:E30

    Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold's trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.

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  15. 8.4/10(100 votes)

    #14 - The Confrontation

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    S5:E20

    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.

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  16. 8.3/10(122 votes)

    #15 - Exodus to Bleedswell

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    S2:E18

    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.

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  17. 8.3/10(107 votes)

    #16 - Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out

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    S2:E22

    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.

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  18. 8.3/10(102 votes)

    #17 - Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?

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    S3:E11

    The residents of Hooterville are in an uproar when Arnold Ziffel the pig is missing.

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  19. 8.3/10(107 votes)

    #18 - Alf and Ralph Break Up

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    S3:E14

    Ralph, the lady carpenter, runs away from home and stays with the Douglases after having a fight with her brother, Alf.

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  20. 8.3/10(101 votes)

    #19 - How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving

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    S4:E12

    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.

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  21. 8.3/10(95 votes)

    #20 - A Tale of a Tail

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    S5:E4

    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.

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  22. 8.3/10(90 votes)

    #21 - The Road

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    S5:E6

    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.

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  23. 8.2/10(117 votes)

    #22 - The Hooterville Image

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    S2:E9

    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.

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  24. 8.2/10(123 votes)

    #23 - You Ought to Be in Pictures

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    S2:E10

    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.

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  25. 8.2/10(133 votes)

    #24 - A Square is Not Round

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    S2:E12

    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".

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  26. 8.2/10(113 votes)

    #25 - Never Take Your Wife to a Convention

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    S2:E20

    The only thing Oliver learns at a farming convention is how to get a hangover. He and Lisa meet up with Charlie, a former gangster-turned-farmer, and Wanda, his floozy dancer wife. The more Charlie talks about his farm, the more Oliver's convinced that his shady days are not in the past.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres". It scored 8.6/10 based on 129 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 2/28/1970. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Getting Even With Haney".