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The Best Episodes of Green Acres

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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. Background image for Oliver Buys A Farm
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Oliver Buys A Farm

    S1:E1

    New York lawyer Oliver Douglas quits his job at the law firm of Felton, O'Connell, Clay, Blakely, Harmon, Dillion & Pasteur and buys a farm in Hooterville, sight unseen. The locals are astounded that Haney had managed to unload the place on someone and try to talk him out of it. Laying her eyes on the dilapidated farmhouse for the first time, Lisa bursts into tears.

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    Director:Ralph Levy
  2. Background image for Lisa's First Day On the Farm
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Lisa's First Day On the Farm

    S1:E2

    Lisa gets her first look at their dilipidated--and empty--farmhouse and is horrified. Oily Mr. Haney, who previously owned the dump, took everything with him, including the bathroom fixtures, and tries to resell them to Oliver. Eb, one of Haney's workers, is hired on as their farm hand. Lisa goes out to meet the locals, most of whom have entered a pool wagering on how long the Douglases will stay. Lisa is ready to immediately return to New York, but after a chat with Kate Bradley, she decides to give farm life a try.

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  3. Background image for Horse? What Horse?
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Horse? What Horse?

    S1:E29

    Lisa belives that Oliver's beginning to crack under the pressure of running the farm. After Oliver claims to have seen a spotted horse and a zebra, she calls Doc Watson to give him a checkup. Lisa's attempt to slip Oliver a sedative backfires, resulting in her taking a very long nap.

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  4. Background image for Getting Even With Haney
    8.5/10(107 votes)

    #4 - Getting Even With Haney

    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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  5. Background image for A Prize in Every Package
    8.5/10(104 votes)

    #5 - A Prize in Every Package

    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. Background image for I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier
    8.4/10(121 votes)

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

    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. Background image for Music to Milk By
    8.4/10(121 votes)

    #7 - Music to Milk By

    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. Background image for Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?
    8.4/10(112 votes)

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

    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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  10. Background image for Exodus to Bleedswell
    8.3/10(122 votes)

    #9 - Exodus to Bleedswell

    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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  11. Background image for Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out
    8.3/10(108 votes)

    #10 - Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out

    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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  12. Background image for How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving
    8.3/10(101 votes)

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

    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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    8.2/10(117 votes)

    #12 - The Hooterville Image

    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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  14. Background image for A Square is Not Round
    8.2/10(133 votes)

    #13 - A Square is Not Round

    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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  15. Background image for Never Take Your Wife to a Convention
    8.2/10(114 votes)

    #14 - Never Take Your Wife to a Convention

    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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  16. Background image for The Beverly Hillbillies
    8.2/10(107 votes)

    #15 - The Beverly Hillbillies

    S2:E23

    When the cast takes ill, the Douglases take to the stage in a charity production of The Beverly Hillbillies. After Eb "punches up" a script from the series, Hank Kimball plays Jed Clampett, Oliver appears as Jethro and Lisa portrays Granny with a combination Hungarian/southern accent.

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  17. Background image for Old Mail Day
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    #16 - Old Mail Day

    S4:E8

    It's "Old Mail Day" and Sam Drucker hands out letters that have gotten misplaced in his post office. Having learned nothing from his previous letter-writing fiascos, an upset Oliver complains to the Postmaster General for delivery service. The locals soon turn on Oliver because Drucker's General Store is never open; he's always on his bicycle delivering mail.

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    8.2/10(109 votes)

    #17 - The Agricultural Student

    S4:E9

    The Agricultural Department is sending a student to learn the ropes from agent Hank Kimball. No one's too interested until Terry turns out to be an attractive blonde co-ed. All the men of Hooterville, eligible and otherwise, fall over themselves flirting and fawning. On the night of the big barn dance, the Douglas living room is packed full of maneuvering men, each thinking they're her date for the evening. Terry's choice turns out to be none of the above.

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  19. Background image for Water, Water Everywhere
    8.1/10(110 votes)

    #18 - Water, Water Everywhere

    S2:E2

    Mr. Haney has Willie the well-witcher to witch him a new well. But when Mr. Haney has plenty of water, Oliver loses his water. The same thing happens when Oliver has a new well witched, then the Ziffels run out of water. When they get a new well, then Mr. Drucker runs out of water. Oliver decides that Hooterville should open a reservoir. Soon afterwards, everyone has enough water, but when everyone turns on their faucets, they lose their electricity.

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  20. Background image for One of Our Assemblymen is Missing
    8.1/10(117 votes)

    #19 - One of Our Assemblymen is Missing

    S2:E6

    Oliver's back on his soap box, delivering fiery patriotic speeches after getting a bill for the State Farm Unattached Duty Tax. No one in Hooterville seems to know what the tax is for, so Oliver tries to contact his assemblyman. That's when he learns Hooterville hasn't held an election for one since 1922. He and Lisa travel to the state capital to meet the governor and remedy the situation.

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  21. Background image for You Ought to Be in Pictures
    8.1/10(124 votes)

    #20 - You Ought to Be in Pictures

    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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  22. Background image for Kimball Gets Fired
    8.1/10(104 votes)

    #21 - Kimball Gets Fired

    S2:E27

    Ralph is distraught when her beloved "Hankie" Kimball is fired as the county agricultural agent. His replacement is so rude and insulting that even Oliver is plotting to get Kimball rehired. His scheme is to scare the new guy away by fixing him up with Ralph.

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    8.1/10(128 votes)

    #22 - The Birthday Gift

    S4:E13

    For Lisa's birthday gift, Oliver plans to gets her a horse. Mr Haney delivers one, and it's not your average nag. Its name is Mr. Fred, a talking horse who's also a has-been TV star. Meanwhile, the locals decide that Lisa has a drinking habit and attempt an intervention.

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  24. Background image for Everywhere a Chick Chick
    8.1/10(84 votes)

    #23 - Everywhere a Chick Chick

    S4:E14

    Oliver has the bad idea of getting into the chicken raising business. Haney wants to sell him a ridiculous egg laying contraption, the Monroe brothers build a disastrous chicken coop, and Lisa wants to raise the chicks as human children. The serious trouble begins when the 1000 baby chicks arrive. The brooder stops working and the babies have to stay warm. Lisa's motherly instincts save the day.

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  25. Background image for Economy Flight to Washington
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    #24 - Economy Flight to Washington

    S4:E19

    The Hooterville Young People's Agricultural Society, comprised of Eb, Hank and Arnold, flies to Washington, D. C. for the national convention. When the stewardess tries to throw the pig off the DC-3, the Douglases come on board to smooth over the problem. With Arnold hiding in "the occupied", the plane takes off with the whole Hooterville crowd aboard.

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  26. Background image for Wings Over Hooterville
    8.0/10(121 votes)

    #25 - Wings Over Hooterville

    S2:E1

    Lisa tells the story of how she and Oliver met. During WWII, Oliver's plane was shot down and he was stranded in a tree. Lisa rescues Oliver, but doesn't trust him because he ""spends more time talking than smooching"". After Lisa's story, the farmers of Hooterville discover their crops are being destroyed by some unknown insect. Mr. Kimball identifies it as the ""Bing Bug"". The farmers appoint Oliver to dust all the crops, but not being in the cockpit for years causes trouble for Oliver in Mr. Haney's cheap plane.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Oliver Buys A Farm" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Ralph Levy and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 9/15/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lisa's First Day On the Farm".