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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!

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

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 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".

  • The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud
    8.6/10128 votes
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    #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

  • I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier
    8.4/10120 votes
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    #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

  • Getting Even With Haney
    8.4/10107 votes
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    #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

  • Music to Milk By
    8.4/10120 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel
    8.4/10106 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked
    8.4/10107 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • How to Suceed in Television Without Really Trying
    8.4/10107 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • Arnold, Boy Hero
    8.4/10104 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Flight to Nowhere
    8.4/10100 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)
    8.4/10110 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?
    8.4/10108 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • A Prize in Every Package
    8.4/10102 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • The Confrontation
    8.4/1099 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Exodus to Bleedswell
    8.3/10122 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out
    8.3/10105 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?
    8.3/1098 votes
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    #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

  • Haney's New Image
    8.3/10107 votes
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    #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

  • Alf and Ralph Break Up
    8.3/10104 votes
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    #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

  • How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving
    8.3/1099 votes
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    #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

  • A Tale of a Tail
    8.3/1095 votes
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    #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

  • You and Your Big Shrunken Head
    8.3/1092 votes
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    #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

  • The Road
    8.3/1090 votes
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    #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

  • The Hooterville Image
    8.2/10117 votes
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    #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

  • You Ought to Be in Pictures
    8.2/10122 votes
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    #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

  • A Square is Not Round
    8.2/10133 votes
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    #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