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The Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 2

Every episode of Green Acres Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 2!

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

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Wings Over Hooterville" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 120 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 9/14/1966. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Water, Water Everywhere".

  • Wings Over Hooterville
    8.0/10120 votes

    #1 - Wings Over Hooterville

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1966

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • Water, Water Everywhere
    8.1/10108 votes

    #2 - Water, Water Everywhere

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1966

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

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

    #3 - 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

  • How to See South America By Bus
    8.0/10123 votes

    #4 - How to See South America By Bus

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1966

    Oliver ends up with a new client named Collins, who turns out to be a very attractive woman, whose first name is Amy, who wants Oliver's legal help about her farm. Oliver has to make regular visits to Amy's farm to help her with her farm. Lisa begins thinking that Oliver is cheating on her, and after hearing Doris Ziffel talking, believes that Oliver is going to kill her, and runaway to South America to elope with Amy. Little does Lisa know the facts, and that Mrs. Ziffel was really talking about the recent episode of her favorite show.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • The Ugly Duckling
    7.8/10104 votes

    #5 - The Ugly Duckling

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1966

    Ralph Monroe is devastated when Mr. Kimball turns her down again. Lisa decides to help Ralph out, by making her more feminine. Oliver is forced to sleep in the barn with Eb, while Lisa works day and night to doll up Ralph. Later, at a dinner party, the new Ralph is presented to the unsuspecting Mr. Kimball, who likes Ralph even less now, for Lisa claims she didn't have enough time to make Ralph fully feminine.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Al Schwartz

  • One of Our Assemblymen is Missing
    8.1/10116 votes

    #6 - One of Our Assemblymen is Missing

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1966

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • The Good Old Days
    7.3/10105 votes

    #7 - The Good Old Days

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1966

    Lisa is homesick for the Park Avenue penthouse. So Oliver tells her the story of Gus and Etta, a farmer and his Hungarian wife who are broken and poor, but make the best of their new-found farm life. Unfortunately, the story ends with their farm being destroyed by a freak flood, and Lisa then longs for Park Avenue even more.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees
    7.6/10124 votes

    #8 - Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1966

    Eb suddenly discovers he has feelings for Betty Jo Bradley. Eb wants nothing more than to date her, but the advice Oliver gives him, calls the date off, when Eb won't let Betty Jo choose where to go for an evening, and Eb discovers that she's allergic to roses.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • The Hooterville Image
    8.2/10117 votes

    #9 - 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

    #10 - 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 Home Isn't Built in a Day
    7.8/10114 votes

    #11 - A Home Isn't Built in a Day

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1966

    Tired of living in a dump, Lisa demands some serious home improvements. Oliver fires the Monroe brothers and hires an architect to draw up plans. Renovations come to a screeching halt thanks to the Monroes' picket line and famous Hootervillian Rutherford B. Skrug.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • A Square is Not Round
    8.2/10133 votes

    #12 - 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

  • An Old Fashioned Christmas
    7.7/10133 votes

    #13 - An Old Fashioned Christmas

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1966

    Oliver decides to have an old fashioned Christmas by chopping down a tree off his property. Mr. Haney warns him that it's against the law to chop down a tree on his own property. So Oilver goes to Drucker's & asks Sam if there's such a law as that. Mr. Drucker tries to sell him an artificial tree with a squirter to squirt the pine ooze out as well as artificial candy canes & popcorn string. Mr. Drucker advises him to get a permit from Hank Kimball, County Agent. After getting the permit, he finally gets to decorate his tree. Over @ the Ziffels, Doris is upset that Arnold has an artificial tree & tells Fred that Mr. Douglas had the right idea. The gang attends the Douglas home to admire the Christmas tree. But they are chased away when Lisa brings out the fruitcakes made out of hotcakes!

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • Never Trust a Little Old Lady
    7.8/10114 votes

    #14 - Never Trust a Little Old Lady

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1966

    It's tomato planting season and Oliver needs some useful weather information. Hooterville relies on WPIXL-TV's Mildred, a little old lady who prances out of her dollhouse, or Walter, the singing weatherman. Both are constantly wrong so Oliver contacts the Weather Bureau which predicts warm days and nights. With the plants in the ground, Hooterville suffers the coldest night of the year. Incredibly, it's Lisa's crepe suzettes that save the crop from the cold.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers, Al Schwartz

  • School Days
    8.0/10120 votes

    #15 - School Days

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1967

    Oliver spends a lot of time in the principal's office when Lisa enrolls at Hooterville High. In school primarily for a cooking course, she also disrupts history class with her own version of Hungary's past, distroys the womens' showers and explodes a chemistry lab.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • His Honor
    7.9/10110 votes

    #16 - His Honor

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1967

    Oliver misunderstands when the Hooterville bigwigs ask him to be a judge. He thinks he's being appointed an appellate judge but they just want him to judge apples at the county fair. The Douglases travel to New York so Oliver can get some judging advice while Lisa shops for a robe and wig for His Honor.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Al Schwartz

  • It's So Peaceful in the Country
    7.6/10122 votes

    #17 - It's So Peaceful in the Country

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1967

    Oliver's mother needs bed rest so what better place than her son's farm. All she has to do is ignore Alf and Ralph's drilling, Haney's tour group, a group of dancing Sioux Indians and their chief who think's she's a looker.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • Exodus to Bleedswell
    8.3/10122 votes

    #18 - 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

  • It's Human to Be Humane
    7.4/10103 votes

    #19 - It's Human to Be Humane

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1967

    Bored and looking for a project, Lisa becomes the head of the "Hooterville Human Humane Committee". She takes her cause to the extreme, declaring everything from duck hunting to selling chicken eggs off limits. Soon, the Douglases house is a zoo and the locals are ready to run her out of town.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Sam Locke

  • Never Take Your Wife to a Convention
    8.2/10113 votes

    #20 - Never Take Your Wife to a Convention

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1967

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • The Computer Age
    7.7/10103 votes

    #21 - The Computer Age

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1967

    A desperate Ralph Monroe joins a computer dating service to meet a husband. Oliver thinks it's a great idea since computers are always right. Lisa thinks they can't possibly take the place of romance, so she challenges Oliver to test their match-up on the electric brain.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

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

    #22 - 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

  • The Beverly Hillbillies
    8.2/10106 votes

    #23 - The Beverly Hillbillies

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1967

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • Lisa's Vegetable Garden
    7.8/1097 votes

    #24 - Lisa's Vegetable Garden

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1967

    According to Oliver, every farm wife should be growing her own vegetables so Lisa starts her own garden. Armed with useless pamphlets from Mr. Kimball and a flask of perfume, Lisa begins work. It's hardly a money-saving proposition after she buys a tractor, farm supplies, and hires Alf and Ralph as her housekeepers.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers

  • The Saucer Season
    7.7/10119 votes

    #25 - The Saucer Season

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1967

    Once Eb's wild story about meeting space aliens hits the press, tourists descend on the Douglas farm to meet the new celebrity. Oliver's more concerned about the crowd trampling his crops, but the Air Force takes his claim seriously...at first.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Jay Sommers