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The Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 2

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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 farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Green Acres Season 2 Episode 26 - Getting Even With Haney
    8.6/10(117 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  2. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 3 - I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier
    8.5/10(131 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  3. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 30 - Music to Milk By
    8.5/10(128 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  4. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 22 - Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out
    8.4/10(115 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  5. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 12 - A Square is Not Round
    8.3/10(143 votes)

    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".

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  6. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 20 - Never Take Your Wife to a Convention
    8.3/10(126 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  7. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 23 - The Beverly Hillbillies
    8.3/10(112 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  8. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 27 - Kimball Gets Fired
    8.3/10(113 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  9. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 2 - Water, Water Everywhere
    8.2/10(123 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  10. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 4 - How to See South America By Bus
    8.2/10(134 votes)

    S2:E4

    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

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  11. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 6 - One of Our Assemblymen is Missing
    8.2/10(127 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  12. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 9 - The Hooterville Image
    8.2/10(131 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  13. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 18 - Exodus to Bleedswell
    8.2/10(133 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 10 - You Ought to Be in Pictures
    8.1/10(134 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  15. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 16 - His Honor
    8.1/10(119 votes)

    S2:E16

    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

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  16. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 29 - Who's Lisa?
    8.1/10(114 votes)

    S2:E29

    While fixing the roof, Oliver accidentally drops a hammer on Lisa's head, giving her amnesia. Initially, he's upset because she doesn't even recognize him. He begins to suspect she's faking so he'll take her to New York for the opening of opera season.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  17. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 1 - Wings Over Hooterville
    8.0/10(135 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  18. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 14 - Never Trust a Little Old Lady
    8.0/10(128 votes)

    S2:E14

    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
    Writers:Jay Sommers, Al Schwartz

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  19. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 15 - School Days
    8.0/10(131 votes)

    S2:E15

    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

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  20. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 24 - Lisa's Vegetable Garden
    8.0/10(106 votes)

    S2:E24

    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

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  21. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 5 - The Ugly Duckling
    7.9/10(118 votes)

    S2:E5

    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

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  22. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 11 - A Home Isn't Built in a Day
    7.9/10(125 votes)

    S2:E11

    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

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  23. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 21 - The Computer Age
    7.9/10(115 votes)

    S2:E21

    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

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  24. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 13 - An Old Fashioned Christmas
    7.8/10(152 votes)

    S2:E13

    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

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  25. Green Acres Season 2 Episode 8 - Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    S2:E8

    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

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Getting Even With Haney" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 117 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 3/22/1967. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier".