The Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 3
Every episode of Green Acres Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 3!
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 Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Season 3 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Green Acres" season 3 is "The Man For the Job", rated 7.8/10 from 102 user votes. It was directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers. "The Man For the Job" aired on 9/6/1967 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Lisa's Jam Session".
7.8/10 102 votes#1 - The Man For the Job
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1967
The committee to select a new state senator considers Oliver Douglas for the job.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.8/10 97 votes#2 - Lisa's Jam Session
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1967
Oliver decides it would be a great idea for Lisa to make her own jam preserves.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10 102 votes#3 - 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
8.1/10 107 votes#4 - Oliver vs. the Phone Company
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1967
Oliver starts a feud with the Hooterville Phone Company and launches a campaign to recall its management.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.9/10 103 votes#5 - Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/1967
Mr. Trendell turns over the keys of the Hooterville Phone Company to Oliver Douglas.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.9/10 92 votes#6 - A Kind Word For the President
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1967
Oliver sets out to accomplish to changes at the Hooterville Phone Company, now that he's president.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10 105 votes#7 - 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
8.0/10 99 votes#8 - Eb Elopes
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1967
Oliver and Lisa wake up one morning to find that their handyman has eloped.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.0/10 97 votes#9 - The Thing
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1967
Oliver stops paying storage rates for an item that neither he nor Lisa can remember owning, and the unknown item is shipped to the farm.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.5/10 94 votes#10 - Das Lumpen
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1967
Lisa tells another war story - this one details how she saved Oliver from the Nazis during World War II and how their romance began.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10 98 votes#11 - 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
7.7/10 97 votes#12 - Jealousy, English Style
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/1967
Oliver informs Lisa that he plans to attend a farm symposium without her.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.3/10 107 votes#13 - 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
8.3/10 104 votes#14 - 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
8.1/10 107 votes#15 - No Trespassing
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/20/1967
Oliver shows symptoms of overwork, so Lisa talks him into going on a picnic.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.7/10 99 votes#16 - Eb Returns
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/27/1967
The Douglas' handyman returns home from his honeymoon and reveals that he did not get married.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.1/10 99 votes#17 - Not Guilty
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/1968
Eb is accused of taking $300 from Sam Drucker's safe when he shows up with a new car, which just happens to cost $300.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.1/10 103 votes#18 - Home is Where You Run Away From
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/10/1968
A mysterious young boy shows up at the Douglas farm and claims to be from another world.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.4/10 107 votes#19 - 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
8.4/10 104 votes#20 - 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
8.4/10 100 votes#21 - 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
7.9/10 101 votes#22 - My Mother, the Countess
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1968
Lisa reveals that her mother, the Countess, is going to pay a visit to Green Acres.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.0/10 93 votes#23 - The Spring Festival
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/21/1968
Spring fever sets in at Green Acres when Lisa sets out to produce a Spring festival celebration.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
7.9/10 98 votes#24 - Our Son, the Barber
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/28/1968
Eb decides on a career as a barber and talks Oliver into putting him through a do-it-yourself mail-order barber college.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers
8.0/10 100 votes#25 - Oliver's Jaded Past
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1968
Lisa reminds Oliver that he promised her a New York vacation if she stayed with him on the farm for two years.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Jay Sommers