7.9/10105 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
7.9/1099 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
8.4/10106 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
8.1/10110 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
7.9/10105 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
8.0/1096 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
8.4/10107 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
8.0/10103 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
8.0/10100 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
7.6/1097 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
8.3/10102 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
7.7/10100 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
8.4/10110 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
8.3/10106 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
8.2/10109 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
7.8/10104 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
8.2/10102 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
8.0/10106 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
8.4/10110 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
8.5/10107 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
8.4/10102 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
7.9/10105 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
8.0/1096 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
8.0/10100 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
8.0/10102 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
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...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"The Man For the Job" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 9/6/1967. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Lisa's Jam Session".