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The Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 4

Every episode of Green Acres Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Green Acres Season 4!

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 4 Episode 1 - Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?
    0.0/10(119 votes)

    #1 - Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?

    S4:E1

    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

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  2. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 2 - The Rummage Sale
    0.0/10(105 votes)

    #2 - The Rummage Sale

    S4:E2

    The Douglases are asked to donate old clothing to a charity rummage sale. Lisa is glad to give away Oliver's entire wardrobe, but can't part with any of her dresses. Each has a memory attached, leading to flashbacks of Oliver asking Lisa's father for her hand in marriage, the Douglases' honeymoon in Switzerland and their first party in their new Park Avenue apartment.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  3. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 3 - Hail to the Fire Chief
    0.0/10(104 votes)

    #3 - Hail to the Fire Chief

    S4:E3

    Scheming to get Oliver to pay his way to a convention, Fire Chief Joe Carson appoints him as his assistant. Instead, Oliver finds the Hooterville Fire Department to be inept and ill-prepared. Oliver's call for improvements results in Uncle Joe being voted out and him being named the new chief.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  4. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 4 - Eb's Romance
    0.0/10(103 votes)

    #4 - Eb's Romance

    S4:E4

    Eb announces his engagement to Loreli Appleby, a girl he met the day before. In an attempt to impress his future father-in-law, Eb succeeds in destroying the farmer's cabbage crop. To get back in the man's good graces, Eb pawns Oliver's cow Eleanor so he can make the Appleby's mortgage payment.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  5. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 5 - The Candidate
    0.0/10(106 votes)

    #5 - The Candidate

    S4:E5

    Fed up with the lousy condition of the Hooterville highway, Oliver launches an attack on their beloved state district representative, Ben Hanks. The folksy, duck-calling, guitar-playing politician proves too wily for Oliver, even when caught padding the state payroll with relatives.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  6. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 6 - Handy Lessons
    0.0/10(98 votes)

    #6 - Handy Lessons

    S4:E6

    Wanting to be a bigger help to Oliver, Lisa decides to learn carpentry. She buys overalls and begins to study the craft from the inept Monroe brothers. Lisa's talents result in destruction in Monroes' workshop and earns Oliver a punch in the nose.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  7. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 7 - A Husband For Eleanor
    0.0/10(95 votes)

    #7 - A Husband For Eleanor

    S4:E7

    Oliver plans to leave Eleanor with Mr. Cowan's bull Dudley so she'll birth a calf and start giving milk again. However, Lisa complicates matters when she wants to make sure Eleanor has a good "husband" with bright prospects. No bull Lisa meets seems good enough to marry her "daughter".

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  8. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 8 - Old Mail Day
    0.0/10(106 votes)

    #8 - Old Mail Day

    S4:E8

    It's "Old Mail Day" and Sam Drucker hands out letters that have gotten misplaced in his post office. Having learned nothing from his previous letter-writing fiascos, an upset Oliver complains to the Postmaster General for delivery service. The locals soon turn on Oliver because Drucker's General Store is never open; he's always on his bicycle delivering mail.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  9. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 9 - The Agricultural Student
    0.0/10(116 votes)

    #9 - The Agricultural Student

    S4:E9

    The Agricultural Department is sending a student to learn the ropes from agent Hank Kimball. No one's too interested until Terry turns out to be an attractive blonde co-ed. All the men of Hooterville, eligible and otherwise, fall over themselves flirting and fawning. On the night of the big barn dance, the Douglas living room is packed full of maneuvering men, each thinking they're her date for the evening. Terry's choice turns out to be none of the above.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  10. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 10 - How Hooterville was Floundered
    0.0/10(96 votes)

    #10 - How Hooterville was Floundered

    S4:E10

    After Joe Carson quits as head of the Hooterville centennial celebration, Oliver gets the job. His idea is to stage a re-enactment of the town's founding starring he and Lisa as Horace and Doris Hooter. In the dramatization, saloon girl Doris fleeces Horace out of the money he'd hoped to buy a farm with. Eventually, he gets his money back, thanks to her skills as a card shark, and they marry and settle Hooterville.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  11. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 11 - The Blue Feather
    0.0/10(95 votes)

    #11 - The Blue Feather

    S4:E11

    Lisa's convinced that Hungarian gypsies have placed a curse on her when she receives a dreaded blue feather in the mail. To "de-hexify" her, Haney sells Lisa a ridiculous recipe that she mixes up, places in a green purse, and hangs outside the front door. Eb gets a look at it and panics because the "green purse hex" will bring a drought. He counteracts it with his own concoction in a yellow purse. Oliver takes action to put a stop to all this foolishness.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  12. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 12 - How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving
    0.0/10(107 votes)

    #12 - How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving

    S4:E12

    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

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  13. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 13 - The Birthday Gift
    0.0/10(134 votes)

    #13 - The Birthday Gift

    S4:E13

    For Lisa's birthday gift, Oliver plans to gets her a horse. Mr Haney delivers one, and it's not your average nag. Its name is Mr. Fred, a talking horse who's also a has-been TV star. Meanwhile, the locals decide that Lisa has a drinking habit and attempt an intervention.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  14. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 14 - Everywhere a Chick Chick
    0.0/10(89 votes)

    #14 - Everywhere a Chick Chick

    S4:E14

    Oliver has the bad idea of getting into the chicken raising business. Haney wants to sell him a ridiculous egg laying contraption, the Monroe brothers build a disastrous chicken coop, and Lisa wants to raise the chicks as human children. The serious trouble begins when the 1000 baby chicks arrive. The brooder stops working and the babies have to stay warm. Lisa's motherly instincts save the day.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  15. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 15 - The Marital Vacation
    0.0/10(92 votes)

    #15 - The Marital Vacation

    S4:E15

    Even though taking separate vacations was Lisa's idea, she misses Oliver before she even gets to the airport. Her constant phone calls and the goofy locals who think he tossed her out of the house irritate Oliver to no end. He gives up and hops a plane tojoin her; the layover in Cuba was an added surprise.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  16. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 16 - A Prize in Every Package
    0.0/10(113 votes)

    #16 - A Prize in Every Package

    S4:E16

    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

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  17. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 17 - Law Partners
    0.0/10(97 votes)

    #17 - Law Partners

    S4:E17

    Recent law school graduate Brian Williams pitches Oliver on joining him in a new practice. After another of his patriotic speeches, this time about law, Oliver is ready to hang out his shingle. Meanwhile, Lisa is excited about becoming their secretary and Eb is ready to run the farm.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  18. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 18 - A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
    0.0/10(88 votes)

    #18 - A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

    S4:E18

    The law office of Douglas and Williams is open for business, even though the sign has Oliver Mendell Douglas (later Oliver Wendell Wilkie Holmes) listed as a partner. Unqualified secretary Lisa destroys a office typewriter before having the new phone connected to a fire alarm "clanger". Later, to boost business, she advertises a grand opening special with free prizes and discount law services.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  19. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 19 - Economy Flight to Washington
    0.0/10(102 votes)

    #19 - Economy Flight to Washington

    S4:E19

    The Hooterville Young People's Agricultural Society, comprised of Eb, Hank and Arnold, flies to Washington, D. C. for the national convention. When the stewardess tries to throw the pig off the DC-3, the Douglases come on board to smooth over the problem. With Arnold hiding in "the occupied", the plane takes off with the whole Hooterville crowd aboard.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  20. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 20 - Retreat From Washington
    0.0/10(104 votes)

    #20 - Retreat From Washington

    S4:E20

    With the Douglases in Washington, the "Haney Farm Mindin' Service" leases out their house (for $4 a day) to a couple with six children. Meanwhile in D.C., Lisa and Eb go to the White House to have unannounced lunch with the president, Kimball causes chaos for the Secretary of Agriculture, and Arnold causes problems in a laundromat. Oliver calls an early end to their trip, forcing Haney to quickly dispose of his new tenants.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  21. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 21 - A Hunting We Won't Go
    0.0/10(91 votes)

    #21 - A Hunting We Won't Go

    S4:E21

    After a friendly doe wanders onto the farm, Lisa starts a drive to ban deer hunting. When the governor arrives in Hooterville for the start of hunting season, Lisa presents him with her petition. He threatens Oliver and Lisa with jail time because her petition promises everyone who signed it a one-hundred dollar payment.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  22. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 22 - Oh, Promise Me
    0.0/10(91 votes)

    #22 - Oh, Promise Me

    S4:E22

    A check of their their marriage license revals that Oliver and Lisa aren't husband and wife. They'd been mistakenly given a license to practice dentistry. Refusing to stay in the house with a bachelor dentist, "Dr. Gronyitz" moves in with the Monroe brothers until they can re-tie the knot. Their church wedding goes fairly smoothly considering Hank Kimball is the best man and Ralph Monroe is the maid of honor.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  23. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 23 - Eb Uses His Ingenuity
    0.0/10(87 votes)

    #23 - Eb Uses His Ingenuity

    S4:E23

    Eb needs to raise $20 for his girlfriends birthday gift.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  24. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 24 - The Old Trunk
    0.0/10(89 votes)

    #24 - The Old Trunk

    S4:E24

    From inside an old trunk Eb found in the barn, Lisa begins reading the diary of Lydia Plunkett who, in 1898, becomes a traveling saleswoman for a corset company. Lydia falls in love with rival salesman Harry Wright, whose career falters as a result of her success. The two marry, she becomes president of the corset company, and unhappily tends house. He eventually tires of being a housewife and leaves her. As Lisa continues reading, Eb is entranced by the story, but Oliver scoffs at the soppy romance.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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  25. Green Acres Season 4 Episode 25 - The Milk Maker
    0.0/10(93 votes)

    #25 - The Milk Maker

    S4:E25

    Local inventor "Looney Luke" Needlinger has built a contraption that turns hay into milk. Convinced it will make them rich, Haney and Fred pitch Oliver on investing in the machine, but he thinks they're being conned. After seeing the milk maker in action, Oliver convinces a chemist to give the devise a once-over. What he discovers insures that cows will always have work.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Jay Sommers

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?" is the best rated episode of "Green Acres" season 4. It scored /10 based on 119 votes. Directed by Richard L. Bare and written by Jay Sommers, it aired on 9/25/1968. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Rummage Sale".