Green Acres: Season 3, Episode 5

Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company (4 Oct. 1967)

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Oliver's without an operator on his first day as president of the Hooterville Phone Company. As he wrestles with an exploding switchboard, the locals gossip about how he stole the company ... See full summary »

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Oliver's without an operator on his first day as president of the Hooterville Phone Company. As he wrestles with an exploding switchboard, the locals gossip about how he stole the company from Roy Trendell in a rigged card game. Lisa figures out how to put calls through, but had rather flirt with the president than work the switchboard all night. Written by Jay Phelps <jaynashvil@aol.com>

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Haney doesn't have an operator for Oliver on the back of his truck, but he is carrying a man who's a cocktail waitress, and elderly fandango dancer, and an atomic scientist who's on leave. See more »

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Mr. Roy Trendell: [informing Oliver that his mother has quit as operator] She wouldn't work for him after he stole the company from me.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: What are you talking about? I didn't steal the company from you. You-you-you gave it to me!
Mr. Roy Trendell: That's not Mom's version. She's going around telling people how you got me drunk, lured me into a poker game and won the company from me with a marked deck.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: What?
Lisa Douglas: That's the way he won me from the count. Only that time he did it with loaded dice.
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