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Title: Green Acres (1965–1971)
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| Complete series cast summary: | |||
| Eddie Albert | ... | Oliver Wendell Douglas / ... 170 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Eva Gabor | ... | Lisa Douglas / ... 170 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Tom Lester | ... | Eb Dawson / ... 150 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Pat Buttram | ... | Mr. Haney / ... 144 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Frank Cady | ... | Sam Drucker / ... 142 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Alvy Moore | ... | Hank Kimball / ... 140 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Hank Patterson | ... | Fred Ziffel 83 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
| Arnold the Piggy | ... | Arnold Ziffel / ... 70 episodes, 1965-1971 | |
Sick of the complications of life in Manhattan, successful, wealthy attorney, Oliver Wendell Douglas buys a run down farm from con-man, Eustace Haney, much to his sophisticated Hungarian wife, Lisa's chagrin. When they arrive at the ramshackle place, Oliver and Lisa try to get used to the bizarre town of Hooterville while trying to make the shack home with the help of their humble but slightly slow hired hand, Eb. Ironically, Lisa is the one who makes friends with their cow, Eleanor, their chicken, Alice and Fred Ziffel's television-loving pet pig, Arnold who he treats like a son and seems to be smarter than the citizens in several ways. Written by PeggyLeigh McCook
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Many in my generation (too young to be a boomer and too old to be an "X"er) think this is one of the funniest shows ever. It doesn't have any deeper meanings or ramifications or redeeming social importance. It's funny, and for the sake of being funny. This show proves that humor rises from character. Too often a show gets by on a series of insults, or double entendres, or one-liners. "Green Acres" had characters who were rich and diverse, who might be funny by what they say, or by the fact that they're saying it, or just because they show up at a certain moment. "Hooterville" could, I suppose, be construed as a Kafkaesque construct where even the woman who doesn't want to live there understands what's going on there, and only the man who wants to live there can't comprehend what's going on, or understand what the pig is saying. But why bother with such interpretation? This show is funny, well-written, and performed by fine actors. Shot on a sound-stage, "Green Acres" nevertheless opens out where most shows seem claustrophobic -- there are fields, roads, houses, barns, cows, jeeps, tractors, and all the great outdoors. I'm a country boy myself, and I appreciate that, unlike most shows written by high-handed cityfolk that show country folk as either ignorant bumpkins whose foolishness is the basis of laughs, or makes them more sagely inscrutable than smugly-superior urbanites, "Green Acres" gives the people of Hooterville thier own mindset that is neither better nor worse, just different. And the show itself is different from anything else on television until the arrival of "Newhart" which, for all its humor, nevertheless remained stagey and claustrophobic. "Green Acres" is funny. Enjoy it.