Green Acres. The complete series / created and produced by Jay Sommers ; written by Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat ; directed by Richard L. Bare ; a Filmways Television presentation.
Publisher:
Shout! Factory,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
24 videodiscs (approximately 4245 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Aspect ratio, 1.33:1. Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Tom Lester, Pat Buttram, Frank Cady, Alvy Moore. Originally broadcast in 1965-1971. Title from container. Special features: pilot episode (Oliver buys a farm) commentary by pop culture historian Russell Dyball; "Green Acres is the place to be" featurette with The Hooterville handbook author Stephen Cox; Interview With Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor on the Merv Griffin show; "Granby's Green Acres" original radio shows; photo gallery; Audio discussion of the "Rural Purge" by Indise the Box: The TV History Podcast.
Contents:
Season 1. disc 1. Oliver buys a farm ; Lisa's first day on the farm ; The decorator ; The best laid lans ; My husband, the rooster renter ; Furniture, furniture, who's got the furniture? ; Neighborliness ; Lisa the helpmate -- disc 2. You can't plug in a 2 with a 6 ; Don't call us, we'll call you ; Parity begins at home ; Lisa has a calf ; The wedding anniversary ; What happened in Scranton? ; How to enlarge a bedroom ; Give me land, lots of land --disc 3. I didn't raise my husband to be a fireman ; Lisa bakes a cake ; Sprained ankle, country style ; The price of apples ; What's in a name? ; The day of decision ; A pig in a poke ; The deputy -- disc 4. Double drick ; The ballad of Molly Turgiss ; Never look a gift tractor in the mouth ; Send a boy to college ; Horse? What horse? ; The rains came ; Culture ; Uncle Ollie. Season 2. disc 1. Wings over Hooterville ; Water, water everywhere ; I didn't raise my pig to be a soldier ; How to see South America by bus ; The ugly duckling ; One of our assemblymen is missing ; The good old days ; Eb discovers the birds and the bees -- disc 2. The Hooterville image ; You ought to be in pictures ; A home isn't built in a day ; A square is not round ; An old-fashioned Christmas ; Never trust a little old lady ; School days ; His honor -- disc 3. It's so peaceful in the country ; Exodus to Bleedswell ; It's human to be humane ; Never take your wife to a convention ; The computer age ; Never start talking unless your voice comes out ; The Beverly Hillbillies -- disc 4. Lisa's vegetable garden ; The saucer season ; Getting even with Haney ; Kimball gets fired ; The vulgar ring story ; Who's Lisa ; Music to milk by. Season 3. disc 1. The man for the job ; Lisa's jam session ; Love comes to Arnold Ziffel ; Oliver vs. the phone company ; Oliver takes over the phone company ; A kind word for the president ; Don't count your tomatoes before they're picked ; Eb elopes -- disc 2. The thing ; Das lumpen ; Won't you come home Arnold Ziffel? ; Jealousy, English style ; Haney's new image ; Alf and Ralph break up ; No trespassing ; Eb returns -- disc 3. Not guilty ; Home is where you run away from ; How to succeed on TV without really trying ; Arnold, boy hero ; Flight to nowhere ; My mother the countess ; The spring festival -- disc 4. Our son, the barber ; Oliver's jaded past ; The Hungarian curse ; The rutabaga story ; Instant family ; A star named Arnold is born, part 1 ; A star named Arnold is born, part 2. Season 4. disc 1. Guess who's not coming to the luau? ; The rummage sale ; Hail to the fire chief ; Eb's romance ; The candidate ; Handy lessons ; A husband for Eleanor -- disc 2. Old mail day ; The agricultural student ; How Hooterville was floundered ; The blue feather ; How to get from Hooterville to Pixley without moving ; The birthday gift ; Everywhere a chick chick -- disc 3. The marital vacation ; A prize in each and every package ; Law partners ; A day in the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes ; Economy flight to Washington ; Retreat from Washington -- disc 4. A hunting we won't go ; Oh, promise me ; Eb uses his ingenuity ; The old trunk ; The milk maker ; The reincarnation of Eb. Season 5. disc 1. Lisa's mudder comes for a visit ; Everybody tries to love a countess ; Where there's a will ; A tale of a tail ; You and your big shrunken head ; The road ; Four of spades -- disc 2. The youth center ; The special delivery letter ; Oliver's schoolgirl crush ; Ralph's nuptials ; Oliver and the cornstalk ; Beauty is skin deep ; The wish-book -- disc 3. Rest and relaxation ; Trapped ; Bundle of joy ; The ex-con ; The cow killer ; The confrontation -- disc 4. The case of the Hooterville refund fraud ; The picnic ; The beeping rock ; Uncle Fedor ; The wealthy landowner ; Happy birthday. Season 6. disc 1. The city kids ; The coming-out party ; Jealousy ; A royal love story ; Oliver goes broke ; The great mayorality campaign ; Eb's double trouble ; Apple-picking time -- disc 2. Enterprising Eb ; Oliver's double ; The high cost of loving ; The liberation movement ; Charlie, Homer, and Natasha ; The engagement ring ; The free paint job ; Son of Drobny -- disc 3. The wedding deal ; Star witness ; The spot remover ; King Oliver I ; A girl for Drobny ; The carpenter's ball ; The hole in the porch -- disc 4. Lisa the psychologist ; Hawaiian honeymoon ; The ex-secretary.
Summary:
Oliver Douglas is a well read lawyer who has had enough of the hustle and bustle of New York, so he pulls up stakes to settle down in a more pastoral setting, much to the dismay of his glamorous wife Lisa, who's more accustomed to life in The Big Apple than on a small farm.
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