Green Acres

In this classic series' premiere episode, New York City attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas satisfies his desire for the simple life by buying a farm, much to the chagrin of his wife, Lisa.

Oliver brings his wife, Lisa, to their new home, a ramshackle farm near Hooterville, just outside of Pixley, where she gets to meet the town's oddball residents.

Oliver is ready to get farming, but Lisa puts her foot down and says she will leave unless they can hire a decorator to fix the house! Meanwhile, Kate Bradley teaches Lisa how to make "hotscakes."

Is the Honeymoon period over already? The rumor mill has it that Lisa has packed up and left Oliver. Actually, she went back to New York to close up their penthouse apartment. And Mr. Haney is up to his old tricks!

Oliver calls in a roofer, a plumber and agricultural expert Hank Kimball. All of them give the same appraisal of his farm: it's a disaster! Meanwhile, Mr. Haney has a few chickens he'd like to rent out!

The Douglases are awaiting the arrival of their furniture and they don't know it, but Oliver's mother is on her way, too. But when the furniture is accidentally delivered to Mr. Haney's new place, he tries to sell their own possession back to them.

Planting season ends in three weeks and Oliver has yet to get his land plowed. Meanwhile, Uncle Joe needs a new shotgun before duck hunting season starts and schemes to solve both of their problems...without Oliver knowing it.

When Oliver sends a sample of his soil to the State Scientific College, a report comes back that his farm contains ingredients never before found in soil. Could his soil problems just be cosmetic?

Relying on statistics provided by the Department of Agriculture, Oliver decides to plant wheat. But when he goes to Drucker's to buy seed, he learns the other farmers have a unique way to predict the best crop...Mrs. Ziffel's lumbago.

After some wheeling and dealing and mending a riff between Mr. Kimball and his mother, Oliver finally has a phone installed, but the Hooterville Phone Company installs it directly outside his bedroom window...on top of the phone pole.

Oliver plants his entire 160 acres with wheat, only to hear from The Crabwell Corners Conservation and Stabilization Committee, a local farm organization, that he was only permitted to grow eight acres of wheat...because of Mr. Haney.

The cow that Oliver bought from Mr. Haney is pregnant. Afraid that Haney will claim the new calf, Oliver and Eb decide to keep it secret...only to have the people of Hooterville think that it is Lisa who is expecting!

It's the Douglases' wedding anniversary and, after initially pretending not to remember, Oliver makes clear that he knows the date very well...he just can't remember exactly how many years he and Lisa have been married.

Lisa is shocked that Hooterville has no beauty parlor, and the Ladies' Every-Other-Wednesday Afternoon-Discussion-Club nominates her to make it happen. Of course, Oliver's mother is happy to help, even if it means underhanded tactics.

When Oliver's neighbor, Mr. Watson, decides to do some traveling, Oliver buys the farm which adjoins his property, but not the house on it. Lisa misunderstands and thinks the beautiful farmhouse is their new home.

Oliver discovers the only requirement to join the Hooterville Valley Fire Department is that he must play a musical instrument. Meanwhile Lisa tries her hand at cooking something besides "hotscakes" for breakfast.

Believing he will never get a moment's peace, Oliver is annoyed when Lisa puts a listing in the new phone book: "Oliver Douglas, Attorney at Law"...but it is a different story when no one calls for his services.

Oliver's apple crop is ready to be harvested, and he decides to take them to market himself and make a killing. Of course, getting to market before the price drops proves a little more difficult than Oliver anticipates.

Ralph becomes enamored of Mr. Kimball, the county agent. However, though she feminizes herself and gets all gussied up, he refuses to go out with a girl named Ralph. Can Oliver solve the situation legally?

Six months is up! Now, Lisa gets to decide whether she and Oliver will remain on the farm or go back to New York and their Park Avenue lifestyle! Will this be the final straw for Green Acres?

Sam Drucker is leaving on a much-needed two-week vacation and talks Oliver into assuming his duties as deputy sheriff. But Oliver soon learns enforcing the law isn't quite as easy as it looks.

Whatever you do, don't say her name and especially while playing checkers down at Drucker's! An old hag named Molly Turgiss (Renie Riano), who died twenty years before the Douglases came to town, might be haunting them.

It's a few days before Oliver's birthday, and Lisa doesn't know quite what to get him...until the old Hoyt Clagwell goes kerflooey! So, she goes out and buys the biggest and fanciest tractor she can find.

Oliver discovers that Eb has a way with sick animals after Eb cures Arnold, the pig, and Alice, the chicken, and offers to put him through veterinary college. But will life in Green Acres ever be the same without Eb.

A horse follows Oliver home, but every time he tries to show it to his wife, the horse disappears. Lisa assumes that her husband is imagining things...and as more animals show up, Oliver begins to think so too.