Richard L. BareFilmography

Green Acres: Star Witness

Crew: Director

Actors: Milton Selzer, Al Lewis, Hal Smith, David Renard, Barney Elmore

Synopsis: While staying with Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor), Arnold the pig witnesses a bank robbery. Normally, he'd be able to "squeal" to the cops concerning the crooks' identity -- but alas, Arnold is suffering from laryngitis. Meanwhile, holdup men Danny (Milton Selzer) and Charlie (Al Lewis Read More

Green Acres: The Spot Remover

Crew: Director

Actors: George Ives, Bob Hastings

Synopsis: A bowl of cabbage soup, based on a recipe created by Lisa's Hungarian uncle, turns out to be a great spot remover. Enterprising Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides to market the slop and make a fortune. Meanwhile, crafty Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) hatches a scheme to swipe the formula. One way or another, this Read More

Green Acres: The Wedding Deal

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk, Jane Connell, Jack Wagner

Synopsis: As the wedding of Eb (Tom Lester) and Darlene (Judith McConnell) approaches, money matters again complicate things. But Eb has got a foolproof scheme to collect free wedding gifts. All he has to do is stage his marriage in the car wash of a department store. Inevitably, Eb's "parents" Oliver (Eddie Albert Read More

Green Acres: The Free Paint Job

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Lowell, Robert Nichols, Dave Ketchum, Fabian Dean, Al Lanti

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) are given an offer they can't refuse: a free paint job for their house and barn. Of course, there are a few strings attached -- namely, the Douglases will have to allow the paint company extending this offer to use the side of their barn for an Read More

Green Acres: Son of Drobney

Crew: Director

Actors: Parley Baer, Gordon Connell, Albert Szabo, Vincent VanLynn, Chris Anders

Synopsis: The citizens of Hooterville are thrilled when Lisa (Eva Gabor) announces the eminent arrival of the son of a WWII war hero. What Lisa has failed to mention is that the distinguished visitor is a duck named Drobney. However, she hasn't misrepresented the situation: Drobney's feathered father was Read More

Green Acres: King Oliver I

Crew: Director

Actors: Lyle Talbot, William Sylvester

Synopsis: When the governor announces a 52 percent tax hike, the town of Hooterville secedes from the state. Cutting themselves off from their neighbors by sabotaging the bridge over the local swamp, the Hootervillians declare that they are subjects of an independent monarchy. Carrying the situation to its Read More

Green Acres: Lisa, the Psychologist

Crew: Director

Actors: William Sylvester, William Lanteau

Synopsis: When Oliver (Eddie Albert) enrolls in a night-school farming course at Pixley College, Lisa (Eva Gabor) follows suit by signing up for a psychology course. Before long, the citizens of Hooterville are clamoring for the advice of "Dr. Lisa," whose convoluted logic somehow makes sense under the Read More

Green Acres: Hawaiian Honeymoon

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Porter, Pamela Franklin, Mary Mayumi, Dick Kay Hong, Donna Kei Benz

Synopsis: For their "fifth honeymoon," Oliver and Lisa take a trip to Hawaii. They arrive at their hotel secure in the knowledge that they have reserved the Honeymoon suite. What they don't know is that the daughter (Pamela Franklin) of the hotel's owner (Don Porter) has secretly arranged for her newlywed Read More

Green Acres: The Ex-Secretary

Crew: Director

Actors: Elaine Joyce, Emmaline Henry, Richard Deacon, George Furth, Cliff Norton

Synopsis: Seeking the location of a New York repair shop for his broken antique watch, Oliver (Eddie Albert) gets in touch with his former secretary Carol Rush (Elaine Joyce), who is now working for a realtor. One thing leads to another, and by the end of the story Oliver and Carol have combined forces to Read More

Green Acres: A Girl for Drobney

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Douglases continue to play host to Drobney the duck, the son of a celebrated Hungarian war hero. But when Drobney begins playing records and dancing while Oliver (Eddie Albert) is trying to finish his taxes, it is a sure sign that the duck is lonely and homesick. After an effort to forge a Read More

Green Acres: The Carpenter's Ball

Crew: Director

Actors: Myrna Hansen

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) refuses to take Lisa (Eva Gabor) to Hooterville's annual Carpenter's Ball. So far as he is concerned, the event is a bit too zany for his tastes (and considering the zaniness of the Hooterville citizens, that's saying a lot). Somehow or other, this situation is tied in with Read More

Green Acres: The Hole in the Porch

Crew: Director

Actors: Foster Brooks, Pat Cranshaw

Synopsis: In the process of replacing a rotted board on his porch, Oliver (Eddie Albert) places another board on top of the bad one so that no accidents will occur. Unfortunately, agriculture agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) inadvertently removes the "protection" board and promptly plunges through the porch Read More

Green Acres: The Beeping Rock

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Frank Ferguson, Jerome Cowan, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: This episode was filmed not long after astronaut Neil Armstrong's fabled "moon walk" in the summer of 1969. Gullible Lisa (Eva Gabor) is convinced when child inventor Dinky Watson (Johnny Whitaker) insists that he, too, has been to the moon. Purchasing a "moon rock" from Dinky, Lisa receives a Read More

Green Acres: The Picnic

Crew: Director

Actors: Larry D. Mann, Mona Bruns, Maggie Peterson, Jane Connell, Merie Earle

Synopsis: It all starts when Oliver (Eddie Albert) decides to take his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) -- and only Lisa -- on a quiet, intimate, old-fashioned picnic. Well, that was Oliver's intention, but the citizens of Hooterville see things differently. Misinterpreting the Douglases getaway as a Read More

Green Acres: The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud

Crew: Director

Actors: Jay Jostyn, Hal Smith, Tom Lowell, Robert S. Carson

Synopsis: This episode begins at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service, where the agents take time from bleeding taxpayers dry to recall the case of the "Hooterville Refund Fraud." The whole mess was inadvertently caused by Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert), who had encouraged his fellow farmers to Read More

Green Acres: Happy Birthday

Crew: Director

Actors: Merie Earle

Synopsis: With his birthday approaching, Oliver (Eddie Albert) is amused that Lisa (Eva Gabor) is preparing for some "big event" that she won't tell him about. Naturally, Oliver thinks that a surprise party will be staged in his honor. Comes the big day, and Oliver is certainly surprised -- the gala Read More

Green Acres: The Wealthy Landowner

Crew: Director

Actors: Skye Aubrey, Ivor Barry, Brian Dewey, Allison McKay

Synopsis: Completely unfazed by all his previous misbegotten romances, handyman Eb (Tom Lester) decides to advertise for a wife. Before long, Eb is besieged with mail from eager brides-to-be -- but only because he has claimed to be a wealthy landowner, with a full retinue of servants. Inevitably, Eb is Read More

Green Acres: Uncle Fedor

Crew: Director

Actors: Leo Fuchs, Len Lesser, Jerry Hausner, Jonathan Hole

Synopsis: Leo Fuchs, one of the leading lights of America's Yiddish-theater movement, guest stars in this episode as Fedor, the Hungarian uncle of Lisa Douglas. Arriving at the Douglas farm, a nervous Uncle Fedor informs Lisa and Oliver that he is being pursued by sinister secret agents. Oliver doesn't Read More

Green Acres: The Confrontation

Crew: Director

Actors: Frank Ferguson, Helen Kleeb, Johnny Whitaker, Debi Storm, Richard Steele

Synopsis: Newly appointed as president of the Hooterville school board, Oliver (Eddie Albert) must deal with a fervent campaign, spearheaded by his neighbors, to reinstate an expelled student. This isn't as easy as it seems: the "student" is Arnold the pig, who has been banished from the schoolhouse for Read More

Green Acres: Trapped

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) are surprised to find a basement underneath their farm. Actually, it is less a basement and more a cave -- which promptly collapses, leaving the Douglases trapped beneath the ground. After several misbegotten escape efforts, Oliver and Lisa attempt to Read More

Green Acres: Rest and Relaxation

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Cummings, Joe Higgins

Synopsis: Bob Cummings, who in the '50s starred in producer Paul Henning's classic sitcom Love That Bob, returns for a guest role in Henning's equally popular series Green Acres. Cummings is cast as writer Mort Warner, an old friend of gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert). Anxious to escape the Read More

Green Acres: The Wish-Book

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Larry D. Mann, Hagan Beggs

Synopsis: While burrowing through a wall in their farm, Oliver and Lisa come across a very old mail-order catalog. This yellowed volume soon morphs into a "wish book" for the Douglases, as they experience another of those Green Acres flashbacks in which they play different characters in an earlier time Read More

Green Acres: The Cow Killer

Crew: Director

Actors: Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Al Lanti

Synopsis: This week, the bane of gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas' existence is Irene, a local cow who has been trampling his crops. In high dudgeon, Oliver (Eddie Albert) declares that he must get rid of Irene. As usual, wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) misinterprets Oliver's words and intentions, and soon has Read More

Green Acres: The Ex-Con

Crew: Director

Actors: John Qualen, Don Keefer, Vince Barnett, Hal Baylor

Synopsis: Veteran character actor John Qualen makes a return appearance to Green Acres, this time in the role of ex-forger Willie Dunhill. As part of his campaign to extend a helping hand to former convicts, Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) has taken on Willie as a new farm hand. Trouble is, Willie has been Read More

Green Acres: Bundle of Joy

Crew: Director

Actors: Bartlett Robinson, Sid Grossfield, Patience Cleveland, Mary Alice Fox

Synopsis: Away in New York on legal business for his old law firm, Oliver (Eddie Albert) receives a startling phone call from wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) back in Hooterville. It seems that, during Oliver's absence, someone has left a baby on the Douglases' doorstep. The situation rapidly becomes complicated and Read More

Green Acres: The City Kids

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Meyerink, George Spell, Mitchell Sakamoto, Christopher Wheeler, John Wheeler

Synopsis: Season six of Green Acres begins as gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) prepare to welcome some guests to their farm as part of a "Kids in the Country Program." The guests are four city youngsters who, among other things, are amazed to discover that cows Read More

Green Acres: The High Cost of Loving

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith McConnell

Synopsis: Still hoping to make enough money to marry Darlene (Judith McConnell), Eb (Tom Lester) seeks out gainful employment via several mail-order services. When he signs up for what thinks is a course in accounting, Eb finds that he has paid for acting lessons. Deciding to make the best of the situation Read More

Green Acres: Oliver's Double

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Albert, Chanin Hale, William Sylvester, Hal Smith, Robert Ruth

Synopsis: Eddie Albert plays a dual role in this episode, as gentleman farmer Oliver Douglas, and Oliver's exact double, a bank robber named Charlie. When Charlie checks into a local hotel with his sexy gun moll Blanche (Chanin Hale), the neighbors are convinced that Oliver is cheating on his wife Lisa (Eva Gabor Read More

Green Acres: Enterprising Eb

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk, Mona Bruns, Edwin Max, Al Molinaro

Synopsis: Having decided to marry his sweetie Darlene (Judith McConnell), handyman Eb (Tom Lester) decides to buy a house as well. Unfortunately, his "collateral" consists of a turtle, a pocket knife, a bag of marbles, and an autographed picture of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. In his efforts to scare up more Read More

Green Acres: The Engagement Ring

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith McConnell, Robert Foulk

Synopsis: Despite a severe lack of financial resources, handyman Eb (Tom Lester) persists in his plans to marry his sweetheart Darlene (Judith McConnell). Now Eb wants to get an engagement ring, but of course he hasn't the money to purchase the rock. Generous Lisa (Eva Gabor) offers her own engagement ring Read More

Green Acres: Charlie, Homer and Natasha

Crew: Director

Actors: Bob Hastings

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) refuses to take Lisa (Eva Gabor) to New York City for the anniversary of two of their friends. Hoping to change Oliver's mind, Lisa tries to persuade him that their farm is festooned with three strange and magical "little people." Fortunately for Lisa's scheme, handyman Eb (Tom Lester Read More

Green Acres: The Liberation Movement

Crew: Director

Actors: Jonathan Hole

Synopsis: Most sitcoms of the '70s treated the Women's Liberation Movement with derision, and Green Acres was no exception. Having been fired up by feminist rhetoric, Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides that she is fully capable of doing "men's" work, and thus she insists upon performing all the farm chores. As for Read More

Green Acres: Apple Picking Time

Crew: Director

Actors: John Wheeler, Joe Higgins, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: While the previous Green Acres episode was titled "Eb's Double Trouble," in this episode it is Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) who finds that troubles always come in pairs. For one thing, Oliver is having a difficult time harvesting his apple crop. And for another, he has also promised to teach wife Read More

Green Acres: A Royal Love Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Meyerink, Oscar Beregi, Raoul Franck, Bobbi Frank

Synopsis: For the benefit of the Douglases' young house guest Lori (Victoria Meyerink), Lisa (Eva Gabor) tells the girl the story of how she and Oliver (Eddie Albert) first met. Each of the previous episodes in which this story was unfolded flashback-style has offered an entirely different account of the Read More

Green Acres: Jealousy

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Meyerink, Elsie Baker, Pat Cranshaw

Synopsis: In their efforts to make their young house guest Lori Baker (Victoria Meyerink) feel at home, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) shower the little girl with gifts and attention. Surprisingly, their generosity breeds jealousy -- on the part of their handyman Eb (Tom Lester). Having long Read More

Green Acres: The Coming Out Party

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Meyerink

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) would like to have the Douglases' young house guest Lori (Victoria Meyerink) get acquainted with the kids in Hooterville. To this end, Lisa plans a coming out party for the girl. Tightening the purse strings, Oliver (Eddie Albert) insists that Lisa plans a "small" affair. This Read More

Green Acres: Eb's Double Trouble

Crew: Director

Actors: Judith McConnell, Kristin Nelson, Robert Foulk

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) must come to the rescue when two of their closest friends get themselves in similar romantic entanglements. It seems that handyman Eb (Tom Lester) has invited both his steady girlfriend Darlene (Judith McConnell) and attractive newcomer Carol (Kris Read More

Green Acres: The Great Mayoralty Campaign

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's election time in Hooterville again, and the two opposing parties are heating up for the big event. This year, the candidates are both colorful and unique. Carrying the banner for one party is that well-known gentleman farmer, Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert). And representing the loyal Read More

Green Acres: Oliver Goes Broke

Crew: Director

Actors: Victoria Meyerink, Dave Willock, Bob Gravage

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) has been behaving strangely of late -- that is to say, she is behaving more strangely than usual. Witnesses have seen her searching about for a job, and even standing in welfare soup lines. The neighbors naturally jump to the logical conclusion: Lisa's husband Oliver (Eddie Read More

Green Acres: A-Hunting We Won't Go

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Lenz, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Softhearted Lisa (Eva Gabor) befriends a dewy-eyed doe that has wandered onto the farm. As a result, our heroine mounts an anti-hunting campaign in Hooterville -- just as hunting season starts. When no one pays her any heed, Lisa decides to take drastic action to disarm the potential hunters one Read More

Green Acres: Retreat from Washington

Crew: Director

Actors: Guy Raymond, Fran Ryan, Dodo Denney, Robert Sampson, Ketty Lester

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) watches the Douglas farm in Hooterville while Oliver (Eddie Albert), Lisa (Eva Gabor), Kimball (Alvy Moore), and Arnold the pig are in Washington. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Haney decides to temporarily transform the farm Read More

Green Acres: Economy Flight to Washington

Crew: Director

Actors: Dave Willock, Reed Hadley, Renie Riano, George Ives, Lennie Bremen

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Kimball (Alvy Moore), Eb (Tom Lester), and Arnold the pig prepare to fly to Washington. To save money, the trio has chosen an extremely low-cost airline, complete with an over-the-hill pilot and a septuagenarian flight attendant. But the real fun begins Read More

Green Acres: The Old Trunk

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Henry Oliver, John Wheeler, Gordon Jump

Synopsis: While rummaging through an old trunk, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) come across the artifacts of a 19th century romance. This sparks another of Green Acres' "fantasy flashback" sequence, in which the two leading characters assume different roles in a different time period. In this Read More

Green Acres: Eb Uses His Ingenuity

Crew: Director

Actors: Fran Ryan, Jean Blake, Gaye Huston

Synopsis: Eb (Tom Lester) needs money in a hurry, but Oliver (Eddie Albert) refuses to give him a loan, suggesting instead that Eb rely on his "ingenuity" to raise the necessary funds. Oliver soon regrets his words when Eb not only transforms the Douglas farm into a baby care assembly line, but also rents Read More

Green Acres: Oh, Promise Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Rockwell, Owen Cunningham, Tobie Dulien

Synopsis: One of the oldest plots in sitcom history is given a new and surrealistic spin in this episode. After ten years of wedded bliss, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) decide to take a look at their marriage license, originally issued in Hungary. They discover to their amazement that, thanks Read More

Green Acres: The Marital Vacation

Crew: Director

Actors: Ronald Long, Damian O'Flynn

Synopsis: Hoping to test the theory that "absence makes the heart grow fonder," Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides to take a vacation without Oliver (Eddie Albert). With the Green Acres theme song in mind, it is only natural that Lisa should choose to make a solo trip to New York City. And with the gossipy habits of Read More

Green Acres: Everywhere a Chick Chick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Purchasing 1,000 baby chicks, Oliver (Eddie Albert) sets about to diversify his produce by becoming a chicken rancher. The plethora of poultry is problematic enough for Oliver and Lisa (Eva Gabor), but the fun has just begun. In the course of events, Lisa insists upon being surrogate mother to Read More

Green Acres: The Birthday Gift

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Merie Earle, Ketty Lester

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) makes the first mistake of the evening when she gives Oliver (Eddie Albert) a list of items that she would like to get for her birthday. Near the top of the list is a horse, meaning that Oliver must enter into another unholy bargain with the crafty Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) -- and Read More

Green Acres: A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Lenz, Bob Hastings, Vince Barnett, Sam Weston, Ysabel MacCloskey

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Oliver (Eddie Albert) has dusted off his law diploma and opened a practice in Hooterville with his young and eager partner Brian Williams (Rick Lenz). Their office is Spartan but serviceable: all the partners need now is a good legal secretary. Naturally Read More

Green Acres: Law Partners

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Lenz

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story arc, Oliver (Eddie Albert) makes the acquaintance of a young law school graduate named Brian Williams (Rick Lenz). It is Brian's contention that Hooterville needs a good law practice, and he suggests that he and Oliver form a partnership. Unfortunately Read More

Green Acres: A Prize in Each and Every Package

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Hale, Jr., Anthony Caruso, Craig Huebing, Ted Fish, Al Molinaro

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) begin breakfast by opening a box of Crickly Wicklys, a cereal that promises "a prize in each and every package." Well and good -- but they didn't expect to find a cache of genuine and very expensive jewelry! As it turns out, the gems were stashed in the Read More

Green Acres: The Milk Maker

Crew: Director

Actors: Percy Helton, Foster Brooks

Synopsis: Ubiquitous, squeaky-voiced character actor Percy Helton does another guest-star turn on Green Acres. This time, Helton is cast as eccentric inventor Luke Needlinger, who has all of Hooterville ga-ga over his latest invention -- a milk-making machine. Of course, Luke could use a little extra money Read More

Green Acres: Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush

Crew: Director

Actors: Heather North, Herbert Anderson, Rusty Hamer, Jordan Rhodes

Synopsis: Oliver is invited to give a speech at Hooterville High School. His words have a profound effect on teenaged student Kathy (Heather North) -- who promptly falls in love with Oliver, thereby arousing the jealousy of both Oliver's wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) and Kathy's own disgruntled boyfriend. Two TV Read More

Green Acres: The Special Delivery Letter

Crew: Director

Actors: Chanin Hale, Robert Nichols

Synopsis: Everyone in Hooterville wants to know the contents of a special-delivery letter sent to the Douglases. Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) would like to know too, but he hasn't been able to open the letter. Thanks to yet another noodle soup of bureaucracy, the sealed letter has already been passed from Read More

Green Acres: The Youth Center

Crew: Director

Actors: Hal Smith

Synopsis: The town of Hooterville is gripped with melancholy when its population drops from a bustling 68 to a pitiful 46. It appears that, while there are plenty of middle-agers and oldsters in town, the "kids" are steering clear of the place. Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) expansively suggests that Read More

Green Acres: Beauty is Skin Deep

Crew: Director

Actors: Chanin Hale, Bert Holland

Synopsis: Once again, Lisa (Eva Gabor) has been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. This time around, Lisa inveigles Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) to help her set up a cosmetics business -- with the corner of Sam's general store as their headquarters. Chanin Hale, one of the busiest "dumb blonde" actresses of the Read More

Green Acres: Oliver and the Cornstalk

Crew: Director

Actors: Peggy Russell, LoLo Cannon, Lori Loughton

Synopsis: It's corn-planting season again, and Oliver (Eddie Albert) intends to get his crop in on time. This proves difficult thanks to the well-meaning interference of two of Oliver's most persistent nemeses: dimwitted hired hand Eb (Tom Lester) and larcenous peddler Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram). Though the Read More

Green Acres: Ralph's Nuptuals

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It looks as if the off-and-on romance between agriculture agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) and the curiously named lady carpenter Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) is definitely "on" -- and for keeps this time. Lisa (Eva Gabor) insists that she be allowed to arrange Hank and Ralph's nuptials, and Read More

Green Acres: Everybody Tries to Love a Countess

Crew: Director

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Lilia Skala, Jerry Fujikawa

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a two-part story, Oliver (Eddie Albert) continues to fuss and fume over the presence of his imperious mother-in-law (Lilia Skala) and her equally irksome Japanese manservant, Kyoto (Jerry Fujikawa). Meanwhile, outside the Douglas farm, the citizens of Hooterville are Read More

Green Acres: Lisa's Mudder Comes for a Visit

Crew: Director

Actors: Lilia Skala, Jerry Fujikawa, Tom Lowell

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Green Acres' fifth season, Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) anxiously prepares for the arrival of her "mudder." No, she isn't expecting a race horse, but instead her jet-setting Hungarian mother (Lilia Skala), who descends upon the Douglas farm in the company of her Japanese Read More

Green Acres: The Reincarnation of Eb

Crew: Director

Actors: Garry Walberg, Cindy Eilbacher, Joe Hernandez

Synopsis: Here's the situation: Eb (Tom Lester), the Douglases' handyman, has been reported missing. Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) has been reading up on reincarnation. A stray dog wanders onto the Douglases' farm. Lisa jumps to what is for her the obvious conclusion: the pooch is actually Eb, returned from the Read More

Green Acres: The Road

Crew: Director

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Dave Willock, Edwin Max

Synopsis: Gentleman farmer Oliver (Eddie Albert) is outraged that Hooterville's unpaved road continues to kick up a veritable dust storm, seriously endangering the local crops. On behalf of their fellow agrarians, Oliver and Lisa (Eva Gabor) head to the state capitol, there to demand that the road be paved. Read More

Green Acres: A Tale of a Tail

Crew: Director

Actors: Roland Winters, Vince Barnett, William O'Connell, Al Molinaro, Fabian Dean

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) have arrived in Chicago, where Oliver intends to exercise his legal expertise to make sure that Arnold the pig will inherit 20,000,000 dollars. Naturally, Arnold goes along as well, and once in the Windy Read More

Green Acres: Where There's a Will

Crew: Director

Actors: Roland Winters, Robert Noble

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story arc, Arnold the pig inherits 20,000,000 dollars from an eccentric Chicago meat-packer. Alas, the human relatives of the decedent are hotly contesting the will. Thus, a reluctant Oliver (Eddie Albert) is drafted to be Arnold's attorney, and in the company Read More

I Sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: It's silliness on the high seas as two sneaky sailors race across the South Pacific in this fast-paced and campy comedy. The fun begins when one bets the other $20,000 that he, with an all girl crew, be the first to Tahiti in a sailboat race. The other, not to be outdone, has a few monkeyshines up Read More

Green Acres: Four of Spades

Crew: Director

Actors: Tommy Roe

Synopsis: Having gone into fortune-telling, Lisa (Eva Gabor) predicts that a mysterious stranger will soon enter the life of her husband Oliver (Eddie Albert). That stranger turns out to be the cousin of the Douglases' handyman Eb (Tom Lester) -- namely, one Tadpole Talbot, played by pop singer Tommy Roe. Read More

Green Acres: The Rummage Sale

Crew: Director

Actors: John van Dreelen, Charles Lane, Tom D'Andrea, Ronald Long, Barbara Morrison

Synopsis: While digging through their belongings in search of items for a rummage sale, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) come across some of their old clothes and several other fascinating artifacts. This prompts the couple to wax nostalgic about their elopement and honeymoon. This being Green Acres Read More

Green Acres: Hail to the Fire Chief

Crew: Director

Actors: Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Edgar Buchanan appears in his Petticoat Junction role of Uncle Joe Carson, recently appointed fire chief of Hooterville. Eager to attend a convention of his fellow fire chiefs in Miami, all Uncle Joe lacks are the necessary funds. What to do? Simple: appoint Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) as Read More

Green Acres: Eb's Romance

Crew: Director

Actors: Melody Patterson, John Qualen, William Joseph Keene

Synopsis: Considering his previous lack of matrimonial success (specifically, he was jilted at the altar), handyman Eb (Tom Lester) surprises one and all by announcing his plans to marry the toothsome Lorelei Appleby (played by Melody Patterson of F Troop fame). Reluctantly elected as "father of the groom," Read More

Green Acres: A Star Named Arnold is Born, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Oscar Beregi, Patience Cleveland, Trudi Ames

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Arnold the pig is cast in a major role in the Hooterville Theater's lastest production. Not surprisingly, Arnold scores a hit -- whereupon Lisa (Eva Gabor), following her peculiar sense of logic, convinces herself that the porcine prince is ready for movie Read More

Green Acres: A Star Named Arnold is Born, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Oscar Beregi, Peter Leeds, Patience Cleveland, Jonathan Hole, Phil Gordon

Synopsis: Prevailing upon her movie-producer friend, Lisa manages to land a Hollywood role for Hooterville's favorite pig Arnold. A natural-born ham (ouch!), Arnold proves to be a natural before the cameras. This is no surprise to Lisa, who had faith in Arnold's talents all along. As for Lisa's husband Read More

Green Acres: Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?

Crew: Director

Actors: Craig Huebing, Parley Baer, Hank Worden, Leslie McRae, Jack Wagner

Synopsis: Everyone in Hooterville -- including Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) has entered a national contest with hopes of winning a trip to Hawaii as Green Acres begins its fourth season. Eventually, the applications are tallied and the winner is announced: none other than Arnold the pig! Read More

Green Acres: Old Mail Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Hooterville postal service is not exactly one involving "swiftly appointed rounds." In fact, the community has inaugurated an "old mail day," in which storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) cleans out his store, locates any old undelivered mail that happens to be lying around, and ships it out Read More

Green Acres: The Agricultural Student

Crew: Director

Actors: Francine York, Rick Lenz

Synopsis: Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) is informed that a young agricultural student has been sent out to observe him as he goes about his work. What Hank doesn't know is that the student is a curvaceous lass named Terry Harper (Francine York). Before long, however, word gets out that Terry is definitely a Read More

Green Acres: Handy Lessons

Crew: Director

Actors: Frederic Downs

Synopsis: Once again, Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides to surprise and please her husband by becoming the quintessential "handy housewife." More specifically, Lisa has made her mind up to become the world's best lady carpenter. To do this, she dons form-fitting overalls and begins her education under the Read More

Green Acres: A Husband for Eleanor

Crew: Director

Actors: Dave Willock

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) is upset that his cow Eleanor refuses to give milk. Agriculture agent Mr. Kimball suggests that Eleanor is lonely, and needs an appropriate mate. Thus, Oliver (Eddie Albert) goes out and buys an eligible bull named Dudley -- all of which angers Lisa (Eva Gabor), who rightly Read More

Green Acres: How to Get From Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff de Benning, Jonathan Hole, Gordon Jump

Synopsis: Once again, Oliver and Lisa Douglas (Eddie Albert), (Eva Gabor) are at the mercy of blind, boneheaded bureaucracy. A boundary survey reveals that only half of the Douglases' farm is located in Hooterville; the other half resides in the neighboring community of Pixley. This results in miles upon Read More

Green Acres: The Candidate

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Foulk, J. Pat O'Malley, Skip Young

Synopsis: This episode of Green Acres was cunningly timed to air just before the 1968 presidential elections. Upset over the do-nothing record of incumbent state representative Ben Hanks (J. Pat O'Malley), Oliver (Eddie Albert) angrily declares that there is more to being a good politician than handing out Read More

Green Acres: How Hooterville Was Floundered

Crew: Director

Actors: Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: For quite some time, Uncle Joe Carson (Edgar Buchanan) has been chairman of Hooterville's Founders Day (or "Flounder's Day," depending or whom you're talking to). But with the town's Centennial coming up, a more dynamic and progressive chairman is called for -- someone like Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert Read More

Green Acres: The Blue Feather

Crew: Director

Actors: James Cranna, Chris Ross, Jack Wagner

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) is aghast when she receives a blue feather in the mail. This, according to Lisa, is a sure sign that she has been placed under a gypsy curse. As our dithery heroine goes to great and ridiculous lengths to expunge the hex from her household, her long-suffering husband Oliver (Eddie Albert Read More

Green Acres: A Pig in a Poke

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) is invited to give the keynote speech at a meeting of the Harvard Alumni Legal Society. As he clears his throat and begins to address the gathered throng, Oliver must first explain why he and wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) have arrived at this august occasion in the company of Arnold Read More

Green Acres: The Day of Decision

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Back when her husband Oliver (Eddie Albert) decided to move out of their Manhattan penthouse and into a rundown farm in Hooterville, Lisa (Eva Gabor) reluctantly agreed to give rural living a chance -- for six months. If at the end of the trial period she decided that being a farmer's wife wasn't Read More

Green Acres: The Deputy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The plot of this episode is set in motion by Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), one of several crossover characters from Green Acres' sister sitcom Petticoat Junction. Sam also happens to be deputy sheriff, which puts him in a bind when he wants to go on vacation and no one else Read More

Green Acres: The Ballad of Molly Turgiss

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Every small town has a ghost, and Hooterville is no exception. The spirit of Molly Turgiss (Rene Riano), an old crone who long ago had placed a curse on the valley, is so fearsome to the locals that they dare not mention her name. Undaunted by parochial superstition, Oliver (Eddie Albert) insists Read More

Green Acres: Double Drick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Remember the great New York City power blackout of November 9, 1965? Ever wonder what caused all the lights to go out? Well, according to this episode of Green Acres, the source of the power fizzle can be traced back to Hooterville, where, after months and months of waiting for his farm to be Read More

Green Acres: What's in a Name?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though officially one of the "Monroe Brothers," Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) is a certified female, and as such has the same yearnings as any other certified female. Alas, when she falls in love with agriculture agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore), he does not reciprocate. The reason? Hank is Read More

Green Acres: I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The legendary Hooterville volunteer fire department springs into action when an alarm brings them to the Douglas house. Lisa (Eva Gabor) is unimpressed, but Oliver is convinced that the fire brigade could use his services. However, there's a catch: the volunteers like to play music in their Read More

Green Acres: Give Me Land, Lots of Land

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) curries favor with his wealthy neighbor Lud Watson (Guy Wilkerson), hoping to add Watson's 300 acres to his own property. The deal is made, and Lisa (Eva Gabor) enthusiastically begins to renovate the house on Watson's former land. There's only one teeny tiny problem: the Read More

Green Acres: Lisa Bakes a Cake

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Hooterville telephone directory (two full pages this year!) comes out, and Oliver (Eddie Albert) is upset that Lisa (Eva Gabor) has listed him as "Attorney at Law." Oliver is worried that he will receive so many calls for his services that he'll never get his farm chores done -- and remember Read More

Green Acres: The Price of Apples

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoping to make the biggest possible profit on his apple crop, Oliver plans to eliminate the middleman and market the apples himself. He also intends to beat his fellow farmers to the market so he can corner the business. You guessed it: the major dilemma in this episode is getting to the market Read More

Green Acres: Sprained Ankle Country Style

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Because Hooterville is a "fringe" reception area (one of the fringiest), Oliver (Eddie Albert) must install a roof antenna if he wants to get decent TV service. Unfortunately, the roof collapses under him, leaving poor Oliver with a sprained ankle. On the bright side, Oliver and his neighbors are Read More

Green Acres: Water, Water Everywhere

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, the redoubtable Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) makes life a living heck for city slicker Oliver (Eddie Albert). It all begins when well-digger Willie the Witcher (played by that squeaky-voiced cult favorite Percy Helton) divines the location of a fresh water supply for Mr. Haney's well. Only Read More

Green Acres: Wings Over Hooterville

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season two of the hallucinogenic hayseed comedy Green Acres begins as the citizens of Hooterville face the loss of their entire corn crop to the dreaded bing bug. At least, that's what's supposed to be the central plotline of this episode. In truth, a lot more time is devoted to a WWII flashback Read More

Green Acres: Uncle Ollie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Don Edmonds guest stars as Oliver's (Eddie Albert) teenaged nephew Chuck, who shows up at the Douglas farm on his motorcycle, with shoulder-length hair and a guitar strapped around him. Had this episode been filmed in 1967, Chuck would have been described as a "hippie," but it's 1966, so he claims Read More

Green Acres: The Ugly Duckling

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As every loyal Green Acres fan knows, Hooterville carpenter Ralph Monroe is, despite her moniker, a bona fide female (played by Mary Grace Canfield). Of course, this fact is hard to ascertain, since Ralph is always dressed in men's overalls and seemingly goes out of her way to be unattractive. Read More

Green Acres: One of Our Assemblymen is Missing

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, city-bred farmer Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) decides to stand firm on his principles -- only to fall flat on his face. Upon receiving a tax notice that makes absolutely no sense to him, Oliver vows not to pay the bill until someone explains just what he's paying for. Unfortunately Read More

Green Acres: I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The focus in this classic Green Acres episode is on that porcine superstar, Arnold the Pig. The complications begin piling up as Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) agree to take care of Arnold while his owners, the Ziffels, are on their second honeymoon. But the fun really gets underway Read More

Green Acres: Send a Boy to College

Synopsis: Eb Dawson (Tom Lester), versatile handyman and self-appointed "son" of the Douglases, has a real way with animals. In fact, reasons "mommy" Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), Eb has all the makings of a brilliant veterinarian. Following this line of logic, there is nothing to be done but to send Eb off to Read More

Green Acres: Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: We all know that Oliver (Eddie Albert) has had nothing but trouble with his farm's tractor, which behaves more like a bucking bronco when it chooses to behave at all. With this in mind, Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides that the perfect birthday gift for Oliver would be a brand new tractor. Thus, our Read More

Green Acres: How to See South America By Bus

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dianne Foster guest stars as Amy Collins, an attractive lady farmer who seeks out Oliver's legal advice. Oliver (Eddie Albert) is amenable, since Amy has agreed to help him with his corn crop. But Oliver's wife Lisa (Eva Gabor) jumps to the obvious conclusion (as she always does), assuming that Read More

Green Acres: Culture

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a member in good standing of Hooterville's Every-Other-Wednesday-Afternoon Discussion Club, Lisa (Eva Gabor) insists that what the community needs above all else is a symphony orchestra. Oliver (Eddie Albert) agrees in principle, but suggests that Lisa streamline her plans and organize a park Read More

Green Acres: The Rains Came

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After 92 days with no rain, Oliver signs a deal with Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), who claims to have a rainmaking machine. It turns out that the "machine" consists of a Native American rain-dancer named Chief Thundercloud (Robert Strauss). Ultimately, it rains cats and dogs, but Oliver insists that Read More

Green Acres: Horse? What Horse?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A spotted horse follows Oliver home. Oliver tells Lisa that a spotted horse has followed him home. Lisa looks for herself, and sees no spotted horse. In fact, Lisa never sees the spotted horse when Oliver does, leading her to conclude that he's seeing spots before his eyes, and thus is in dire Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Black Box

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The citizens of Hooterville are excited when a top-secret Air Force camera lands in the yard outside the Shady Rest Hotel. What no one realizes is that the camera has been equipped with a detonation device--set to explode should anyone try to use the device. The role of General Loomis is played by Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Tale of Two Dogs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two feuds are fired up in the course of this episode. For starters, Hooterville vies with Crabwell Corners over the ownership of a cannon originally used in the Spanish American war. Meanwhile, Hooterville's Betty Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye) squares off against Crabwell Corners' Tad Winslow (Frank Read More

Petticoat Junction: There's No Stove Like an Old Stove

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once again, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to weasel out of chopping wood for Kate's ancient stove. This time, his plan involves purchasing a brand new, streamlined oven. Inasmuch as this scheme involves currying favor with a wealthy epicure, Joe certainly has his work cut out for him. Featured Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Shady Rest Hotel Corporation

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) has decided that the Shady Rest Hotel needs a new water heater. Not only would it be more efficient than Kate's wood-burning stove, but also Uncle Joe wouldn't have to chop any more firewood. To raise money to purchase the heater, Joe transforms the hotel into a Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Chicken Killer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In one of Petticoat Junction's rare fantasy episodes, the Bradley girls' beloved dog (played by future Benji star Higgins) is accused of being a chicken killer by sadistic dogcatcher Hinky Mittenfloss (brilliantly played by the inimitable, squeaky-voiced Percy Helton). Thrown into a dog pound that Read More

Petticoat Junction: Why Girls Leave Home

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The great character actor Sig Ruman, best known for his appearances with the Marx Brothers and his performance as "Concentration Camp Ehrhardt" in 1942's To Be or Not to Be, is cast as vocal teacher Professor Lieberschmit, who declares that Bobbie Jo (Pat Woodell) has an exquisite singing Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Mayor of Hooterville

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hooterville has never had a mayor, and never needed a mayor--until now. Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) has persuaded the locals to hold a mayoral election, in hopes that he will land the job. But unexpectedly stiff opposition comes in the form of Selma Plout (Virginia Sale), the arch-rival of Joe's Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of the two-part story, despicable railroad executive Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has managed to become president of the Pixley Bank. In this capacity, he threatens to foreclose on the Shady Rest Hotel unless the Hooterville Cannonball is scrapped. Rather than see this happen Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, railroad executive-turned-banker Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) continues to threaten foreclosure of the Shady Rest Hotel. The only hope lies in Willie (Jay Ripley), a local eccentric with an uncanny ability to predict the outcome of roulette-wheel spins. Uncle Read More

Petticoat Junction: Billie Jo's First Job

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benadaret) is delighted when her daughter Billie Jo (Jeannine Riley) lands her first job. But Kate is less than delighted to learn that Billie Jo has been hired as a secretary by notorious novelist Oliver Fenton, whose books have been banned in Hooterville by local bluenose Selma Plout Read More

Petticoat Junction: There's No Flame Like an Old Flame

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Years ago, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) had his heart broken by Mary Alice Perkins, who left him waiting at the altar and married another man. Now, Mary Alice is a widow, and Uncle Joe decides to begin corresponding with her again. Are there wedding bells in the offing, or is Joe setting himself up Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Matter of Communication

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Bradley girls have reached the age when they want to spend all their time on the telephone. Unfortunately, the nearest receivers are miles away, and Kate (Bea Benadaret) can't afford to install a special line to the Shady Rest. Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) comes to the rescue with the aid of Read More

Petticoat Junction: For the Birds

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Hooterville Cannonball is forced to temporarily halt service when a bird builds its nest in the engine's smokestack. Enter the redoubtable Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), who declares that the Cannonball will be scrapped if it does not return to its appointed rounds immediately. This is one of Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate Bradley, Girl Volunteer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Well, the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department is finally up and running. Or is it? When a small fire breaks out on the Hooterville Cannonball, the embarrassed firefighters are forced to ask for help from an out-of-town department to put out the blaze. Clearly, the time has come for all-purpose Read More

Petticoat Junction: Visit from the Governor

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ever seeking opportunities to bring prestige to the Shady Rest Hotel, Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) tries to stir up interest in inviting the state governor to visit Hooterville. Unfortunately, no one else in town is willing to support Joe in his efforts, forcing him to take drastic (and potentially Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Borderline Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A team of surveyors determines that the Shady Rest Hotel has been built right in the middle of the border between two counties. Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to exploit this phenomenon by building up the hotel as a tourist attraction. Unfortunately, Joe hadn't reckoned with such exigencies as Read More

Petticoat Junction: Modern Merchandising

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) has noticed a considerable drop in business over the past few days. The rest: a brand-new supermarket in nearby Pixley is stealing away all of Sam's steady customers. While things look bleak for a while,fans can take heart in the fact that Sam Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is convinced that the Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, who stayed at the hotel 50 years before, then vanished mysteriously. This puts Joe in a bit of a bind: Much as he'd like to exploit the ghost as a tourist attraction, he also feels he must Read More

Petticoat Junction: Smoke-Eaters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In typical backward fashion, there exists a Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band--but there's no Hooterville Fire Department. It seems that they've got the money for instruments, but no firefighting equipment. Under the semi-skilled guidance of bandleader Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan), the band Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Good Luck Ring

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) wants to win a school spelling bee, and is pinning her hopes on the "good luck" ring in her possession. Alas, panic and confusion sets in when our heroine loses the precious ring. This crisis also affects Bobbie's mom Kate, who'd hoped that her daughter's win would settle Read More

Green Acres: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

Crew: Director

Actors: Roland Winters, Edgar Buchanan, Rufe Davis, Jerry Hausner, William Neff

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) figure that it is about time their farm got some telephone service. Well and good -- except that the utilities company installs the Douglases' phone atop a nearby telephone pole, meaning that poor Oliver will have to do some serious climbing whenever that Read More

Green Acres: You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6

Crew: Director

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Tom Fadden

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) anxiously tunes in the radio to hear the morning farm report -- whereupon all he gets is a roomful of silence. Seems that helpful Lisa (Eva Gabor) has burned out the generator which supplies the farm with electricity. If only she'd remembered that the generator can only Read More

Green Acres: Neighborliness

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Gail Bonney, Jeffrey Hutten

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) discovers to his chagrin that he will not be able to finish his plowing in time for planting. Worse still, his efforts to pump water on the farm results in a steady stream of yucky green liquid. For our hero, this is the last in a long line of straws -- but wife Lisa (Eva Gabor Read More

Green Acres: Lisa the Helpmate

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon

Synopsis: Curious about the strange makeup of his topsoil, Oliver (Eddie Albert) has it tested by the Scientific College. Their findings reveal that the soil is comprised of several bizarre ingredients. This would be a mystery were it not for the audience's foreknowledge of the whimsicalities of Oliver's Read More

Green Acres: What Happened in Scranton?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Lisa (Eva Gabor) discovers to her horror that Hooterville has no beauty parlor, she decides to set up one of her own. Not surprisingly, Lisa does a land-office business beautifying the wives of the local farmers. But her business enterprise proves to have an injurious effect on the community Read More

Green Acres: How to Enlarge a Bedroom

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode serves to introduce those carpenters extraordinaire, the Monroe brothers. Well, at least Alf Monroe (Sid Melton) is a "brother"; Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) is a woman, but don't tell her that. Anyway, the Monroes show up at the Douglas farm when Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides it is Read More

Green Acres: The Wedding Anniversary

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Standard TV sitcom procedure dictates that the husband always forgets his wedding anniversary. Surprisingly, Oliver (Eddie Albert) has no trouble remembering the day he and Lisa (Eva Gabor) became man and wife -- he just doesn't recall the year it happened. This premise proves to be an excellent Read More

Green Acres: Parity Begins at Home

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) wants to plant 160 acres of wheat on his farm -- just wheat, nothing else. Stumble-tongued agricultural agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore) informs Oliver that unless he practices parity (that is, varying his crops) he will be hit with a huge fine. Normally, a situation of this Read More

Green Acres: Lisa Has a Calf

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although the title of this episode sounds like something out of The Simpsons, rest assured we're still in Green Acres country. The fun begins on a rainy night, when soft-hearted Lisa (Eva Gabor) takes the Douglases' cow out of the leaky barn and into the warmth and comfort of the house. For Read More

Green Acres: Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Smiley Burnette, Rufe Davis, Peter Leeds

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) is delighted when Oliver's mother (Eleanor Audley) ships all of their penthouse furniture to their farm in New York. Oliver (Eddie Albert) is not so pleased when Mother Douglas announces that she will also be arriving at his doorstep. Unfortunately, the furniture is accidentally Read More

Petticoat Junction: There's No Business With Show Business

Crew: Director

Synopsis: George O'Hanlon, best known to baby boomers as the voice of cartoon character George Jetson, is both guest star and screenwriter for tonight's episode. O'Hanlon casts himself as enterprising circus boss Harry Harmon, who hopes to swindle Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) into putting up his circus troupe Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Brontosaurus Caper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tomboy Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) doesn't pay much attention to the opposite sex, but she's willing to make an exception now and then. This week's exception is her handsome science teacher, Roland Barrett (Steve Lander). So smitten is Betty Jo by Mr. Barrett that she's willing to embark upon a field Read More

Petticoat Junction: Dear Minerva

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Petticoat Junction switches from black and white to color for the inaugural of its third season. In addition, there has been a couple of cast changes: Replacing Jeannine Riley and Pat Woodell in the respective roles of Billie Jo and Betty Jo are Gunilla Hutton (who would last but one season) and Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Baffling Raffle

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode is the first of many Petticoat Junction-Green Acres crossovers, with Eddie Albert appearing in his familiar Green Acres guise as lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas. "Gentleman farmer" Oliver is solicited for free legal advice by Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan), who is on the horns of another Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

Green Acres: My Husband, the Rooster Renter

Crew: Director

Actors: Phil Gordon, John Harmon, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Once again, city slicker Oliver (Eddie Albert) is outfoxed by country bumpkin Haney (Pat Buttram). Seems that Oliver wants to buy a rooster, but Mr. Haney is only willing to rent him one -- and this particular rooster seems to have developed laryngitis! Alvy Moore makes his first series appearance Read More

Green Acres: The Best Laid Plans

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Gavin Gordon, Guy Wilkerson

Synopsis: One of a steady stream of eccentric visitors to Hooterville interferes with Oliver (Eddie Albert)'s Herculean efforts to work his farm. More trouble ensues when rumors spread that Lisa (Eva Gabor) has left Oliver and returned to New York (actually, she's only gone on a shopping excursion). And Read More

Green Acres: The Decorator

Crew: Director

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Bob Jellison, Marjorie Garretson, Bea Benaderet, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: Trying her best to acclimate herself to her new Hooterville farm, Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides that what the place needs is a cosmopolitan touch -- thus she hires an expensive interior decorator. This proves to be headache enough for Oliver (Eddie Albert), but things get worse when his overbearing Read More

Green Acres: Lisa's First Day On the Farm

Crew: Director

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Smiley Burnette, Rufe Davis, Iris Adrian

Synopsis: Upon taking possession of their new farm in Hooterville, Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) discover that former owner Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) has taken all the furniture and accessories with him. Making matters worse, the wily Haney has compiled a list of "hidden charges" to further Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Lost Patrol

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The US Army begins conducting maneuvers near the Shady Rest. This proves beneficial to the young GIs, who are naturally attracted to the local "scenic wonders"--namely, the three Bradley girls. Featured in this week's guest cast is Edward C. Platt, the future "Chief" on Get Smart, as General Read More

Petticoat Junction: Betty Jo's Dog

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Two of Petticoat Junction begins when a cute little dog follows Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) home to the Shady Rest Hotel. Naturally, Betty Jo wants to keep the pooch, but her mom Kate (Bea Benadaret) is dead set against it. And just as naturally, by the end of the episode the little mutt proves Read More

The Twilight Zone: What's in the Box

Crew: Director

Actors: William Demarest, Joan Blondell, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Lytton, Sandra Gould

Synopsis: As a repairman (Sterling Holloway) works on his malfunctioning television set, middle-aged TV addict Joe Britt (William Demarest) fusses and fumes, while his wife Phyllis (Joan Blondell) launches another of her nag sessions. Once the repairman leaves, Joe tunes in to his favorite program, only to Read More

Petticoat Junction: Have Library, Will Travel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dianne Foster guest stars as attractive librarian Phyllis Marsh, who to bring culture to the folks of Hooterville and Pixley sets up a travelling library in the baggage car of the Hooterville Cannonball. One of Phyllis' most devoted customers is Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan), who has taken quite a Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Umquaw Strip

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) finally thinks he's found a way to scrap the Hooterville Cannonball. It seems that the local Umquaw Indian tribe claims that they own the land which holds the Cannonball's railroad tracks--and Bedloe wastes no time cozying up to the tribal leaders (meaning a lot of Read More

Petticoat Junction: A Millionaire for Kate

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A pre-I Dream of Jeannie Hayden Rorke guests in this episode as Herbie Grant, a former schoolmate of Kate Bradley (Bea Benadaret). Now known as "H.B. Grant", Herbie arrives at the Shady Rest announcing that he is a millionaire--and that he is very, very interested in renewing his friendship with Read More

Petticoat Junction: Race Against the Stork

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kate (Bea Benadaret) invites her pregnant friend Elsie (Olive Sturgess) to stay at the Shady Rest until the baby comes. Meanwhile, enterprising Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) works out a "foolproof" plan to make sure that the obstetrician arrives on time when he's needed. And of course, this being a Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Great Buffalo Hunt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) hopes to con world-famous sportsman Lord Faversham (Reginald Gardiner) into staying at the newly-christened "Shady Rest Hunting Lodge." To this end, Joe is willing to go to any lengths--even unto purchasing a buffalo. When this episode originally aired in November of Read More

Petticoat Junction: Bedloe's Nightmare

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nasty old Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) has been trouble sleeping lately: Every night, he is plagued by surrealistic dreams about the Hooterville Cannonball, which he still hasn't been able to put out of commission. At his wit's end, Bedloe consults psychologist Dr. Leonard (Irwin Charone), who Read More

Petticoat Junction: As Hooterville Goes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hooterville has always prided itself on being the first community in its state to file election returns. All this may soon change, however: It seems that nearby Crabtree Corners (later known as Crabwell Corners) has installed an automatic voting machine. Ironically, Petticoat Junction would be Read More

Petticoat Junction: My Dog the Actor

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Betty Jo (Linda Kaye) thinks her pet dog (played by a pre-Benji Higgins) is the prettiest pooch on earth. Thus it is that she enters a picture of the dog in a contest held by a pet-food company. The fun begins when the mutt is chosen as one of the five finalists--and the winner will achieve Read More

The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lloyd Bochner, Richard Kiel, Susan Cummings, Theo Marcuse, Will J. White

Synopsis: Everybody knows the "punchline" of this classic Twilight Zone episode, but that doesn't make this entry any less entertaining. Told in flashback (a last-minute decision, judging by the original script), this is the story of the Kanamints, a race of giant space aliens who arrive on Earth Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Fugitive

Crew: Director

Actors: J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon, Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp

Synopsis: One of Charles Beaumont's most charming Twilight Zone scripts, this episode stars the ubiqitious J. Pat O'Malley as Old Ben, the only ray of sunshine in the life of crippled eight-year-old Jenny (Susan Gordon). Out of earshot of Jenny's harridan guardian Mrs. Gann (Nancy Kulp), Old Ben confesses Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover

Crew: Director

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Dane Clark, Christine White, Nesdon Booth, Jane Burgess

Synopsis: Upon discovering that his business partner Jimbo Cobb (Buddy Ebsen) possesses psychokinetic powers enabling him to move things with his brain power alone, café owner and compulsive gambler Ace Larsen (Dane Clark) hightails it to Las Vegas with Jimbo in tow. It is Ace's contention that Jimbo's Read More

The Twilight Zone: Third From the Sun

Crew: Director

Actors: Fritz Weaver, Joe Maross, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Denise Alexander

Synopsis: Director Richard L. Bare made an impressive Twilight Zone debut with this classic episode. Fritz Weaver and Joe Maross star respectively as scientist William Sturka and test pilot Jerry Riden, who, aware that their country is on the brink of nuclear war, conspire to rescue themselves and their Read More

This Rebel Breed

Crew: Director

Actors: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Jay Novello, Eugenio Martín

Synopsis: Race hatred and drug trafficking threaten to tear apart a California high school in this teen drama. Frank White (Mark Damon) and Don Walters (Doug Hume) are a pair of undercover police officers who are sent to a high school dominated by three gangs. Don, who is white, tries to infiltrate the Read More

The Twilight Zone: Nick of Time

Crew: Director

Actors: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin, Guy Wilkerson, Stafford Repp, Walter Reed

Synopsis: Future Star Trek captain William Shatner stars as Don Carter, who is on his honeymoon with his perky young wife Pat (Patricia Breslin). Stranded in a small town while their car is being repaired, Don and Pat wander into a diner, where their attention is diverted by a curious fortune-telling Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Purple Testament

Crew: Director

Actors: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, Warren Oates, Michael Vandeveer

Synopsis: William Reynolds stars as Fitzgerald, a WWII army lieutenant with an unusual and most unwelcome gift. Much to his dismay, Lt. Fitzgerald can stare into the faces of his fellow soldiers and determine who among them will die in combat. Begging to be transferred, Fitzgerald finally gets his wish, but Read More

Maverick: Trooper Maverick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Caught gambling on a military post, Bart (Jack Kelly) is given the choice of spending several months in the stockage or working for the Army as an undercover agent. Bart's assignment is to root out a traitor in the ranks, a person who has done an excellent job covering his tracks up to now. Read More

Maverick: The Lass with the Poisonous Air

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While on the road to Denver, gallant Bart (Jack Kelly) rescues the beautiful Linda Burke (Joanna Moore) from a runaway horse. Upon reaching his destination, Bart discovers that Linda has helpfully sent word that he is a topnotch gambler. And apparently that's not all Linda has told the townsfolk; Read More

Maverick: The Lonesome Reunion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Making the acquaintance of pretty Abigail Taylor (Joanna Barnes) in the lobby of a Denver hotel, Bret (James Garner) cannot help but notice that the lady has a tight grip on a hatbox. Abigail insists that the box contains important documents, and that there is a sinister stranger who is out to Read More

Maverick: High Card Hangs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While working in a South Dakota gold-mining camp, Bart (Jack Kelly) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) befriend Genessee Jones (Frank Ferguson), a grizzled old prospector with a hefty bankroll. Later on, Jones gets into a poker game with two miners (one of them a young Martin Landau) and Read More

Maverick: The Judas Mask

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the verge of starting a business with Walter Osbourne (John Vivyan) in Mexico, Bart (Jack Kelly) discovers that all his money has been stolen by can-can dancer Karen Gustavson (Anna-Lisa). Tracking the girl down, Bart is not entirely convinced when Karen insists that the grabbed the cash in Read More

Maverick: Rope of Cards

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) is summoned for jury duty in the trial of young Bill Gregg (William Reynolds), who is accused of murdering a wealthy rancher. Disturbed that the jury has already decided that Gregg is guilty--and certain that the poor fellow is being railroaded--Bret endeavors to win the other Read More

Maverick: Seed of Deception

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Riding into a small town, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) are amused when the locals mistake them for the notorious gunfighters Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. But it's a bit less amusing when gorgeous Doll Hayes (Joi Lansing) begins cozying up to the local sheriff (Frank Ferguson) as a Read More

Maverick: The Seventh Hand

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bret (James Garner) is among the participants when the lovely but larcenous Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) organizes a big, no-limit poker game. Before long, Bret is being accused of cheating, and of masterminded a robbery in which the players are cleaned out. Naturally, Samantha has vanished Read More

Maverick: Holiday at Hollow Rock

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No sooner has he arrived in the town of Hollow Rock than Bret (James Garner) loses his money in a crooked poker game. Unfortunately, Bret can't go to the sheriff for help, since the sheriff was in on the swindle. But Bret is determined to get his money back, and he intends to use an upcoming Read More

Girl on the Run

Crew: Director

Maverick: The 39th Star

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the midst of his campaign to bring statehood to his territory, Judge Somervell (John Litel) loses a suitcase which contains some rather volatile documents. The Judge is convinced that Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) stole the suitcase--and so, apparently, is everyone else in the territory, including Read More

Maverick: Hostage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jack Kelly makes his first appearance as Bart Maverick in this episode, in which Bart and brother Bret find themselves broke and stranded in New Orleans. Hoping to stake themselves to a big poker game being held on a steamboat called the River Princess, the Maverick boys are denied admission by Read More

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

Crew: Director

Actors: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne, James Garner

Synopsis: A bizarre western that at times veers dangerously close to outright burlesque, Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend concluded Randolph Scott's long-term contract with Warner Bros. and sat on the shelf for nearly two years before being dumped on the double-bill market in 1957. Scott and two fellow cavalry Read More

Disneyland: The Prairie and Seal Island

Crew: Director

Actors: James Algar, Winston Hibler

Synopsis: James Algar, the producer-director of Disney's "True-Life Adventure" short subject series, explains the techniques used by cameraman to capture images of nature in this early Disneyland episode. These techniques are then shown in application in scenes of animals from the North American prairie. Read More

Prisoners of the Casbah

Crew: Director

Actors: Gloria Grahame, Cesar Romero, Turhan Bey, Nestor Paiva, Paul Newlan

Synopsis: When Gloria Grahame signed her contract at Columbia Pictures, she had no idea the studio would require her to appear in anything available. Rather than go on suspension, she consented to star in the "Arabian nights" fiasco Prisoners of the Casbah, but her discomfort with the assignment is obvious Read More

So You Want to Move

Crew: Director

Actors: George O'Hanlon

Return of the Frontiersman

Crew: Director

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Julie London, Rory Calhoun, Jack Holt, Fred Clark

Synopsis: With Return of the Frontiersman, Warner Bros. continued to test the acting abilities of their singing star Gordon MacRae. While he does get to warble two songs, MacRae plays it straight for the most part in his role as Logan Barrett, the son of hard-bitten sheriff Sam Barrett (Jack Holt). Villain Read More

This Side of the Law

Crew: Director

Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas, John Alvin

Synopsis: This Side of the Law stars Kent Smith as David Cummins, a man caught up in an epic subterfuge. At the behest of attorney Philip Cagle (Robert Douglas), Cummins poses as a man who has been missing for seven years and is presumed dead. Cagle insists that this deception is necessary to protect a huge Read More

So You Want a Raise

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: George O'Hanlon

Flaxy Martin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone, Tom D'Andrea, Helen Westcott

Synopsis: Virginia Mayo is Flaxy Martin in this complicated Warner Bros. melodrama. Flaxy is a bad girl but good company, especially when she's around criminal attorney Walter Colby (Zachary Scott). When Colby begins to have second thoughts about his gangster cohorts, Flaxy arranges a murder frame, forcing Read More

The House Across the Street

Crew: Director

Actors: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, James Mitchell

Synopsis: House Across the Street was the second remake of the 1933 Paul Muni starrer Hi, Nellie. The original's satirical jibes against columnist Walter Winchell are downplayed in favor of undistilled concentration on the plot. Crusading newspaperman Dave Joslin (Wayne Morris) is kicked downstairs to the Read More

Smart Girls Don't Talk

Crew: Director

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Tom D'Andrea, Richard Rober, Helen Westcott

Synopsis: Despite the film's title, socialite Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo) isn't smart enough to steer clear of the gambling den operated by gangster Marty Fain (Bruce Bennett). Forced to join Fain's operation, Linda gets mixed up with duplicity and murder-not to mention a torrid romance with the gangster Read More

Two-Gun Troubador

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Scott, Claire Rochelle, John Merton, Harry Harvey, Jr.

Synopsis: The third of four Fred Scott Westerns produced by C.C. Burr for Spectrum Pictures, Two Gun Troubadour was rather grim for what was ostensibly a true "horse opera," with the stress squarely on "opera. (Scott was a former light opera baritone.) Fred Dean, Sr. (Scott) is murdered and twenty years Read More