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15 Things You Missed About Green Acres
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2024
- Apparently, the rural town of Hooterville was the place to be! Or at least that's what the classic comedies theme song led us to believe.
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The Premise was pretty simple. A successful businessman from the city gets tired of the fast-paced hustle and bustle of urban life and decides to act on his lifelong dream of buying a farm and moving to the country where he can live out his days growing vegetables and living a simpler life.
For six hilarious seasons, Green Acres lived up to the potential of its premise and audiences couldn't get enough of it. CBS had a hit on their hands.
Who hasn't considered dreamed about having a life free of the stresses that plague us on a daily basis? In many ways, Green Acres was much more than an absurd comedy full of slapstick humor and running gags - although it was indeed that - but it also offered an almost philosophical critique of the perils of modern life.
This video is going to dig down deep and show you 15 behind-the-scenes facts about the show that kept us laughing and smiling from beginning to end. Ever wonder where Hooterville actually was? Did you know that it was based on real-life experiences of creator and producer Jay Sommers? Find out these fascinating facts and more!
15 Things You Missed About Green Acres
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Hooterville is based on the creater Jay Sommers wife's childhood home of Eldon, Missouri, which is 30 miles southwest of Jefferson City and about 422.7 miles by road or 350 miles from Chicago, as the crow flies.
I was fortunate to hear Eddie Albert speak at the Farm and Ranch Congress in St. Louis in Sept. 1985. His heartfelt talk was met with a resounding standing ovation. He truly believed in family farmers and the worthiness of rural America. RIP Eddie and all the cast mates.
They should have a guy off-stage playing the fife while he was talking. That would have been perfect.
Did the fife come on?
@@HerrEllsworth That was during the time when they wouldn't let Mr. Douglas finish a sentence, and then accuse him of not finishing sentences...hilarious!
Did a fife start playing whenever he said "the American farmer"?
No speech by Eddie Albert would have been complete without patriotic fife music being played as he spoke.
All of these are 100 x Better then what is on tv today 😭
@ Free American: I totally agree with you on that.
By far, man!
Correct!
Who is your favorite character?
AMEN to that.
My family and I grew up with Green Acres we loved every minute of it, those were the good old days🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 💖🌟
@ Daily Coffee ☕: Green Acres is one of my favorites. It was better than a lot of the stuff that's on the tube today. You're right, those were the good old days.
@@richardturner6981 I watch it every night. On Me tv 📺 grew up with g to get show my happy place. 👍
@@Linda-in9ns There really is a Greenacres. It's a retirement community in Florida.
On Metv i love it 📺📺📺📺📺📺!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the seriously funniest shows ever. Perfectly cast, written and filmed.
Poor Mr. Douglas getting flustered with the bizarre events each week, comedy GOLD
One of my favorite shows. I'm watching it nightly on MeTv.
Me too
Green Acres was one of the best insane sitcoms EVER. Every character was perfect, including Arnold.
We agree! What's your favorite episode, JOYOUSENEX?
That's one of the many beauties of Green Acres. EVERY character was absolutely fantastic, and each actor who played them fit the bill perfectly. Impossible for me to pick out a favorite episode. I have the entire DVD set and have watched each one over and over; and I intend to continue to do so. NONE of them disappoint.
I love this show! It was absurdist comedy done brilliantly. It's main theme to me was that although it was Oliver's dream to buy a farm and live in the country, he never fit in there. Lisa, who wanted to stay in New York, seemed quite at home with the bizarre residents in Hooterville. She got along with everyone, and understood how things worked there, which Oliver never did.
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it was so fun and good clean comedy. I enjoyed the wit of this show
Youre probably thinking this was copied in Funny farm. And you're right
@@robintexas91the characters were very well written but the actors were genius level.
No way to do a reboot. This was a classic.
Definitely agree. No one could improve on any of the actors. They were all pitch perfect.
Funny how you recognize things after a half century. That clip at 10:13 was a head gasket that Lisa made when they were trying to drive their harvest of apples to market and the head gasket in the truck they rented from Haney blew, and Oliver wasn't having any success finding a new one. He holds it up and says "No?" and the next scene is them driving the truck down the road.
Old mail day was in there too. 😁🤣
Green Acres was one of the funniest most wacky shows in the history of television.
What's your favorite episode of the show, Larry?
@@FactsVerse I can’t pick an exact episode because it’s been about 20 years since I have watched it. But I would say any episode with Mr. Kimball in it were very funny. No-show in comedy history ever had such a bunch of wacky characters than Green acres.
@@FactsVerse I'll tell you my favorite episode was "A Square is not Round" where a chicken is laying square eggs and the Oliver's toaster only works when someone would say "Five".
I@Larry Shackle- Indeed! My all-time favorite TV show ... ever!
My favorite episode is the one where the jewelry thieves hid the jewels in cereal.
I was in the Children’s Hospital for several weeks in 1967 and when Greenacres came on over 50 people with children in wheelchairs all went into the day room and sang the theme song I remember to this day and how it made everybody in such a horrible environment of hurt and misery feel good for a couple minutes
That's a sweet, touching, story Keith.
🥰
the magic of television!
This show can never be remade; it's perfect the way it stands.
I liked the gags they sometimes pulled on the opening credits.
Same here, Tilley!
Like the names coming on
I hope they NEVER do a reboot of Green Acres. I dont want them to destroy my memoriess of this show(iseen each episode at least 50 times. I loved the spin off Peticoat Juntion as well.)
same here it would not be the same
Petticoat Junction premiered in 1963. Green Acres premiered in 1965.
What's your favorite episode of the show, Sandy?
@@FactsVerse when they try to fix the tractor and wheel falls off
@@wvpirate well, i was born in the 70's,so my timing is way off for my fave shows of old. Thank you for educating me, Im always happy to learn somethimg new,
I prefer they never remake this show. I'm happy to watch the reruns thank you.
Here's an idea. If they remake Green Acres. Rather than impose your desire on everybody else.
You don't have to watch it.
@@ebenezerwheezer2957 Giddy up Batman!!!!!!!!!!!!🥶
I still watch Green Acres when it's on.
I loved the episode when Lisa said all she could do was imitations of Zaza Gabor. Eva was always my favorite of the two.
Hello Brian how are you doing.
My 2-cents: The show was perfect. Nothing should be changed.
I enjoyed the serious and have a family connection to the show. One of the four barns shown in the series was built in the 1920's are what was my great grandfather's cattle ranch near Thousand Oaks, CA.
So not far from Thousand Jokes, CA
Great show loved Hank Kimble, no actor can ever duplicate how he did kept it together and he and kept it together quick 😅 very funny.
The funny part was Hank was to be the only normal, rational character on the show. During his screen test, he kept flubbing his lines. The staff watched that, and gave him the role as the bumbling county agent.
@@randallkoch6183
That's interesting I didn't know that.
Alvy Moore, who played Hank Kimble, was a Marine during WW 2 and fought on Iwo Jima!
I find it so funny how Lisa would go to bed with make-up and jewelry on 😂😂
...and wear Chanel dresses and pill-box hats on a farm.
We didn't have stereos in the late 40s and early 50s when we were listening to shows on the radio. I don't think I saw a stereo radio until the 60s.
I laughed when the guy said "Stereo's". First thing that came to my head was, Sorry, but Stereo's weren't available until a couple decades later, buddy. He needs to watch The Walton's to see the "so called Stereo's" they had in the 40's.
That is because FM was the first successful stereo broadcast medium and that was not available til 1961.
I caught that mistake as well having grown up in the 60's. Knowing people in the 30's and 40's didn't have stereo.
@@Ladyailiken stereo's what?
Even when home stereo became available in the early 60s, "stereo" usually meant a device to play vinyl disks (records) in stereo. Stereos often included a radio, too, but playing records was the basic function. A radio (AM, FM, FM stereo) was always a "radio."
No, leave it alone! It's a classic! Classics like this shouldn't be remade!
I loved the ‘cooking talent’ of Lisa.
LOL I remember an episode where Lisa pouredd pancake batter all over the stovetop, then used the "potscover"(her name for pan lid) to cut out pancakes like using a cookie cutter. As an 8-9 year old child, it sent me into fits of laughter, and from that day on, everybody in my family referred to saucepan lids as "potscovers," said in a bad Hungarian accent.
Thank You! I really enjoyed watching that! I've loved Green Acres since I was 10 y/o. I'm now 64 and it still never fails to make me laugh, yes, out loud.....thank you, MeTV. I thought I knew many behind-the-scene tid bits about the show, but I learned even more from your video. The story about Eva thinking that feathers came from pillows nearly had me in stitches! REALLY? She WAS the perfect Lisa Douglas. It was the timing on the show that was key....the persistent interruptions of poor Oliver from the rest of the cast definitely would've left little room for ad-lib, all right. Eddie Albert was always one of my favorite actors, both on screen...and off. An all around terrific guy! I believe he lived to be 99 y/o....and who can forget the greatest TV theme song of all time? The second best? The Addams Family, of course! THANK YOU Vic Mizzy! A re-do of the series? I'd be game for that, but it's awfully hard to improve, or even equal, perfection.
Hello how are you doing.
I'm sory, I meant Allyson
@@keithap100 Sorry for what please?
@@allysonhanks9159 I misspelled your name. Allison instead of Allyson
@@keithap100 No problem sir.
I have to believe that Eddie Albert's brilliantly confused deadpan work as Oliver was an inspiration for Leslie Nielsen's legendary Frank Drebin character in the Police Squad movies. And, of course, as Dr. Rumack on Airplane.
I would like to friendlily disagree. They were vastly different. Oliver was the straight man surrounded by looneys, Frank Drebbin WAS the looney! But both were pretty much straight guys who went into comedy. By the end of many episodes of Green Acres, Oliver would get so flustered, that all of the other characters thought HE was the looney!!
Excellent observation!
Mayberry RFD, the spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show, was a casualty of "The Rural Purge". The Andy Griffith Show ended in the spring of 1968 .
Green Acres was the funniest show back then, and I am glad I saw every episode new.
My favorite episode was the one where Arnold got a draft notice and Oliver, acting as Arnold's lawyer, had to go to the draft board and explain that Arnold Ziffel was in fact a pig! Of course, the army thought is was some kind of elaborate dodge.
That's a good one, chardtomp!
Eddie Albert was a true supporter of the Future Farmers of America and a supporter of Rural America. Thank you and RIP Mr. Albert.
I enjoyed this. Loved watching the reruns on Nick at Night with my grandmother when I was a kid. No reboot necessary. The original was great!
What's your favorite episode of the show, Neisy77?
@@FactsVerse 099999ö99
In 1964, Eddie Albert was on The Outer Limits (Cry of Silence). He and his wife drive away from the city in search of a new style of life. They are attached by tumble weeds but find shelter on an old farm, where they are trapped by the tumble weeds . . .
" I get allergic smelling hay"
I saw it again just yesterday.
I remember that episode
Nothing will ever compare to the brilliance of this rural comedy. No Broadway or modern retakes will ever do justice to the real thing. I can't stop laughing every time. 🤣
No redo on the show. Hollywood would butcher it!
What was your favorite episode, P Cody?
@@FactsVerse
I had a huge crush on Eb as soon as I saw him the first show he was on - I was 3 when it started. Also I loved when Hank Kimball was on. He made me laugh so much. I learned not to just trust people like Haney. Also when Oliver started in on his patriot speeches. But also any Arnold scenes. I never got a pig in my life though.
But one show I remember was the square eggs and there was many shows where Kimball always said stuff and kept reexplained things. And when Sam Drucker wore mayor, post office,... hats but wouldn’t talk to Oliver until his proper hat was on ! Or when they crossed shows with Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction
Yes, this and hogans heros
@@sombertownds149 while I loved almost ALL of the shows of the era, my favorite three were F Troup, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Gilligan's Island.
@@pcody6935 I thought Hank Kimball was great. Well, not great... He was pretty good. No, not pretty good... He annoyed the hell out me.
Please do not remake Green Acres. I love the cast from the TV show. And yes I am a fan of the show.
I agree with you. We don't need a reboot. It's perfect just the way it is.
What's your favorite episode, John?
@@FactsVerse The pilot where Oliver brings Lisa to the farm. And we meet Mr. Haney. We also see John Daly who was the moderator for "What's My Line?"
I agree totally
Why did they build the Shady Rest Hotel (Petticoat Junction) three miles outside of Hooterville? ... Answer- The lumber and building materials were on flat bed rail cars pulled by the Cannonball Express. They were "high ballin" (going fast) and when they went around a curve, the load slid off. So they had two choices: 1) reload everything and carry it to Hooterville and unload it again, or 2) Build the Shady Rest right there where the lumber landed ...With NO road to get to it. The Cannonball Express would be the ONLY way to get guests in and out.
Well, you guessed it. That's why people had to take a three mile train ride to get to the Hotel.
Just a little bit of trivia from an old guy (A kid in the 60's watching this stuff) to the younger people who are just discovering these shows now. Have fun. Laugh a lot. Stay Safe.
I watch it everyday 😂 on MeTV at 9:30. Very good 👍 buddy
What's your favorite episode, David?
@@FactsVerse probably the episode when Arnold gets expelled from school..
Green Acres is one of my top five favorite television programs. Although I enjoyed all of the cast, my favorite was Hank Kimball, the county agent with the extremely short term memory. He made me laugh the most. And my mother loved to watch Lisa Douglas when she was serving her unusual coffee, or preparing her infamous hot cakes, or "washing" the dishes by throwing them out the window. And I must thank the writers of the show for creating such good clean funny material that was safe for the whole family to enjoy.
I am so glad the reruns air on television everyday here in Canada. But when I watched the reunion movie, I found it to be sad to see how the original cast had slowed down with age and interacted with new unknown cast members. There is no need to create a remake since I believe that all the original characters have passed away. and each original actor was perfect for the characters they portrayed. You can't improve on perfection.
I am not a fan of “remakes”. They very seldom prove to be as good as the original.
I've rarely seen a good remake.
Ah Green Acres...one of my all time favorites. This show is so off the wall that its exhilaratingly hilarious. The cast was perfect and I loved them all. Still watch this classic. Another one that I love.
We're glad to know that you love Green Acres. Which cast member appealed to you the most?
@@FactsVerse Undoubtedly Oliver Wendell Douglas. His deadpan reactions to all the oddballs in Hooterville is what made the show so funny.
@@MLK-KAEFENTERPRISES Eva Gabor played the ditzy blonde hausfrau to perfection as well.
I cracked up @10:21 after Lisa cut out the hotcakes Oliver used the excess as a head gasket for the tractor!
LOL I forgot that part!! Before reading other comments, I commented that to me, the way Lisa made pancakes was a childhood memory that still makes me laugh...but gaskets for the tractor!? Completely forgot about that. I'm laughing so hard now I risk waking up my wife....
And Eddy Albert sang the show’s theme song !😀
Yes! What's your favorite episode of the show, Carrie?
The first episode because as a child I never saw it .
So seeing it recently it was a joy to see how it all started !
Now I tape the series and I’ve been watching each episode as it aired .
I laugh out loud now as an adult !!!
He & Ava both sung it! I love it!!
Of course he did, so did Eva Gabor. Clearly nobody could fake those voices.
Leaving the city to have a simpler life and attempt to become self-sustaining...more real today than ever in my lifetime. Covid being a BIG reason.
My favorite movies with my late hubby love this. 👍💖
What's your favorite memory of the show, Hilda?
The original one. 👍💖
I personally saw the huge greenhouse in Eddie Albert's backyard of his Pacific Palisades home, numerous times, as I worked in his backyard in the late 1970's I also met Alvy Moore (aka Hank Kimball) in 1994, three tears before he passed away. He was a very kind gentleman. I told him that he played my favorite character on the TV show.
Actress Melody Patterson had been a friend of mine and she told me about her appearance on Green Acres in the episode "Eb's Romance". She said Eva and Eddie were the nicest people she had ever worked with but she wasn't used to all the cue cards that everyone used. She half-joked that if Eb had at least gotten engaged to her that she could have done more appearances.
Return to Green Acres was on Tv, May 18, 1990. Not 1980! I remember watching it that night and my parents recorded it on VHS. For those who have not seen it, I watched it a couple of years ago here on RUclips. Someone had it posted. I have not looked recently to see if it is still there. Everyone who was still living at that time are on it! It is worth the watch for anyone who loves or likes the show! Mr. Haney is always up to his no good tricks as usual. Hope you can still find it here on RUclips to watch.
1:07 I doubt anybody had "stereos" back "before the days of TV".
Stereo, as we know it, appeared around 1961. In the early 50's, AM stereo was tried but was short lived. FM stereo was the medium for stereo content. Around 1950, all our relatives were telling my dad he should get a TV. So he bought a TV and discovered there were no TV stations within range of where we lived. It was two years later when the first TV station was opened in our area.
I caught that also, stereos did not exist in 1950.
@Kerry Pugh There was only one Pat Buttram
Many people view Green Acres as a stupid, goofy show. The missed the social commentary mixed with the surrealistic comedy. One of the best shows of all time.
I was one of the unfortunate few who watched the Return to Green Acres TV movie. Years later, I made up my mind that it couldn't have been as bad as I remembered, so I searched until I found it and watched again. It was worse . Word is Eddie Albert tried to back out of the deal when he realized how bad it was. His lawyers convinced him it'd be a long battle and he'd be better off just dealing with it. Most of the movie has many of the great Hooterville characters wandering around New York City like Zombies as they try to find Lisa and Oliver. I guess it was supposed to be funny, but it was just plain sad. I could continue to list the many, many things wrong with the movie. Instead, I suggest you enjoy your great memories of the series and act as if the movie never happened. It is available on RUclips but please don't give in to the temptation.
Green Acres must have been based on Lil' Abner.
Along with "Get Smart", it was easily the best sitcom of the '60s.
Hooterville,Hooters is something totally different nowadays.
Lol good point, Robert!
I heard an interview of one of the gals from Petticoat Junction and she indicated they knew very well at the time the irony of the name "Hooterville" and what it represented.
@@l.5832
Haha wow I honestly never thought about.
I guess I was too young.
Simply one of the best TV comedies of all time! Solidly in my top ten!
FYI Green Acres was hinted to take place in rural Illinois. There was reference of them going to the State capital “Springfield” and going to Chicago in different episodes.
The show's setting was in Connecticut.
Oh for the love of, no one in Hollywood today could remake this show and do it right. Green Acres had the main obvious comedy but the show also had a ton of very subtle humor. I always loved how Oliver was always cutoff by everybody when he was speaking or asking a question. Mr. Haney always had a window blind on the truck selling whatever service the Douglas's needed. And don't forget Mr. Haney's shoe phone with a direct line to the FBI. "Hello FB this is I".
@Redrubicon
Yeah, "Oh for the love of...". Oliver never finished the sentence... "Of all the...". That was cute and funny ☺️😂.
Green Acres for me is the maddest, most out there comedy ever. Everything about it comedy wise is perfection. The characters are magnificent. I love it. ❤️
How do you not mention “The Egg and I” when talking about precursors to “Green Acres”?
Exactly! "The Egg and I" (1947) begat the Ma & Pa Kettle films, which were the inspiration for "Green Acres".
One of mysteries favorite shows during this time period.
What was your favorite memory of Green Acres, Susan?
This was a rare, brilliant show.
I loved Lisa's cooking.
Great show !!
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
Luv.those older shows.Nothing the same any more.Actors don't even have the same class today.They made great shows with no foul mouth.Miss the not good but great old days.🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🤗
I loved the kitchen appliance number system "based on 7" LOL Oliver explaining it to Lisa and watching her try and follow it.
I watch this on Me TV every night I love ❤️ it great memories watching as a child with my mom
Perfect as-is.
Hello Alan how are you doing.
Great video. Thanks
You're very much welcome! We're glad to know that you love our video. Which episode of the show appealed to you the most?
I each it 3 times every evening!! It’s so absurd that it’s hilarious 😂🤣🤓
Although I had just started third grade when Green Acres had debuted on CBS, I didn't start watching the show until seven months later with the Molly Turgiss, and I have been a fan of both Eva Gabor and Green Acres ever since.
I really enjoyed this. I came across it accidently after accidently coming across the "Return to Green Acres" video. I think anyone who didn't know the show would not have enjoyed the movie at all. But since it was one of my favorite TV shows as a boy, I would have enjoyed the movie no matter how bad it was. It's 50+ years later and I still refer to making a phone call as "going up the pole" and everyone still just adores a penthouse view.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, Allan!
I love this channel! (Commenting for the algorithm!)
Still one of my all time favorites.
I remember how Ava Gabor did the dishes.
Didn't she just throw them out the window?
@@fastguned ....Yes. And that’s one of the things things I enjoyed about each episode😊
And making hotscakes!
@@kevinmcguire5696 🤣🤣🤣
I remember when the Green Acres Reunion Movie aired. My parents let me stay up way past my bedtime so we could all watch it as a family. And it aired in 1990… not 1980. And it was great!
Rest In Peace to all the cast!!
🙏🏻
You did tickle my giggle but failed to blow my mind
Good video. I loved the show and still do. A lot of underhanded, dry humor. One thing that you missed is that Arnold was the first genetically modified pig.
We missed that one! What's your favorite episode of the show, Donald?
Her pancakes were the funniest food she made 😄
So funny! What are your other favorite memory of the show, Ellen?
Those were hotscakes thank you very much.
The piece about Eisenhower was really funny. And I thought I was strange!
Love this show and Albert's environmental side. He'd be horrified now...
I have this theory that some of the character names may have been due to how funny they sounded coming from Eva Gabor's accent when she said them like "Ziffel"!
I'm just now finding out that Hooterville is withing 300 miles of me! Can't believe I haven't stumbled across it yet. I don't get out much.
Wow that's amazing, Robert!
Springfield Oregon is the setting of The Simpsons. I would say Missouri, Kansas, or possibly southern Illinois for Green Acres. Green Acres was a childhood favorite. Arnold was so cool to watch.
I would say Missouri, since Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies visited Green Acres and Petticoat Junction and knew Sam Drucker, and we know the Clampetts were from the Ozarks.
@@pigbearcub makes a lot of sense. Also, Missouri is very southern but they don't have the southern accent. That would describe the people of Hooterville.
@@jimwright4559 Southern Missouri has a pretty good southern accent near the Arkansas border and Mr. Haney and Eb certainly had southern accents.
@@jimwright4559 The Clampetts were from Tennessee. It was said on the show more than once.
@@pep590 yes they did. Some parts of Tennessee aren't terribly far from Missouri and Illinois. Missouri is a southern state without the accent.
I am in community theatre, I for one would like a stage version of it, I could play Fred Ziffel.
What a great show it and PJ and the BH were really funny and clean The shows were really great The cast was really good
Best cast ever!
Actually , we do know that it is close enough to New York that Oliver Douglas could make it there and back in one day. There are multiple episodes where Oliver has to head to New York in order to attend to some business.
It's in upstate New York farm-country, far enough that it's undeveloped in the 60's.
Loved this show..Loved Eva...
My favorite episode was when arnold won a trip to Hawaii
Arnold returned early when he found out he was the main course at the lalu
A very clever show with a subtle message! Like the Beverly Hillbillies, it showed how the "city folk" didn't know as much as the "country folk" when it came down to basic living! There's a reason why its still popular in reruns!
I’ve always loved this show
What's your favorite episode, Darryl?
Green Acres was like a comedy Twilight Zone
@jay jay
Oh yeah 😯! I never thought of that before, but you are right, it is kinda Twilight Zone-ish 😁.
I laughed so much when I watched that show. I don't think that a reboot would be wise!
Everyone knows Hooterville is a hop & a skip, from Bug Tussel.
Where is Bug Tussle? I've heard of it.
@@MsLiberty101 ,,, near Crabwell Corners....
@@MsLiberty101 It’s the town near The Clampett Homestead in Kentucky. It’s one word: “Bugtussle”.
And Pixley
It was in UPSTATE NEW YORK in farm-country.
favorite episodes included Ralph and Alf, esp the one where Lisa gives Ralph a makeover
The best episode has to be with the nephew, especially when they show the bike he rides. I think it's a pan head, loved when they showed all the different vehicles..
Hooterville (according to later Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction episodes) was near Branson MO since the Hillbillies visited home and went to Silver Dollar City. Silver Dollar City is near Branson.
Thanks for sharing this fact, John!
There was Silver Dollar City in TN, but it’s now Dollywood.
@@KKNunya That is immaterial since the Clampets were from the Ozarks and several characters from Silver Dollar City in Branson were on the show (The Sheriff from SS who I had personally met in particular.)
Additionally, Dollar City, Tennessee was open from 1977-1955. Which was long after the Rural Purge on CBS.
@@FactsVerse another fact to think about is the town of
Pixley in all three shows is based off a real town near Fresno California.
No, you’re wrong actually. Many times people flew into Chicago to continue the trip to Hooterville in central Illy. Also, Eb the hired hand mentioned he was from Appleville, 300 miles north in Wisconsin,
A classic sitcom, one of those rare spin-offs that was better than the original (Petticoat Junction). What's really funny about this show is never really stated. In the plotline, Lisa is opposed to living in the country, while Oliver is gung-ho about it. But in virtually every episode, Lisa fits in with the Hooterville residents and is as crazy as they are, while Oliver, the straight man always winds up frustrated and angry, perfect ingredients for comedy!
Hello Leo how are you doing.
A friend and I used to watch the show while stoned. Made perfect sense.
I think most people working in ultra high pressure jobs fantasize about jumping ship and moving to the country. When the movie Holiday Inn shows Bing Crosby and his farm work it does get the flavor of what farming truly is. BUT you don’t have to wait until 9 am to do it, you can start at 4 instead.
Hello how are you doing.
Keep the original!!! A broadway play won’t have the magic and chemistry that the 1960’s version did. It could never measure up never. I watch it 3 times every evening. I love love love this show!!
Enjoyed how the creators of Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies provided excellent backstories in the first episodes of each show. (like Oliver's crop report during an aerial bombing run during the war)
As for the location of Hooterville, in an early episode of Petticoat Junction, a C&FW Railroad wall map including their Hooterville line was displayed in a boardroom scene. The rivers of the mid-west were evident. Based on their state lines, it must have been a parallel universe because such a charming valley with Hooterville and Pixley and its unique characters could not exist anyplace else.
... or maybe the C&FW wall map was drawn by Arnold Ziffel as a school project.
This is the best TV comedy serie I've ever seen. I love Lucy, All in the Family and Married with children also very good.
We're happy to know that you're a fan of the show. In your opinion, what is its best episode?
Also Hogan's Heroes, Beverly Hillbilies and Get Smart as well. Sitcoms from the 60's and 70's, just like the music from that era, was so much better than what has been around since.
Informative!
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@@FactsVerse how about videos about The Simpsons? Or have you done some already?