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.
@@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!
@ 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.
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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
@@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".
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.
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.
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.
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.)
@@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,
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.
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.
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."
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. 🤣
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.
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!!
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.
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.🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🤗
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.
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. ❤️
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.
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.
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 . . .
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....
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.
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 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 !!!
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".
@@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
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.
Fun fact....the barn with Green Acres written on top of it as seen from a plane in the opening credits, was located in what is now Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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,
Hooterville is based on Eldon, MO near Lake of the Ozarks. Producer Paul Henning's wife's grandmother ran a hotel there near the railroad. The Beverly Hillbillies are based on people around Branson, MO in the Ozarks.
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!
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!!
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!
My uncle would laugh every time Hank Kimball would talk. I used to get tickled every time I would hear him laugh. Every time I see Green Acres and Sanford and Son I think of him laughing. I miss these old shoes.
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.
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.
The Green Acres Reunion Movie was stated in your video as airing in 1980 but it’s actually 1990. Also, Andy Griffith’s sitcom wasn’t canceled in 1971 but Mayberry RFD (the continuation/spin-off) was.
That wouldn't have fit in the franchise. It had to be near some mountain range. Hooterville was one of the towns in close proximity to Jed Clampett's mountain home. It was Hooterville that the Beverly Hillbillies went back to in several of their return visits. In fact the proprietress of the Hooterville Hotel was supposed to be Pearl Bodine's cousin. And BOTH parts were played by the same actress; Bea Benaderet. Besides central Illinois would have been too urban for Hooterville, too close to Chicago. And were they from there, they sure wouldn't have had the rich southern accents that the Clampetts and several characters from Hooterville had obviously had.
Green Acres was one of my favorite shows back in the 1960's. I was 11 yrs old when It first came out. MeTV shows it now, in my area, right before Hogan's Heroes. They show 2 episodes of Hogan, but only 1 of Green Acres.
@@FactsVerse Everyone was great at doing their character. If I had to pick just one, it would probably be Mr. Kimble (Kimball?). He always sounded like his dementia was getting the best of him 🤗.
The Andy Griffith Show was not a part of the rural purge but it was Mayberry R.F.D. Also Petticoat Junction was cancelled one year before Green Acres so I'm not sure if the "rural purge" was the reason.
He was an attorney, not a financial guy in corporate America, nor a business man. Also, if you do a circle search 300 miles from Chicago you end up in southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and western Kentucky. Hooterville reside there.
I know the "Hillbilies" were from the Ozarks which is my mind that would put them in Southern Missouri, more central than eastern. "Hooterville" and "Bugtussle" within 20-25 miles from each other
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.
And here's four more unknown facts about Green Acres. 1. At first, CBS didn't want Eva Gabor to play Lisa Douglas because of her Hungarian accent. However, Paul Henning and his wife Ruth went to see her in a play in New York, and he convinced CBS to hire her. 2. Originally, Don Ameche and Martha Hyer were going to play Oliver and Lisa Douglas. Don Ameche was offered the role of Oliver Douglas, but he turned it down. And Martha Hyer wanted too much money. Ironically, the next year (1966), they both starred in the horror film Picture Mommy Dead; which also featured Eva's sister Zsa Zsa. 3. Eva and her husband at the time, Wall Street stockbroker Richard Brown, were both living in New York when she got the call from Hollywood. So she flew out to Hollywood to test for the part of Lisa Douglas. She got the part. And the rest they say is television history. Hey! If a Cuban can make it big on television, so could a Hungarian. 4. Eva and Richard Brown had a commuter marriage during the show's first season. He stayed in New York with his stockbroker business while she did the show in Hollywood, but he flew out there on the weekends. He then gave up his stockbroker business and he moved permanently to Hollywood. He took a job as a vice president at Filmways; the company that produced Green Acres, and they bought a home in Beverly Hills. If they had frequent-flyer miles back then, he would have racked up a ton of them!
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.
63 years old and will never forget the episode where Fred Ziffle knocks on the door and asks Lisa for more hot cakes, she heads for the kitchen and Oliver asks," You don't eat those do you?" Fred said," Heavens no, I use them for shingles on the house". The next frames show him nailing them to cover holes in his roof...
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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
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.
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 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.
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the magic of television!
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.
This show can never be remade; it's perfect the way it stands.
Eddie Albert was a true supporter of the Future Farmers of America and a supporter of Rural America. Thank you and RIP Mr. Albert.
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.
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.
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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 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
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 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!!!!!!!!!!!!🥶
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 liked the gags they sometimes pulled on the opening credits.
Same here, Tilley!
Like the names coming on
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."
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. 🤣
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?
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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.
My 2-cents: The show was perfect. Nothing should be changed.
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.
No, leave it alone! It's a classic! Classics like this shouldn't be remade!
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 .
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.
Green Acres was the funniest show back then, and I am glad I saw every episode new.
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.🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🤗
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.
My favorite movies with my late hubby love this. 👍💖
What's your favorite memory of the show, Hilda?
The original one. 👍💖
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. ❤️
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!
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.
Lisa called them hots cakes.
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
LOL!!! Feathers from pillows. It EXACTLY mirrors the show itself. Who would have believed it!!!
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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....
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
Simply one of the best TV comedies of all time! Solidly in my top ten!
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..
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.
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.
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.
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".
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Yeah, "Oh for the love of...". Oliver never finished the sentence... "Of all the...". That was cute and funny ☺️😂.
No redo on the show. Hollywood would butcher it!
What was your favorite episode, P Cody?
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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.
This was a rare, brilliant show.
I loved Lisa's cooking.
@ 4:16 it wasn't Eddy Albert's father who had the potato farm, it was Jay Summers.
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.
Fun fact....the barn with Green Acres written on top of it as seen from a plane in the opening credits, was located in what is now Thousand Oaks, northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County
One of mysteries favorite shows during this time period.
What was your favorite memory of Green Acres, Susan?
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.
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
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!
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 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 am not a fan of “remakes”. They very seldom prove to be as good as the original.
I've rarely seen a good remake.
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.
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Haha wow I honestly never thought about.
I guess I was too young.
Still one of my all time favorites.
I watch this on Me TV every night I love ❤️ it great memories watching as a child with my mom
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...
Green Acres was like a comedy Twilight Zone
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Oh yeah 😯! I never thought of that before, but you are right, it is kinda Twilight Zone-ish 😁.
I loved the kitchen appliance number system "based on 7" LOL Oliver explaining it to Lisa and watching her try and follow 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".
Solid!
Top KEK!
Peace be with you.
Arnold and Cynthia the basset hound, having a relationship. Still the best.
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!
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.
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,
Hooterville is based on Eldon, MO near Lake of the Ozarks. Producer Paul Henning's wife's grandmother ran a hotel there near the railroad. The Beverly Hillbillies are based on people around Branson, MO in the Ozarks.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
Perfect as-is.
Hello Alan how are you doing.
"Well I'll Be Horn Diddled!" Actual Haney Quote.
My uncle would laugh every time Hank Kimball would talk. I used to get tickled every time I would hear him laugh. Every time I see Green Acres and Sanford and Son I think of him laughing. I miss these old shoes.
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.
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.
The Green Acres Reunion Movie was stated in your video as airing in 1980 but it’s actually 1990.
Also, Andy Griffith’s sitcom wasn’t canceled in 1971 but Mayberry RFD (the continuation/spin-off) was.
Hooterville was finally and officially determined to be located in the Central Illinois area.
just down the road from Pixley
That wouldn't have fit in the franchise. It had to be near some mountain range. Hooterville was one of the towns in close proximity to Jed Clampett's mountain home. It was Hooterville that the Beverly Hillbillies went back to in several of their return visits. In fact the proprietress of the Hooterville Hotel was supposed to be Pearl Bodine's cousin. And BOTH parts were played by the same actress; Bea Benaderet. Besides central Illinois would have been too urban for Hooterville, too close to Chicago. And were they from there, they sure wouldn't have had the rich southern accents that the Clampetts and several characters from Hooterville had obviously had.
North Carolina, maybe? That's where I thought it was.
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Mayberry was in NC.
Hooterville was in Central Illinois.
Well during the series they said it was in upstate New York.
Green Acres was one of my favorite shows back in the 1960's. I was 11 yrs old when It first came out.
MeTV shows it now, in my area, right before Hogan's Heroes. They show 2 episodes of Hogan, but only 1 of Green Acres.
We're happy to know that you love Green Acres. Who is your favorite cast member?
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Everyone was great at doing their character. If I had to pick just one, it would probably be Mr. Kimble (Kimball?). He always sounded like his dementia was getting the best of him 🤗.
I’ve always loved this show
What's your favorite episode, Darryl?
The Andy Griffith Show was not a part of the rural purge but it was Mayberry R.F.D. Also Petticoat Junction was cancelled one year before Green Acres so I'm not sure if the "rural purge" was the reason.
With petticoat it might just have been the show
favorite episodes included Ralph and Alf, esp the one where Lisa gives Ralph a makeover
He was an attorney, not a financial guy in corporate America, nor a business man. Also, if you do a circle search 300 miles from Chicago you end up in southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and western Kentucky. Hooterville reside there.
I know the "Hillbilies" were from the Ozarks which is my mind that would put them in Southern Missouri, more central than eastern. "Hooterville" and "Bugtussle" within 20-25 miles from each other
@@sakimabear The Hillbillies were from Tennessee.
I am in community theatre, I for one would like a stage version of it, I could play Fred Ziffel.
Great show !!
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!
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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?
Rest In Peace to all the cast!!
🙏🏻
And here's four more unknown facts about Green Acres.
1. At first, CBS didn't want Eva Gabor to play Lisa Douglas because of her Hungarian accent. However, Paul Henning and his wife Ruth went to see her in a play in New York, and he convinced CBS to hire her.
2. Originally, Don Ameche and Martha Hyer were going to play Oliver and Lisa Douglas. Don Ameche was offered the role of Oliver Douglas, but he turned it down. And Martha Hyer wanted too much money. Ironically, the next year (1966), they both starred in the horror film Picture Mommy Dead; which also featured Eva's sister Zsa Zsa.
3. Eva and her husband at the time, Wall Street stockbroker Richard Brown, were both living in New York when she got the call from Hollywood. So she flew out to Hollywood to test for the part of Lisa Douglas. She got the part. And the rest they say is television history. Hey! If a Cuban can make it big on television, so could a Hungarian.
4. Eva and Richard Brown had a commuter marriage during the show's first season. He stayed in New York with his stockbroker business while she did the show in Hollywood, but he flew out there on the weekends. He then gave up his stockbroker business and he moved permanently to Hollywood. He took a job as a vice president at Filmways; the company that produced Green Acres, and they bought a home in Beverly Hills. If they had frequent-flyer miles back then, he would have racked up a ton of them!
All those shows where the best laffy Petticoat Junction Green Acres that stuff was the bomb
The reunion movie told exactly where Hooterville was, right outside Lexington, KY. 40516 1/2.
Then they changed it, because it was originally in upstate New York.
Kentucky makes sense because supposedly the Clampetts and the folks from Petticoat Junction all lived nearby and they all had southern accents!
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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.
63 years old and will never forget the episode where Fred Ziffle knocks on the door and asks Lisa for more hot cakes, she heads for the kitchen and Oliver asks," You don't eat those do you?" Fred said," Heavens no, I use them for shingles on the house". The next frames show him nailing them to cover holes in his roof...