Green Acres

Name: Green Acres
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Henry Corden, Lori Saunders, Stuart Erwin

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Green Acres (1965-1971)

Seasons: 6, episodes: 170

Episode runtime: 30 min

Average rating: 7.5/10 11 291

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Actors and characters

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Premiere

1965-09-15

Last episode

1971-04-27

Status

Ended

Country

United States

Network

CBS

Production

MGM Television, Filmways Pictures, Orion Television, Filmways Television

Genre

Comedy

Creators

Paul Henning, Jay Sommers

Actors

Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Henry Corden, Lori Saunders, Stuart Erwin, William Sylvester, Cliff Norton, Willis Bouchey, Smiley Burnette, Herbert Anderson
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Jay Sommers, Al Schwartz

Producer

Paul Henning, Jay Sommers

Camera operator

Composer

Vic Mizzy

Editing

Whole Team (8)

Short description

Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965 to April 27, 1971. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971 as part of the "rural purge" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available in DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Season 1	32	1965-09-15	10
Season 2	30	1966-09-14	—
Season 3	30	1967-09-06	—
Season 4	26	1968-09-25	—
Season 5	26	1969-09-27	—
Season 6	26	1970-09-15	—

What's left behind the scenes

The name of the main character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, is a reference to the famous American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Green Acres is the first sitcom in which the theme song is performed by the main cast.
Arnold the pig was the only member of the cast and crew to win an award for his role. He received a 1967 Patsy Award for Best Animal Actor.
When filming of the series Green Acres (1965-1971) first began, Hank Patterson (1888-1975), who played Fred, was well over 79 and almost completely deaf. Nevertheless, he was so popular with the other actors, the crew, and the fans that during the filming of his scenes, the dialogue coach would lie on the floor out of the camera's view and lightly tap the actor on the leg with a stick whenever he needed to deliver a line.
During the filming of the first half of the 1967-1968 season, actor Tom Lester (1938-2020) missed several episodes because he contracted mononucleosis. The show's writers came up with a plausible explanation for his character's absence.
The title of the series—and the earlier radio play—is borrowed from the name of the estate of actor and film director Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), the largest in Beverly Hills.
The show's writers gave Eddie Albert (1906-2005) a fake script, so when the other actors delivered their lines, his reactions were completely genuine. Usually, these consisted of asking "What?" and looking completely bewildered.