Green Acres is an American sitcom, starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who moved from New York City to a state 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. All episodes were filmed in color.
Receiving a solid rating for six years, Green Acres was canceled in 1971 as part of a "rural cleansing" by CBS. Sitkom has been syndicated and available on DVD and VHS release. In 1997, the two-part episode of "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked # 59 in TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
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Following the success of Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, CBS offers producer Paul Henning in half an hour on schedule - no pilot is needed (very unusual). Henning encouraged colleague Jay Sommers to make the series for the time slot. Sommers made the show based on his 1950 radio series Granby's Green Acres . The radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, has starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as big city families who move to the country.
In pre-production, the proposed title is Country Cousins ​​ and The Eddie Albert Show . Maps Green Acres
Premise
Green Acres is about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), a New York City lawyer, fulfilling his dream to become a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorous Hongari wife, dragged reluctantly from the apartment the upscale Manhattan penthouse and the city life that he admired a dilapidated farm. The theme song, like the one in the rustic cousin of the show, explains the basic premise of the show. At the end of the opening sequence, Albert and Gabor pose in a parody of Grant Wood painting in the 1930s Gothic America . The inaugural episode was a mockumentary about their decision to move to a rural area, anchored by former ABC broadcaster John Charles Daly. Daly is the host of the CBS show What's My Line, and a few weeks after the show's debut, Albert and Gabor respond by appearing on What's My Line when the episode is Mystery Guest, and openly thanked Daly for helping launch their series.
After the first episode, this series developed an absurdist world. Although many episodes are still the standard tariff sitcom of the 1960s, the show became famous for its surrealism and satire. The characters often break the fourth wall to greet the audience, and on several occasions Lisa is seen reading the superimposed episode credits (which she calls 'written by') even though they are invisible to Oliver. The authors soon developed a series of trademark jokes and visual jokes repeated throughout the series - Lisa's lively "hotscakes" and treacle-like coffees, Oliver constantly blowing up Hoyt-Clagwell tractors, ordinary annoying visits by the local con artist Mr. Haney, Eb Habit annoying to call Oliver "Daddy", Oliver doing all the farming in a three-piece suit, the immortal inability of the local workers, Monroe Brothers (one of whom is a woman) to complete any work at home, Oliver and Lisa's ongoing Battle with phone companies and their struggles with erratic power supplies, and the city's obvious ability to hear everything that goes on at Douglas's home. The show appeals to children through slapstick, silliness and shtick, but adults can appreciate it at different levels.
The typical scenario is that Lisa answers the phone and notes the message that people want Oliver to be the judge of "Apple Court". Oliver naturally assumed that he had misunderstood and that Oliver was offered a seat in the State Court of Appeals. The end comes when, on visiting the County Fair, Oliver is announced as the person who will judge the best apple basket that enters.
The show is set in the same universe as Henning's other rural television comedy, Petticoat Junction , featuring beautiful cities such as Hooterville, Pixley, Crabwell Corners and Stankwell Falls. Sometimes it shares some popular characters from Petticoat Junction , including Joe Carson, Fred and Doris Ziffel, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley, and Floyd Smoot.
Main characters
Oliver Wendell Douglas
Much of the humor comes from the cheerful but short Oliver, trying to understand his eccentric surroundings. There seems to be a double perspective on reality: Oliver versus others. The latter include Hootervillians, Oliver's high-maintenance wife and his affluent mother (Eleanor Audley), who railed against her farming pipe dreams. Such double realism was the best when everyone, but Oliver could see the TV screen credits, when he corrected Lisa's misdeeds only to find that he was the only one in town with the right use, and when all but Oliver could translate Arnold the the pig snorted and snorted into English. Among Oliver's continuing irritation is his emergency low-power output system; the outside phone, mounted on the pole; and the countless redeeming renovation projects of the Monroe brothers (bedroom doors, outdoor shower cubicles, unbound door handles, weak floor boards, etc.), which are rarely resolved.
In contrast, Oliver himself was subjected to noisy by the townspeople when he undertook farming tasks wearing a three-piece suit and when he launched into a star-eyed monologue about "American farmers" - complete with a "Yankee Doodle" wife playing in the background (for example from this series sometimes broke the fourth wall, every character on the screen except Oliver can hear the plays being played). The contrast of Oliver versus the townspeople is more emphasized by the new Lincoln Continental converter he drives, in contrast to the ancient truck pioneered by Mr. Haney.
Lisa Douglas
Lisa's sloping worldview and domestic ignorance provide fertile ground for repeated jokes. Much of his early life resided in Hungary, where he grew up in a wealthy family, explaining his lack of education and ignorance of normal domestic work and daily life. Oliver and he were both World War II veterans; he, a member of the United States Air Force, and he, a member of the Hungarian underground. "Coffee" without the water flowing from the pot in a thick mud like tar. His "fried cake" (pronounced "hotscakes") is not edible, so hard that Oliver makes headgear for trucks and tractors using recipes. In one episode, hotcake dough is used as a mortar fireplace; elsewhere, hotcakes are used to reattach the roof. His sandwiches include liquors such as delicacy of hearts and jelly. Instead of washing dishes, Lisa sometimes throws them out of the kitchen window (the gag is also used by Phyllis Diller at The Pruitts of Southampton). In one episode, Oliver finds Lisa patching a hole in his sock with a stapler. When he started commenting on it, Fred Ziffel's visit said, "I see you're patching up socks! Cursed if you do not do it better than Doris!" In the episode "Alf and Ralph Break Up", Lisa admits that she does not have cooking ability and says her only talent is imitation of Zsa Zsa Gabor (real life sisters are often mistaken for each other).
Oliver and Lisa are both portrayed as fish out of water; However, this concept gives an ironic touch. While Oliver instigated a move from Manhattan to Hooterville over Lisa's objections, Lisa naturally fitted in with their illogical neighbors, while quickly assimilating into their unique and unusual surroundings. Oliver, though eager to get in, often could not understand the surreal Hootervillians.
Supporting characters
Mr. Haney
Mr Haney (Pat Buttram) is an oily and dishonest local salesman who originally sold Oliver the Green Acres Farm (formerly Old Haney Place). In the early episode, Haney repeatedly took advantage of Oliver by removing all the basic farming equipment and equipment (sinks, bathtubs, stoves, cows, tractors, plows, etc.), and reselling them to Oliver at a very high price. In the next episode, Haney always comes whenever Oliver needs goods or services, usually accompanied by a sign made especially for each occasion. Pat Buttram later revealed that Haney's character was inspired by Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Eb Dawson
Eb Dawson (Tom Lester) is a naive, wide-eyed, but intelligent young farmer with a mouth to Douglases. He used to talk to Douglases as "Father" and "Mother", much to Oliver's concern.
Fred and Doris Ziffel
Fred Ziffel (Hank Patterson) and his wife, Doris (Barbara Pepper, 1965-1968, Fran Ryan, 1969-1971) are old neighbors of Douglases who have no children. They have a pig named Arnold, whom they treat as their "sons". Fred is a scrappy old farmer born during the Grover Cleveland government. Everything about him is "unceremonious", except for the fact that his "son" is a pig.
Arnold Ziffel
Arnold Ziffel is a pig who treated Ziffels as a son, understands English, lives in the house, and is pampered. Everyone understood Arnold when he snorted, as if he spoke English, except Oliver. He is an avid TV observer and Western fan and attends the local elementary school (carrying his book package in his mouth). Only Oliver realized that Arnold was only a cattle, though he often slipped and began treating him as a man. Arnold makes regular appearances throughout the series, often visiting Douglas's home to watch their TV.
The Monroe brothers
Alf (Sid Melton) and his "brother" Ralph (Mary Grace Canfield) are two arguing carpenters. In the episode that introduced them, Alf admits that Ralph is actually his sister, and explains that they will not get a job if people know that she is a woman. The Monroes rarely completed the project, and what they solved was a disaster, such as the sliding door of Douglases' bedroom closet that always fell down, their failed attempts to secure the doorknob to the front door, etc. In one episode, after accidentally sawing Sam Drucker's phone line in a public store, they reattached it, albeit backwards, causing Drucker to listen to the funnel and speak to the recipient. Melton left in 1970 (season four) to do Make Room For Granddaddy , so the authors developed a subplot that sometimes involves sister Ralph trying to win affection "Hanky" Kimball or some poor Hooterville scholar others. Alf then returns for Ralph's failed marriage to Kimball.
Sam Drucker
Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) is a regular character on both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. The first bar of the Petticoat Junction theme song is usually played during the shooting of his store, which also appears in Petticoat Junction , indicating that Petticoat Junction i> Shady Rest The hotel is very close to Hooterville. While Drucker is a provincial village in Petticoat Junction , his character is somewhat fixed on Green Acres . He keeps the plastic pickles in the barrel to meet the demands of "the people of the city". He was also retarded: his candlestick phone came from the 1920s. Drucker also serves as editor of newspapers and printers, volunteer firefighters with the Hooterville Fire Department, police, peace justice, and postmaster. As an editor of Hooterville World Guardian , the title is often decades old. He was slow as a postmaster, after being late for delivering the 1917 lost "draft" notice to Fred Ziffel after 51 years, which surpassed the 26-year-old shipment record of a 1942 WPA letter missing to Haney for stealing a shovel. As peace justice, Drucker never let his license disappear, unintentionally sending Ralph Monroe and Kimball to their premature honeymoon. Drucker is often the only character inspired by Oliver's rural patriotism. He filters Oliver's idealism to the townspeople and, on the other hand, filters out the remote ideas of society back to Oliver. In one episode (season 5, episode 21, "Hooterville Refund Case)", men believe they can get a tax return without ever paying taxes. What surprised Oliver was them. The Internal Revenue Service threatened to send everyone to jail but then settled to become a business partner with farmers in one of Mr.'s strange schemes. The numerous Haneys (the monkey race track, named in honor of Mr. Douglas) to recoup their money.
Hank Kimball
A gentle parody of the local government bureaucrat and civil servant Alvy Moore plays the agricultural agency of the Hank Kimball area, which drags people into stupid conversations, loses his mind, and gets out of the scene. The series was reportedly one of the first sitcoms to be recorded to use an extensive gesture card during the filming, and Moore later recounted that he found it invaluable when conducting Kimball's quick-winded and quick-winded dialogue.
Eunice Douglas
Eunice Douglas (Eleanor Audley) is Oliver's mother, who seems to side with her son-in-law far more than her son. She is shocked at Oliver's prospect and Lisa moves to Hooterville and often tries to convince Lisa to return to New York City with him (or when she says, "Come back to America") and release the primitive life from the farm. Eunice is semi-regular in the first four seasons of the show. (Incidentally, Audley also plays a semi-regular character on (The Beverly Hillbillies) as Millicent Schuyler-Potts, principal of the Potts School where Jethro attended the third grade.)
People from Petticoat Junction
Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley appeared in several early episodes. She tries to help Lisa adapt to rural life, especially giving her a recipe for her spicy cake, which Lisa ends up destroying, resulting in Lisa's famous "hotscakes". Uncle Joe Carson is seen playing chess, lazing around or chewing fruit at Drucker's Store with regular Petticoat Junction Newt Kiley and coaching the conductor Floyd Smoot. Betty Jo Bradley appeared in one episode as the date of Eb Dawson. His sister, Bobbie Jo, appeared in the same episode. Billie Jo blonde is the only Bradley sister who has never appeared on Green Acres. Movie actor Western guest star Smiley Burnette several times as a railroad engineer Charley Pratt in 1965 and 1966. Burnette and Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney) both insinuated Gene Autry's comic cowboy in the 50s.
Crossover with The Beverly Hillbillies
In the March 1967 episode "The Beverly Hillbillies" (season 2, episode 23), the Hooterville theater held a charade for "The Beverly Hillbillies" famous television show. Oliver plays Jethro against Lisa as Granny Clampett. It treats their sister's show as a fictitious entity. However, starting in 1968, The Beverly Hillbillies produced a series of episodes with Clampetts in Hooterville visiting the Bradley family's distant cousins. It takes the world from the three shows to the same reality.
"The Thanksgiving Story" included a split-second insert from Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor at the dinner table with the players from all three series. There is a sub-plot with Eb Dawson falling in love with Elly May Clampett that continues in the following episode "The Courtship of Homer Noodleman".
The Clampetts returns to the Shady Rest Hotel in "Christmas in Hooterville" with Eb still licking over the reluctant Elly May.
Character Sam Drucker appeared in 10 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, including a solo visit to Clampett Beverly Hills home in "Sam Drucker Visit." Some of these stories involve Granny who is interested in Sam and misunderstands his intentions.
"Rural cleanup" cancellation
In 1970-1971, during the sixth season of the series, Green Acres was placed in 34 out of 96 shows. Despite a respectable ranking and winning timeslot, the show was canceled in the spring of 1971 after 170 episodes. CBS at that time was under increasing pressure from sponsors to have more urban-themed programs on schedule. To make room for more recent performances, almost all rural-themed performances were canceled. Part of television history has been known as "rural cleansing". Pat Buttram said about the cleanup, "CBS cancels everything with trees - including Lassie ."
No final series. The last two episodes of Green Acres are the backdoor pilots for Pam and Carol , some events never taken by the network.
Movie reunion
In the 1990 reunion TV movie Back to Green Acres, created and set two decades after the series, Oliver and Lisa have moved back to New York but feel sad there. The Hootervillians ask the couple to come back and save the city from the scheme to destroy it, cooked between Mr. Haney and a cunning, richly cultivated (Henry Gibson) developer. The Monroe brothers still have not finished Douglases bedroom, while 20-something Arnold survived his "parent" and then the bed with his "cousin", Ziffels' pretty nephew. By nodding to the times, Haney's latest product is a Russian magical fertilizer called "Gorby Grow".
Cast
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Eddie Albert (170 episodes)
- Lisa Douglas: Eva Gabor (170 episodes)
- Eb Dawson: Tom Lester (148 episodes)
- Sam Drucker: Frank Cady (142 episodes)
- Sir. Eustace Haney: Pat Buttram (84 episodes)
- Hank Kimball: Alvy Moore (79 episodes)
- Fred Ziffel: Hank Patterson (50 episodes)
- Doris Ziffel: Barbara Pepper (1965-1968) (30 episodes)/Fran Ryan (1969-71) (7 episodes, 5 as Doris Ziffel)
- Arnold Ziffel: (Original pig is from the city of Union Star, Missouri)
- Ralph Monroe: Mary Grace Canfield (41 episodes)
- Alf Monroe: Sid Melton (1965-1969) (26 episodes)
- Newt Kiley: Kay E. Kuter (1965-1970) (24 episodes)
- Mother Eunice Douglas: Eleanor Audley (1965-1969) (15 episodes)
- Roy Trendell: Robert Foulk (1966-1968) (15 episodes)
- Ben Miller: Tom Fadden (1965)
- Horace Colby: Hal Smith
In addition, crossovers from members of Petticoat Junction , most often, are:
- Uncle Joe Carson: Edgar Buchanan (1965-1969) (17 episodes)
- Floyd Smoot: Rufe Davis (1965-1967) (10 episodes)
- Charley Pratt: Smiley Burnette (1965-1967) (7 episodes)
- Kate Bradley: Bea Benaderet (1965-1966) (6 episodes)
Guest star
During the six seasons, many of the actors known as the guest stars at the event, along with other lesser-known artists who later reached the stars, included: John Charles Daly, Elaine Joyce, Gary Dubin, Herbert Anderson, June Foray, Robert Cummings, Sam Edwards, Jerry Van Dyke, J. Pat O'Malley, Johnny Whitaker, Jesse White, Al Lewis, Gordon Jump, Bernie Kopell, Len Lesser, Bob Hastings, Don Keefer, Don Porter, Alan Hale Jr., Melody Patterson, Rusty Hamer, Regis Toomey, Heather North, Allan Melvin, Parley Baer, ​​Jack Bannon, Reginald Gardiner, and Rick Lenz.
Al Molinaro and Pat Morita became guest guests on separate episodes, while Rich Little appeared as himself.
Episode
Revivals
The surviving members of the cast (except Eleanor Audley, who had retired from acting 20 years earlier) reunited for a TV movie titled Back to Green Acres . It aired on CBS on May 18, 1990. Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor re-created their Green Acres characters for the 1993 CBS special The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies.
On November 19, 2007, director of the original series Richard L. Bare announced that he was working on the revival of Green Acres.
Variety was announced on July 22, 2012, that Broadway musicals are devoted to development, with the initial draft of a book written by Bare. No composer, lyricist or director attached.
DVD release
MGM Home Entertainment released the first three seasons of Green Acres in Region 1 DVD. The entire six-season series of this series is available for purchase through Amazon's video-on-demand service and is included in Hulu Plus subscriptions.
On July 7, 2017, it was announced that Shout! The factory has obtained the rights to this series. They then released Green Acres - Full Series on DVD in Region 1 on October 17, 2017.
Season 4 was released on November 28, 2017. Season 5 was released on February 27, 2018. Season 6 will be released on July 10, 2018.
Granby Green Acres
- View the main article, Granby Green Acres .
The Granby's Green Acres radio show aired from 3 July to 21 August 1950. The show was produced, directed, and written by Jay Sommers, who wrote and produced a third of the Green Acres episode. In both, an entrepreneur knows little about agriculture moving to a poor farm. The characters are more strangely conventional, the wife is very fussy and bleak, Sam Drucker's character from Sam Drucker is a confused and confused food store owner, Mr. Kimball while hired Eb (Parley Baer, ​​who is a guest star in several episodes of the television series) are parents and steadfast about incompetent management.
Nielsen ratings
Movies and Broadway adaptations
Until his death in March 2015, Bare worked on a movie version of the TV series, and he teamed up with Phillip Goldfine and Hollywood Media Bridge to produce it. The Broadway version is also being developed.
Recognition
In 1984, the USC School of Cinematic Arts awarded retrospective Green Acres in honor of Sommers.
Slot machine
A popular slot machine based on the Green Acres television show was introduced in 2006. The gambling game has two progressive jackpots that are won if enough "haystack" is displayed among 25 individual rolls (in a 5x5 configuration.) Bonus rounds including "Hotcake Bonus" and "Arnold Wild Bonus". (Some banks from Green Acres machines related to The Harlem Globetrotters and The Dukes of Hazzard slots.)
See also
- Guest, Ho!
References
- Cox, Stephen (1993). The Hooterville Handbook: A Guide to Acres to Green Acres . St. Martin Griffin. ISBN 0-312-08811-6.
Specific excerpt:
External links
- Green Acres on IMDb
- Green Acres on TV.com
- Green Acres on TVLand.com
- Green Acres on ION Television episode
- Green Acres in Hulu
- Granbys Green Acres episodes in Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner
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