Green Acres: Season 01 (1965)

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City-bred attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) and his chic, sophisticated wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), undergo quite a period of adjustment throughout the first season of Green Acres. Having insisted upon bundling himself and his wife to a 160-acre farm just outside the bucolic town of Hooterville, Oliver is determined to make a go of his new investment, even though the farm and farmhouse are in deplorable shape. Not making life any easier for Oliver are a motley group of local eccentrics: Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), the bucolic con artist who sold Douglas the farm, and who continues to scam money off the gullible attorney by generous providing him with any number of useless implements and "creature comforts"; clumsy handyman Eb Dawson (Tom Lester), who for some reason regards Oliver as his surrogate daddy; absentminded county agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore), who seldom made a statement without immediately qualifying or contradicting himself; and local storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), whose favorite pastime (evidently) was misunderstanding everything Oliver asked him. Also seen on occasion are neighboring farmers Fred and Doris Ziffel (Hank Patterson, Barbara Pepper), whose pet pig, Arnold, had not yet assumed full "superstar" status. Season one of Green Acres reaches a climax of sorts as Lisa Douglas, who has never let a day pass without yearning for her beloved "Park Avenue," is allowed to decide whether she and Oliver should return to New York or whether they will remain in Hooterville. Just guess what she decides. ~ Rovi