Green Acres Season 4 |
Episode 1 - [Guess Who's Not Going To The Luau] |
Details : Peterson's Poi Juice is giving away a trip to Hawaii and Arnold Ziffel is chosen as the winner. When the ad agency rep meets Arnold and discovers he's not a human he tries to disqualify the swine. Famous pig lawyer Oliver Douglas is retained to fight for Arnold's winnings. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Hank Worden | Parley Baer | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Sep. 25, 1968 |
Episode 2 - [The Rummage Sale] |
Details : The Douglases are asked to donate old clothing to a charity rummage sale. Lisa is glad to give away Oliver's entire wardrobe but can't part with any of her dresses. Each has a memory attached leading to flashbacks of Oliver asking Lisa's father for her hand in marriage the Douglases' honeymoon in Switzerland and their first party in their new Park Avenue apartment. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John van Dreelen | Charles Lane | Ronald Long | Barbara Morrison | Tom D'Andrea | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Oct. 02, 1968 |
Episode 3 - [Hail To The Fire Chief] |
Details : Scheming to get Oliver to pay his way to a convention Fire Chief Joe Carson appoints him as his assistant. Instead Oliver finds the Hooterville Fire Department to be inept and ill-prepared. Oliver's call for improvements results in Uncle Joe being voted out and him being named the new chief. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Edgar Buchanan | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Oct. 16, 1968 |
Episode 4 - [Eb's Romance] |
Details : Eb announces his engagement to Loreli Appleby a girl he met the day before. In an attempt to impress his future father-in-law Eb succeeds in destroying the farmer's cabbage crop. To get back in the man's good graces Eb pawns Oliver's cow Eleanor so he can make the Appleby's mortgage payment. |
Guest Cast and Crew : John Qualen | Melody Patterson | William Keene | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Oct. 23, 1968 |
Episode 5 - [The Candidate] |
Details : Fed up with the lousy condition of the Hooterville highway Oliver launches an attack on their beloved state district representative Ben Hanks. The folksy duck-calling guitar-playing politician proves too wily for Oliver even when caught padding the state payroll with relatives. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Skip Young | J. Pat O'Malley | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Oct. 30, 1968 |
Episode 6 - [Handy Lessons] |
Details : Wanting to be a bigger help to Oliver Lisa decides to learn carpentry. She buys overalls and begins to study the craft from the inept Monroe brothers. Lisa's talents result in destruction in Monroes' workshop and earns Oliver a punch in the nose. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Nov. 06, 1968 |
Episode 7 - [A Husband For Eleanor] |
Details : Oliver plans to leave Eleanor with Mr. Cowan's bull Dudley so she'll birth a calf and start giving milk again. However Lisa complicates matters when she wants to make sure Eleanor has a good husband with bright prospects. No bull Lisa meets seems good enough to marry her daughter. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Dave Willock | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Nov. 13, 1968 |
Episode 8 - [Old Mail Day] |
Details : It's Old Mail Day and Sam Drucker hands out letters that have gotten misplaced in his post office. Having learned nothing from his previous letter-writing fiascos an upset Oliver complains to the Postmaster General for delivery service. The locals soon turn on Oliver because Drucker's General Store is never open; he's always on his bicycle delivering mail. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Nov. 20, 1968 |
Episode 9 - [The Agricultural Student] |
Details : The Agricultural Department is sending a student to learn the ropes from agent Hank Kimball. No one's too interested until Terry turns out to be an attractive blonde co-ed. All the men of Hooterville eligible and otherwise fall over themselves flirting and fawning. On the night of the big barn dance the Douglas living room is packed full of maneuvering men each thinking they're her date for the evening. Terry's choice turns out to be none of the above. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Lenz | Francine York | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Nov. 27, 1968 |
Episode 10 - [How Hooterville Was Floundered] |
Details : After Joe Carson quits as head of the Hooterville centennial celebration Oliver gets the job. His idea is to stage a re-enactment of the town's founding starring he and Lisa as Horace and Doris Hooter. In the dramatization saloon girl Doris fleeces Horace out of the money he'd hoped to buy a farm with. Eventually he gets his money back thanks to her skills as a card shark and they marry and settle Hooterville. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Edgar Buchanan | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Dec. 11, 1968 |
Episode 11 - [The Blue Feather] |
Details : Lisa's convinced that Hungarian gypsies have placed a curse on her when she receives a dreaded blue feather in the mail. To de-hexify her Haney sells Lisa a ridiculous recipe that she mixes up places in a green purse and hangs outside the front door. Eb gets a look at it and panics because the green purse hex will bring a drought. He counteracts it with his own concoction in a yellow purse. Oliver takes action to put a stop to all this foolishness. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Dec. 18, 1968 |
Episode 12 - [How To Get From Hooterville To Pixley Without Moving] |
Details : After Oliver orders the Monroe brothers to finish work on the bedroom they confess that they never got a building permit. Oliver storms off to get one himself only to discover his barn is in Hooterville but his house is in Pixley. Haney who sold them the farm offers to hook a rope to the house and pull it to Hooterville with his truck. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Gordon Jump | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Dec. 25, 1968 |
Episode 13 - [The Birthday Gift] |
Details : For Lisa's birthday gift Oliver plans to gets her a horse. Mr Haney delivers one and it's not your average nag. Its name is Mr. Fred a talking horse who's also a has-been TV star. Meanwhile the locals decide that Lisa has a drinking habit and attempt an intervention. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Eleanor Audley | Pat Buttram | Rich Little | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Jan. 01, 1969 |
Episode 14 - [Everywhere A Chick Chick] |
Details : Oliver has the bad idea of getting into the chicken raising business. Haney wants to sell him a ridiculous egg laying contraption the Monroe brothers build a disastrous chicken coop and Lisa wants to raise the chicks as human children. The serious trouble begins when the 1000 baby chicks arrive. The brooder stops working and the babies have to stay warm. Lisa's motherly instincts save the day. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Jan. 08, 1969 |
Episode 15 - [The Marital Vacation] |
Details : Even though taking separate vacations was Lisa's idea she misses Oliver before she even gets to the airport. Her constant phone calls and the goofy locals who think he tossed her out of the house irritate Oliver to no end. He gives up and hops a plane tojoin her; the layover in Cuba was an added surprise. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ronald Long | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Jan. 15, 1969 |
Episode 16 - [A Prize In Every Package] |
Details : Criminals rob a jewelry store in Chicago and stash their haul in a grain bin. The expensive gems end up packed in boxes of Crickly Wickly cereal shipped to Hooterville. Lisa knows real jewels when she sees them but Oliver's sure they're just costume. After taking them to be appraised the sheriff arrests Oliver for the jewelry store heist. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Al Molinaro | Anthony Caruso | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Jan. 22, 1969 |
Episode 17 - [Law Partners] |
Details : Recent law school graduate Brian Williams pitches Oliver on joining him in a new practice. After another of his patriotic speeches this time about law Oliver is ready to hang out his shingle. Meanwhile Lisa is excited about becoming their secretary and Eb is ready to run the farm. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Lenz | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Jan. 29, 1969 |
Episode 18 - [A Day In The Life Of Oliver Wendell Holmes] |
Details : The law office of Douglas and Williams is open for business even though the sign has Oliver Mendell Douglas (later Oliver Wendell Wilkie Holmes) listed as a partner. Unqualified secretary Lisa destroys a office typewriter before having the new phone connected to a fire alarm clanger. Later to boost business she advertises a grand opening special with free prizes and discount law services. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Ysabel MacCloskey | Bob Hastings | Rick Lenz | Vince Barnett | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Feb. 05, 1969 |
Episode 19 - [Economy Flight To Washington] |
Details : The Hooterville Young People's Agricultural Society comprised of Eb Hank and Arnold flies to Washington D. C. for the national convention. When the stewardess tries to throw the pig off the DC-3 the Douglases come on board to smooth over the problem. With Arnold hiding in the occupied the plane takes off with the whole Hooterville crowd aboard. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Alvy Moore | Reed Hadley | Foster Brooks | Dave Willock | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Feb. 12, 1969 |
Episode 20 - [Retreat From Washington] |
Details : With the Douglases in Washington the Haney Farm Mindin' Service leases out their house (for $4 a day) to a couple with six children. Meanwhile in D.C. Lisa and Eb go to the White House to have unannounced lunch with the president Kimball causes chaos for the Secretary of Agriculture and Arnold causes problems in a laundromat. Oliver calls an early end to their trip forcing Haney to quickly dispose of his new tenants. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Fran Ryan | Nora Denney | Alvy Moore | Harry Stanton | Pat Buttram | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Feb. 19, 1969 |
Episode 21 - [A Hunting We Won't Go] |
Details : After a friendly doe wanders onto the farm Lisa starts a drive to ban deer hunting. When the governor arrives in Hooterville for the start of hunting season Lisa presents him with her petition. He threatens Oliver and Lisa with jail time because her petition promises everyone who signed it a one-hundred dollar payment. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Rick Lenz | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Feb. 26, 1969 |
Episode 22 - [Oh Promise Me] |
Details : A check of their their marriage license revals that Oliver and Lisa aren't husband and wife. They'd been mistakenly given a license to practice dentistry. Refusing to stay in the house with a bachelor dentist Dr. Gronyitz moves in with the Monroe brothers until they can re-tie the knot. Their church wedding goes fairly smoothly considering Hank Kimball is the best man and Ralph Monroe is the maid of honor. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Rockwell | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Mar. 05, 1969 |
Episode 23 - [Eb Uses His Ingenuity] |
Details : Eb needs to raise $20 for his girlfriends birthday gift. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Fran Ryan | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Mar. 12, 1969 |
Episode 24 - [The Old Trunk] |
Details : From inside an old trunk Eb found in the barn Lisa begins reading the diary of Lydia Plunkett who in 1898 becomes a traveling saleswoman for a corset company. Lydia falls in love with rival salesman Harry Wright whose career falters as a result of her success. The two marry she becomes president of the corset company and unhappily tends house. He eventually tires of being a housewife and leaves her. As Lisa continues reading Eb is entranced by the story but Oliver scoffs at the soppy romance. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Gordon Jump | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Mar. 19, 1969 |
Episode 25 - [The Milk Maker] |
Details : Local inventor Looney Luke Needlinger has built a contraption that turns hay into milk. Convinced it will make them rich Haney and Fred pitch Oliver on investing in the machine but he thinks they're being conned. After seeing the milk maker in action Oliver convinces a chemist to give the devise a once-over. What he discovers insures that cows will always have work. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Foster Brooks | Percy Helton | Kay E. Kuter | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Mar. 26, 1969 |
Episode 26 - [The Reincarnation Of Eb] |
Details : Oliver Lisa and Eb talk about reincarnation after watching a movie about a grandfather who returns as a racehorse. Later when Eb goes missing during a nasty thunderstorm Lisa is worried sick that something bad has happened to him. She's greatly relieved when he returns home safely--reincarcerated as a dog. |
Guest Cast and Crew : Garry Walberg | Cindy Eilbacher | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
Air Date : Apr. 02, 1969 |