Green Acres Season 5

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Lisa's Mudder Comes For A Visit]
Details : Lisa's 'mudder' (mother) pays a surprise visit to the Hooterville farm and promptly takes over as a three-week house guest.
Guest Cast and Crew : Lilia Skala | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Sep. 27, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Everybody Tries To Love A Countess]
Details : Oliver loses all hopes of getting rid of his mother-in-law when Mr Haney and Uncle Joe Carson vie to become his father-in-law.
Guest Cast and Crew : Lilia Skala | Pat Buttram | Edgar Buchanan | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Oct. 04, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [Where There's A Will]
Details : Fred Ziffel finds out that Arnold may in line for a inheritance. Arnold has the ability to predict the weather with his tail supposedely making him a direct discendant of Herman a spokespig who could also do the same. All of Hooterville including Lisa tries to get Oliver to take Arnold to Chicago to receive the pig's $20000000 inheritance.
Guest Cast and Crew : Bob Noble as Newscaster | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Oct. 11, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [A Tale Of A Tail]
Details : Oliver takes Arnold the Pig Chicago to receive Arnold's inheritance of $20000000. Arnold is a direct discendant of Herman a pig who could predict the weather with his tail. However Oliver soon finds it difficult watching after a pig in the hotel.
Guest Cast and Crew : Al Molinaro | Vince Barnett | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Oct. 18, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [You And Your Big Shrunken Head]
Details : When the Douglases Eb and Arnold return from Chicago Arnold becomes a gift-bearing pig. He gives Mr. Kimball a wristwatch Lisa an expensive braclet and Oliver a shrunken head. Arnold soon finds himself the target of every seller from Hooterville Pixley and Crabwell Corners who want their hands on Arnold's inheritance.
Guest Cast and Crew : Hank Worden | Dave Barry as Insurance Man | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Oct. 25, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [The Road]
Details : Oliver's angry over Hooterville's dirt road especially after learning the money to pave it was appropriated thirty years earlier. Never content to leave well enough alone he descends on the state capitol demanding that something be done. He makes little headway until Lisa mentions the name of powerful hot dog vendor Big Joe Haney.
Guest Cast and Crew : Lyle Talbot | Dave Willock | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Nov. 01, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Four Of Spades]
Details : Lisa the fortune-teller predicts that a mysterious stranger will soon enter Oliver's life. That stranger is Tadpole Talbot Eb's country music singing cousin. Tadpole hires Eb to go on the road and plug his music but it's not nearly as glamourous as Eb imagined.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Nov. 08, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [The Youth Center]
Details : Alarmed by the dropping population of Hooterville Oliver calls a town meeting to find a way to keep the young people from moving away. Lisa urges him not to become involved because his goo dooding always backfires but he forges ahead anyway. Soon he's involuntarily volunteered his barn to be the valley's new youth center.
Guest Cast and Crew : Hal Smith | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Nov. 15, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [The Special Delivery Letter]
Details : Oliver tries to pick up a special delivery letter that arrived for him at the Hooterville post office. He and Lisa end up traveling all over the valley because Drucker mistakenly gave it to Hank Kimball who gave it to Fred Ziffel who gave it to Arnold. Arnold dropped it in the mail sending the Douglases to the Pixley post office where two sets of identical twins are working at the windows.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Nov. 22, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush]
Details : The principal of Hootervile asks Oliver to address on of his classes about job opportunities. While talking to the class a high school girl falls for Oliver. This makes Lisa jealous.
Guest Cast and Crew : Heather North | Herbert Anderson | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Nov. 29, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [Ralph's Nuptials]
Details : Ralph finally squeezes a proposal out of a medicated Hank Kimball sending a delighted Lisa into wedding planning mode. Even though the Haney-produced ceremony goes off without a hitch the honeymoon with an absent-minded Hank doesn't.
Guest Cast and Crew : Alvy Moore | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Dec. 13, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [Oliver And The Cornstalk]
Details : With minimal help from Eb a stressed Oliver begins planting his corn crop. Lisa tries to be a useful farm wife by making dreadful lemonade which Oliver pours out onto the ground. The next morning at that spot he finds a giant cornstalk that reaches into the clouds. At the top of the stalk there's a Jolly Green Giant who bellows Ho Ho Ho and drops down creamed corn both in the can and by the bucketful.
Guest Cast and Crew : Lori Loughlin | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Dec. 20, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Beauty Is Skin Deep]
Details : Sam Drucker stocks no cosmeteticals in his store so Lisa offers to put together a display for him. When 395 cartons of Lady Love cosmetics are delivered Lisa pushes Sam out the door and converts his business into a beauty saloon. After Oliver tells her she must move her business somewhere else she sets up shop in their living room
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Dec. 27, 1969

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [The Wish-Book]
Details : The discovery of a Wish Book from 1898 leads Haney to tell the story of Calvin and Tessie Whittaker who once owned the Douglases' house. When a magic lantern is mistakenly delivered by the catalog company Calvin opens a Wall Picture Theater in Pixley thrilling audiences with a slide of Abraham Lincoln standing on his head. Eventually he goes to Hollywood to pitch his ideas but they call him a nut. They even scoff at his idea to put a mouse named Dickey into films. They love Tessie however and she becomes a silent film star.
Guest Cast and Crew : Larry D. Mann | Hagan Beggs | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Jan. 03, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [Rest And Relaxation]
Details : Oliver's old friend reporter Mort Warner comes to Hooterville to relax and soothe his rattled nerves. He's ready to flee in less than one day. Mort is frightened by Lisa's syrupy coffee hosed down with oil by Oliver's rickety tractor and has his bed invaded by a TV-watching pig. Fred Ziffel peers at him naked in the outdoor shower Mr. Haney gouges him with his phony Auto Club the sheriff arrests him for stealing the Douglas' car and quail-hunting Hank Kimball fills his behind with buckshot.
Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Cummings | Joe Higgins | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Jan. 10, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Trapped]
Details : Oliver and Lisa find a basement in their house. While exploring it they find themselfs trapped. They send a sos up the kitchen sink drain for help.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Jan. 17, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [Bundle Of Joy]
Details : While Oliver's in New Yorkfinishing a casefor his old law firm Lisa and Eb discover Little Freddie on the doorstep. Oliver panics when Lisa calls and tells him about the baby but fails to mention it's a baby dog. Unable to talk Lina into contacting the sheriff he abandons his case and races back to Hooterville to take charge.
Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Alice | Patience Cleveland | Herb Voland | Bartlett Robinson | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Jan. 24, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [The Ex-Con]
Details : Oliver gives another of his speeches this one to the County Bar Association encouraging the hiring of ex-convicts. This leads to his hiring of Willie Dunhill a man who's spent so many years in prison he can't adjust to life on the outside; he keeps calling Oliver warden.
Guest Cast and Crew : John Qualen | Don Keefer | Vince Barnett | Hal Baylor | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Jan. 31, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [The Cow Killer]
Details : Haney's latest attempt to cheat Oliver could land him in jail if he doesn't repay his $200 by six o'clock. He uses Oliver's irritation over Colby's renegade cow the Douglases' cow Eleanor and a misplaced phony bovine to his advantage selling and reselling all three cattle to make money. Along the way Lisa and Eb become convinced that Oliver is a cold blooded cow shooster
Guest Cast and Crew : Hal Smith | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Feb. 07, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [The Confrontation]
Details : In just his first day as the School Board President Oliver has started a grammar school protest. The kids are upset that their mascot Arnold has been thrown out for popping his teacher with a pea shooter. Fred asks Oliver to represent his son on grounds that he was discriminated against but all Oliver can do is talk to the school's determined principal.
Guest Cast and Crew : Joe Higgins | Frank Ferguson | Helen Kleeb | Cindy Eilbacher | Johnny Whitaker | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Feb. 14, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [The Case Of The Hooterville Refund Fraud]
Details : Oliver unintentionally provides the motive for the residents of Hooterville to illegally receive more than $500000 from the Internal Revenue Service. The locals think all they have to do is write in and state their losses--not understanding that they actually have to file taxes first. Eventually to get its cash back the IRS invests in Haney's monkey racing track.
Guest Cast and Crew : Kay E. Kuter | Hal Smith | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Feb. 28, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [The Picnic]
Details : Oliver wants to have a simple romantic Sunday picnic with Lisa. His afternoon for two turns into an irritating crowd when everyone invites themselves and tags along. Joining the couple are Eb his girlfriend Linda and her accordion her parents Sam Drucker his date and her sousaphone Hank Kimball Linda's Grandpa and some old lady he hit on at the gas station. That night Oliver and Lisa take refuge in the barn when the crowd shows up at their house.
Guest Cast and Crew : Mona Bruns | Larry D. Mann | Patrick Cranshaw | Maggie Peterson | Jane Connell | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Mar. 07, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 23

Episode 23 - [The Beeping Rock]
Details : A wild story told by an 11-year-old about his recent trip to the moon enthralls Eb and Lisa. Oliver believes none of it especially when the kid sells Lisa a moon rock for $14. But once the rock starts beeping under the moonlight (and when Arnold snorts at it) he suspects he's the subject of a practical joke. Oliver ships it off to NASA for their scientists to examine.
Guest Cast and Crew : Jerome Cowan | Frank Ferguson | Johnny Whitaker | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Mar. 21, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 24

Episode 24 - [Uncle Fedor]
Details : Lisa's skittish Uncle Fedor uses the Douglases home to hide out--mostly under the bed and sofa. He claims he's on the run from the Secet Police who want him for smuggling a secret formula. When a man with a scar and another without an ear are spotted in Hooterville his wild tale starts to seem believable.
Guest Cast and Crew : Leo Fuchs | Len Lesser | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Mar. 28, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 25

Episode 25 - [The Wealthy Landowner]
Details : n a personals ad Eb advertises himself as a wealthy landowner. He begins communicating with a woman with a Park Avenue address prompting him to exaggerate his worth even more. By the time she arrives for a visit Eb is passing the Douglases off as sharecroppers who work for him.
Guest Cast and Crew : Ivor Barry | Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Apr. 11, 1970

Green Acres Season 5 Episode 26

Episode 26 - [Happy Birthday]
Details : It's Oliver's birthday and everyone but him wants to celebrate. It also (coincidentally) happens to be Arnold's birthday too. Everyone tries to persuade Oliver to get Arnold a birthday present while he thinks he deserves one because he's human while Arnold isn't. It turns out Arnold and Lisa are the only one's who get Oliver a gift and when he and Lisa go over to the Ziffel's house for his party only to find that there wasn't one they return to find all of their furniture stolen.
Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jay Sommers | Director : Richard L. Bare |
Air Date : Apr. 11, 1970