Green Acres
| Green Acres | |
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Oliver, Lisa and Arnold on DVD cover
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| Created by | Jay Sommers |
| Written by | Jay Sommers Dick Chevillat |
| Directed by | Richard L. Bare |
| Starring |
Eddie Albert Eva Gabor Pat Buttram Tom Lester Frank Cady Hank Patterson Barbara Pepper Alvy Moore Arnold the Pig |
| Theme music composer | Vic Mizzy |
| Composer(s) | Vic Mizzy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 170 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Paul Henning |
| Producer(s) | Jay Sommers |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Filmways TV Productions |
| Distributor |
Orion Television (1983-1998) MGM Television (1998-present) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Color (1965–1971) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 15, 1965 – April 27, 1971 |
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| Related shows |
The Beverly Hillbillies Petticoat Junction |
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a 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.
Following the success of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, CBS offered producer Paul Henning another half-hour on the schedule—with no pilot required (which was very unusual). Henning encouraged colleague Jay Sommers to create a series for the time slot. Sommers created the show based on his 1950 radio series, Granby's Green Acres. The radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as a big-city family who moved to the country.
In pre-production, proposed titles were Country Cousins and The Eddie Albert Show.
Green Acres is about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), an erudite New York City attorney, acting on his dream to be a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorous Hungarian wife, who is dragged unwillingly from an upscale Manhattan penthouse apartment and the city life she adores to a ramshackle farm. The theme tune, as with those of the show's rural cousins, explains the basic premise of the show. At the end of the opening sequence, Albert and Gabor strike a pose in parody of Grant Wood's 1930 painting American Gothic. The debut episode is a mockumentary about their decision to move to a rural area, anchored by former ABC newscaster John Charles Daly. Daly was the host of the CBS game show What's My Line, and a few weeks after the show's debut Albert and Gabor returned the favor by appearing on What's My Line as that episode's Mystery Guests, and publicly thanked Daly for helping to launch their series.
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