Green Acres kreeg tijdens de zesjarige looptijd solide beoordelingen en werd in 1971 geannuleerd als onderdeel van de 'rurale zuivering' door CBS. In 1997 stond de tweedelige aflevering 'A Star Named Arnold is Born' op nummer 59 in de 100 beste afleveringen aller tijden van TV Guide.
Where to Watch Green Acres
- Richard3 november 2025Saw it on TV in the late ’80s on Sky Channel and it felt like someone dropped a Manhattan lawyer into a haystack and filmed the confusion. Oliver Wendell Douglas wants the simple life, so he drags his glamorous wife Lisa from New York to a farm in Hooterville. What follows is six seasons of surreal comedy, talking pigs, malfunctioning tractors and neighbors who operate on their own brand of logic. Eva Gabor sparkles as Lisa, delivering Hungarian accented one liners with couture flair, while Eddie Albert’s Oliver slowly unravels in the face of rural absurdity. The tone? Whimsical, offbeat and proudly nonsensical. It’s not just a fish out of water story, it’s a satire of modernity, bureaucracy and the American dream, wrapped in cornfields and canned laughter. The show breaks the fourth wall, bends reality and never apologizes for being weird. Watching it again on feels like stepping into a sitcom that knew it was smarter than it looked. And if you caught it on Sky Channel in the late ’80s, you probably wondered how something so vintage could still feel so fresh and so wonderfully bonkers.
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Green Acres has 6 seasons.
Green Acres has 170 episodes.
The key characters in Green Acres are Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor).
Green Acres was directed by Richard L. Bare, Bruce Bilson, Ralph Levy.
Green Acres was produced by Paul Henning, Jay Sommers.
Green Acres is een Amerikaanse sitcom met Eddie Albert en Eva Gabor als stel dat van New York City naar een landelijke boerderij verhuist. Geproduceerd door Filmways als zustershow van Petticoat Junction, werd de serie voor het eerst uitgezonden op CBS, van 15 september 1965 tot 27 april 1971.
Green Acres kreeg tijdens de zesjarige looptijd solide beoordelingen en werd in 1971 geannuleerd als onderdeel van de 'rurale zuivering' door CBS. In 1997 stond de tweedelige aflevering 'A Star Named Arnold is Born' op nummer 59 in de 100 beste afleveringen aller tijden van TV Guide.
Green Acres is rated TV-G.
Green Acres is a Komedie, Familie show.
Green Acres has an audience rating of 7.3 out of 10.
Green Acres episodes are 30 m long.
No, this show was canceled after 6 seasons.