Green Acres

Season 3

TV-G
A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.

Where to Watch Season 3

30 Episodes

  • The Man For the Job
    E1
    The Man For the JobThe state committee to nominate a new senator considers Oliver as their candidate. Upon hearing about his credentials (he can read and write), they send representatives to Hooterville to meet the man and learn what his neighbors think of him.
  • Lisa's Jam Session
    E2
    Lisa's Jam SessionOliver decides it would be a great idea for Lisa to make her own jam preserves.
  • Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel
    E3
    Love Comes to Arnold ZiffelFred Ziffel objects to Arnold's love affair with shifty Mr. Haney's basset hound Cynthia. Realizing that their relationship can never work, Arnold breaks off their relationship. When Cynthia performs miserably at the county field trials, Haney wants to sue over his heartbroken hound.
  • Oliver vs. the Phone Company
    E4
    Oliver vs. the Phone CompanyOliver is finally fed up with the lousy service of the Hooterville Phone Company. He petitions the state "futilities commercial" (as Lisa calls it) for improvements, but they can't help; Hooterville needs at least forty-two customers to be covered by the law. Tired of hearing Oliver boast about how he could run the company better, Trendell, the president, hands him the keys to the place.
  • Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company
    E5
    Oliver Takes Over the Phone CompanyOliver's without an operator on his first day as president of the Hooterville Phone Company. As he wrestles with an exploding switchboard, the locals gossip about how he stole the company from Roy Trendell in a rigged card game. Lisa figures out how to put calls through, but would rather flirt with the president than work the switchboard all night.
  • A Kind Word For the President
    E6
    A Kind Word For the PresidentIrritated by complaints and about how much money he's losing, Oliver raises the rates at the Hooterville Phone Company. His top priority, however, is getting the Monroe brothers to connect his own phone inside the house. In the kitchen, Lisa discovers the magic of Dee Dee's Dehydrated Dinners. Just drop a bag into boiling water and out comes a full meal and a bottle of wine.
  • Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked
    E7
    Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're PickedOliver's reign as "El Presidente" of the phone company crashes and burns when he hires a farm worker to be his operator. He pays Haney to take the nightmare off his hands, but soon Hooterville is up in arms over the price-gouging Haney Phone Company.
  • Eb Elopes
    E8
    Eb ElopesThe Douglases find a note from Eb saying he's eloped. While he's on his honeymoon, his cousin Walter will cover his duties. Unfortunately, Walter's experience is limited to bartending at the old Stankwell Falls Lounge. This leads to more destruction than usual on the farm and everyone thinking Oliver's opening a cocktail lounge.
  • The Thing
    E9
    The ThingOliver is tired of paying storage for something neither he or Lisa can recall, so he has it shipped to Hooterville. Inside a giant crate is a genuine Stavinski birdbath that Lisa had bought years earlier for Oliver's birthday. The hideous collection of pipes and faucets leads Oliver to plot "the thing's" demise
  • Das Lumpen
    E10
    Das LumpenLisa tells another version of how she and Oliver met during World War II. As a member of the Hungarian underground, she saved him from Nazis by hiding him in a barn and got him a Purple Heart by poking him in the rump with a pitchfork. They saw each other again after the war when Lisa was a professional cello player.
  • Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?
    E11
    Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?With Doris away for a few days, Fred looks after Arnold by himself. When Arnold sees an advertisement for free movies and ice cream, he goes to Pixley. Lisa is convinced he's been pig-napped, so they all go on a search that leads them to a packing house. During a nightmare one morning she accidentally gives Oliver a bloody nose.
  • Jealousy, English Style
    E12
    Jealousy, English StyleOver Lisa's objections, Oliver plans on attending a farm symposium alone. To watch over her, he hires a charming young British man as a temporary farm hand. Determined to go along, Lisa plots to make Oliver so jealous of the handsome hired help that he wouldn't dare leave her behind.
  • Haney's New Image
    E13
    Haney's New ImageOliver gets the usual runaround from Haney when he complains about the ancient tractor he'd bought. But suddenly, it's a new, honest Haney who offers to buy back the tractor and the "dump" of a farm he sold Oliver. Coincidentally, Haney heard that the Douglas farm is in the path of a proposed new highway. Oliver's soon onto his scheme and decides to make the charlatan squirm.
  • Alf and Ralph Break Up
    E14
    Alf and Ralph Break UpAlf and Ralph announce that they are finally going to finish the Douglas' bedroom, but the project stalls when the "brothers" have a fight. Lisa hires Ralph as their maid and Oliver can't bring himself to fire her when he discovers she's a good cook.
  • No Trespassing
    E15
    No TrespassingOliver shows symptoms of overwork, so Lisa talks him into going on a picnic.
  • Eb Returns
    E16
    Eb ReturnsEb is embarrassed to tell the Douglases that he was stood up at the altar and took his honeymoon trip alone. He begs an old girlfriend, Cynthia, to pose as his new bride just long enough to meet his "parents". She agrees if it won't take long since she has a big date to get ready for.
  • Not Guilty
    E17
    Not GuiltySam Drucker calls the law when he finds $300 is missing from his safe. With the investigation pointing only to Frank Nitti, Eb is finally charged. He shows up in a car he paid $300 for, but can't recall who gave him the money to buy it.
  • Home is Where You Run Away From
    E18
    Home is Where You Run Away FromA mysterious young boy shows up at the Douglas farm and claims to be from another world.
  • How to Suceed in Television Without Really Trying
    E19
    How to Suceed in Television Without Really TryingLisa invests $28 in a 10-year-old's "Electric Company;" to show his gratitude, the young wizard "electronificates" the Douglases' farm.
  • Arnold, Boy Hero
    E20
    Arnold, Boy HeroArnold is opening an account at the Pixley Bank when two robbers make off with a bundle of cash and the pig's five dollars. The pair hides out at the Douglas' farm, taking Lisa, Oliver and Eb hostage. Arnold runs off with their bag of loot and takes it to the authorities while the clueless criminals force Lisa to make hotcakes for them.
  • Flight to Nowhere
    E21
    Flight to NowhereThe farmers of Hooterville sign up for a government-sponsored agriculture exchange program to Europe. When they realize the $300 cost for tickets is per person, not per plane-load, they decide to supply their own airplane and fly themselves over. Since Oliver flew in the war, they draft him to be their pilot. The FAA puts a stop to their cockamamie plans.
  • My Mother, the Countess
    E22
    My Mother, the CountessOn learning that Lisa's mother is coming for a visit, the Hooterville residents go overboard in wanting to welcome the countess. Despite Oliver's protests that she's not royalty, they forge ahead anyway with plans for a parade and marching band.
  • The Spring Festival
    E23
    The Spring FestivalEveryone in Hooterville, except Oliver, is overcome with spring fever; even Sam Drucker is wearing his spring toupee. Deciding to revive the Hooterville spring festival, Lisa visits the neighbors to drum up support. Meanwhile, Oliver tries to do his planting with Eb who can't understand how to work the automatic planter.
  • Our Son, the Barber
    E24
    Our Son, the BarberEb's latest career choice is that of a barber. He talks Oliver into paying his tuition to MIT, a mail-order barber college. Eb's sent a dummy head and hair to practice on and receives his grades by mailing the trimmed toupees back to the school. Lisa is excited about Eb's education while Oliver is irritated by all the hidden costs he keeps being asked to pay.
  • Oliver's Jaded Past
    E25
    Oliver's Jaded PastLisa reminds Oliver that he promised her a New York vacation if she stayed with him on the farm for two years.
  • The Hungarian Curse
    E26
    The Hungarian CurseThe Hungarian man who saved the life of Lisa's uncle moves in, seeking repayment for his good deed. Lisa feels an obligation to help Lazlo, but Oliver is simply irritated by his constant money-grubbing. Oliver's also unfazed by Lazlo's threats to cast a Hungarian curse on him.
  • The Rutabaga Story
    E27
    The Rutabaga StoryIt's planting season in Hooterville, but Oliver doesn't know what to grow. After testing the soil, he discovers that Hooterville is perfect for growing rutabagas. Rutabaga-planting fever takes over the local farmers.
  • Instant Family
    E28
    Instant FamilyWhen an expectant mother goes into labor, Oliver takes her to the hospital, and Lisa takes her seven other children to live with the Douglases until she recovers.
  • A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 1)
    E29
    A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 1)Arnold's performance as a British police dog in the Hooterville theater production of "Who"--the marquee wasn't big enough for "Who Killed Jock Robin?"--turns him into an overnight star. Lisa is so impressed, she arranges for an old friend to give him a Hollywood screen test. After the locals stage a telethon to raise money for the trip, the Douglases are soon escorting the hammy actor West for his big showbiz break.
  • A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)
    E30
    A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 2)Oliver and Lisa chaperon Arnold to Hollywood for his screen test. Producer Boris Fedor isn't interested in the pig; he's just using him to pressure a greedy horse to come back to work. When the horse's agent balks, the publicity machine starts promoting Arnold as the studio's next big star. A stunned Oliver, who came along for laughs, can't believe what he's witnessing.

Cast of Season 3

  • Eddie AlbertOliver Wendell Douglas
  • Eva GaborLisa Douglas
  • Jay SommersProducer
  • Paul HenningProducer

 

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