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Green Acres is an American television absurdist 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.
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. The series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971. All the episodes were filmed in color.
Oliver Wendell Douglas is the main character in the 1960s CBS sitcom, Green Acres.Portrayed by Hollywood veteran Eddie Albert, Oliver Wendell Douglas is a New York City attorney who acts out his long-harbored dream of moving to the Midwest where he trades in his job of practicing "big city" law to operate a country farm.
The unlikely pair, who both had shows on NBC at the time, took the stage to perform the theme song from "Green Acres," to rousing laughter. Naturally, they went on to be crowned champs of "Emmy Idol."
In the Green Acres episode "Music to Milk By", the call letters of the nearby Pixley radio station that Eb Dawson listens to begin with the letter W, rather than K, suggesting that Pixley and Hooterville are east of the Mississippi River. The Pixley television station's call letters are WPIXL, which would put it east of the river.
In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a sitcom for CBS titled Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a gentleman farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his wife Lisa. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in ...
Kay Edwin Emmert Kuter (April 25, 1925 – November 12, 2003) was an American actor who appeared on television and in films. He is mostly recognized for his role as farmer Newt Kiley on the CBS sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, which shared several characters.
Lisa Douglas (née Gronyitz) was the leading female character in the 1960s CBS situation comedy Green Acres, which ran for six years, from 1965 to 1971. [1] The character was reprised in the 1990 film Return to Green Acres. [2] CNN rated the character as being amongst "The most stylish TV housewives of all time". [3]