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GREEN ACRES: OLIVER BUYS A FARM {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The premiere of this comedy series about Oliver and Lisa Douglas, a wealthy couple who leave their Park Avenue penthouse in New York City to live on a run-down farm near the small town of Hooterville. In the series opener, the narrator explains that Oliver Wendell Douglas, a successful New York lawyer, has always longed to live in the country, while his wife, Lisa, is accustomed to a pampered lifestyle in the big city. Sight unseen, Oliver buys a farm, and Lisa reluctantly agrees to accompany him to Hooterville, hoping that he will soon want to return to New York. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 15, 1965 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:24:39
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T86:1903
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1965-1971
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Paul Henning … Executive Producer
- Jay Sommers … Producer, Created by, Writer
- Ralph Levy … Director
- Vic Mizzy … Theme Music by, Theme song "Green Acres" written by
- Eddie Albert … Cast, Oliver Wendell Douglas
- Eva Gabor … Cast, Lisa Douglas
- Edgar Buchanan … Cast, Joe Carson
- Frank Cady … Cast, Sam Drucker
- Rufe Davis … Cast, Floyd Smoot
- Hank Patterson … Cast, Fred Ziffel
- John Daly … Cast, the Narrator