Green Acres

I recently started watchting the reruns (again).. & realized really how well done this show is.

I am relatively new to green acres,I have probably not even watched half of the episodes and that is all within the last few years. (When it first aired I wasn't born yet,and when it was in reruns I was too young to appreciate it) I have grown quite fond of the show,I think it is a masterpiece of surreal,goofy,good-natured comedy.

The Gabors were famous for marrying rich guys that died, and they basically forced themselves onto talk shows to talk about their crummy lives as rich widows living in America. For a while, every Gabor sister was on TV every day.

Green Acres was a very very weird show. It was about this rich guy who really wanted to move back to rural America and live on a farm which is the environment that he grew up in.

Spoilers. Observations.

Hello Dare.

Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor play a city lawyer and his wife who wants a quiet life in the country. They buy a farm in Hooterville (never mention a state).

"Green Acres" when it premiered on CBS' Wednesday night prime time schedule opposite "The Beverly Hillbillies" on September 15,1965 was one of the trilogy of "rural comedies" that were created and produced by Paul Henning(who was also behind the success of "The Beverly Hillbillies", and "Petticoat Junction"). The overall premise of "Green Acres" started on radio under the title "Granby's Green Acres" that was broadcast on CBS Radio as a replacement for the Lux Radio Theatre that aired for 13 episodes from July 3, 1950 until August 21,1950.

Green Acres is my favorite sit-com ever. There are many excellent ones over the years and perhaps some better, the Andy Griffith Show is close for me, but none make me laugh or allow for complete, escapist zaniness as does Green Acres.