The last to pass away was Tom Lester Eb Dawson , the youngest cast member, at age 81 in Pat Buttram Mr. The only exception was Barbara Pepper the original Doris Ziffel , who passed away in after the fourth season at age Beating them all, however, was director Richard L. Bare, who had directed almost all of the episodes; he was when he passed away in At the time, close analysis of demographics indicated that these shows appealed only to those who lived in rural areas and older people.
Then head of CBS and his new chief of programming Fred Silverman decided to cancel them, even though they were all still hugely popular and got high ratings, in favor of more politically correct shows that were targeted toward a younger more hip audience. An often-told joke that passed into legend is that "CBS canceled every show with a tree in it". Benaderet guest-starred in six first-season episodes for the TV version of her former radio show, as her Petticoat Junction character Kate Bradley.
Oliver drove five gold convertibles during the series' run. The first three were Lincoln Continentals , and models; he drove the same model, in Seasons 3 and 4. The last two were and Mercury Marquis, because Lincoln stopped making convertibles in During the first half of the season, Tom Lester missed several episodes as he had mononucleosis, leading the CBS' producers to decide do a storyline in which Eb eloped and left the farm.
Similar to the characters in The Beverly Hillbillies who did not wear "city clothes" and kept to their old hillbilly clothes, Oliver and Lisa wore "city clothes" instead of regular farm clothes.
Specifically, Oliver always wore business attire with a tie and vest, even when working in the field, and Lisa always wore glamorous dresses and jewelry, a different outfit in every scene. The title of the series, and the earlier radio show, was taken from "Green Acres" the name of Harold Lloyd 's home which was the largest of the Hollywood homes located in Beverly Hills.
Hooterville's newspaper was the "World Guardian". Oliver and Lisa can be credited as one of the first couples to be seen sharing the same bed. Mary Kay and Johnny of shared a same bed but their show had aired live on the ailing Dumont network that had very little viewership, and has since been lost to posterity. Ozzie and Harriet were shown to have one bed but the couple were never seen in it. The 's started to see the networks relaxing their decrees about married couples sleeping in seperate beds.
This most likely was allowed due to them being cartoon characters. The non-human nature of most of these couples is what led the networks to allow them to share a bed. Oliver and Lisa Douglas though can be considered the first fully human characters regularly sharing a bed and showing some degree of intimacy while in it. In , Eva Gabor's dog gave birth to puppies. One was not breathing, so she stuck a hose down his throat, resuscitated, and nursed him to health. She named him Oliver and his sister Lisa.
The name of the state where Hooterville was located was never mentioned, but in the first episode, Oliver told Lisa he had to fly to Chicago and change planes a few times to get to Hooterville. In another episode he mentions the state capital was only a four-hour drive. Since the area was created in Petticoat Junction , and that show was based on the stories told to Paul Henning by his wife, who had spent summers in Eldon, MO, at a small hotel located near the train station, the most likely locale for Petticoat would be southern Missouri.
The windy, twisty, hilly roads of the Ozarks could easily make a trip to the Missouri capital a four-hour drive. However, the original creator of Green Acres, both the radio show and the TV series, Jay Sommers , who also wrote extensively for Petticoat, based the show on his own small-town experiences in California.
This would be more logical when flying from New York to California and changing planes in Chicago; one would not likely change in Chicago on a NY to Missouri flight.
Further indications that Green Acres is set in rural California is a later episode that depicts the governor as a retired actor who had festivals of his own movies to raise money for the state, which perfectly describes then-governor of California Ronald Reagan. In the same episode, Hooterville attempts to join another state to protest the high tax hike by the governor, and the only state they try is Nevada, where its southwestern border with CA has been historically disputed, particularly with small rural towns.
This would place Hooterville in southeastern CA. The fictional universe of Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies , which obviously takes place in Beverly Hills, CA, was also in the same area as Petticoat and Green Acres, with characters visiting each other between the three shows, would place Hooterville and Pixley in southern California.
Another indication that the show cannot take place in MO but in sunny California is it's never shown to snow in any episode, including shows that obviously take place in winter when there is no farming to be done. It snows in MO, but in rural southern California valleys it does not.
Finally, there exists a real town, Pixley, CA located in the southern Central Valley of California, somewhat north of Bakersfield, on the original inland highway that the main railroad followed, now called Highway The town is surrounded by farmland. Sacramento, the capital is a four-hour drive away. This would fit with all the other evidence indicating California as the state where Green Acres is located.
Arnold, the Ziffel's pig, even though credited as one pig actor Arnold the Piggy , was actually played by a different pig each season. Each pig was a different color and size. Also the first pig actor was a male, while the three others were female sows. The character Arnold was always referred to as a male pig, even though viewers could clearly see the sow's nipples in many shots.
It was updated yearly through the run of the series , as soon as a new model became available. In a late interview, Mary Grace Canfield said show creator Jay Sommers was constantly having fights with network executives over her character role, Ralph Monroe, the female construction worker. The executives were worried about people, especially men, believing that a woman could be a blue collar worker. In her first appearance on the show in Green Acres: How to Enlarge a Bedroom , her character's brother Alf Monroe played by Sid Melton also says that men generally can't believe a woman could be a blue collar worker, and explains that's why he calls his sister "Ralph" and why they refer to themselves as the Monroe "Brothers".
Ralph's real female name is never mentioned in the show, though there are several episodes where she tries with comedic effect to be more feminine, with no luck. She even marries scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimball Alvy Moore in one episode, but the wedding is annulled and Hank explains he doesn't want to be associated with a woman who has a man's name. Although many of the characters' backstories and roles were made up, Lisa's backstory is largely based on the story of Eva Gabor , who plays her.
Gabor was born one of three daughters to a Hungarian veteran of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War One, and grew up in Budapest, Hungary, in a middle class lifestyle.
There were many animals in the early seasons of the show, both pets and farm animals, that disappeared in later shows. During the first three seasons, Lisa Douglas had a pet terrier named Mignon Mignon.
It was never credited, but appeared in 11 episodes through the beginning of season 3. Mignon the dog also appeared in two episodes of season 3 of Petticoat Junction concurrent with season 1 of Green Acres with the Douglases guest starring. No mention was made of the dog after its last appearance, and its fate is unknown. Eb Dawson had a pet tortoise in one episode named Eloise, but it was never seen or mentioned after that either.
Several of the farm's chickens were bought from Mr. Haney who gave them their names. Most frequently appearing were Alice the hen and Bertram the rooster, but there were also two other hens named Henrietta and Emily. All these chickens appeared only in early season episodes, then disappeared and were never mentioned again.
Lisa always got fresh eggs from them in those early episodes but in later episodes the eggs in the fridge were always store-bought in a carton, indicating the Douglas farm no longer had any chickens, but no explanation was given why. Eleanor, the Douglas' dairy cow, on the other hand, remained through all six seasons, always providing the milk. Creator Jay Sommers wrote extensively for " Petticoat Junction " during its second season , and these unsyndicated shows feature the first appearances of Doris then "Ruthie" , Fred, Newt, and Arnold the Piggy the year before " Green Acres " originally debuted on September 15, , with " Green Acres: Oliver Buys a Farm The writers often gave Eddie Albert a bogus script and his reactions were genuine after the other actors gave their lines.
Usually it was Eddie Albert saying, "what" with a look of confusion. In several episodes throughout the series Mr. Haney's first name is said to be Eustace. Haney had a basset hound named Cynthia who had a crush on Arnold the pig, but the dog never appeared again in any other episode.
Tom Lester , who played Eb Dawson, was brought up on a farm in Mississippi where he learned to grow and shuck corn, not unlike his character on the show. Barbara Pepper the original "Doris Ziffel" developed health issues and by they became so serious she was forced to leave the series she died later in the year. Hank Kimball : Hello, Mrs Douglas! How are you? Lisa Douglas : Hello, Mr. I'm fine. Well, I'm not really fine. I have a little headache. Well, it isn't a little headache, it's a Hank Kimball : I know somebody that talks just like that.
Well, not just like that. What was his name? Oh yes, it was Oliver Douglas : Why don't we give away this one? Lisa Douglas : No that's the dress I graduated from high school in. Oliver Douglas : How about this one? Lisa Douglas : That's the dress I wore the first day of college. Oliver Douglas : [holding a black, low-cut dress] What about this one?
Lisa Douglas : That's the one I got expelled in. Sign In. Green Acres —
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