"name and shortening the title.This meant that Benaderet's old radio show had become a spinoff of her television show. The show's creator, Jay Sommers, based its concept on memories of time he spent as a boy on a farm near Greendale, New York. His stepfather went broke trying to make the farm successful. In 1948, ""Granby's Green Acres"" was auditioned for a slot on ABC with Hanley Stafford originally set to star. Of the eight episodes that aired, five remain in existence, as does the unaired pilot episode. Granby's Green Acres Granby's Green Acres is a radio situation comedy from"
"Green Acres Green Acres is an American 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. All episodes were filmed in color. Receiving solid ratings during its six-year run, ""Green Acres"" was cancelled in 1971 as part of the ""rural purge"" by CBS. The sitcom has been in syndication and is available on DVD and VHS releases. In 1997 the two-part episode ""A Star"
"at the time was one of the most popular radio personalities.) He wrote for ""The Alan Young Show"", Eddie Cantor, Spike Jones, and Red Skelton on the radio, and for the radio comedy series ""Lum and Abner"". In 1950, he was the producer, writer and director for the ""Granby's Green Acres"" radio show. Although it only ran for two months, it was very similar to the highly successful ""Green Acres"" television show that he created 15 years later, where he was the main producer and writer. His first television work was in 1955, as a writer for ""The Great Gildersleeve""."
"In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a new sitcom for CBS called ""Green Acres"". His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his urbanite, spoiled wife. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season. The series lasted six seasons with 170 episodes. After a four-year-absence from the small screen, and upon reaching age 69 in 1975, Albert signed a new contract with Universal Television, and starred"
"Greenacres was built in the 1920s in Beverly Hills, one of Los Angeles' all-white planned communities. The area had restrictive covenants prohibiting non-whites (this also included Jews) from living there unless they were in the employment of a white resident (typically as a domestic servant). In 1940, Lloyd supported a neighborhood improvement association in Beverly Hills that attempted to enforce the all-white covenant in court after a number of black actors and businessmen had begun buying properties in the area. However, in his decision, federal judge Thurmond Clarke dismissed the action stating that it was time that ""members of the"
"their cover of Black Sabbath's ""Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"" to Arnold Ziffel on their ""I'm the Man"" EP. Arnold Ziffel Arnold Ziffel was a pig featured in ""Green Acres"", an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971. The show is about a fictional lawyer, Oliver Wendell Douglas, and his wife, Lisa - city-dwellers who move to Hooterville, a farming community populated by oddballs. Arnold is a pig of the Chester White breed, but is treated as the son of farmer Fred Ziffel and his wife, Doris, a childless couple. Everyone in Hooterville (besides Oliver Douglas) accepts this"
"shows. Despite the respectable ratings and winning its timeslot, the show was cancelled in the spring of 1971 after 170 episodes. CBS at the time was under mounting pressure from sponsors to have more urban-themed programs on its schedule. To make room for the newer shows, nearly all of the rural-themed shows were cancelled. This part of television history has become known as the ""rural purge"". Pat Buttram said of the purge, ""CBS cancelled everything with a tree – including ""Lassie""."" There was no series finale. The final two episodes of ""Green Acres"" were backdoor pilots for ""Pam"" and ""Carol"","
"urbanity; Protestant work ethic versus flights of fancy; and, above all, America versus Europe. As the embodiment of Europe in all of its aristocratic glory, Lisa represents the very culture that America explicitly saw itself as being reborn from in the frontiers of the New World."" Lisa Douglas 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. The character was reprised in the 1990 film ""Return to Green Acres"". CNN rated the character as being amongst """"The most stylish TV housewives of all"
"Vic Mizzy Victor Mizzy (January 9, 1916 – October 17, 2009) was an American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms ""Green Acres"" and ""The Addams Family"". Mizzy also wrote top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s. Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended New York University. As a child, he played accordion and piano, and was largely self-taught as a composer. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy where he wrote some of his hit songs. In the late 1930s, Mizzy, based in New"
"Vic Mizzy Victor Mizzy (January 9, 1916 – October 17, 2009) was an American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms ""Green Acres"" and ""The Addams Family"". Mizzy also wrote top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s. Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended New York University. As a child, he played accordion and piano, and was largely self-taught as a composer. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy where he wrote some of his hit songs. In the late 1930s, Mizzy, based in New"
"busy schedule. Sommers created the 1965 sitcom ""[[Green Acres]]"", adapted from his 1950 radio program ""[[Granby's Green Acres]]"" that had starred Benaderet, thus making it a spinoff of her own television show. Benaderet filmed six appearances as Kate in the first season as both shows' casts intermingled on several episodes in a process dubbed ""cross-pollination"". Benaderet played bit parts in six motion pictures from 1946 to 1962, four of which were uncredited. She was chosen from two hundred actresses for the part of a government file clerk in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ""[[Notorious (1946 film)|Notorious]]"" (1946) and completed filming in half an"
"on a revival of ""Green Acres"". ""Variety"" announced on July 22, 2012, that a Broadway-aimed musical was in development, with an initial draft of the book written by Bare. No composer, lyricist, or director was attached. MGM Home Entertainment released the first three seasons of ""Green Acres"" on Region 1 DVD. The entire six-season run of the series is available for purchase via Amazon's video-on-demand service and is included in Hulu Plus subscriptions. On July 7, 2017, it was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to the series. They subsequently released Green Acres – The Complete Series on"
"community. Green Acres was established in 1955 by Franklin Builders on land previously owned by Patricia Monagham. Green Acres was designed for middle-class families. Its homes were built among tall trees, rather than completely cleared land as was common at the time. Shaded sidewalks were built along each street to provide a safe area for children and strollers. The neighborhood took four years to complete, totaling 376 homes. The community contains a privately owned a swimming facility which now has one wading pool, two full-sized pools, shuffleboard and basketball courts. The Green Acres Recreation Association administers the pool. The neighborhood"
"Arnold Ziffel Arnold Ziffel was a pig featured in ""Green Acres"", an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1965 to 1971. The show is about a fictional lawyer, Oliver Wendell Douglas, and his wife, Lisa - city-dwellers who move to Hooterville, a farming community populated by oddballs. Arnold is a pig of the Chester White breed, but is treated as the son of farmer Fred Ziffel and his wife, Doris, a childless couple. Everyone in Hooterville (besides Oliver Douglas) accepts this without question. Arnold's first TV appearance was in the second season of ""Petticoat Junction"" in the episode"
"Green Acres, Coos County, Oregon Green Acres (or Greenacres) is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States, east of Oregon Route 42 between Coos Bay and Coquille. It is near the southernmost point of the Isthmus Slough of Coos Bay. The area that is now Green Acres was a farm homesteaded by master shipbuilder John Kruse, a Danish immigrant, in the late 19th century. Kruse was best known for building the ""Western Shore"", a three-masted wooden clipper ship that was one of the largest tall ships ever built on the West Coast of the United States. She set"
"Green Acres, California Green Acres is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. Green Acres sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Green Acres's population was 1,805. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km²), all of it land. The 2010 United States Census reported that Green Acres had a population of 1,805. The population density was 1,289.0 people per square mile (497.7/km²). The racial makeup of Green Acres was 1,192 (66.0%) White, 34 (1.9%) African American, 41 (2.3%) Native American, 25 (1.4%) Asian, 2"
"thirteen weeks. He reappeared in more or less the same role in the rural milieu of radio's ""Lum and Abner"" in 1949, telling stories about his hometown of Clinton, Arkansas, and was included in the pilot episode of an unsold television version of ""Lum and Abner"" that year. Cates was also musical director of the NBC radio show ""Meet Me at Parky's"" (1945), starring Parkyakarkus, and of ""Granby's Green Acres"", a 1950 CBS radio show with much of the ""Lum and Abner"" cast that later inspired the television series ""Green Acres"". Andy Griffith named his character's son ""Opie Taylor"" on"
"four seasons, ""Green Acres"", along with another sister show, ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", was cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's ""rural purge""— a policy to get rid of the network's rural-based television shows. Gabor later did voice-over work for Disney movies, providing the European-accented voices of Duchess in ""The Aristocats"", and Miss Bianca in ""The Rescuers"" and ""The Rescuers Down Under"", as well as the Queen of Time in the Sanrio film ""Nutcracker Fantasy"". She was a panelist on the Gene Rayburn-hosted ""Match Game"". From 1983–84, she was on the ""Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour"" starring Gene Rayburn and Jon"
"introduced in 2006. The gambling game features two progressive jackpots that are won if enough ""haystacks"" are shown among the 25 individual reels (in a 5x5 configuration.) The bonus rounds include the ""Hotcake Bonus"" and ""Arnold's Wild Bonus"". (Some banks of ""Green Acres"" machines are linked with ""The Harlem Globetrotters"" and ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" slots.) Specific citations: Green Acres Green Acres is an American 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"
"a cult following. His ""game with no name"" quiz show, in which listeners had to suggest the most suitable song to play against a particular news item, was particularly popular. He also presented Saturday afternoons from 2 to 5pm on the station. Greening was awarded a Fellowship by The Radio Academy in 2001. He was the only non-executive ever to be so honoured in the academy's 25 years. Greening was openly gay and had a previous long-term relationship with Andy Lowe, whom he often referred to on air as his ""lesbian life-partner"" or ""live-in chum"". When their relationship came to"
"CBS debuted another rural comedy, ""Green Acres"". Both series were set in the mythical farming community of Hooterville, with characters from ""Petticoat Junction"" often also appearing in ""Green Acres"", including Patterson's Fred Ziffel character. It was on the popular, irreverent ""Green Acres"" that Patterson earned his greatest fame. In 1965 and 1966—two of the years in which the two series ran concurrently—Patterson frequently appeared in both shows in the same week on primetime. The association of Patterson's character with the popular character Arnold, the pet pig whom Fred and his wife Doris treated as a son, ensured Patterson a place"
"1991. Green Acres has roughly 14,000 members. Roughly 6,000 people worship there each Sunday, and about 8,000 people worship there on major Christian holidays. Since he took over as pastor, 2,000 people were baptized at the church. Green Acres was designated a Global Priority Church by the International Missions Board because of Dr. Dykes's emphasis on missions. The North American Mission Board also designated Green Acres as a Key Church due to Dykes's work partnering with other churches for missions at home and overseas. In the last fourteen years, Green Acres has sent over 1,000 volunteer missionaries to various locations"
"Alvy Moore Jack Alvin ""Alvy"" Moore (December 5, 1921 – May 4, 1997) was an American light comic actor best known for his role as scatterbrained county agricultural agent Hank Kimball on the CBS television series ""Green Acres"". His character would often make a statement, only to immediately negate the statement himself and then negate the corrected statement until his stream of statements was interrupted by a frustrated Oliver Wendell Douglas portrayed by Eddie Albert. One such statement was, ""Good morning, Mr. Douglas! Well, it's not a good morning ... but it's not a bad morning either!"" Alvy Moore was"
"Green Gables "" when it premiered on The Disney Channel. Megan Follows was nominated for an ACE Award in 1988 by the National Academy of Cable Programing in the Ninth Annual System Awards for Cable Excellence for Disney's ""Anne of Avonlea"". Home Box Office led with 112 nominations for the ACE Award, or Award for Cable Excellence. Showtime got 48, Arts & Entertainment 33, and the Disney Channel and Cable News Network 10 each. 30 categories of the 174 ACE Awards were presented on a live broadcast on HBO on January 24, 1988. The other categories were presented at a"
"Lisa Douglas 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. The character was reprised in the 1990 film ""Return to Green Acres"". CNN rated the character as being amongst """"The most stylish TV housewives of all time"""". Lisa (portrayed by actress Eva Gabor), a glamorous Hungarian immigrant, plays the role of the wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas, a successful New York City attorney who had long harbored the dream of moving to the Midwest and operating a farm. The leitmotif of the"
"Greenacres, California Greenacres (formerly, Green Acres) is a census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is located west of Bakersfield, at an elevation of . The population was 5,566 at the 2010 census. Greenacres was founded in 1930. According to the United States Census Bureau, Greenacres covers , all of it land. The 2010 United States Census reported that Greenacres had a population of 5,566. The population density was 2,793.5 people per square mile (1,078.6/km²). The racial makeup of Greenacres was 4,612 (82.9%) White, 49 (0.9%) African American, 116 (2.1%) Native American, 70 (1.3%) Asian, 8 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 511"
"several speed records. Today the community has a Grange hall, a volunteer fire department, and a community church. The community formerly had a school in the Coos Bay School District that closed in 1985. Green Acres is also home to the Noble Creek Fish Hatchery. Green Acres, Coos County, Oregon Green Acres (or Greenacres) is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States, east of Oregon Route 42 between Coos Bay and Coquille. It is near the southernmost point of the Isthmus Slough of Coos Bay. The area that is now Green Acres was a farm homesteaded by master"
"shows. Even during the height of ""Green Acres""' popularity, Lester lived in a small apartment atop a garage in the San Fernando Valley. Each year during the show's summer hiatus he would travel the country and speak at churches, youth rallies and revival meetings and at one time was part of the Rev. Billy Graham's organization. Lester appeared in nearly every ""Green Acres"" episode between 1965–71, with the exception of the first half in the 1967–68 season when he suffered mononucleosis. The show's explanation for Eb's absence was that he had eloped and was on his honeymoon. After six seasons,"
"Mr. Haney Mr. Haney (given name Eustace Charleston Haney) is a fictional local farmer turned salesman and con man in the rural Hooterville community who was a supporting antagonist character on the 1960s CBS television series ""Green Acres"". He first appeared in the episode ""Lisa's First Day on the Farm"" (September 22, 1965). Haney, the downright low down salesman portrayed by veteran character actor and longtime Western film sidekick Pat Buttram with the distinctive, warbling voice, sold his family's ancient, dilapidated farm to Oliver when he and Lisa Douglas left New York City for rural Hooterville and their new life"
"Greenacres, Florida Greenacres is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The population was 27,569 at the 2000 census. In 2010, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 37,573. In 1909, Frederick E. Bryant – a British agriculturalist, – Harold J. Bryant, and William Greenwood of the Palm Beach Farms Company in Colorado, bought thousands of acres of land in the Everglades and later along the coast of Lake Worth in 1910. The men sold the land to buyers throughout the United States and Canada, offering plots for $250, with a $10 down payment and a"
"Oliver Wendell Douglas Oliver Wendell Douglas was the major character in the 1960s CBS situation comedy ""Green Acres"". Portrayed by Hollywood veteran Eddie Albert, Oliver Wendell Douglas was a New York City attorney embraced a long harbored a dream of moving to the Midwest and operating a farm rather than practicing ""big city"" law. The character's name was inspired by famed Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and possibly also by then-Supreme Court justice William Orville Douglas. Oliver Wendell Douglas was a New York City attorney who had long harbored a dream of moving to the Midwest and operating a"
"could milk a cow in real life since he grew up on a farm in Mississippi. His recurring role soon became a regular character due to the character's and the show's popularity, which made Lester a household name. ""Green Acres"" was the 11th-rated show in its debut season of 1965-66, according to the Nielsen ratings, climbed to #6 in 1966-67 and was #16 and #19, respectively, the following two seasons. As ""Green Acres"" characters also appeared in episodes of two other CBS series - ""Petticoat Junction"" and ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" - Lester as Eb Dawson also occasionally appeared on those"
"Green Acres, Visalia, California Green Acres is an affluent neighborhood in Northwest Visalia. It is bordered by Downtown Visalia on the east, the Sequoia Freeway on the south, Demaree on the west, and Goshen Avenue on the north. Main Street is the area's principal thoroughfare which divides Green Acres into north and south sections. However, Green Acres can be recognized by the large amount of Valley Oak trees that crowd the banks of Mill Creek Mill_Creek_(Tulare_County). The Visalia Country Club anchors the neighborhood. Homes in the eastern section, often referred to as ""Old Green Acres,"" near North Fairway Street, are"