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Tom Hanks Movie:
Green Acres - The Complete First Season 1965-66
Movie
Green Acres - The Complete First Season (1965-66) |  |  | | List Price: $29.98 | | Label: MGM/United Artists
Salesrank: 10265
Released: January 13, 2004 | | Our Price: $13.75 | | Used Price: $12.26 | | MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD | |
Editorial Review:
Head back to Hooterville with the complete first season of this TV favorite! Oliver (Eddie Albert), Lisa (Eva Gabor), Arnold the Pig and a hilarious assortment of oddballs and bumpkins are back and ready to deliver a bumper crop of laughs! Description of Green Acres - The Complete First Season (1965-66):
The Catalog of Cool describes Green Acres this way: To be truly cool, one must genuinely understand the uselessness of logic and reason in a world gone mad.... Eddie Albert (ostensibly sane) spent six seasons appealing to the whacked out citizens of Hooterville to behave in a rational and orderly manner. Naturally, he got just what he deserved--the gradual erosion of his own mental stability. Aficionados of this show like to call it surreal. I call it real life. All one can add to that, to paraphrase the classic title song, is that DVD is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the first season demonstrates, it provides fertile ground for bizarre behavior for a gallery of classic characters who rival the residents of Twin Peaks. "Oliver Buys a Farm," the series pilot, is a comparatively tame episode that gives little hint of the weirdness to come. Lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Albert), weary of life in New York ("It's a rat race, and the rats are winning!" he declares), buys the Haney place to the horror of his socialite wife Lisa (Eva Gabor), whose ditziness has yet to be established. Look for appearances by Petticoat Junction denizens Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchannan), Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), Hooterville Cannonball engineer Floyd Smoot (Rufe Davis), and everyone's favorite wonder pig, Arnold Ziffel. Among the season's other episodes, in "The Day of Decision," all of Hooterville wonders whether "she will" or "she won't" as Lisa chooses between life on the farm or returning to New York. In "Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth," Hooterville is beginning to look like Peyton Place when Doris Ziffel (Barbara Pepper) becomes convinced that her husband Fred (Hank Patterson) and Lisa are having an affair. "Lisa Bakes a Cake," in which Lisa lists Oliver in the phone book as an attorney, is about as flat and heavy as one of Lisa's infamous creations. --Donald Liebenson Green Acres - The Complete First Season (1965-66) Reviews:
Green Acres Is The Place To Be! 
2008-11-30 - Green Acres was a show from 1965 - 1971 during a time when the rural farming communities was still a major source of TV viewing for the American TV networks. The airwaves were full of shows like The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, F Troop, Daniel Boone, etc. This one stood out with it's cartoonish depiction of city people and rural characters. A man who was raised in a wealthy family to become a corporate lawyer in New York fulfills his dream of becoming a farmer and buying a farm no one in his right mind would buy. His high class Hungarian born wife stands by him. The acting is cartoonish and the plots are too. The jokes are hit and miss but everything comes together in one neat 26 minute show. It's appealing and cute but very smartly created. The show's creator has a good handle on wealthy New York types and rural people. Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor are well used and seem to be having fun. The character actors are having the time of their lives too. Harmless, but telling fun.
an all time favorite
2008-07-17 - ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SHOWS---I REMEMBER WHEN THIS CAME ON--IT WAS ONE OF MY GRANDMOTHERS FAVORITE SHOWS AND I WOULD GO TO HER HOUSE AND WE WOULD WATCH TOGETHER HERE ON CBS CHANNEL 2....HAVING THESE DVDS IS LIKE BEING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER ONCE AGAIN...IT IS A CLASSIC ALL TIME FAVORITE AND SO FUNNY THE TV WRITERS FROM TODAY COULD LEARN A LOT BY WATCHING GREEN ACRES BECAUSE IT IS ENTERTAINING AND WILL NEVER OFFEND ANYONE....MAY IT LIVE FOREVER.......GARY J....EAST NORTHPORT, NEW YORK
i have only one gripe 
2008-06-25 - i think everything was great except...and this really burns me up...why cant they program these DVDs to play all in sequence, and not the "select episode" after watching each individual episode? at least tell us if its a "play all" DVD or not, and save me the trouble of buying the ones that dont play the entire DVD without fumbling for the remote.
Very Prophetic
2008-05-23 - This series is almost too true to be funny. It was a prophetic look into the future to the way things are today. Good people, but dumb as a post. Nothing works, there is no common sense, there are scoundrels out to scam you out of your money, yet the good-hearted keep trying to make sense out of it all. Bless their hearts.
Episodes in Season 1 were:
Disc 1
1. Oliver buys a farm
2. Lisa's first day on the farm
3. The decorator
4. The best laid plans
5. My husband, the rooster renter
6. Furniture, furniture, who's got the furniture?
7. Neighborliness
8. Lisa, the helpmate
9. You can't plug in a 2 with a 6
10. Don'tcall us, we'll call you
11. Party begins at home
12. Lisa has a calf
13. The wedding anniversary
14. What happened in Scranton
15. How to enlarge a bedroom
16. Give me land, lots of land
Disc 2
17. I didn't raise my husband to be a fireman
18. Lisa bakes a cake
19. Sprained ankle, country style
20. The price of apples
21. What's in a name?
22. The day of cedision
23. A pig in a poke
24. The ballad of Molly Turgiss
25. The deputy
26. Double drick
27. Send a boy to college
28. Never look a gift tractor in the mouth
29. Horse, what horse?
30. Culture
31. The rains came
32. Uncle Ollie
Green Acres
2008-04-15 - I live in Australia and the only way you can watch Green Acres is on paid tv. So im loving watching the Dvd. Well worth the wait for it.
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