Green Acres

Green Acres is an American television series that was produced by Filmways, Inc. and originally broadcast on CBS from 1965 to 1971.

It was set in the same fictional universe as the rural television comedy Petticoat Junction, featuring such picturesque towns as "Hooterville", "Pixley", and "Crabwell Corners". The shows even shared characters.

The series featured Eddie Albert as Oliver Wendell Douglas, a New York attorney, and Eva Gabor as his Hungarian wife, Lisa Douglas, dragged unwillingly from the privileged city life she adored to a bucolic life on a severely ramshackle farm.

Although there were plenty of typical sitcom fish-out-of-water jokes because Oliver was a terrible farmer and the farmland and equipment even worse, the series was not without its surreal aspects. Among them, it featured a pig named Arnold Ziffel, who was an avid TV watcher, and who, despite being a pig, was the son of a human couple, Fred & Doris Ziffel.

Other characters included handyman Eb Dawson, acquired by Oliver along with the farm; dishonest and oily salesman Mr. Haney, who originally sold Oliver the farm and who still always got the best of him; scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimble, who always got lost in his explanations; the Monroe Brothers, incompetent contractors Alf and his sister Ralph; and grocer Sam Drucker, the only person who seemed mostly normal, but who also saw nothing unusual in some of the more bizarre people around him, including Arnold.

Much of the humor of the series derived from easily-frustrated and short-fused Oliver's attempts to make sense of the largely insane world around him.