The BEST episodes of Green Acres season 2

Every episode of Green Acres season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Green Acres season 2!

A New York attorney and his wife try to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.

Last Updated: 11/6/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Exodus to Bleedswell
star
8.38
47 votes

#1 - Exodus to Bleedswell

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1967

The residents of Hooterville flock to nearby Bleedswell for jobs at the new defense plant. To keep people from leaving, Hooterville reopens its old airplane factory to fulfill its contract with the Army--signed during WWI.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Wings Over Hooterville
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8.00
29 votes

#2 - Wings Over Hooterville

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1966

Lisa tells the story of how she and Oliver met. During WWII, Oliver's plane was shot down and he was stranded in a tree. Lisa rescues Oliver, but doesn't trust him because he "spends more time talking than smooching". After Lisa's story, the farmers of Hooterville discover their crops are being destroyed by some unknown insect. Mr. Kimball identifies it as the "Bing Bug". The farmers appoint Oliver to dust all the crops, but not being in the cockpit for years causes trouble for Oliver in Mr. Haney's cheap plane.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Getting Even With Haney
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7.88
16 votes

#3 - Getting Even With Haney

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1967

Tired of Doris' nagging about having to beat their laundry on a rock in the creek, Fred buys a Grabwell washing machine from Mr. Haney. The boat motor in a barrel goes berzerk, spraying water and clothes everywhere before chasing the Ziffels out their front door. Oliver is more than happy to take their case and stick it to Haney in the courtroom.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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His Honor
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7.81
16 votes

#4 - His Honor

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1967

Oliver misunderstands when the Hooterville bigwigs ask him to be a judge. He thinks he's being appointed an appellate judge but they just want him to judge apples at the county fair. The Douglases travel to New York so Oliver can get some judging advice while Lisa shops for a robe and wig for His Honor.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Water, Water Everywhere
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7.79
24 votes

#5 - Water, Water Everywhere

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1966

Mr. Haney has Willie the well-witcher to witch him a new well. But when Mr. Haney has plenty of water, Oliver loses his water. The same thing happens when Oliver has a new well witched, then the Ziffels run out of water. When they get a new well, then Mr. Drucker runs out of water. Oliver decides that Hooterville should open a reservoir. Soon afterwards, everyone has enough water, but when everyone turns on their faucets, they lose their electricity.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Kimball Gets Fired
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7.79
14 votes

#6 - Kimball Gets Fired

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/29/1967

Ralph is distraught when her beloved "Hankie" Kimball is fired as the county agricultural agent. His replacement is so rude and insulting that even Oliver is plotting to get Kimball rehired. His scheme is to scare the new guy away by fixing him up with Ralph.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Hooterville Image
star
7.77
26 votes

#7 - The Hooterville Image

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1966

The Hooterville farmers have decided that Oliver is ruining the town's image by doing his farming chores in a suit. Oliver eventually gives in to their demand to wear overalls, but they weren't planning on the fur-covered pair that Lisa's dressmaker has designed.

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It's So Peaceful in the Country
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7.71
17 votes

#8 - It's So Peaceful in the Country

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1967

Oliver's mother needs bed rest so what better place than her son's farm. All she has to do is ignore Alf and Ralph's drilling, Haney's tour group, a group of dancing Sioux Indians and their chief who think's she's a looker.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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An Old Fashioned Christmas
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7.64
25 votes

#9 - An Old Fashioned Christmas

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/21/1966

Oliver decides to have an old fashioned Christmas by chopping down a tree off his property. Mr. Haney warns him that it's against the law to chop down a tree on his own property. So Oilver goes to Drucker's & asks Sam if there's such a law as that. Mr. Drucker tries to sell him an artificial tree with a squirter to squirt the pine ooze out as well as artificial candy canes & popcorn string. Mr. Drucker advises him to get a permit from Hank Kimball, County Agent. After getting the permit, he finally gets to decorate his tree. Over @ the Ziffels, Doris is upset that Arnold has an artificial tree & tells Fred that Mr. Douglas had the right idea. The gang attends the Douglas home to admire the Christmas tree. But they are chased away when Lisa brings out the fruitcakes made out of hotcakes!

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Lisa's Vegetable Garden
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7.62
13 votes

#10 - Lisa's Vegetable Garden

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1967

According to Oliver, every farm wife should be growing her own vegetables so Lisa starts her own garden. Armed with useless pamphlets from Mr. Kimball and a flask of perfume, Lisa begins work. It's hardly a money-saving proposition after she buys a tractor, farm supplies, and hires Alf and Ralph as her housekeepers.

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A Square is Not Round
star
7.61
18 votes

#11 - A Square is Not Round

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1966

The Douglases try to determine which of their hens is laying square eggs. Once word gets out, Haney and a chicken breeder both want in on the action. Oddly, the cube-shaped eggs don't worry Oliver nearly as much as their toaster that operates when you say the number "five".

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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7.58
12 votes

#12 - The Beverly Hillbillies

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1967

When the cast takes ill, the Douglases take to the stage in a charity production of The Beverly Hillbillies. After Eb "punches up" a script from the series, Hank Kimball plays Jed Clampett, Oliver appears as Jethro and Lisa portrays Granny with a combination Hungarian/southern accent.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Ugly Duckling
star
7.56
18 votes

#13 - The Ugly Duckling

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1966

Ralph Monroe is devastated when Mr. Kimball turns her down again. Lisa decides to help Ralph out, by making her more feminine. Oliver is forced to sleep in the barn with Eb, while Lisa works day and night to doll up Ralph. Later, at a dinner party, the new Ralph is presented to the unsuspecting Mr. Kimball, who likes Ralph even less now, for Lisa claims she didn't have enough time to make Ralph fully feminine.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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You Ought to Be in Pictures
star
7.55
20 votes

#14 - You Ought to Be in Pictures

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1966

James Stuart from the agricultural department wants to do a film on the pitfalls of new farmers. The locals think "Jimmy Stewart" is coming to make a big Hollywood movie so they all enroll in Haney's acting school. In the meantime, Oliver's farming practices prove especially embarrassing for the camera.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier
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7.54
26 votes

#15 - I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1966

When the Ziffels go on a second honeymoon at Niagra Falls, they leave Arnold with Oliver and Lisa. While there, Arnold is drafted by the U.S. Army.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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It's Human to Be Humane
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7.50
20 votes

#16 - It's Human to Be Humane

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1967

Bored and looking for a project, Lisa becomes the head of the "Hooterville Human Humane Committee". She takes her cause to the extreme, declaring everything from duck hunting to selling chicken eggs off limits. Soon, the Douglases house is a zoo and the locals are ready to run her out of town.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Saucer Season
star
7.50
14 votes

#17 - The Saucer Season

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1967

Once Eb's wild story about meeting space aliens hits the press, tourists descend on the Douglas farm to meet the new celebrity. Oliver's more concerned about the crowd trampling his crops, but the Air Force takes his claim seriously...at first.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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One of Our Assemblymen is Missing
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7.48
21 votes

#18 - One of Our Assemblymen is Missing

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1966

Oliver's back on his soap box, delivering fiery patriotic speeches after getting a bill for the State Farm Unattached Duty Tax. No one in Hooterville seems to know what the tax is for, so Oliver tries to contact his assemblyman. That's when he learns Hooterville hasn't held an election for one since 1922. He and Lisa travel to the state capital to meet the governor and remedy the situation.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Never Take Your Wife to a Convention
star
7.47
19 votes

#19 - Never Take Your Wife to a Convention

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1967

The only thing Oliver learns at a farming convention is how to get a hangover. He and Lisa meet up with Charlie, a former gangster-turned-farmer, and Wanda, his floozy dancer wife. The more Charlie talks about his farm, the more Oliver's convinced that his shady days are not in the past.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Computer Age
star
7.47
15 votes

#20 - The Computer Age

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1967

A desperate Ralph Monroe joins a computer dating service to meet a husband. Oliver thinks it's a great idea since computers are always right. Lisa thinks they can't possibly take the place of romance, so she challenges Oliver to test their match-up on the electric brain.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Music to Milk By
star
7.46
13 votes

#21 - Music to Milk By

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/26/1967

Eb becomes obsessed with winning a contest on a Pixley radio station. To identify all the songs, he has to listen day and night. That becomes even harder after Elenaor the cow swallows the radio Oliver just bought Eb for his birthday.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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How to See South America By Bus
star
7.42
19 votes

#22 - How to See South America By Bus

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1966

Oliver ends up with a new client named Collins, who turns out to be a very attractive woman, whose first name is Amy, who wants Oliver's legal help about her farm. Oliver has to make regular visits to Amy's farm to help her with her farm. Lisa begins thinking that Oliver is cheating on her, and after hearing Doris Ziffel talking, believes that Oliver is going to kill her, and runaway to South America to elope with Amy. Little does Lisa know the facts, and that Mrs. Ziffel was really talking about the recent episode of her favorite show.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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The Vulgar Ring Story
star
7.38
13 votes

#23 - The Vulgar Ring Story

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/12/1967

Lisa says that woman in her family must marry an American every fourth generation to keep the huge ring she now wears. She regales Hooterville with the story of her great, great grandmother, the Queen of the Gypsies, and her courtship of an American artist, Cornelius. Much stealing and dancing is involved.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees
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7.38
21 votes

#24 - Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1966

Eb suddenly discovers he has feelings for Betty Jo Bradley. Eb wants nothing more than to date her, but the advice Oliver gives him, calls the date off, when Eb won't let Betty Jo choose where to go for an evening, and Eb discovers that she's allergic to roses.

Directors: Richard L. Bare
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Never Trust a Little Old Lady
star
7.35
20 votes

#25 - Never Trust a Little Old Lady

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1966

It's tomato planting season and Oliver needs some useful weather information. Hooterville relies on WPIXL-TV's Mildred, a little old lady who prances out of her dollhouse, or Walter, the singing weatherman. Both are constantly wrong so Oliver contacts the Weather Bureau which predicts warm days and nights. With the plants in the ground, Hooterville suffers the coldest night of the year. Incredibly, it's Lisa's crepe suzettes that save the crop from the cold.

Directors: Richard L. Bare