The BEST episodes written by Jay Sommers
#1 - What's in a Name?
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 21
Ralph Monroe finds herself smitten with Hank Kimball, but discovers that he won't date a woman with a man's name. She asks Oliver to file court papers to have her name changed to something more feminine. While in court, Oliver learns that his license to practice law is not recognized by the state. This sends Oliver back to the books to study for the state's bar exam.
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#2 - The Day of Decision
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 22
Lisa agreed to try out Green Acres for six months. Today's the day she decides whether to stay in Hooterville or return to New York. Everyone anxiously awaits her decision. In the meantime, Oliver flashes back to their first days on the farm, his physical mishaps around the house, and Haney's lousy products.
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#3 - Lisa Bakes a Cake
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 18
Oliver's upset that Lisa listed him the new phone directory as an attorney. He fears he'll be flooded with calls wanting his legal advice. Instead, lawyer Douglas becomes cranky when his phone doesn't ring. Meanwhile, Lisa tackles a formidable task in the kitchen: baking a cake. When Oliver finally gets a potential client, the unlucky man encounters Ralph's plank, Lisa's 20-pound pound cake and Haney's truck.
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#4 - My Husband, the Rooster Renter
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 5
Mr. Haney rents Bertram the rooster to Oliver for fifty cents a day. Unfortunately, he's a "pecker", not a "crower", so he also gets a chicken named Alice. Oliver then sets about getting a phone installed in the kitchen (though the line won't be connected for three months), the plumbing and roof fixed, and electricity via a rickety power generator. Mr. Douglas also meets his county farm agent, the absent-minded Hank Kimball, who takes some soil samples for analyzing.
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Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 5
Dennis thinks that Mr. Wilson is broke so he tries tries to help him out.
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#6 - What Happened in Scranton?
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 14
Lisa is shocked that Hooterville doesn't have a beauty salon. She calls her mother-in-law who ships out her hair dresser, Claude. (She blackmails him with one word: "Scranton".) Setting up shop on the Cannonball, he gives the Hooterville women new hairdos. Now, they're too "beautiful" for farm work.
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#7 - Give Me Land, Lots of Land
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 16
Lisa is against buying neighboring property owned by the Watsons until she see their farmhouse. Thinking the house is part of the deal, Lisa sells the Watsons' furniture to Mr. Haney and has their things brought over. All of this happens while Oliver is in New York arranging the financing.
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#8 - How to Enlarge a Bedroom
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 15
After Lisa delivers an ultimatum, Oliver hires incompetent carpenters Alf and Ralph Monroe to enlarge the tiny bedroom. The Monroes have just begun moving the walls when the building inspector, the father of Eb's girlfriend, "disapproves" the project and condemns the whole house. Oliver is left with an open air bedroom without a roof.
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#9 - I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 17
Oliver is allowed to join the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department if he'll play an instrument in their marching band. As Chief Joe Carson explains, they have more parades than fires. Patriotic speeches follow as Oliver takes his new duties very seriously.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 2
Kate's friend, Elsie, comes to stay at Shady Rest while waiting to have her baby, and a nervous Uncle Joe immediately works out a master plan to get a doctor to Shady Rest when the crucial time arrives
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#11 - Lisa Has a Calf
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 12
Fearful that Mr. Haney will lay claim to Eleanor's calf, the Douglases decide to keep the cow's pregnancy a secret. The Hooterville gossips get part of the story right, except they think it's Lisa who's expecting.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 18
Hooterville's embarrassed volunteer firemen, unable to put out a blaze on the Cannonball, have to call for outside help.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - As Hooterville Goes
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 5
Hooterville will have to go some to retain its record as the first community in the state to file election returns--Crabwell Corners has got itself an automatic voting machine
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#14 - The Decorator
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 3
Oliver wants to start farming but Lisa demands he have their house redecorated first. Sam Drucker recommends a decorator from Pixley. Kate Bradley tries to tutor Lisa in the kitchen since she doesn't know the first thing about cooking. Kate starts by showing her how to make something easy: hotscakes. Adding to the chaos is Oliver's mother, who arrives to rescue Lisa from her nightmarish country life.
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#15 - Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 6
Oliver's mother sends the Douglases their furniture from New York, while she also rides down to visit them. While Oliver and Lisa wait for the furniture to arrive, Eunice is stuck with Uncle Joe on his handcar, getting to Hooterville. Things go bad to worse when Eunice finds herself the target of Newt Kiley's bull, and the Douglases' furniture is delivered to Mr. Haney's instead.
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#16 - Lisa's First Day on the Farm
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 2
Lisa gets her first look at their dilipidated--and empty--farmhouse and is horrified. Oily Mr. Haney, who previously owned the dump, took everything with him, including the bathroom fixtures, and tries to resell them to Oliver. Eb, one of Haney's workers, is hired on as their farm hand. Lisa goes out to meet the locals, most of whom have entered a pool wagering on how long the Douglases will stay. Lisa is ready to immediately return to New York, but after a chat with Kate Bradley, she decides to give farm life a try.
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#17 - Parity Begins at Home
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 11
Oliver wants to plant wheat on all 160 of his acres, but the local agricultural committee says he can only do eight. Incensed, Oliver takes his complaints all the way to Washington. Surprisingly, Haney sides with Oliver and prepares to fight the National Guard in "The Siege of Green Acres".
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 23
Surveyors discover that Shady Rest straddles the county border and Uncle Joe plans to play this up as a sure-fire tourist attraction.
#19 - You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 9
It's planting time in Hooterville and Oliver is shocked that the locals make their crop choices based on aches and pains. Back on the farm, Oliver assigns every electrical device a number from one to seven in an effort to keep their creaky generator from blowing. All gadgets up to a total of seven can be plugged in at the same time, but Lisa can't quite grasp the concept.
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#20 - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 10
With their phone still not connected, Oliver asks Mr. Kimball to put some pressure on his mother, who owns the telephone company. Kimball says he and his mother aren't speaking, but Oliver convinces him to make up with her. His mom is so grateful, she promptly has a phone installed--on top of a pole outside their bedroom.
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#21 - A Star Named Arnold is Born (1)
Green Acres - Season 3 - Episode 29
Arnold's performance as a British police dog in the Hooterville theater production of Who--the marquee wasn't big enough for Who Killed Jock Robin?--turns him into an overnight star. Lisa is so impressed, she arranges for an old friend to give him a Hollywood screen test. The Douglases are soon Tinseltown bound, escorting the hammy actor west for his big showbiz break.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Smoke-Eaters
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 13
The members of the Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department Band are trying to raise money because without it, they cannot establish a Hooterville Volunteer Fire Department.
#23 - Kate's Bachelor Butter
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 10
Food salesman Jack Crandall, a passenger on the Cannonball, is stunned when the train stops just so Charley and Floyd can pick apples for Kate's special recipe: Bachelor Butter
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - My Dog the Actor
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 6
Billie Jo enters a picture of the family dog in a pet-food company's contest, and the mutt is selected one of five finalists.
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#25 - My Mother the Countess
Green Acres - Season 3 - Episode 22
On learning that Lisa's mother is coming for a visit, the Hooterville residents go overboard in wanting to welcome the countess. Despite Oliver's protests that she's not royalty, they forge ahead anyway with plans for a parade and marching band.
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#26 - The Ballad of Molly Turgis
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 26
Oliver wants to write a folk song about local legend Molly Turgis, a woman so ugly she was run out of Hooterville. Facts are hard to come by, though, because the mere mention of her name causes bad to happen. Lisa feels sorry for Molly and offers to give her a make-over.
#27 - The Best Laid Plans
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 4
While Oliver makes plans to get the farm in working order, Lisa travels to New York to pack up their furniture. The Hooterville locals begin gossiping, assuming Lisa left him for good. While she's in the city, Oliver's mother connects her with an architect who designs an extravagant country club.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 7
Uncle Joe shocks Kate by bringing home a buffalo! It's part of his scheme to dupe a wealthy British sportsman into coming to "Shady Rest Hunting Lodge
Watch Now:Amazon#29 - Dennis, the Rain Maker
Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 17
Dennis and his friends do an indian rain dance to try to get Henry out of playing golf with his boss.
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#30 - Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel
Green Acres - Season 3 - Episode 3
Fred Ziffel objects to Arnold's love affair with Haney's "basket" hound Cynthia. Realizing that their relationship can never work, Arnold breaks things off. When Cynthia performs miserably at the county field trials, Haney wants to sue over his heartbroken hound.
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#31 - Oliver Buys A Farm
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 1
New York lawyer Oliver Douglas quits his job at the law firm of Felton, O'Connell, Clay, Blakely, Harmon, Dillion & Pasteur and buys a farm in Hooterville, sight unseen. The locals are astounded that Haney had managed to unload the place on someone and try to talk him out of it. Laying her eyes on the dilapidated farmhouse for the first time, Lisa bursts into tears.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 25
Hooterville is feuding with neighboring Crabwell Corners over possession of a Spanish-American cannon, and Betty Jo is feuding with Tad Winslow of that town over who has the better dog
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 8
Shady Rest has an exotic guest: Betty Jo's Japanese pen pal Nobuko
#34 - Modern Merchandising
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 21
Sam Drucker's customers at the general store are deserting him to shop at a new supermarket in nearby Pixley
Watch Now:Amazon#35 - A Matter of Communication
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 17
It's some miles to the nearest telephone and the girls are beginning to feel like social outcasts, but Kate can't afford to have a special line run to Shady Rest. Uncle Joe devises a scheme to connect all of the phone-less citizens of Hooterville using barbed wire hooked to Army surplus phones.
#36 - Bedloe's Most Fiendish Scheme
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 27
Homer Bedloe has arranged for the Pixley Bank to foreclose on Kate Bradley's mortgage, so Uncle Joe and the daughters are forced to seek employment
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#37 - Lisa the Helpmate
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 8
Oliver has collected soil samples from his farm for the university to analyze. When the samples are accidentally spilled, Oliver's mother siezes the opportunity to get her son off the farm; she mixed the dirt with products from her cosmetics bag.
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#38 - Sprained Ankle, Country Style
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 19
While fixing the TV antenna, Oliver falls through the roof and sprains his ankle. A parade of Hooterville residents shows up to give their regards while he's off his feet, but instead of sharing the food they've made for him, they crowd him off his own bed to watch Frankenstein Meets Mary Poppins on television.
Watch Now:Amazon#39 - Baby Booties
Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 23
Dennis sees baby booties knitted for Mr. Wilson's golf clubs and he thinks that the Wilson's are having a baby, So he goes around and tells the whole neighborhood.
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#40 - Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 27
Lisa wants to surprise Oliver with a new tractor for his birthday. To keep it out of sight, she has it delivered to the Ziffels' farm. The old couple mistakes it as a gift from Mrs. Douglas, leading Doris to think that Fred and Lisa are having a torrid affair.
Watch Now:Amazon#41 - The Black Box
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 26
A top-secret Air Force camera, equipped with a detonating device to prevent its capture, falls out of a plane--and lands at Shady Rest.
Watch Now:Amazon#42 - My Uncle Ned
Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 14
Mr. Wilson has written a book on his Uncle Ned's life for his publisher. Uncle Ned however does not want the book to be published So Mr. Wilson goes up to Uncle Ned's house to try and reason with him. The only thing is that Uncle ned has gone down to Mr. Wilson's house to talk with him as well. Now it is up to Dennis to try and keep Uncle Ned from meeting the publisher until Mr. Wilson can return home again.
Watch Now:Amazon#43 - Bedloe Gets His Comeuppance
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 28
Betty Jo's pal, Willie, has a knack for predicting the right outcome of each roulette spin. Uncle Joe tries to use his ability to save the whole valley from the foreclosing wrath of Pixley Bank President, Homer Bedloe.
Watch Now:Amazon#44 - Visit From the Governor
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 22
Uncle Joe wants to invite the governor of the state to visit Hooterville, but no one will support his proposal
Watch Now:Amazon#45 - There's No Flame Like an Old Flame
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 15
Uncle Joe has begun corresponding with the Widow Perkins, an old flame who left Joe standing at the altar - and then married the best man.
Watch Now:Amazon#46 - The Curse of Chester W. Farnsworth
Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 14
Uncle Joe is convinced that Shady Rest is haunted by the ghost of Chester W. Farnsworth, a guest at the hotel some fifty years ago.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 2 - Episode 9
Homer Bedloe, the Hooterville Cannonball's arch-enemy, has been having terrible nightmares about the train. To get rid of them, his psychiatrist suggests that he "learn to love" the Cannonball
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#48 - The Wedding Anniversary
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 13
While Oliver tries to recall how long he's been married to Lisa, she flashes back to last year's anniversary which ended with them in jail. The trouble began when a panicked Oliver found corn bores in his terrace garden. His mother, refusing to keep party guests waiting at the Waldorf while Oliver plays farmer, started tossing his "crop" off the balcony. Pots crashing onto the street below did not please the NYC cops.
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#49 - Wings Over Hooterville
Green Acres - Season 2 - Episode 1
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.
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#50 - Neighborliness
Green Acres - Season 1 - Episode 7
Oliver is frustrated because, among other problems, his new plow won't arrive in time for planting season. Uncle Joe has a solution that, naturally, benefits him as well. He charges farmers one dollar each to enter a plowing contest, promising them free lunch and big prizes. This is all news to Oliver as the neighbors on their tractors start descending on his farm.
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