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- 1. Oliver Buys a Farm Sep 15, 1965
- Manhattan lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas buys a run-down farm despite his wife's objections.
- 2. Lisa's First Day on the Farm Sep 22, 1965
- The Douglases arrive at their ramshackle farm, and Lisa prepares to return to New York.
- 3. The Decorator Sep 29, 1965
- A decorator is called in to spruce up the dilapidated farmhouse.
In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a sitcom for CBS titled Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas , was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a gentleman farmer.
Green Acres: Created by Jay Sommers. With Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Tom Lester, Pat Buttram. A New York City attorney and his wife attempt to live as genteel farmers in the bizarre community of Hooterville.
Green Acres is an American television 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.
May 28, 2005 · Eddie Albert, the versatile stage, screen and television actor who starred as the Park Avenue lawyer who sought happiness down on the farm in the popular 1960s sitcom “Green Acres,” has...
Apr 1, 2024 · April 1, 2024 · 14 min read. The television airwaves of the 1960s were filled with a number of "country" sitcoms, among them The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and,...
May 27, 2005 · Facebook. Flipboard. Email. Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's Green Acres, has died. He was 99. Albert was nominated...
Sep 22, 2022 · By the time Eddie Albert starred as "Green Acres" lawyer-turned-farmer Oliver Wendell Douglas, he'd already had a long career. His film debut came in 1938, says IMDb, but like so many others, things kind of got put on hold during World War II ... for a reason that sounds completely fictional.