Product Details

• Actors: Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor, Tom Lester, Frank Cady, Pat Buttram
• Writers: Jay Sommers
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Orion / MGM
• VHS Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792898745
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,118 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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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 home video is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the four episodes on this video demonstrate, 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.

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. Of course she stays, and in "It's Human to Be Humane," she becomes Hooterville's humane officer, which explains the elephant in the farmhouse. This video also includes "Who's Lisa," in which the amnesiac Lisa can remember everyone except Oliver. She is even transformed into a gourmet cook! --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU LIKE GREEN ACRES YOU WILL LOVE THIS VIDEO, May 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Acres Vol. 1: Oliver Buys a Farm [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I LAUGH REAL HARD WHEN I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AND I LOVED HAVING NO COMMERCIALS.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars down the memory lane, April 8, 2002

By 

zakir khan (Karachi, PAKISTAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Acres Vol. 1: Oliver Buys a Farm [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It was another one of the hit shows aired by pakistan television
in 1968.Pakistan is an agricultural state,hence the show was a
hit with the folks who were thinking of moving to the countryside.The country dwellers coming in contact with Oliver &
wife add spice to a slapstick comedy.When i watch this video i go
back 25 yrs and relive the good old days.A must see video for
tv buffs who were in their teens then.You've got to visualise the
setting & the time frame of this show to thoroughly enjoy this
video