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DVD Green Acres - The Complete First Season
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 DVD is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the first season demonstrates, 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.
Among the season's other episodes, 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. In "Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth," Hooterville is beginning to look like Peyton Place when Doris Ziffel (Barbara Pepper) becomes convinced that her husband Fred (Hank Patterson) and Lisa are having an affair. "Lisa Bakes a Cake," in which Lisa lists Oliver in the phone book as an attorney, is about as flat and heavy as one of Lisa's infamous creations. --Donald Liebenson
Review(s): DVD Green Acres - The Complete First Season
Watchable TV
It is great to be able to watch TV, laugh and not be afraid of the language or what comes next. Share this with the grandchildren.
Sophisticated Homespun Humor
The esoteric and sophisticated homespun humor of GREEN ACRES will never be forgotten. This DVD edition will see to that. I used to wonder what all the fuss was about concerning this TV show. Now that I am older (I don't know about wiser) I finally get it. Great enjoyment. Thought provoking wit. Season One set the mold.
Nostalgic viewing
Thoroughly enjoyed watching these reruns from when I was a child. TV humor through the years has bcome so sophisticated and it is a relief to see the 'innocence' of shows like this.
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Eva Gabor and the late Eddie Albert continue pleasing their fans in this second season of Green Acres. Sadly,Albert passed away not too long ago(he was born in the 1900's). Fans of GA are also fans of other Paul Henning creations and productions,The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Albert DVD Release Date: Released the 08 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"Green Acres" was and still is often dismissed as a corny country comedy. But its inspired lunacy, with hints of everything from old radio comedy to Theatre of the Absurd, has been a major influence on shows like "The Simpsons" and "NewsRadio" (which is where the quote in the title comes from). Creator Jay Sommers wrote every episode with his story consultant Dick Chevillat, and instead of bland sitcom scrapes and sentimentality, they filled their scripts with satire, meta-humor and outright weirdness. No one can forget the various ways the characters noticed the opening credits, or the fact that most characters can hear the fife music playing under Oliver's rants about "The American Farmer," or the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Ziffel think a pig is their son (something that is taken for... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Albert DVD Release Date: 06 December 2005
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It's about time!!I have been intrigued with this series most of my life..Even though I was only 9 months old when the series began, I did get to see the color episodes toward the end of Petticoat's run on CBS. Turns out I was hooked and in love with the Hooterville "Cannonball". So imagine my excitement when this collection of B&W episodes became available with the orignal theme song(what a tune!!). I was like a kid at Christmas! I bought the Columbia House vhs collection some years ago and was only exposed to several of the classic B&W's. Oh.. how I longed to see the others. Now,thanks to MPI it has become a reality and a beginning of sorts to bring back the best of Petticoat Junction!! I can truly say..a job well done! I hope the sales of this collection prompts the release of the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bea Benaderet DVD Release Date: Released the 30 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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All of the criticisms pointed out in previous postings are true: no, this set does not contain the complete first season; yes, they should have included the Christmas episode; yes, the sound and picture quality could be better; yes, they should have indexed the times of each episode individually instead of running them all together; yes, it would seem that a DVD set that has the apparent support of someone as important (not to mention as fabulously beautiful) as our beloved Linda Kaye Henning probably should not contain these flaws.
Nevertheless, this set is worth every penny for two reasons: 1. all the episodes are (at least as near as I can tell) COMPLETE and unedited, to include the "third" verse of the opening credits where they plug the "sponsor of the week", and, 2.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Buddy Ebsen - Donna Douglas Director(s): Richard Whorf - Robert M. Leeds - Guy Scarpitta - Ralph Levy - Joseph Depew DVD Release Date: Released the 27 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It has its own stormy weather and fire-breathing housepet named Spot, but the mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Heights is otherwise like any other American sitcom home. This is the address of the Munsters, the family that for two seasons, 1964-66, found a permanent place in pop culture--if not "monster" success. Developed by Leave It to Beaver team Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the series was a standard sitcom (complete with the same awful canned laughter), except that the Ward Cleaver character was a reanimated corpse.
Dad Herman (Fred Gwynne) was a Frankenstein's monster, mom Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) and Grandpa (Al Lewis) were vampires, and son Eddie (Butch Patrick) a little wolf-boy. Munster niece Marilyn was inexplicably normal, which prompted much worry from the other members of... More Info about this DVD Director(s): David Alexander - Don Richardson - Seymour Berns - Charles Barton - Joseph Pevney DVD Release Date: Released the 24 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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