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Battle of Tarawa
Coordinates: 1°25′37.00″N 172°58′32.00″E / 1.42694°N 172.97556°E / 1.42694; 172.97556
The Battle of Tarawa, code named Operation Galvanic, was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, largely fought from November 20 to November 23, 1943. It was the first American offensive in the critical central Pacific region.
It was also the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. Previous landings met little or no initial resistance. The 4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the United States Marine Corps. The US had suffered similar casualties in other campaigns, for example over the six months in the campaign for Guadalcanal, but in this case the losses were suffered within the space of 76 hours. Nearly 6,000 Japanese and Americans died on the tiny island in the fighting.
In order to set up forward air bases capable of supporting operations across the mid-Pacific, to the Philippines, and into Japan, the U.S. needed to take the Marianas Islands. The Marianas were heavily defended, and in order for attacks against them to succeed, land-based bombers would have to be used to weaken the defenses. The nearest islands capable of supporting such an effort were the Marshall Islands, northeast of Guadalcanal. Taking the Marshalls would provide the base needed to launch an offensive on the Marianas but the Marshalls were cut off from direct communications with Hawaii by a garrison on the small island of Betio, on the western side of Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Thus, to eventually launch an invasion of the Marianas, the battles had to start far to the east, at Tarawa.

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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
The Broadway theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.081 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2011, compared with $1.037 billion for 2010. Attendance in 2011 was 12.13 million.
New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggar's Opera. In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice and The Anatomist. The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.

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California
California (pronounced ⁱ/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.

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GE Building
The GE Building is an Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA. Known as the RCA Building until 1988, it is most famous for housing the headquarters of the television network NBC. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, the 70-story building is the 10th tallest building in New York City and the 33rd tallest in the United States. Some of the building's nicknames include The Slab and 30 Rock. The latter is derived from its address which is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
The building was completed in 1933 as part of the Rockefeller Center. The noted Art Deco architect Raymond Hood led a team of Rockefeller architects. It was named the RCA Building for its main tenant, the Radio Corporation of America, formed in 1919 by General Electric. It was the first building constructed with the elevators grouped in the central core. During construction, photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets took the famous photograph Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper on the 69th floor. National Broadcasting Company, also owned by General Electric, leased space in the building.

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Illinois
Illinois (ⁱ/ˌɪlɨˈnɔɪ/ IL-i-NOY) is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean; as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.
Although the state's largest population centers today are in northern Illinois, originally the state's population grew from south to north, with settlers arriving from Kentucky in the 1810s. In 1818, Illinois achieved statehood. Chicago was founded in the 1830s on the banks of the Chicago River, one of the few natural harbors on southern Lake Michigan. Railroads and John Deere's invention of the self-scouring steel plow turned Illinois' rich prairie into some of the world's most productive and valuable farmlands, attracting immigrant farmers from Germany and Sweden. By 1900, the growth of industrial jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars. The Great Migration established a large community of African Americans in Chicago that created the city's famous jazz and blues cultures.

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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (ⁱ/lɒs ˈændʒələs/ loss-AN-jə-ləs; Spanish: [los ˈaŋxeles], which is written Los Ángeles; British pronounciation /lɒs ˈændʒəliːz/ loss-AN-jə-leez) with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in the state of California, and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km²), and is located in Southern California. Often known by its initials L.A., the city is the focal point of the larger Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan statistical area and Greater Los Angeles Area region, which contain 12,828,837 and nearly 18 million people respectively as of 2010, making it one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world and the second largest in the United States. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, while the entire Los Angeles area itself has been recognized as the most diverse of the nation's largest cities. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos".

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Minneapolis
Minneapolis (pronunciation: ⁱ/ˌmɪniːˈæpəlɪs/), nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City", is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States. Its name is attributed to the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
As of the 2010 Census, the population of the city of Minneapolis is 382,578. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with approximately 3.3 million residents. The city is abundantly rich in water, with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. Among cities of similar densities, Minneapolis has the most dedicated parkland. It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing the fifth highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. It has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition of charitable support through progressive public social programs and VOLAGs, as well as private and corporate philanthropy.

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Minnesota
Minnesota (ⁱ/mɪnɨˈsoʊtə/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the U.S. states. Nearly 60% of its residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area (known as the "Twin Cities"), the center of transportation, business, industry and education and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.

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St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis /seɪnt ˈluːɪs/ (French: Saint-Louis or St-Louis, [sɛ̃ lwi] ( listen)) is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States, and is the second-largest city in the state. With a population of 318,069 in July 2011, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) population of 2,812,896 is the 18th-largest in the country. The Greater St. Louis combined statistical area's (CSA) population of 2,878,255 is the 16th-largest CSA in the country, the fourth-largest in the Midwest. The Greater St. Louis area is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri.
The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and after the Louisiana Purchase, it became a major port on the Mississippi River. Its population expanded after the American Civil War, and it became the fourth-largest city in the United States in the late 19th century. It seceded from St. Louis County in March 1877, allowing it to become an independent city and limiting its political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the 1904 World's Fair and the 1904 Olympic Games. The city's population peaked in 1950, then began a long decline that reversed only at the beginning of the 21st century.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire. Schweitzer, a Lutheran, challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view. He depicted Jesus as one who literally believed the end of the world was coming in his own lifetime and believed himself to be a world savior. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa (then French Equatorial Africa). As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement (Orgelbewegung).

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Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern (born Harriet Arlene Lake, January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.
Sothern was born in Valley City, North Dakota, but was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she graduated from Minneapolis Central High School in 1926. Sothern left home and began her film career as an extra in the 1927 film Broadway Nights at the age of 18. During 1929 and 1930, she appeared as a chorus girl in such films as The Show of Shows and Whoopee! (as one of the "Goldwyn Girls"). She appeared on Broadway and had a trained voice, occasionally singing in films.
On Broadway in 1931, she had leading roles in America's Sweetheart (135 performances in which she sang "I've Got Five Dollars" and "We'll Be The Same") and in Everybody's Welcome (139 performances).
In 1934, Sothern signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, but after two years the studio released her. In 1936, she was signed by RKO Radio Pictures and after a string of films that failed to attract an audience, Sothern left RKO and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making her first film for them in 1939.

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Columbo (TV series)
Columbo is an American detective mystery television film series, starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The character and television show were created by William Link and Richard Levinson. The show popularized the inverted detective story format. Almost every episode began by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator. The series has no "whodunit" element. The plot mainly revolves around how the perpetrator, whose identity is already known to the audience, will finally be caught and exposed.
The character is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective (of Italian descent) who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Most people are initially reassured and distracted by his circumstantial speech and increasingly irritating, pestering behavior. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach, though apparent to the viewer, often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
Martin was born in Steubenville, Ohio, to Italian parents, Gaetano and Angela Crocetti (née Barra). His father was from Montesilvano, Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy, and his mother was an Italian of part Neapolitan and part Sicilian ancestry. Martin was the younger of two sons. His brother was named Bill. Martin spoke only Italian until he started school. He attended Grant Elementary School in Steubenville, and took up the drums as a hobby as a teenager. He was the target of much ridicule for his broken English and ultimately dropped out of Steubenville High School in the 10th grade because he thought that he was smarter than his teachers. He delivered bootleg liquor, served as a speakeasy croupier, was a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill and boxed as welterweight. He grew up a neighbor to Jimmy the Greek.

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Ed Begley
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an Academy Award-winning American actor.
Begley was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Hannah (née Clifford) and Michael Joseph Begley, Irish immigrants. Begley began his career as a Broadway and radio actor while in his teens. He appeared in the hit musical Going Up on Broadway in 1917 and in London the next year. He later acted in roles as Sgt. O'Hara in the radio show The Fat Man. His radio work included a period as Charlie Chan and Stroke of Fate amongst other roles. He also starred in the 1950s radio program Richard Diamond, Private Detective, playing Lieutenant Walter Levinson, head of homicide at the 5th Precinct, Manhattan. In the late 1940s, he began appearing regularly in supporting film roles.
In the 1952-1953 television season, Begley co-starred with Eddie Albert in the CBS sitcom Leave It to Larry. Begley, though only five years older than Albert, played the father-in-law and employer of Albert's character, Larry Tucker, a shoe salesman, who with his young family lives with Begley.

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Ed Wynn
Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.
Wynn began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. During The Follies of 1915, W. C. Fields allegedly caught Wynn mugging for the audience under the table during his "Pool Room" routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue. Wynn wrote, directed, and produced many Broadway shows in the subsequent decades, and was known for his silly costumes and props as well as for the giggly, wavering voice he developed for the 1921 musical review, The Perfect Fool.
Ed Wynn was a Jewish-American comedian who was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, who manufactured and sold women's hats, was born in Bohemia-Czechoslovakia. His mother, of Romanian and Turkish ancestry, came from Istanbul, Turkey. Wynn attended Central High School in Philadelphia until age 15. He ran away from home in his teens, worked as a hat salesman and as a utility boy, and eventually adapted his middle name "Edwin" into his new stage name, "Ed Wynn", to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative.

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Eddie Albert
Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.
Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the corrupt prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television situation comedy Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.
Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger (1874–1970), a realtor, and his wife Julia (née Jones). His year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were unmarried when Albert was born and his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage.

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Edward Albert
Edward Albert (February 20, 1951 – September 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor.
Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie Albert, and Mexican actress, Margo.
Albert made his motion picture debut in a 1965 drama, The Fool Killer, as a runaway orphan who crossed paths with a disturbed Civil War veteran, played by Anthony Perkins. He is best known for his work in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free, in which he played a blind man, starring opposite Goldie Hawn. The performance earned him a Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Male Newcomer.
The following year, he starred opposite Liv Ullman in the film adaptation of the play 40 Carats. Albert appeared as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot in the epic film Midway, portraying the son of a famous (and fictitious) naval captain (played by Charlton Heston). He also was featured in the Gene Hackman suspense film The Domino Principle (1977) and the drama The Greek Tycoon (1978) opposite Anthony Quinn.

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Eva Gabor
Éva Gábor (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born American socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on the 1965 to 1971 television sitcom, Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas. She portrayed Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gábor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television; she was also successful in business, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor, were also American actresses and socialites.
Born in Budapest of Jewish descent, Gábor was the third and last daughter of Vilmos Gábor (1884–1962), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (1894–1997), a jeweler. She was the first Gábor sister to emigrate to the United States. She moved with her first husband, a Swedish osteopath, Eric V. Drimmer in 1939, shortly after they married in London. Her first movie role was in the United States, a bit part in Forced Landing at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout the 1950s.

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Frank C. Baxter
Francis Condie Baxter (May 4, 1896 – January 18, 1982) was an American TV personality and educator. He was a professor of English at the University of Southern California. Baxter hosted Telephone Time in 1957 and 1958 when ABC picked up the program and ended the tenure of John Nesbitt. During the 1950s, his program Shakespeare on TV won seven Emmy Awards.
Born in Camden, New Jersey, Baxter is best remembered for his appearances from 1956–1962 as "Dr. Research" in The Bell Laboratory Science Series of television specials. These films became a staple in American classrooms from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Bell series combined scientific footage, live actors and animation to convey scientific concepts and history in a lively, entertaining way; and the bald, bespectacled and affable Baxter served as narrator, lecturer and host. These films made Baxter (who was not a scientist) something of a scientific icon among baby boomers. Several of Baxter's science films have been released on DVD.

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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s. His rags-to-riches story, having worked his way through college, has led film historians like Ian Freer to consider Capra the "American dream personified."
Capra became one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s, winning three Oscars as Best Director. Among his leading films was It Happened One Night (1934), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture. Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and State of the Union (1948). Because of his early fame as a director, his name was listed "above the title" of his films when they were publicized. People "flocked to the theaters" during the 1930s and 1940s to see films directed by Frank Capra.

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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
One of the world's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an Academy Award. President Lyndon Johnson honored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 for his lifetime humanitarian efforts. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1983.
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in La Jolla, California, the son of Missouri-born Bernice Mae "Bunny" (née Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of Irish (maternal) heritage and English (paternal) heritage, and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry. Peck's father was a Catholic and his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related to Thomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Rising fewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while on hunger strike in 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.

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Hildegarde
Hildegarde (February 1, 1906 - July 29, 2005) was an American cabaret singer, best known for the song "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup."
She was born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in Adell, Wisconsin, and raised in New Holstein, Wisconsin, as a Roman Catholic in a family of German extraction. Sell trained at Marquette University's College of Music in the 1920s.
She wore elegant gowns and long gloves. "Miss Piggy stole the gloves idea from me," she once said. A noted flirt, she told risqué anecdotes while giving long-stemmed roses to men in her audience. During one performance she waltzed with a U. S. Senator. Her recordings sold in the hundreds of thousands. She is credited with starting a single-name vogue among entertainers. Investments and work in ads for a bottled-water company, barley vitamins and bathtub device gave her a comfortable income through the rock era.
She worked in vaudeville and traveling shows throughout her career, appearing across the United States and Europe. She was known for 70 years as The Incomparable Hildegarde, a title bestowed on her by columnist Walter Winchell. She was also nicknamed The First Lady of the Supper Clubs by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 - April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in the United States during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu, which produced many successful and popular television series.
Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times, and won four times. In 1977 Ball was among the first recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Award. She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.

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Marc Blitzstein
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, better known as Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964), was an American composer. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his Off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translation/adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.

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Margo (actress)
Margo (May 10, 1917 – July 17, 1985), sometimes known as Margo Albert, was a film actress and dancer.
Born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell in Mexico City, Margo appeared in many American motion pictures and television productions, mostly in minor roles. Her more substantial roles include Lost Horizon (1937), The Leopard Man (1943), Viva Zapata! (1952) and I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955).
.Margo was married to the actor Francis Lederer from 1937 until their divorce in 1940.She married Jay Raye on February 28, 1943 and their only daughter Liza is born on October 4, 1943 and the divorce on June 12, 1944. She married the actor Eddie Albert on December 5, 1945 and they remained together until her death from brain cancer in 1985; they were the parents of the actor Edward Albert. Margo was also the niece by marriage of the band leader and musician, Xavier Cugat, through his first marriage to Carmen Castillo.
This filmography of theatrical features is believed to be complete.

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Meals for Millions
Clifford E. Clinton (August 3, 1900 – November 20, 1969) was a Californian restaurateur who founded Meals for Millions, one of two parent organizations of Freedom from Hunger, in 1946.
In 1944, Clinton asked Dr. Henry Borsook, a Caltech biochemist, to develop a food supplement that would provide proper nutritional values while costing no more than five cents per meal. Clinton offered $5,000 of his own money to finance the research. In less than one year, Dr. Borsook had developed Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), a high-protein food supplement that could be made for just three cents per meal. This led to the founding of Meals for Millions as a not-for-profit organization in 1946. During the next ten years, 6.5 million pounds of MPF were distributed to relief agencies in 129 countries, including the United States.
Clifford E. Clinton, was also owner of a restaurant named Clifton's Cafeteria, which still exists today in Los Angeles, CA.

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Myles Standish
Myles Standish (c. 1584 – October 3, 1656; sometimes spelled Miles Standish) was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. One of the Mayflower passengers, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served as an agent of Plymouth Colony in England, as assistant governor, and as treasurer of Plymouth Colony. He was also one of the first settlers and founders of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts.
A defining characteristic of Standish's military leadership was his proclivity for preemptive action which resulted in at least two attacks (or small skirmishes) on different groups of Native Americans—the Nemasket raid and the Wessagusset massacre. During these actions, Standish exhibited considerable courage and skill as a soldier, but also demonstrated a brutality that angered Native Americans and disturbed more moderate members of the Colony.

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Paul Henning
Paul William Henning (September 16, 1911 – March 25, 2005) was an American producer and writer. Most famous for the successful TV sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS.
He was born and grew up on a farm in Independence, Missouri. While working in a drugstore as a teenager, he met future President Harry S. Truman, who advised him to become a lawyer. Although he did attend the Kansas City School of Law, his ambition was to be a singer on the radio. When the local radio station KMBZ (KMBC at the time) had no money for writers to create the "filler" between songs, he became a writer as well as a singer.
Writing proved the more lucrative of the two and he abandoned singing, eventually writing for such series as Fibber McGee & Molly and the The Burns & Allen Show, and later such television series as The Dennis Day Show, The Real McCoys, and The Andy Griffith Show. Henning was also the creator, writer and producer of The Bob Cummings Show, where he first met many of the actors who were subsequently to appear in his later series. Another series produced by Henning was The Ray Bolger Show. He also wrote or co-wrote such feature films as Lover Come Back (1961), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) but lost to William Inge and also wrote for Bedtime Story (1964).

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Paul Revere
Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride."
Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.

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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan ( /ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.

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World War I
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939 (World War II), and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.

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Eddie Albert
from the film Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman, 1947
Born	Edward Albert Heimberger (1906-04-22)April 22, 1906 Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.
Died	May 26, 2005(2005-05-26) (aged 99) Pacific Palisades, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Occupation	Actor, gardener, humanitarian, activist
Years active	1938–97
Spouse	Margo (m. 1945–1985) (her death)
Children	One son, one adopted daughter
Military career
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1942–45
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles/wars	Battle of Tarawa
Awards	Bronze Star Medal

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005), known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.

Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing Edwards in the Brother Rat films, traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!, and the corrupt prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. He starred as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television situation comedy Green Acres and as Frank MacBride in the 1970s crime drama Switch. He also had a recurring role as Carlton Travis on Falcon Crest, opposite Jane Wyman.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Activism and interests
4 Personal life
5 Last years and death
6 Filmography
7 References
8 External links

Early life [link]

Edward Albert Heimberger was born in Rock Island, Illinois, the oldest of the five children of Frank Daniel Heimberger (1874–1970), a realtor, and his wife Julia (née Jones).^[1] His year of birth is often given as 1908, but this is incorrect. His parents were unmarried when Albert was born and^[2] his mother altered his birth certificate after her marriage.

When he was one year old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Young Edward secured his first job as a newspaper boy when he was only six. During World War I, his German name led to taunts as "the enemy" by his classmates. He studied at Central High School in Minneapolis and joined the drama club. His schoolmate Harriette Lake (later known as actress Ann Sothern) was a few years his junior. Finishing high school in 1924, he entered the University of Minnesota, where he majored in business.

Career [link]

When he graduated, he embarked on a business career. However, the stock market crash in 1929 left him substantially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as Hamburger. He moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners - Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the show's end, he was offered a film contract by Warner Bros.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat, which opened in 1936. He had lead roles in Room Service (1937–1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938–1939). In 1936, Albert had also become one of the earliest television actors, performing live in RCA's first television broadcast, a promotion for their New York City radio stations.^{[citation needed]}

Albert and Grace Brandt applying makeup for their first TV appearance, November 1936.

Performing regularly on early television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, "The Love Nest", written for television. Done live (not recorded on film), this production took place November 6, 1936 and originated in Studio 3H (now 3K) in the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Brandt. Before this time television productions were adaptations of stage plays.^[3]

In 1938, he made his feature film debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, reprising his Broadway role as cadet "Bing" Edwards. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart.^{[citation needed]}

Military [link]

Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors.^[4] On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Navy and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.^[5]

As character actor [link]

Since 1948, Albert enjoyed being character actor and guest-starred in nearly 90 TV series.^[6] He made his guest-starring debut on an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour. This part led to other roles such as Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, Suspense, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, Your Show of Shows, Front Row Center, The Eleventh Hour, The Reporter, The Alcoa Hour, Wagon Train, and General Electric Theater, among others.

On stage [link]

The 1950s also saw a return to Broadway for Albert, including roles in Miss Liberty (1949–1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955). In 1960, Albert replaced Robert Preston in the lead role of Professor Harold Hill, in the Broadway production of The Music Man. Albert also performed in regional theater. He created the title role of Marc Blitzstein's Reuben, Reuben in 1955 in Boston. He performed at The Muny Theater in St. Louis, reprising the Harold Hill role in The Music Man in 1966 and playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968.

Eddie Albert in I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

1950s and 1960s film career [link]

In the 1950s, Albert appeared in film roles such as that of Lucille Ball's fiancé in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950), as Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises (1957) and as a traveling salesman in Carrie (1952). He was nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor with Roman Holiday (1953). In Oklahoma! (1955), he played a womanizing peddler, and in Who's Got the Action? (1962), he portrayed a lawyer helping his partner (Dean Martin) cope with a gambling addiction. In Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) he played a psychiatrist with an enthusiasm for farming. He appeared in several military roles, including The Longest Day (1962), about the Normandy Invasion. The film Attack! (1956) provided Albert with a dark role as a cowardly, psychotic Army captain whose behavior threatens the safety of his company. In a similar vein he played a psychotic United States Army Air Force colonel in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), opposite Gregory Peck.

Television series [link]

[edit] Green Acres

Albert's first television series was Leave It to Larry, a CBS sitcom that aired in the 1952-1953 season, with Albert as Larry Tucker, a shoe salesman who lives with his young family in the home of his father-in-law and employer, played by Ed Begley. He guest starred on various series, including ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom.

In 1964, Albert guest starred in Cry of Silence, an episode of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits. In it Albert played Andy Thorne who, along with his wife Karen (played by June Havoc), had decided to leave the city and buy a farm (a recurring role in Albert's career). They find themselves lost and in the middle of a deserted valley where they come under attack by a series of tumbleweeds, frogs and rocks.

In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a new sitcom for CBS called Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his urbanite, spoiled wife. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season. By 1971, Green Acres was still reasonably popular but was canceled when CBS decided to discontinue their lineup of rural-themed programs due to changing tastes and because they were sensitive to the fact that they had been disparagingly referred to in the press as the "Country Broadcasting System".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Switch

After a four-year-absence from the small screen, and upon reaching age 69 in 1975, Albert signed a new contract with Universal Television, and starred in the popular 1970s adventure/crime drama, Switch for CBS, as a retired police officer, Frank McBride, who goes to work as a private detective with a former criminal he had once jailed. In its first season, Switch was a hit. By late 1976, the show had become a more serious and traditional crime drama. At the end of its third season in 1978, ratings began to drop, and the show was canceled after 70 episodes.

Television specials [link]

Eddie Albert appears in a number of television specials. His first was the 1956 made-for-television NBC documentary Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone-produced color special.^[7] Directed by Frank Capra, it blends live action and animation. Albert appears with Dr. Frank Baxter, who appears in several other Bell Telephone science specials.

In 1965, the year that Green Acres premiered, Albert served as host / narrator for the telecast of a German-American made-for-television film version of The Nutcracker, which was rerun several times and is now available as a Warners Archive DVD. The host sequences and the narration, all included on the DVD, were especially filmed for English-language telecasts of this short film (it was only an hour in length, and cut much from the Tchaikovsky ballet).^[8]

In 1968 he voiced Myles Standish in the Rankin/Bass Animated TV special "The Mouse on the Mayflower".

Later work [link]

In 1972, Albert resumed his film career and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an overprotective father, in The Heartbreak Kid (1972) and delivered a memorable performance as an evil prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. In a lighter vein, Albert portrayed the gruff though soft-hearted Jason O'Day in the successful Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975.

Albert appeared in such 1980s films as How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980), Yesterday (1981), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Goliath Awaits (1981 television film), Rooster (1982 television film), Yes, Giorgio (1982), and as the US President in Dreamscape (1984). His final feature film role was a cameo appearance in The Big Picture (1989).

In the mid-1980s, Albert was reunited with longtime friend and co-star of the Brother Rat and An Angel from Texas films Jane Wyman in a recurring role as the villainous Carlton Travis in the popular 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. He also guest-starred on an episode of the '80s television series Highway to Heaven, as well as Murder She Wrote and Columbo, and in 1990 he reunited with Eva Gabor for a Return To Green Acres. In 1993, he guest-starred for several episodes on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital as Jack Boland, and also made a guest appearance on the Golden Girls spin-off, The Golden Palace the same year.

Activism and interests [link]

Albert was active in social and environmental causes especially from 1970s onward. Beginning in the 1940s, his Eddie Albert Productions produced films for various US corporations, as well as documentaries such as Human Beginnings (a for-its-time controversial sex education film) and Human Growth.^[9] He narrated and starred in a 1970 film promoting views of the Weyerhaeuser company, a major international logging concern.^[10]

He was special envoy for Meals for Millions and consultant for the World Hunger Conference.^[11] He joined Albert Schweitzer in a documentary about African malnutrition^[12]^[13] and fought agricultural and industrial pollution, particularly DDT.^[11] Albert promoted organic gardening, and founded City Children's Farms for inner city children,^[14] while supporting eco-farming and tree planting.^[15]

Albert was national chairman for the Boy Scouts of America's conservation program and founded the Eddie Albert World Trees Foundation. He was a trustee of the National Recreation and Park Association and a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's advisory board. TV Guide called him "an ecological Paul Revere".^[16]

Albert was also a director of the U.S. Council on Refugees^[17]^[18] and participated in the creation of Earth Day and spoke at its inaugural ceremony in 1970.^[11]

Personal life [link]

Albert married Mexican actress, Margo (née María Margarita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell), in 1945. Albert and Margo had a son, Edward Jr., also an actor, and adopted a daughter, Maria, who became her father's business manager. Margo Albert died from brain cancer on July 17, 1985.

The Alberts lived in Pacific Palisades, California, in a Spanish-style house on 1-acre (4,000 m²) of land with a cornfield in front. Albert grew organic vegetables in a greenhouse and recalled how his parents had a liberty garden at home during World War I.

Last years and death [link]

Eddie Albert's grave

Albert suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his last years. His son put his acting career aside to care for his father. Despite his illness, Albert exercised regularly until shortly before his death. Eddie Albert died of pneumonia in 2005 at the age of 99 at his home in Pacific Palisades. He was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, next to his wife Margo and his Green Acres co-star Eva Gabor.

Albert's son, Edward Jr. (1951–2006) was an actor, musician, singer, and linguist/dialectician.^[19] He died at age 55, one year after his father. He had been suffering from lung cancer for 18 months.

For contributions to the television industry, Eddie Albert was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6441 Hollywood Boulevard.^[20]

Filmography [link]

Brother Rat (1938)
On Your Toes (1939)
Four Wives (1939)
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
An Angel from Texas (1940)
My Love Came Back (1940)
A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)
The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
Four Mothers (1941)
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Out of the Fog (1941)
Treat 'Em Rough (1942)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
Ladies' Day (1943)
Bombardier (1943)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood in Uniform (1943) (short subject)
Strange Voyage (1946)
Rendezvous with Annie (1946)
The Perfect Marriage (1947)
Hit Parade of 1947 (1947)
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Time Out of Mind (1947)
Unconquered (1947) (scenes deleted)
The Dude Goes West (1948)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) (cameo)
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Meet Me After the Show (1951)
Actors and Sin (1952)
Carrie (1952)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Girl Rush (1955)
Oklahoma! (1955)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Operation Teahouse (1956) (short subject)
Attack! (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
Orders to Kill (1958)

The Roots of Heaven (1958)
The Gun Runners (1958)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
The Young Doctors (1961)
Madison Avenue (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
The Two Little Bears (1963)
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
The Party's Over (1965)
7 Women (1966)
The Mouse on the Mayflower (1968)
Columbo (TV) (1971)
The Lorax (1972) (TV) – Narrator (voice)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
The Borrowers (1973) (TV)
The Longest Yard (1974)
McQ (1974)
The Take (1974)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
The Devil's Rain (1975)
Whiffs (1975)
Hustle (1975)
Moving Violation (1976)
Birch Interval (1977)
Border Cop (1979)
The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Foolin' Around (1980)
Yesterday (1981)
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Goliath Awaits (1981 television film)
The Act (1982)
Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Dreamscape (1984)
Stitches (1985)
Head Office (1985)
Turnaround (1987)
Brenda Starr (1989)
The Big Picture (1989) (Cameo)
thirtysomething (1989)
Return to Green Acres (1990)
General Hospital (1993)
Headless! (1994) (short subject)
Death Valley Memories (1994) (documentary) (narrator)

References [link]

^ Eddie Albert profile at FilmReference.com
^ "'Green Acres' star Eddie Albert dies at 99". Associated Press. May 28, 2005. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-05-27-albert-obit_x.htm. Retrieved May 1, 2010. "Eddie Albert was a versatile actor who moved smoothly from the Broadway stage to films, but he found stardom as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's Green Acres. Albert died of pneumonia Thursday at his home in the Pacific Palisades area, in the presence of caregivers including his son Edward, who was holding his hand at the time..."
^ Gary R Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television, Columbia University Press, 2007, p. 53; ISBN 978-0-231-12164-4
^ >"Organic Eddie", Grand Times, 1996
^ Profile of Albert's WWII exploits
^ "Eddie Albert". IMDb. http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000734. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone TV special starring Eddie Albert
^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221445/
^ Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida), March 20, 1970.
^ Williams, Ted. The Insightful Sportsman, Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1996
^ ^a ^b ^c Congressional Record, July 18, 2005, Section 22
^ McKee, Brent (2005-05-28). "I Am A Child Of Television: Eddie Albert 1906-2005". Childoftv.blogspot.com. http://childoftv.blogspot.com/2005/05/eddie-albert-1906-2005.html. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ Excerpts of documentary about African malnutrition at Google Video
^ Pacific Palisades Post, 2 June 2005
^ Walters, Charles. "The Last Word," Acres USA, July 2005, Vol. 35, No. 7
^ Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2005.
^ 12:12 PM. "Hot Off The Press!". AVS Forum. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=440744&page=106. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ "Eddie and Margo Albert Marriage Profile". Marriage.about.com. http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/eddiealbert.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
^ "Edward Albert". Internet Accuracy Project. "Edward Albert was also a photographer, sculptor, singer/songwriter, musician (guitar), and a linguist/dialectician who was fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin Chinese."
^ "Hollywood Walk of Fame database". HWOF.com. http://www.hwof.com/stars?recipient=Eddie_Albert.

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Green Acres
200px Oliver, Lisa and Arnold on DVD cover
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Jay Sommers
Written by	Jay Sommers Dick Chevillat
Directed by	Richard L. Bare
Starring	Eddie Albert Eva Gabor Pat Buttram Tom Lester Frank Cady Hank Patterson Barbara Pepper Alvy Moore Arnold the Pig
Theme music composer	Vic Mizzy
Composer(s)	Vic Mizzy
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	170 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Paul Henning
Producer(s)	Jay Sommers
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Filmways TV Productions
Distributor	MGM Television
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15) – April 27, 1971 (1971-04-27)
Chronology
Related shows	The Beverly Hillbillies Petticoat Junction

Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was broadcast on CBS September 15, 1965 – April 27, 1971.

Receiving solid ratings during its six-year-run, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971, due to the famous "rural purge" decision by CBS. The sitcom has grown in popularity during decades of syndication and DVD and VHS releases. In 1997, the two-part episode "A Star Named Arnold is Born" was ranked #59 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.^[1]

1 Background
2 Cast
- 2.1 Guest stars
3 Broadcast history
4 Episode list
- 4.1 Crossovers with Petticoat Junction
5 Revivals
6 DVD releases
7 Granby's Green Acres
8 Nielsen ratings
9 See also
10 Slot machine
11 References
12 Notes
13 External links

Background [link]

With the success of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, CBS offered producer Paul Henning another half-hour on the schedule — with no pilot required (which was very unusual). Lacking the time, he encouraged colleague Jay Sommers to create the series. Sommers used his 1950 radio series, Granby's Green Acres, as the basis for the new series. The 13-episode radio series had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet (who also sometimes appeared in the TV version) as a big-city family who move to the country.

In pre-production, proposed titles were Country Cousins and The Eddie Albert Show.^[2]

Publicity photo for the premiere of the show.

Green Acres was about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), an accomplished and erudite New York City attorney, acting on his dream to be a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorous, bejeweled Hungarian wife, dragged unwillingly from the privileged city life she adored to a ramshackle farm. The theme tune, as with those of the show's rural cousins, explains the basic premise of the show. Eddie Albert sings all of his lyrics. Eva Gabor recites most of her part. At the end of the opening sequence, Albert and Gabor strike a pose which is a parody of Grant Wood's painting American Gothic. The debut episode was a mockumentary about this big-city attorney's decision to move to a rural area, anchored by former ABC newscaster (and then-current host of the CBS game show What's My Line) John Charles Daly. A few weeks after the show's debut, Albert and Gabor returned the favor by appearing on What's My Line as that episode's Mystery Guests, and publicly thanked Daly for helping to launch their series.

After the first episodes the series shifted from a run-of-the-mill rural comedy, developing an absurdist world. Though there were still many episodes that were standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show became notable for its surreal aspects that frequently included satire. The show appealed to children through its slapstick, silliness, and shtick, but adults were able to appreciate it on a different level.

Supporting characters [link]

The show was set in the same universe as Henning's other rural television comedy, Petticoat Junction, featuring such picturesque towns as Hooterville (mispronounced "Hootersville" by Lisa), Pixley, Crabwell Corners, and Stankwell Falls. As a spin-off, it at times shared some of the other show's characters, with Petticoat Junction folks such as Joe Carson, Newt Kiley, and Floyd Smoot seen in "cross-over" episodes, and vice versa. Petticoat Junction, itself, frequently shared crossover storylines with Beverly Hillbillies during 1969-70.

Much of the humor of the series derived from the pragmatic yet short-fused Oliver attempting to make sense of the largely insane world around him. There seemed to be a dual perspective of reality: Oliver versus everyone else. The latter encompassed the Hootervillians, as well as wife Lisa and Oliver's affluent mother (Eleanor Audley), who lampoons Oliver for his agricultural pipe-dreams. At times Oliver himself leaves reality, for example, renting a rooster to awaken him, and farming and doing home and tractor repairs while in a three-piece suit.

The dishonest, oily salesman Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), who sold Oliver the Green Acres farm (the Old Haney Place became the New Douglas Place), continues to con his easy "mark" in most episodes. Haney, along with young, glib farmhand Eb Dawson (Tom Lester), scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore), and general store owner Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) make up the main supporting cast. Eb habitually addresses the Douglases as "Dad" and "Mom", much to Oliver's irritation.

Recurring characters included The Douglases' childless elderly neighbors, Fred and Doris Ziffel, who "adopted" a pig named Arnold Ziffel as their "son." Arnold understands English, lives indoors, and is pampered. He is an avid TV watcher and a Western fan, who attends the local grade school (carrying his book pack in his mouth). Only Oliver seems cognizant that Arnold is just livestock, although he frequently slips and begins treating him as a boy. Arnold makes regular appearances throughout the series, often visiting the Douglas home to watch their TV.

Another pair of recurring characters are two quarrelsome carpenters called the Monroe Brothers, Alf (Sid Melton) and his "brother" Ralph (Mary Grace Canfield). Seemingly, only Oliver questions the bizarre contradiction. The Monroes rarely finish projects (such as the Douglases' bedroom, securing the door knob to front door, etc.), and those they do complete are disasters. Melton left in 1970 (season four) to do Make Room For Granddaddy, so the writers developed an occasional subplot that involved sister Ralph's attempts to win the affections of "Hanky" Kimball or some other hapless Hooterville bachelor. Alf would later return for Ralph's failed wedding ceremony to Kimball.

Drucker was a regular on both series. The first bar of the Petticoat Junction theme song is usually played during the establishing shot of his store. While Drucker is a provincial everyman in Petticoat Junction, his character is bent a bit here (keeping plastic pickles in a barrel to appease "city folk"). Drucker also serves as a newspaper editor and printer, volunteer fireman, constable, justice of the peace, and postmaster. As editor of the Hooterville World Guardian, his headlines were often decades-old. He was slow as postmaster, having belatedly delivered a lost 1917 "draft" notice to Fred Ziffel after 51 years, which surpassed the 26-year delivery record of a lost 1942 WPA letter to Haney for stealing a shovel. As justice of the peace, Drucker once let his license lapse, unwittingly sending Ralph Monroe and Kimball to their premature honeymoon. Drucker often is the only character to be inspired by Oliver's rural patriotism, filtering Oliver's idealism to the townsfolk and the plebeian, backwoods notions of the community back to Douglas. In one episode the menfolk thought they could get a tax refund without ever having paid taxes. To Oliver's surprise, they did.

In a slap to government bureaucrats and civil service employees, Alvy Moore plays spacey agricultural agent Kimball, who would draw folks into inane conversations, digress and lose his train of thought, and then exit the scene.

Lisa's domestic ignorance provides fertile ground for recurring gags. Her "coffee" oozes from the pot in a thick, tar-like sludge; her "hotscakes" are inedible, and so tough that Oliver makes head gaskets for his truck and tractor using the recipe. In one episode, hotcake batter is used for fireplace mortar; in another, hotcakes are used to reshingle a roof. Her sandwiches include such epicurean delights as liverwurst and jelly. Instead of washing dishes, Lisa sometimes tosses them out the kitchen window. In the episode "Alf and Ralph Break Up", Lisa admits that she has no cooking abilities and says her only talent is her Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation (the real life sisters were often mistaken for one another).

Though Oliver and Lisa are both depicted as fish-out-of-water, the concept provides an ironic twist. While Oliver instigated the move from Manhattan to Hooterville, over Lisa's objections, it is Lisa who quickly assimilates to her new quirky, offbeat surroundings. Oliver, while eager to fit in, is often at a loss to grasp the surreal Hootervillians.

Many of the Shady Rest Hotel folks from Petticoat Junction appear, including the four Bradleys, and Joe Carson. Uncle Joe is sometimes playing checkers, loafing, or mooching fruit at the General Store with Newt Kiley or Floyd Smoot. Betty-Jo Bradley appears in one episode as Eb Dawson's date. Bobbi-Jo appears in the same episode. Kate Bradley appeared in a few of the early episodes trying to help Lisa adapt to country living, most notably giving her the recipe for her infamous "hotscakes". Western film actor Smiley Burnette guested several times as railway engineer Charley Pratt during the 1965 and 1966 seasons, but Burnette's ill health ended the role.^[3]

Recurrent gags [link]

Gags used through the series:

Lisa and Oliver must always climb the telephone pole to make calls, because the telephone company ran out of line before they could bring the handset into the kitchen.
Lisa mangles English words because of a Hungarian accent (or as her sly joke – it is not always clear which).
Eb occasionally calling Lisa and Oliver "Mom and Dad" and (in one episode) Lisa's mother "Grandma," and Oliver becoming exasperated when he does so.
"Mother" (Eunice Douglas, played by Eleanor Audley), completely adores Lisa and seems indifferent or antagonistic to Oliver, despite the fact that she is his mother, and not hers. She goes as far as advising Lisa to leave Oliver and move in with her in New York.
A fife and drum rendition of the traditional patriotic American song "Yankee Doodle" plays while Oliver makes a long-winded speech; everyone but Oliver hears it. Sometimes they look around, trying to find the source of the music.
Lisa's incredibly bad cooking, due mostly to her having had maids, cooks and other domestic help for most of her life. She can only cook one item "competently": hotcakes, and she thus prepares hotcakes for nearly every meal.
Oliver and Lisa wear metropolitan clothes unsuited for farm life: Oliver a three-piece suit, even going so far as to have a specific suit for a specific task, leading to comments by townspeople such as, "He's wearing his plowing suit." Lisa wears jewelry, heels, and expensive dresses, although she did dress down for tasks outside of the house.
The Douglas' house being dilapidated and falling apart when they purchased it, and despite attempts to renovate their home -- which lasted nearly the duration of the entire series -- it never really saw much improvement. In addition to its sorry structural state, the house offered a number of quirks, including Oliver and Lisa's master bedroom closet, which featured a faulty sliding door that always seemed to slide off of its tracks, and no back, exterior wall (the closet opened directly to the outside). Oliver and Lisa's expensive, high-end furniture from their former Manhattan apartment is placed in the house for comic effect, making the structure appear even more shabby by contrast.
The Douglas' automobile, a glamorous Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible, always with the top down.
Oliver's and Lisa's stories about each other — where fact cannot be distinguished from joke.
Mr. Haney showing up at inopportune moments, attempting to sell Oliver just what he needs at that moment (according to Haney, of course). Despite Oliver's protests and the obvious worthlessness of the items, Haney often succeeds.
Characters breaking the fourth wall by seeing and reacting to words in the opening credits.
A Hoyt-Clagwell farm tractor that rarely works and whose wheels regularly fall off.
Arnold being able to do things (off camera) like knock on doors, sign his name, and turn on/turn off television sets, leaving an amazed Oliver to say, "How did he....?"
Green Acres characters treat Beverly Hillbillies as a fictional TV show, and one episode had the Hooterville Community Theater re-create an episode of the series as a play. References were made to star Buddy Ebsen and producer and creator Henning. In the Beverly Hillbillies episode "The Thanksgiving Spirit", members of the three programs share a Thanksgiving meal with the Clampetts as they visit Hooterville. In an in-joke crossover, Mr. Haney tries to sell Douglas a color picture of the Clampetts.

"Rural purge" cancellation [link]

Main article: Rural purge

Although still popular, but out of the top thirty programs, Green Acres was canceled after six seasons as part of the "rural purge" when CBS decided to shift its schedule to more urban, contemporary-themed shows, which drew the younger audiences desired by advertisers. Nearly the entire Green Acres cast was middle-aged or older. The Beverly Hillbillies and other shows with rural settings, including Hee Haw and Mayberry R.F.D. etc., were also dropped. Said Pat Buttram (Mr. Haney on Green Acres) of the purge: "CBS canceled everything with a tree – including Lassie".^[4]^[5]

Though Green Acres had been out of the top thirty programs for its last two seasons, the sitcom was still more than holding its own its timeslot. However, CBS wanted a completely new line-up and therefore, along with its related-show The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres was cancelled in 1971. The sitcom's sister show, Petticoat Junction, came to a end in 1970. Since its cancellation, Green Acres has been shown in reruns, in syndication, on TBS, Nick at Nite, and on TV Land.

[edit] Return to Green Acres reunion movie

In the 1990 reunion TV movie Return to Green Acres, a twenty-something Arnold survived his "parents", and subsequently bunks with his "cousin", the Ziffels' comely niece. (In reality a pig life span averages 12–15 years, similar to a dog). The film was made and set two decades after the series. The Monroe Brothers still have not finished the Douglas' bedroom. In the movie, Oliver and Lisa have moved back to New York, but are miserable there. They are implored by the Hootervillians to return and save the town from a scheme to destroy it, cooked up between Mr. Haney and a wealthy, underhanded developer (Henry Gibson). With a nod to the times, Haney's latest product is a Russian miracle fertilizer called "Gorby Grow".

Cast [link]

Oliver Wendell Douglas: Eddie Albert (170 episodes)
Lisa Douglas: Eva Gabor (170 episodes)
Eb Dawson: Tom Lester (148 episodes)
Sam Drucker: Frank Cady (142 episodes)
Mr. Eustace Haney: Pat Buttram (84 episodes)
Hank Kimball: Alvy Moore (79 episodes)
Fred Ziffel: Hank Patterson (50 episodes)
Doris Ziffel: Barbara Pepper (1965–1968) (30 episodes)/Fran Ryan (1969–71) (7 episodes)
Arnold Ziffel: (Original pig came from the town of Union Star, Missouri)
Alf Monroe: Sid Melton (1965–1969) (26 episodes)
Ralph Monroe: Mary Grace Canfield (26 episodes)
Newt Kiley: Kay E. Kuter (1965–1970) (24 episodes)
Mother Eunice Douglas: Eleanor Audley (1965–1969) (15 episodes)
Roy Trendell: Robert Foulk (1966–1968) (15 episodes)
Ben Miller: Tom Fadden (1965)

In addition, there were crossovers from Petticoat Junction cast members, most frequently:

Uncle Joe Carson: Edgar Buchanan (1965–1969) (17 episodes)
Floyd Smoot: Rufe Davis (1965–1967) (10 episodes)
Charley Pratt: Smiley Burnette (1965–1967) (7 episodes)
Kate Bradley: Bea Benaderet (1965–1966) (6 episodes)

Of the above cast, Cady (oldest), Canfield, and Lester (youngest) are the only surviving members as of April 2012^[update].

Guest stars [link]

During its six season run, many familiar actors guest-starred on the show, along with other lesser-known performers who later achieved stardom, among them: John Charles Daly, Elaine Joyce, Gary Dubin, Herbert Anderson, June Foray, Robert Cummings, Sam Edwards, Jerry Van Dyke, J. Pat O'Malley, Johnny Whitaker, Jesse White, Al Lewis, Gordon Jump, Bernie Kopell, Len Lesser, Bob Hastings, Don Keefer, Don Porter, Alan Hale Jr., Melody Patterson, Rusty Hamer, Regis Toomey, Heather North, Allan Melvin, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon, Rick Lenz, Karen Valentine among many others.

Future Happy Days stars Al Molinaro and Pat Morita guest-starred on separate episodes, while young comedian Rich Little made a cameo appearance as himself.

Broadcast history [link]

NOTE: The most frequent time-slot for the series is in bold text.

Wednesday at 9:00-9:30 PM on CBS: September 15, 1965—April 10, 1968
Wednesday at 9:30-10:00 PM on CBS: September 25, 1968—April 2, 1969
Saturday at 9:00-9:30 PM on CBS: September 26, 1969—April 11, 1970
Tuesday at 8:00-8:30 PM on CBS: September 15, 1970—April 27, 1971

Episode list [link]

Main article: List of Green Acres episodes

[edit] Crossovers with Petticoat Junction

The following is a list of Green Acres episodes featuring characters from Petticoat Junction. Only those that debuted on Junction before Acres are counted.

Season One

Episode 1: "Oliver Buys a Farm" - Uncle Joe Carson, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 2: "Lisa's First Day on the Farm" - Kate Bradley, Uncle Joe Carson, Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 3: "The Decorator" - Kate Bradley, Bobbie Jo Bradley, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 5: "My Husband, the Rooster Renter" - Sam Drucker
Episode 6: "Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?" - Uncle Joe Carson, Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 7: "Neighborliness" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 8: "Lisa the Helpmate" - Kate Bradley, Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 10: "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" - Uncle Joe Carson, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 11: "Parity Begins at Home" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 12: "Lisa Has a Calf" - Kate Bradley, Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 13: "The Wedding Anniversary" - Kate Bradley, Uncle Joe Carson
Episode 14: "What Happened in Scranton?" - Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 15: "How to Enlarge a Bedroom" - Sam Drucker
Episode 17: "I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman - Kate Bradley, Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 18: "Lisa Bakes a Cake" - Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 19: "Sprained Ankle, Country Style" - Bobbie Jo Bradley
Episode 20: "The Price of Apples" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 21: "What's in a Name?" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 22: "The Day of Decision" - Uncle Joe Carson, Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 23: "A Pig in a Poke" - Newt Kiley (NOTE: Kay E. Kuter was uncredited for his appearance in this episode.)
Episode 24: "The Deputy" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 25: "Double Drick" - Sam Drucker
Episode 26: "The Ballad of Molly Turgiss" - Sam Drucker
Episode 28: "Send a Boy to College" - Sam Drucker
Episode 29: "Horse? What Horse?" - Sam Drucker
Episode 31: "Culture" - Sam Drucker, Selma Plout

Season Two

Episode 1: "Wings Over Hooterville" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 2: "Water, Water Everywhere" - Sam Drucker
Episode 4: "How to See South America by Bus" - Sam Drucker
Episode 6: "One of Our Assemblymen is Missing" - Sam Drucker
Episode 8: "Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees" - Bobbie Jo Bradley, Betty Jo Bradley, Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "The Hooterville Image" - Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 10: "You Ought to Be in Pictures" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 11: "A Home Isn't Built in a Day" - Sam Drucker
Episode 12: "A Square is Not Round" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 13: "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" - Sam Drucker
Episode 14: "Never Trust a Little Old Lady" - Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 16: "His Honor" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 17: "It's So Peaceful in the Country" - Charley Pratt, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker (NOTE: Smiley Burnette and Rufe Davis were uncredited for their appearances in this episode.)
Episode 18: "Exodus to Bleedswell" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 19: "It's Human to Be Humane" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 20: "Never Take Your Wife to a Convention" - Sam Drucker
Episode 21: "The Computer Age" - Sam Drucker
Episode 22: "Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 23: "The Beverly Hillbillies" - Sam Drucker
Episode 24: "Lisa's Vegetable Garden" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 25: "The Saucer Season" - Sam Drucker
Episode 26: "Getting Even with Haney" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 27: "Kimball Gets Fired" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 28: "The Vulgar Ring Story" - Sam Drucker
Episode 29: "Who's Lisa?" - Sam Drucker
Episode 30: "Music to Milk By" - Sam Drucker

Season Three

Episode 1: "The Man for the Job" - Uncle Joe Carson, Floyd Smoot, Sam Drucker
Episode 2: "Lisa's Jam Session" - Sam Drucker
Episode 3: "Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel" - Sam Drucker
Episode 4: "Oliver vs. the Phone Company" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 5: "Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company" - Newt Kiley
Episode 6: "A Kind Word for the President" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 7: "Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked" - Sam Drucker
Episode 8: "Eb Elopes" - Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "The Thing" - Sam Drucker
Episode 10: "Das Lumpen" - Sam Drucker
Episode 11: "Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?" - Sam Drucker
Episode 12: "Jealousy, English Style" - Sam Drucker
Episode 13: "Haney's New Image" - Sam Drucker
Episode 14: "Alf and Ralph Break Up" - Sam Drucker
Episode 15: "No Trespassing" - Sam Drucker
Episode 16: "Eb Returns" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 17: "Not Guilty" - Sam Drucker
Episode 18: "Home is Where You Run Away From" - Sam Drucker
Episode 19: "How to Succeed in Television Without Really Trying" - Sam Drucker
Episode 21: "Flight to Nowhere - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 22: "My Mother, the Countess" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 23: "The Spring Festival" - Sam Drucker
Episode 24: "Our Son, the Barber" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 26: "The Hungarian Curse" - Sam Drucker
Episode 27: "The Rutabaga Story" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 28: "Instant Family" - Sam Drucker
Episode 29: "A Star Named Arnold is Born (Part 1)" - Sam Drucker

Season Four

Episode 1: "Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?" - Sam Drucker
Episode 5: "The Candidate" - Sam Drucker
Episode 7: "A Husband for Eleanor" - Sam Drucker
Episode 8: "Old Mail Day" - Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "The Agricultural Student" - Sam Drucker
Episode 10: "How Hooterville Was Floundered" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 11: "The Blue Feather" - Sam Drucker
Episode 12: "How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving" - Sam Drucker
Episode 13: "The Birthday Gift" - Sam Drucker
Episode 14: "Everywhere a Chick Chick" - Sam Drucker
Episode 15: "The Marital Vacation" - Sam Drucker
Episode 16: "A Prize in Every Package" - Sam Drucker
Episode 17: "Law Partners" - Sam Drucker
Episode 18: "A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes" - Sam Drucker
Episode 19: "Economy Flight to Washington" - Sam Drucker
Episode 20: "Retreat from Washington" - Sam Drucker
Episode 21: "A Hunting We Won't Go" - Sam Drucker
Episode 22: "Oh, Promise Me" - Sam Drucker
Episode 23: "Eb Uses His Ingenuity" - Sam Drucker
Episode 24: "The Old Trunk" - Sam Drucker
Episode 25: "The Milk Maker" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 26: "The Reincarnation of Eb" - Sam Drucker

Season Five

Episode 1: "Lisa's Mudder Comes for a Visit - Sam Drucker
Episode 2: "Everybody Tries to Love a Countess" - Uncle Joe Carson, Sam Drucker
Episode 3: "Where There's a Will" - Sam Drucker
Episode 4: "A Tale of a Tail" - Sam Drucker
Episode 5: "You and Your Big Shrunken Head" - Sam Drucker
Episode 6: "The Road" - Sam Drucker
Episode 7: "Four of Spades" - Sam Drucker
Episode 8: "The Youth Center" - Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "The Special Delivery Letter" - Sam Drucker
Episode 11: "Ralph's Nuptials" - Sam Drucker
Episode 12: "Oliver and the Cornstalk - Sam Drucker
Episode 13: "Beauty is Skin Deep" - Sam Drucker
Episode 16: "Trapped" - Sam Drucker
Episode 17: "Bundle of Joy" - Sam Drucker
Episode 20: "The Confrontation" - Sam Drucker
Episode 21: "The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud" - Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley
Episode 22: "The Picnic" - Sam Drucker
Episode 24: "Uncle Fedor" - Sam Drucker
Episode 25: "The Wealthy Landowner" - Sam Drucker
Episode 26: "Happy Birthday" - Sam Drucker

Season Six

Episode 1: "The City Kids" - Sam Drucker
Episode 2: "The Coming-Out Party" - Sam Drucker
Episode 3: "Jealousy" - Sam Drucker
Episode 4: "A Royal Love Story" - Sam Drucker
Episode 5: "Oliver Goes Broke" - Sam Drucker
Episode 6: "The Great Mayoralty Campaign" - Sam Drucker
Episode 7: "Eb's Double Trouble" - Sam Drucker
Episode 8: "Apple-Picking Time" - Sam Drucker
Episode 9: "Enterprising Eb" - Sam Drucker
Episode 10: "Oliver's Double" - Sam Drucker
Episode 11: "The High Cost of Loving" - Sam Drucker
Episode 12: "The Liberation Movement" - Sam Drucker
Episode 13: "Charlie, Homer and Natasha" - Sam Drucker
Episode 14: "The Engagement Ring" - Sam Drucker
Episode 15: "The Free Paint Job" - Sam Drucker
Episode 16: "Son of Drobny" - Sam Drucker
Episode 17: "The Wedding Deal" - Sam Drucker
Episode 18: "Star Witness" - Sam Drucker
Episode 19: "The Spot Remover" - Sam Drucker
Episode 20: "King Oliver I" - Sam Drucker
Episode 21: "A Girl for Drobny" - Sam Drucker
Episode 22: "The Carpenter's Ball" - Sam Drucker
Episode 23: "The Hole in the Porch" - Sam Drucker
Episode 24: "Lisa the Psychologist" - Sam Drucker

Revivals [link]

The surviving members of the cast were reunited for a TV movie titled Return to Green Acres. It aired on CBS on May 18, 1990.

On November 19, 2007, original series director Richard L. Bare announced that he is working on a revival of Green Acres.^[6]

DVD releases [link]

MGM Home Entertainment released the first three seasons of Green Acres on Region 1 DVD. No release of the remaining three seasons is announced.

DVD Name	Episodes	Release Date
Season 1	32	January 13, 2004
Season 2	30	March 8, 2005
Season 3	30	December 6, 2005

[edit] Granby's Green Acres

The Granby's Green Acres radio show aired from July 3 to August 21, 1950. The show was produced, directed and written by Jay Sommers, who wrote and produced a third of the Green Acres episodes. In both, a businessman knowing little about farming moves to an impoverished farm. The characters are more conventionally odd, the wife stereotypically talkative and dim, the "Sam Drucker" character senile, the hired hand stoic about the incompetent management.^[3]

Nielsen ratings [link]

Season	Rank	Rating
1) 1965–1966	#10	24.6
2) 1966–1967	#6	24.6
3) 1967–1968	#12	22.8 (tie)
4) 1968–1969	#17	21.6
5) 1969–1970	Not in the Top 30
6) 1970–1971	Not in the Top 30

Slot machine [link]

A popular slot machine, based on the Green Acres television show, was introduced in 2006. The gambling game features two progressive jackpots that are won if enough "haystacks" are shown among the 25 individual reels (in a 5x5 configuration.) The bonus rounds include the "Hotcake Bonus" and "Arnold's Wild Bonus". (Some banks of Green Acres machines are linked with The Harlem Globetrotters and The Dukes of Hazzard slots.)

References [link]

Cox, Stephen (1993). The Hooterville Handbook : A Viewer's Guide To Green Acres. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-08811-6.

Notes [link]

^ The 100 Greatest TV Episodes of All Time
^ Weiner, Ed; Editors of TV Guide (1992). The TV Guide TV Book: 40 Years of the All-Time Greatest Television Facts, Fads, Hits, and History. New York: Harper Collins. p. 174. ISBN 0-06-096914-8.
^ ^a ^b http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/garadio.asp
^ Ken Berry—Enjoys Taking Astaire Way to Mayberry and Beyond!, attributing quote to Pat Buttram], at KenBerry.com. Accessed March 23, 2009.
^ Quotation taken from amazon.com preview of book accessed March 23, 2009. Harkins, Anthony (2005). Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Oxford University Press US. p. 203. ISBN 0-19-518950-7. , attributing quote to Pat Buttram
^ Green Acres: Original Series Director Wants to Continue Classic Sitcom, TV Series Finale, November 19, 2007

External links [link]

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The native form of this personal name is Gábor Éva. This article uses the Western name order.

Eva Gabor

Born	(1919-02-11)11 February 1919 Budapest, Hungary
Died	4 July 1995(1995-07-04) (aged 76) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Éva Gábor
Occupation	Actress, businesswoman, socialite
Years active	1941-1994
Spouse	Erik V. Drimmer (m.1939-1942; divorced) Charles Isaacs (m.1943-1949; divorced) John E. Williams (m.1956-1957; divorced) Richard Brown (m.1959-1973; divorced) Frank Gard Jameson Sr. (m.1973-1983; divorced)
Parents	Vilmos Gábor Jolie Gabor

Éva Gábor (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born American socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on the 1965 to 1971 television sitcom, Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas. She portrayed Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gábor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television; she was also successful in business, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor, were also American actresses and socialites.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life & career
- 1.2 Green Acres
2 Later years
3 Businesses
4 Marriages
5 Death
- 5.1 Interment
6 Stage work
7 Select filmography
8 Television work
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links

Biography [link]

Early life & career [link]

Born in Budapest of Jewish descent, Gábor was the third and last daughter of Vilmos Gábor (1884–1962), a soldier, and Jolie Gábor (1894–1997), a jeweler.^[1] She was the first Gábor sister to emigrate to the United States. She moved with her first husband, a Swedish osteopath, Eric V. Drimmer in 1939, shortly after they married in London. Her first movie role was in the United States, a bit part in Forced Landing at Paramount Pictures. She acted in movies and on the stage throughout the 1950s.

During the 1950s, she appeared in several "A"-movies including The Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor, and Artists and Models, which featured Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. These roles were again bit parts. In 1953 she was given her own television talk show, The Eva Gabor Show. It ran for one season (1953–54).

Throughout the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, she appeared on television and in movies. She appeared in one episode of the TV series Justice, and was on the game show What's My Line?, as the "mystery challenger". Her film appearances during this era included a remake of My Man Godfrey, Gigi, and It Started with a Kiss.

A 2007 article in the American magazine Vanity Fair called Gábor "a game performer with a wholesome, even cheerful sensuality that can undercut the Continental sophistication that was supposedly her calling card—she can come across like Sally Field doing a party impression of Marlene Dietrich. You can see the effort. She was probably at her best on television in Green Acres, playing a cross between Gracie Allen and herself."^[2]

[edit] Green Acres

In 1965, Gábor began the role for which she is best-remembered, Lisa Douglas, whose attorney husband (Oliver Wendell Douglas, played by Eddie Albert), decides to leave the city. They buy and run a farm in a rural community, forcing Lisa to leave her beloved New York City, in the Paul Henning situation comedy-sitcom Green Acres, which aired on CBS.

Gábor's role of Lisa was that of a rich, somewhat spoiled, and pampered socialite, who disapproves of farm life. However, she learns to live with it, trying to become a cook and a good housewife, while Oliver runs the farm. Lisa has a great deal of love for her chickens, naming one Henrietta and another Alice. She does not appear in casual clothing, always wearing glamorous, designer frocks around the farm. She does dress more circumspectly, however, when appearing in public with her husband. She constitutes the polite interface with the local "personalities", whose backward ways usually provoke Oliver to anger or petty frustration. Green Acres was located in Hooterville, the same scenery for Petticoat Junction (1963–1970) and would occasionally crossovers with its sister sitcom.

Proving to be a ratings hit, staying in the top twenty for its first four seasons, Green Acres as was its other sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, was itself cancelled in 1971 owing to the CBS network's "rural purge", an attempt to attract a younger viewer demographic; most viewers of the series were at least 40 years old.

Later years [link]

Gábor did voice-over work for Disney movies, providing the European-accented voices of Duchess in The Aristocats, Miss Bianca in The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, and the Queen of Time in the Sanrio film, Nutcracker Fantasy.

From 1983–84 she reunited with Albert on Broadway as Olga in You Can't Take It with You.

Businesses [link]

In 1972, Gábor launched the Eva Gabor fashion collection; the clothes were the work of Luis Estevez, a Cuban-born, Coty-award-winning fashion designer.^[3]^[4][1]

Marriages [link]

The three Gábor sisters were known for their numerous marriages. Eva Gábor was married 5 times:

Eric Valdemar Drimmer, a Swedish-born masseur turned osteopath and psychologist, whose patients included Greta Garbo and Signe Hasso. They married in London in June 1939 and divorced in Los Angeles, California, on 25 February 1942 (it was finalized on 6 March); Gabor claimed cruelty, saying, "I wanted to have babies and lead a simple family life but my husband objected to my having children". They had no children.^[5]
Charles Isaacs, an American investment broker.^[6] They married on 27 September 1943 and were divorced on 2 April 1949. They had no children.
John Elbert Williams, M.D., a plastic surgeon.^[7] They married on 8 April 1956 and were divorced on 20 March 1957.^[8] They had no children.
Richard Brown, a textile manufacturer, who later became a writer and director.^[9]^[10] They married at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 4 October 1959 and were divorced in Santa Monica, California, in June 1973.^[11]^[12] During this marriage, Gábor was "pistolwhipped" (January 1965) by thieves who took and sold her diamond wedding ring.^[13] They had no children.
Frank Gard Jameson, Sr., an aerospace executive and former vice president of Rockwell International.[2] They married in the Vivien Webb Chapel of The Webb School of California, in Claremont, California, on 21 September 1973; they were divorced in 1983.^[14] By this marriage Gabor became stepmother to four Jameson children.^[15]

Gábor also had affairs with Frank Sinatra, Glenn Ford, and Tyrone Power.^[16]

Death [link]

Gábor died in Los Angeles on 4 July 1995 due to respiratory failure and pneumonia, following a fall in the bathtub.^[17] The fall occurred in Mexico, where she had been on vacation.

Although the youngest of the three sisters, she was the first to die, and she also predeceased her mother. Her mother, Jolie, died on 1 April 1997, and her sister, Magda, died on 6 June 1997. As of 2012, Zsa Zsa Gabor is still living.

Interment [link]

Eva Gabor's grave

Gábor is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. She is buried near Eddie Albert, who died on 26 May 2005 (age 99).

Stage work [link]

Plays
Opening Date	Closing Date	Title	Role	Theatre
24 January 1950	14 July 1951	The Happy Time	Mignonette	Plymouth
26 March 1956	31 March 1956	Little Glass Clock	Gabrielle	John Golden
31 January 1958	8 February 1958	Present Laughter	Joanna Lyppiatt	Belasco
18 March 1963	9 November 1963	Tovarich	Tatiana	Broadway Majestic Winter Garden
4 April 1983	1 January 1984	You Can't Take It with You	Olga	Plymouth Royale

Gigi (1958)
It Started with a Kiss (1959)
A New Kind of Love (1963)
Youngblood Hawke (1964)
The Aristocats (1970) (voice)
The Rescuers (1977) (voice)
Nutcracker Fantasy (1979) (voice)
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987) (voice)
The Princess Academy (1987)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (voice)

Television work [link]

The Eva Gabor Show (1953–54)
Justice (1954–55; 2 episodes: "The Blackmailer", "The Intruder")
What's My Line? (17 Nov 1957) Season No. 9, Episode No. 12 (overall episode #389) as Mystery Guest^[18]
Five Fingers (1959; episode: "Station Break")
Harrigan and Son (1960–61), two appearances as "Lillian Lovely"
Green Acres (1965–71) as Lisa Douglas
Here's Lucy (1968; 1st season, episode No. 7, as "Eva Von Gronyitz")

Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)
Match Game (1973–82; recurring panelist)
Ellery Queen (1976 episode: "The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument")
The Edge of Night (cast member, 1983)
Return to Green Acres as Lisa Douglas (1990)
The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies (1993; as herself)

References [link]

^ Jewish descent cited in Vanity Fair
^ Vanity Fair website
^ Marian Christy, "Mama Gabor: Ageless Mother of 3", Newport Daily News, 17 February 1975
^ Launch date cited in McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion by Colin McDowell (F. Muller, 1984)
^ "Eva Gabor Obtains Divorce", The New York Times, 25 February 1945
^ "Eva Gabor in Hospital", The New York Times, 2 December 1946
^ Plastic Surgeon memoirs website
^ "Eva Gabor Wed to Surgeon", The New York Times, 9 April 1956
^ Eva Gabor Wed in Las Vegas", The New York Times, 5 October 1959
^ Brown's later career was described in "Notes on People", The New York Times, 26 June 1973
^ Eva Gabor Wed in Las Vegas", The New York Times, 5 October 1959
^ "Notes on People", The New York Times, 26 June 1973
^ "Miami Will Make No Deal On Gems", The New York Times, 10 January 1965
^ "Notes on People", The New York Times, 22 September 1973
^ Los Angeles Times website
^ Vanity Fair article
^ New York Times Archives, "Eva Gabor, 74, the Actress; Youngest of Celebrated Sisters", 5 July 1995
^ "What's My Line?: EPISODE #389". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/whats-my-line/episode-387/episode/95775/summary.html?tag=episode_tabs;next.

Sources [link]

Orchids & Salami, by Eva Gabor, Doubleday, 1954
Gaborabilia, by Anthony Turtu and Donald F. Reuter, Three Rivers Press, 2001; ISBN 0-609-80759-5

External links [link]

Biography portal

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Main article: Green Acres

1 Season One (1965-1966)
2 Season Two (1966-1967)
3 Season Three (1967-1968)
4 Season Four (1968-1969)
5 Season Five (1969-1970)
6 Season Six (1970-1971)
7 TV Movie

Season One (1965-1966)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"Oliver Buys a Farm"	Ralph Levy	Jay Sommers	September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15)	001
Oliver Wendell Douglas, a big city lawyer who longs for a farm, buys a spread near Hooterville.
2	"Lisa's First Day on the Farm"	Ralph Levy	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 22, 1965 (1965-09-22)	002
Oliver brings his wife Lisa to their new home, a ramshackle farm near Hooterville.
3	"The Decorator"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 29, 1965 (1965-09-29)	003
Oliver and Lisa call in a decorator to begin a major overhaul of their dilapidated farm.
4	"The Best Laid Plans"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 6, 1965 (1965-10-06)	004
The Hooterville rumor mill has it that Lisa packed up and left Oliver. Actually, she went back to New York to close up their penthouse apartment.
5	"My Husband, the Rooster Renter"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 13, 1965 (1965-10-13)	005
Oliver calls in a roofer, a plumber and an agricultural expert. All of them give the same appraisal of his farm: a disaster.
6	"Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 20, 1965 (1965-10-20)	006
The Douglases are awaiting the arrival of their furniture. When it is accidentally delivered to Mr. Haney, he tries to sell them their own possessions.
7	"Neighborliness"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 27, 1965 (1965-10-27)	007
It's plowing time and Oliver runs into trouble with equipment bought from Mr. Haney. The neighbors come to the rescue and plow the field in time for planting.
8	"Lisa the Helpmate"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Al Schwartz and Lou Huston	November 3, 1965 (1965-11-03)	008
When Oliver sends a sample of his soil to the State Scientific College, a report comes back that his farm contains ingredients never before found in soil.
9	"You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 10, 1965 (1965-11-10)	009
Relying on statistics provided by the Department of Agriculture, Oliver plants wheat. His neighbors, using Mrs. Ziffel's lumbago to predict a crop, plant corn.
10	"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 17, 1965 (1965-11-17)	010
Oliver finally has a phone installed, but the Hooterville Phone Company installs it directly outside his bedroom window--on top of the telephone pole.
11	"Parity Begins at Home"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 24, 1965 (1965-11-24)	011
Oliver plants his entire 160 acres (0.65 km²) with wheat, only to hear from the Conservation of Stabilization Committee (a local farm organization) that he is not allowed to do so.
12	"Lisa Has a Calf"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Phil Leslie & Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat Story by Phil Leslie	December 8, 1965 (1965-12-08)	012
The cow Oliver bought from Mr. Haney is pregnant. Eb is afraid that if Mr. Haney finds out, he will claim that the calf belongs to him. But the pregnancy leaks and Haney thinks it's Lisa that's due, and this rumor spreads through Hooterville and right to Oliver's mother in New York!
13	"The Wedding Anniversary"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 15, 1965 (1965-12-15)	013
It's the Douglases' wedding anniversary. Oliver remembers the date but cannot recall the exact number of years he and Lisa have been married.
14	"What Happened in Scranton?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 22, 1965 (1965-12-22)	014
Lisa decides to bring a little culture and charm to Hooterville by means of a beauty parlor.
15	"How to Enlarge a Bedroom"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 29, 1965 (1965-12-29)	015
After persistent pleas from Lisa, Oliver agrees to have the bedroom enlarged. But Alf and Ralph, the contractors, rip the room apart and cannot finish it because they're only licensed for hen houses and chicken coops!
16	"Give Me Land, Lots of Land"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 5, 1966 (1966-01-05)	016
Oliver buys 140 acres (0.57 km²) of land adjoining his property, excluding the farmhouse on it. Lisa misunderstands and thinks the farmhouse is their new home.
17	"I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 19, 1966 (1966-01-19)	017
Oliver discovers the only requirement to join the Hooterville Valley Fire Department is that he must play a musical instrument.
18	"Lisa Bakes a Cake"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 26, 1966 (1966-01-26)	018
Oliver is annoyed when Lisa puts a listing in the new phone book: "Oliver Douglas, Attorney at Law." Unfortunately, nobody calls for his services.
19	"Sprained Ankle, Country Style"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 2, 1966 (1966-02-02)	019
Oliver falls through the roof and sprains his ankle while putting up a TV antenna. And while Lisa takes care of him, almost everyone in Hooterville stops by to unintentionally annoy him or hog control of his TV.
20	"The Price of Apples"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 9, 1966 (1966-02-09)	020
Oliver's apple crop is ready to be harvested, but he must harvest and ship them himself after Pixley reserves the rest like every year.
21	"What's in a Name?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 16, 1966 (1966-02-16)	021
Ralph, the lady carpenter, becomes enamored of Mr. Kimball, the county agent. However, he refuses to go out with a girl named Ralph.
22	"The Day of Decision"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 23, 1966 (1966-02-23)	022
Lisa must decide whether she and Oliver will remain on the farm or go back to New York. She decides yes and Oliver angrily prepares to leave. But Lisa reverses her decision after learning what happens to the animals after they're gone, so Oliver keeps his farm for six more months!
23	"A Pig in a Poke"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 9, 1966 (1966-03-09)	023
Oliver and Lisa leave for New York to attend a reunion of the Harvard Alumni. They are unaware that the Ziffels' pig, Arnold, is a stowaway in the trunk of their car.
24	"The Deputy"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 16, 1966 (1966-03-16)	025
Sam Drucker is leaving on vacation, and talks Oliver into assuming his duties as deputy sheriff.
25	"Double Drick"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 23, 1966 (1966-03-23)	026
Oliver's generator breaks down and he decides it's finally time for the electric company to run power lines into his house.
26	"The Ballad of Molly Turgis"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 6, 1966 (1966-04-06)	024
There is a local superstition in Hooterville concerning an old hag named Molly Turgiss, who died twenty years before the Douglases came to town.
27	"Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 27, 1966 (1966-04-27)	028
It's a few days before Oliver's birthday, and Lisa goes out and buys the biggest and fanciest tractor she can find. But confusion causes it to be shipped to the Ziffels, who think Mr. and Mrs. Douglas gave it to them as a gift. Their being so generous for it makes it impossible to straighten things out and get their new tractor back.
28	"Send a Boy to College"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	May 4, 1966 (1966-05-04)	027
Oliver discovers that Eb has a way with sick animals and offers to put him through college. Eb is rejected because he never graduated from high school.
29	"Horse? What Horse?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	May 11, 1966 (1966-05-11)	029
A horse follows Oliver home, but every time he tries to show it to his wife, the horse disappears. Lisa assumes that her husband is imagining things and calls a doctor. But Oliver soon thinks he's going mad too when he sees zebras, camels and a boxing kangaroo. Eventually it's revealed that they all escaped from the circus.
30	"The Rains Came"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Howard Merrill and Stan Dreben	May 18, 1966 (1966-05-18)	031
Mr. Haney sues Oliver for non-payment of a vital contract. He claims that his native american friend caused the rain that helped Oliver's crops grow, now he tries to prove it false and not have to pay Haney.
31	"Culture"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	May 25, 1966 (1966-05-25)	030
The Every-Other-Wednesday-Afternoon-Discussion-Club decides that Hooterville needs a little "culture."
32	"Uncle Ollie"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Elon Packard	June 1, 1966 (1966-06-01)	032
Oliver's nephew arrives for a visit, and Oliver is shaken up when the boy turns out to be a beatnik.

Season Two (1966-1967)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"Wings Over Hooterville"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 14, 1966 (1966-09-14)	033
The dreaded "Bing Bug" invades Hooterville's corn crop. To save his and other farmers' crops, Oliver pays Mr. Haney to use his crop duster, in hopes of using his airforce skills to spray every field.
2	"Water, Water Everywhere"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 21, 1966 (1966-09-21)	035
Mr. Haney has a new well dug on his farm, and it drains off all the water from Oliver and Lisa's farm.
3	"I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Elon Packard and Norman Hudis	September 28, 1966 (1966-09-28)	037
Oliver and Lisa agree to "pig sit" Arnold while the Ziffels enjoy a second honeymoon.
4	"How to See South America By Bus"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Walter Black	October 5, 1966 (1966-10-05)	036
Lisa misinterprets Oliver's interest in a lady farmer, and sets out to break up what she thinks is a "budding romance."
5	"The Ugly Duckling"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 19, 1966 (1966-10-19)	034
Lisa sends Oliver out to sleep in the barn while Ralph, the lady carpenter, moves in with her for a two-day beauty treatment.
6	"One of Our Assemblymen is Missing"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 26, 1966 (1966-10-26)	038
Oliver receives a tax bill for $12.03 from the State Farm Unattached Duty Tax Bureau. But in his quest to see why he's paying it, he gets himself and Hooterville in over their heads in politics.
7	"The Good Old Days"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 2, 1966 (1966-11-02)	039
To improve Lisa's understanding of the role of a "farm wife," Oliver tells her the story of a pioneer couple.
8	"Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 9, 1966 (1966-11-09)	040
Oliver takes the place of Eb's father when he explains the romantic facts of life to the hired hand.
9	"The Hooterville Image"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 16, 1966 (1966-11-16)	041
The farmers of Hooterville Valley fear that Oliver is ruining their image by continuing to wear a suit and tie when he does his chores.
10	"You Ought to Be in Pictures"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 23, 1966 (1966-11-23)	042
The Chamber of Commerce votes to invite a Hollywood picture company to film a movie in the Hooterville Valley.
11	"A Home Isn't Built in a Day"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat & Elon Packard and Jay Sommers	November 30, 1966 (1966-11-30)	043
Lisa threatens to leave Oliver unless he completely renovates their farmhouse.
12	"A Square is Not Round"	Richard L. Bare	Elroy Schwartz	December 14, 1966 (1966-12-14)	044
A chicken mystery develops on the Douglas farm when Lisa reveals that one of the hens is laying square eggs. Amid that, Oliver can't figure out why the toaster now operates by the sound of saying "five".
13	"An Old-fashioned Christmas"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Buddy Atkinson	December 21, 1966 (1966-12-21)	046
Oliver is determined to have an old-fashioned Christmas, which includes decorating his own tree. But even in Hooterville, all they sell are gaudy aluminum ones, and chopping trees down is prohibited by the state agriculture department.
14	"Never Trust a Little Old Lady"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat and Al Schwartz	December 28, 1966 (1966-12-28)	048
Oliver cannot find an accurate means of predicting the weather in Hooterville. Most of the community relies on the TV newscast's little old lady who steps out of a tiny clock with or without an umbrella.
15	"School Days"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 4, 1967 (1967-01-04)	049
Oliver enrolls Lisa at the Hooterville High School to learn the art of homemaking.
16	"His Honor"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Al Schwartz	January 11, 1967 (1967-01-11)	047
When the Hooterville City Council selects Oliver to judge the apple competition at the annual fair, he gets the idea that he's been appointed to the appeals court. Lisa received the telephone message, and the confusion results in part from her accent.
17	"It's So Peaceful in the Country"	Richard L. Bare	David Braverman and Bob Marcus	January 18, 1967 (1967-01-18)	045
Oliver and Lisa invite Oliver's mother to visit them on the farm for a much-needed rest.
18	"Exodus to Bleedswell"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 25, 1967 (1967-01-25)	050
A rival town threatens to lure away the citizens of Hooterville Valley with an offer of lucrative defense jobs.
19	"It's Human to be Humane"	Richard L. Bare	Sam Locke and Joel Rapp	February 1, 1967 (1967-02-01)	051
Lisa becomes the Humane Officer in Hooterville and turns the Douglas farmhouse into an animal shelter.
20	"Never Take Your Wife to a Convention"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 8, 1967 (1967-02-08)	052
Oliver and Lisa attend a farm convention in the city, where they meet a not-so-ex-gangster and his wife.
21	"The Computer Age"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 15, 1967 (1967-02-15)	054
In planning the most efficient way to run a farm, Oliver champions the cause of computers.
22	"Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 22, 1967 (1967-02-22)	053
An official-looking letter from Washington comes to Oliver, and his secretive behavior leads his neighbors to speculate as to its content.
23	"The Beverly Hillbillies"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 1, 1967 (1967-03-01)	055
Hooterville gives its impression of "The Beverly Hillbillies" in a special charity show featuring Lisa as "Granny," Oliver as "Jethro," and Mr. Kimball as "Jed Clampett."
24	"Lisa's Vegetable Garden"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat	March 8, 1967 (1967-03-08)	056
Lisa decides to plant her own vegetables and become a real farmer.
25	"The Saucer Season"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Sam Locke & Joel Rapp and Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat Story by Sam Locke & Joel Rapp	March 15, 1967 (1967-03-15)	057
When Eb claims he saw a flying saucer and little green men, the Douglas farm becomes an object of interest for curiosity seekers and the Air Force.
26	"Getting Even With Haney"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 22, 1967 (1967-03-22)	059
Oliver has his "day in court" with Mr. Haney, as he represents the Ziffels in a suit against his "washing machine" that destroyed their home. But first they have to find a judge that's not related to Haney!
27	"Kimball Gets Fired"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 29, 1967 (1967-03-29)	060
Oliver and Lisa have a romantic crisis on their hands when Mr. Kimball is replaced as the County Agent by a new member of the Agricultural Department. And his replacement doesn't help; he simply criticizes Oliver's and the rest of the farmers crops.
28	"The Vulgar Ring Story"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 12, 1967 (1967-04-12)	058
Lisa reveals the fascinating story of why women in her family had to marry American men every fourth generation.
29	"Who's Lisa?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 19, 1967 (1967-04-19)	061
When Lisa gets a blow on the head and suffers a mysterious lapse of memory, Oliver finds himself living with a total stranger.
30	"Music to Milk By"	Richard L. Bare	Elroy Schwartz	April 26, 1967 (1967-04-26)	063
Oliver buys Eb a radio for his birthday. Unfortunately during a big radio contest, the cow eats it and Eb must listen to it in the cow's stomach, before its digested!

Season Three (1967-1968)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"The Man For the Job"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat	September 6, 1967 (1967-09-06)	064
The Committee to Select a New State Senator considers Oliver Douglas for the job.
2	"Lisa's Jam Session"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 13, 1967 (1967-09-13)	066
Oliver decides it would be a great idea for Lisa to make her own jam preserves.
3	"Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 20, 1967 (1967-09-20)	065
An unlikely but hilarious love affair between Arnold the pig and Cynthia the basset hound captivates the residents of Hooterville.
4	"Oliver vs. the Phone Company"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 27, 1967 (1967-09-27)	067
Fed up with the lousy service, Oliver starts a feud with the Hooterville Phone Company and launches a campaign to recall its management. After it fails in the State Government, Oliver confronts Mr. Trendell and ends up taking over!
5	"Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 4, 1967 (1967-10-04)	068
Mr. Trendell turns over the keys of the Hooterville Phone Company to Oliver Douglas. But Oliver soon sees the madness and inefficiency that take place there, understanding why he left it.
6	"A Kind Word For the President"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 11, 1967 (1967-10-11)	070
Oliver sets out to accomplish changes at the Hooterville Phone Company, now that he's president. But when they still don't happen and complaints roll in, Oliver loses hope—until Mr. Drucker gets everyone to show their appreciation.
7	"Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 18, 1967 (1967-10-18)	069
Oliver sets out to harvest his tomato crops. But with the Phone Company taking up his time he gets Haney to take over. But his outrageous prices cause him to lose his pickers and his crops are ruined. In the end, the people of Hooterville force Haney to give control back to Oliver—either that or be tarred and feathered!
8	"Eb Elopes"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 25, 1967 (1967-10-25)	072
Oliver and Lisa wake up one morning to find that their handyman has eloped.
9	"The Thing"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 1, 1967 (1967-11-01)	073
Oliver stops paying storage rates for an item that neither he nor Lisa can remember owning, and the unknown item is shipped to the farm.
10	"Das Lumpen"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 8, 1967 (1967-11-08)	074
Lisa tells another war story--this one details how she saved Oliver from the Nazis during World War II and started their romance.
11	"Won't You Come Home, Arnold Ziffel?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 15, 1967 (1967-11-15)	075
The residents of Hooterville are in an uproar when Arnold Ziffel the pig is missing.
12	"Jealousy, English Style"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 22, 1967 (1967-11-22)	076
Oliver informs Lisa that he plans to attend a farm symposium without her.
13	"Haney's New Image"	Richard L. Bare	Bobby Bell and Bill Lee	November 29, 1967 (1967-11-29)	077
When Mr. Haney finds out first that the Douglas farm is the possible site for an interchange for a proposed new highway, he offers to buy back the farm.
14	"Alf and Ralph Break Up"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 13, 1967 (1967-12-13)	079
Ralph, the lady carpenter, runs away from home and stays with the Douglases after having a fight with her brother, Alf.
15	"No Trespassing"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	December 20, 1967 (1967-12-20)	078
Oliver shows symptoms of overwork, so Lisa talks him into going on a picnic.
16	"Eb Returns"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 27, 1967 (1967-12-27)	080
The Douglases' handyman returns home from his honeymoon and reveals that he did not get married.
17	"Not Guilty"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 3, 1968 (1968-01-03)	071
Eb is accused of taking $300 from Sam Drucker's safe when he shows up with a new car (which just happens to cost $300).
18	"Home is Where You Run Away From"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 10, 1968 (1968-01-10)	081
A mysterious young boy shows up at the Douglas farm and claims to be from another world.
19	"How to Succeed On TV Without Really Trying"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 24, 1968 (1968-01-24)	083
Lisa invests $28 in a 10-year-old's "Electronic Company"; to show his gratitude, the young wizard "electronificates" the Douglases' farm.
20	"Arnold Ziffel, Boy Hero"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 31, 1968 (1968-01-31)	084
Lisa and Oliver are taken hostage by two bank robbers who hide out in their farmhouse.
21	"Flight to Nowhere"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 7, 1968 (1968-02-07)	082
As part of an agricultural exchange program, Oliver and other Hooterville farmers are offered a chance to join a chartered government flight to Europe.
22	"My Mother the Countess"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 14, 1968 (1968-02-14)	062
Lisa reveals that her mother, the Countess, is going to pay a visit to Green Acres.
23	"The Spring Festival"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 21, 1968 (1968-02-21)	085
Spring fever sets in at Green Acres when Lisa sets out to produce a spring festival celebration.
24	"Our Son, the Barber"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	February 28, 1968 (1968-02-28)	086
Eb decides on a career as a barber and talks Oliver into putting him through a do-it-yourself mail-order barber college.
25	"Oliver's Jaded Past"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 6, 1968 (1968-03-06)	087
Lisa reminds Oliver that he promised her a New York vacation if she stayed with him on the farm for two years.
26	"The Hungarian Curse"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 13, 1968 (1968-03-13)	088
A fellow Hungarian, Lazlo Broslav, visits Lisa and becomes an unwanted houseguest. It is revealed that Lazlo once saved the life of Lisa's uncle, and now her family must repay the debt.
27	"The Rutabaga Story"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 20, 1968 (1968-03-20)	089
Oliver decides that all Hooterville farmers should plant rutabagas as their primary cash crop, and initiates a publicity campaign to make America more "rutabaga conscious."
28	"Instant Family"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 27, 1968 (1968-03-27)	090
When an expectant mother goes into labor, Oliver takes her to the hospital, and Lisa takes her seven other children to live with the Douglases until she recovers.
29	"A Star Named Arnold is Born, Part 1"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 3, 1968 (1968-04-03)	091
Arnold the pig appears in a play at the Hooterville Theater. Lisa arranges for an old friend to give him a chance in show business.
30	"A Star Named Arnold is Born, Part 2"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 10, 1968 (1968-04-10)	092
Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold's trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.

Season Four (1968-1969)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"Guess Who's Not Going to the Luau?"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 25, 1968 (1968-09-25)	093
Lisa and Oliver and most of their Hooterville friends enter a contest that promises the winners a free trip to Hawaii.
2	"The Rummage Sale"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 2, 1968 (1968-10-02)	094
When Oliver and Lisa start looking for items in their wardrobe to donate to the rummage sale, they take a nostalgic look at the past.
3	"Hail to the Fire Chief"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 16, 1968 (1968-10-16)	096
Uncle Joe Carson is trying to raise funds to send the fire chief to the Annual Convention of Fire Chiefs, in Miami, Florida.
4	"Eb's Romance"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 23, 1968 (1968-10-23)	095
Oliver is cast in the unwilling role of "father of the potential groom" when his handyman announces unexpected marriage plans.
5	"The Candidate"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	October 30, 1968 (1968-10-30)	097
Oliver launches an attack on Hooterville's State District Representative, Ben Hanks, and winds up running against him for a political office. Skip Young guest stars.
6	"Handy Lessons"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 6, 1968 (1968-11-06)	098
Lisa sets out to surprise Oliver by becoming a lady carpenter.
7	"A Husband For Eleanor"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 13, 1968 (1968-11-13)	099
When Eleanor, the Douglases' cow, runs out of milk, Mr. Kimball diagnoses her ailment as a severe lack of romance.
8	"Old Mail Day"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 20, 1968 (1968-11-20)	100
"Old Mail Day" comes to Hooterville when Sam Drucker cleans up his general store, and delivers all the old mail he finds to their rightful owners.
9	"The Agricultural Student"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 27, 1968 (1968-11-27)	101
County Agent Hank Kimball receives word that the Agricultural Department is sending a student to observe his work.
10	"How Hooterville was Floundered"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 11, 1968 (1968-12-11)	102
Oliver is the unanimous choice to organize the Centennial pageant that celebrates the early days of the city of Hooterville.
11	"The Blue Feather"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 18, 1968 (1968-12-18)	103
Lisa receives a blue feather in the mail and immediately recognizes it as a token of a powerful curse.
12	"How to Get from Hooterville to Pixley Without Moving"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 25, 1968 (1968-12-25)	106
The Douglases' farm life turns upside-down when they discover that their farm is located in the town of Pixley instead of friendly ol' Hooterville.
13	"The Birthday Gift"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 1, 1969 (1969-01-01)	104
Lisa reveals her birthday gift list to Oliver.
14	"Everywhere a Chick Chick"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 8, 1969 (1969-01-08)	105
Oliver decides to become a chicken rancher and buys 1,000 baby chicks for the great experiment.
15	"The Marital Vacation"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 15, 1969 (1969-01-15)	107
To test whether or not "absence makes the heart grow fonder," Oliver sends Lisa off on a vacation by herself.
16	"A Prize in Every Package"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat	January 22, 1969 (1969-01-22)	108
Oliver and Lisa make a startling discovery when they find some priceless jewelry in boxes of inexpensive cereal.
17	"Law Partners"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 29, 1969 (1969-01-29)	109
A young law school graduate approaches Oliver with a proposal to become partners in a Hooterville law practice.
18	"A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 5, 1969 (1969-02-05)	110
Lisa offers her services as secretary for Oliver's new law firm.
19	"Economy Flight to Washington"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 12, 1969 (1969-02-12)	111
When Oliver and Lisa go to the airport to see Mr. Kimball and Eb off to Washington, DC, they unexpectedly wind up aboard the airliner.
20	"Retreat From Washington"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 19, 1969 (1969-02-19)	112
The Douglases and their friends are prepared to stay another week in Washington, DC, while Mr. Haney continues to look after the Douglas farm.
21	"A Hunting We Won't Go"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 26, 1969 (1969-02-26)	113
After she befriends a beautiful doe that visits the farm, Lisa launches an all-out drive to halt the hunting season.
22	"Oh, Promise Me"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 5, 1969 (1969-03-05)	114
When Lisa and Oliver discover an error in their marriage license, Lisa concludes that they have never been married.
23	"Eb Uses His Ingenuity"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 12, 1969 (1969-03-12)	115
Oliver and Lisa watch their farm become a unique assembly line for handling babies, as Eb, their hired hand, uses his ingenuity to raise needed cash.
24	"The Old Trunk"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 19, 1969 (1969-03-19)	116
While searching through an old trunk, Oliver and Lisa discover evidence of a unique 19th-century romance.
25	"The Milk Maker"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 26, 1969 (1969-03-26)	117
Oliver and Lisa are caught in a wild series of events when an eccentric Hooterville inventor produces the world's first "milk-making machine."
26	"The Reincarnation of Eb"	Richard L. Bare	Joel Kane	April 2, 1969 (1969-04-02)	118
When Eb is suddenly missing, Lisa's avid belief in reincarnation leads her to believe that he's come back as a friendly dog.

Season Five (1969-1970)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"Lisa's Mudder Comes for a Visit"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 27, 1969 (1969-09-27)	122
Lisa's "mudder" (mother) pays a surprise visit to the Hooterville farm and promptly takes over as a three-week houseguest.
2	"Everybody Tries to Love a Countess"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 4, 1969 (1969-10-04)	123
Oliver loses all hopes of getting rid of his mother-in-law when Mr. Haney and Uncle Joe Carson vie to become his father-in-law.
3	"Where There's a Will"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 11, 1969 (1969-10-11)	119
Arnold the pig becomes the focus of attention in Hooterville when word gets out that he might be the heir to a $20,000,000 estate.
4	"A Tale of a Tail"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 18, 1969 (1969-10-18)	120
Oliver, Lisa and Eb travel to Chicago with Arnold the pig to prove that he is the rightful heir to a $20,000,000 estate.
5	"You and Your Big Shrunken Head"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 25, 1969 (1969-10-25)	121
When Lisa and Oliver return home with Arnold Ziffel, the townspeople hold a warm reception in honor of Hooterville's first "millionaire pig."
6	"The Road"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and John L. Greene	November 1, 1969 (1969-11-01)	128
Hooterville's unpaved roads create a major dust problem that sends Oliver and Lisa to the State Capitol to seek remedial action.
7	"Four of Spades"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers & John L. Greene	November 8, 1969 (1969-11-08)	127
Lisa turns fortune teller and predicts that a mysterious stranger will soon enter Oliver's life.
8	"The Youth Center"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and John L. Greene	November 15, 1969 (1969-11-15)	129
Oliver stands up in a town meeting and suggests they build a youth center as a way to keep the young people in Hooterville.
9	"The Special Delivery Letter"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Scott Anderson & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Scott Anderson	November 22, 1969 (1969-11-22)	132
A special delivery letter addressed to someone in the Douglas family excites the curiosity of the entire Hooterville Valley.
10	"Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 29, 1969 (1969-11-29)	126
Oliver accepts an invitation to address a class in the Hooterville High School, and winds up as the object of a teenager's huge crush.
11	"Ralph's Nuptials"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 13, 1969 (1969-12-13)	133
Lisa is in her glory as she plans an open-air, farm-style wedding for Hank Kimball and Ralph, the lady carpenter.
12	"Oliver and the Cornstalk"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 20, 1969 (1969-12-20)	124
Oliver launches a merry, mixed-up corn-planting session which produces a stupendous crop that farmers only dream about.
13	"Beauty is Skin Deep"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 27, 1969 (1969-12-27)	125
Lisa launches a vigorous beauty campaign when she enlists Sam Drucker as her partner in a chic cosmetics business.
14	"The Wish-Book"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 3, 1970 (1970-01-03)	131
Oliver and Lisa discover an ancient mail order catalog in the wall of their farmhouse and recognize it as a wishbook.
15	"Rest and Relaxation"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 10, 1970 (1970-01-10)	135
An old friend of Oliver's pays the Douglases a visit to enjoy a little rest and relaxation.
16	"Trapped"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 17, 1970 (1970-01-17)	136
Oliver and Lisa realize that they've had a door they've never opened. Upon doing so they find a cave-like basement, with a secret entrance to a room where older generations of Mr. Haney's family used an illegal still. But a sneeze from Lisa collapses the entrance, and the two are trapped down there. The only way to call for help is through the sink in the kitchen, and Eb responds but bumps his head and forgets what he was doing. Now the Douglases only hope is...Arnold!?
17	"Bundle of Joy"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Searle Kramer & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Searle Kramer	January 24, 1970 (1970-01-24)	134
Oliver says good-bye to Lisa and hurries to New York to help his law firm in a difficult matter.
18	"The Ex-Con"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 31, 1970 (1970-01-31)	130
Oliver makes an impassioned speech before the County Bar Association on the virtues of hiring ex-convicts, and finds himself with an ex-con for a hired hand.
19	"The Cow Killer"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by Scott Anderson & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story by Scott Anderson	February 7, 1970 (1970-02-07)	137
Lisa mistakenly labels her husband "The Cow Killer" when Oliver takes a drastic action to rid his farm of a cow that has been trampling his crops.
20	"The Confrontation"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 14, 1970 (1970-02-14)	138
Oliver is elected School Board President and immediately becomes the object of a protest movement to reinstate an expelled student--Arnold the pig.
21	"The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud"	Richard L. Bare	Story by Arnold Horwitt Teleplay by Arnold Horwitt & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 28, 1970 (1970-02-28)	139
Oliver unintentionally provides the motive for the residents of Hooterville to illegally receive more than $500,000 from the Internal Revenue Service.
22	"The Picnic"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 7, 1970 (1970-03-07)	140
Oliver's plans for an intimate family picnic with his wife are ruined when the entire Hooterville Valley turns out to celebrate the event.
23	"The Beeping Rock"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 21, 1970 (1970-03-21)	141
The Douglas farm succumbs to a bit of "lunar madness" when a precocious child inventor shows up to say he's been to the moon.
24	"Uncle Fedor"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	March 28, 1970 (1970-03-28)	143
Lisa's Uncle Fedor makes an unexpected appearance at the Douglas farm and quickly involves them in an old world intrigue of spies and counter-spies.
25	"The Wealthy Landowner"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 11, 1970 (1970-04-11)	142
Eb shows a strong "mail pull" when he represents himself as a wealthy landowner and advertises for a wife.
26	"Happy Birthday"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	April 11, 1970 (1970-04-11)	144
Oliver anticipates a surprise birthday party for himself--but it's Arnold the pig who winds up with the birthday celebration.

Season Six (1970-1971)[link]

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air Date	Prod #
1	"The City Kids"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 15, 1970 (1970-09-15)	146
Lisa and Oliver host four city children for a farm vacation as part of a "Kids for the Country" program initiated by a friend.
2	"The Coming-Out Party"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 22, 1970 (1970-09-22)	147
Lisa plans a "coming out party" for little Lori so she can meet all the other children of Hooterville.
3	"Jealousy"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	September 29, 1970 (1970-09-29)	145
Oliver and Lisa lavish attention on their little house guest, Lori, and Eb decides she's taking his rightful place in their affection.
4	"A Royal Love Story"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 6, 1970 (1970-10-06)	149
Lisa tells little Lori a fanciful story of her courtship with Oliver.
5	"Oliver Goes Broke"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 20, 1970 (1970-10-20)	150
Lisa's strange behavior leads friends and neighbors to believe Oliver has "gone broke."
6	"The Great Mayoralty Campaign"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	October 27, 1970 (1970-10-27)	156
Politics splits the Douglas family in two when Oliver and Lisa become candidates for mayor from opposing parties.
7	"Eb's Double Trouble"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 10, 1970 (1970-11-10)	148
Oliver and Lisa are called upon to solve the love problems of Eb and Arnold the pig.
8	"Apple-Picking Time"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 17, 1970 (1970-11-17)	151
Oliver is faced with two crises: Lisa is learning to drive, and his apple crop must be harvested before it spoils.
9	"Enterprising Eb"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	November 24, 1970 (1970-11-24)	152
The Douglases watch in disbelief as Eb turns the farm into a veritable dump in a feverish bid for romance.
10	"Oliver's Double"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	December 1, 1970 (1970-12-01)	153
Oliver is suspected of x-rated rural behavior in this bizarre episode--as his exact "double" shows up in Hooterville with a sexy female partner in crime.
11	"The High Cost of Loving"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 8, 1970 (1970-12-08)	154
The Douglas farm becomes a stage when Eb mistakenly enrolls in a correspondence class in acting instead of accounting.
12	"The Liberation Movement"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	December 15, 1970 (1970-12-15)	155
Lisa discovers the Women's Lib Movement and decides to take over the male chores on the farm, reducing Oliver to the role of house-husband.
13	"Charlie, Homer and Natasha"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	December 22, 1970 (1970-12-22)	157
When Oliver refuses to take Lisa to the city for the anniversary party of a friend, Lisa launches into a plot that leads Oliver to believe he is in the world of little people.
14	"The Engagement Ring"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	December 29, 1970 (1970-12-29)	158
Lisa gives her engagement ring to Eb so that he can marry Darlene.
15	"The Free Paint Job"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	January 5, 1971 (1971-01-05)	159
Oliver and Lisa agree to have their farmhouse painted, free of charge, as part of a paint company's advertising campaign.
16	"Son of Drobny"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	January 12, 1971 (1971-01-12)	160
Lisa entertains the son of a fellow war hero, the "fowlish" person of Drobney, a real live duck.
17	"The Wedding Deal"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	January 19, 1971 (1971-01-19)	164
Eb involves Oliver and Lisa in a "big wedding deal."
18	"Star Witness"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	January 26, 1971 (1971-01-26)	163
Arnold the pig is the key witness to a daring robbery, and just the pig to cook the crook's bacon.
19	"The Spot Remover"	Richard L. Bare	Dan Beaumont	February 2, 1971 (1971-02-02)	166
Lisa parlays her uncle's cabbage soup into a miracle cleaning fluid--and immediately puts all her friends on the "spot."
20	"King Oliver I"	Richard L. Bare	Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat	February 9, 1971 (1971-02-09)	170
The town of Hooterville, incensed by an increased tax burden, secedes from the state and proclaims Oliver to be "King Oliver I."
21	"A Girl for Drobny"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	February 16, 1971 (1971-02-16)	167
The Douglases' continue to entertain "web-footed royalty" in the person of Drobney the duck. Drobney Jr. is beginning to show signs of homesickness.
22	"The Carpenter's Ball"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	February 23, 1971 (1971-02-23)	162
Hooterville's annual Carpenter's Ball threatens the happy Douglas home when Oliver declines to take Lisa to this mad-cap event.
23	"The Hole in the Porch"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	March 2, 1971 (1971-03-02)	168
Oliver's plans to repair his rural farmhouse fall through when Mr. Kimball falls through the Douglases' porch and injures his foot.
24	"Lisa the Psychologist"	Richard L. Bare	Dick Chevillat and Dan Beaumont	March 9, 1971 (1971-03-09)	161
Lisa and Oliver go back to college, where Lisa takes up the improbable subject of psychology.
25	"Hawaiian Honeymoon"	Vincent Sherman	Jay Sommers	March 16, 1971 (1971-03-16)	165
Lisa employs her womanly wiles to maneuver Oliver into a fifth honeymoon visit to the Moana Rexford Hotel in Hawaii. This was actually a pilot episode for a proposed series (Pam) that didn't sell.
26	"The Ex-Secretary"	Bruce Bilson	Jay Sommers	April 27, 1971 (1971-04-27)	169
Oliver has difficulties with an heirloom watch and seeks the aid of his ex-secretary to find the only jeweler in New York capable of fixing the timepiece. This was a pilot episode for another proposed series (Carol) that CBS also passed on.

TV Movie [link]

#	Title	Air date
1	Return to Green Acres	May 18, 1990 (1990-05-18)
Developers want to build an industrial area in Hooterville, and Haney tries to swindle the residents to sell out.

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Pat Buttram
225px as Mr. Haney on Green Acres
Born	Maxwell Emmett Buttram June 19, 1915 Addison, Alabama
Died	January 8, 1994 (aged 78) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Film, actor
Years active	1944–1994
Spouse	Dorothy McFadden (1936-1946; div., 1 child) Sheila Ryan (1952–1975; her death, 1 child)

Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram (June 19, 1915 – January 8, 1994) was an American actor, known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the TV series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty". It has been described as sounding like a handful of gravel thrown in a Mix-Master".^{[citation needed]}

1 Life
2 Film and television career
3 Personal life
4 In popular culture
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links

Life [link]

Buttram was born in Addison, Alabama, to Wilson McDaniel Buttram, a Methodist minister, and his wife Mary Emmett Maxwell. He had an older brother named Augustus McDaniel Buttram, as well as five other elder siblings. When "Pat" Buttram was a year old, his father was transferred to Nauvoo, Alabama. Buttram graduated from Mortimer Jordan High School, which was then located in Morris, Alabama, then entered Birmingham–Southern College to study for the ministry.^[1] He performed in college plays and on a local radio station, before he became a regular on the "WLS National Barn Dance" in Chicago.

Buttram went to Hollywood in the 1940s and became a "sidekick" to Roy Rogers. However, since Rogers already had two regulars, Buttram was soon dropped. He was then picked by Gene Autry, recently returned from his World War II service in the Army Air Force, to work with him. Buttram would co-star with Gene Autry in more than 40 films, and in over 100 episodes of Autry's television show.

Film and television career [link]

Buttram's first Autry film was Strawberry Roan in 1948. In the late 1940s, Buttram joined Autry on his radio show, Melody Ranch and then on television with The Gene Autry Show. During the first television season, Buttram went by "Pat" or "Patrick", with a variety of last names. From the second season on, he used his own name.

Buttram is also known for his role as "Mr. Haney" in the 1965–1971 television comedy Green Acres. He did voice work for several Disney animated features, playing Napoleon (hound dog) in The Aristocats, the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf) in Robin Hood, Luke (swamp inhabitant) in The Rescuers, Chief (hunting dog) in The Fox and the Hound, and one of the Toon bullets in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Buttram had a recurring role as the voice of Cactus Jake on Garfield and Friends. One of his last roles was a cameo in Back to the Future Part III. His final voice over was A Goofy Movie, released a year after his death.

Buttram made the oft-quoted observation about the 1971 "rural purge", in which CBS cancelled many programs with a rural-related theme or setting: "CBS canceled everything with a tree — including Lassie."^[2]^[3]

Personal life [link]

In 1936 Buttram married Dorothy McFadden and adopted a daughter with her named Gayle but they divorced in 1946. In 1952 he married actress Sheila Ryan. They remained married until her death in 1975. They had a daughter named Kathrine (nicknamed Kerry) born in 1954. Buttram retired from acting in 1980, and made his home in Winston County, Alabama. However, he soon returned to California, where he made frequent personal appearances.

Pat Buttram died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, California in 1994, aged 78. He was survived by his daughter Kerry Buttram-Galgano (who died from cancer in 2007^[4]) and two granddaughters: Natalie and Angie Galgano. He was buried in the cemetery at the Maxwell Chapel United Methodist Church^[5] in Haleyville, Alabama. Buttram was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and also by a star on the "Alabama Stars of Fame" in Birmingham, Alabama.

In popular culture [link]

Buttram's distinctive voice made him the target of several impressionists, especially cartoon voice actors.
The Animaniacs cartoon The Warners and the Beanstalk, a parody of the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, featured a caricature of Mr. Haney as the "Used Cow Salesman".
Buttram is credited as one of the writers on the Hee Haw television show in its early years.
In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 1001, featuring the film, Soultaker, TV's Frank, after having been in "Second-Banana Heaven," returns as a soul-taker. As he recollects his time in "Second-Banana Heaven," he remarks, "Pat Buttram had it out for me from the beginning!"

Filmography [link]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1944	National Barn Dance	Himself	Buttram's first film appearance^[6]
1948	The Strawberry Roan	Hank
1950	Gene Autry Show, TheThe Gene Autry Show	Pat	Television series
1965	Green Acres	Mr. Haney	Television series
1970	Aristocats, TheThe Aristocats	Napoleon	Voice only Animated film
1973	Robin Hood	Sheriff of Nottingham
1977	Rescuers, TheThe Rescuers	Luke (swamp inhabitant)
1981	Fox and the Hound, TheThe Fox and the Hound	Chief (hunting dog)
1988	The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound	Red Eye the bartender
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	A toon bullet	Voice only Live action/Animated film
	Garfield and Friends	Cactus Jake	Voice only Animated series
1990	Back to the Future: Part III	Saloon Old Timer #3	Cameo
1992	Rugrats	Eddie	Voice only Animated series "Graham Canyon"
1995	A Goofy Movie	Possum Park Emcee	Voice only Animated film Dedicated to him

References [link]

Notes

^ Wilson, Claire M. "Pat Buttram" on the Encyclopedia of Alabama website
^ Quotation taken from amazon.com preview of book accessed March 23, 2009. Harkins, Anthony (2005). Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Oxford University Press US. p. 203. ISBN 0-19-518950-7.
^ Lassie actually ran until 1973.
^ WCGS site
^ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1802
^ Pat Buttram at the Internet Movie Database

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Further reading

Grabman, Sandra. Pat Buttram, the Rocking Chair Humorist. Boalsburg: BearManor Media, 2006. ISBN 1-59393-067-4.

External links [link]

Pat Buttram at the Internet Movie Database
Pat Buttram at AllRovi

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Name	Buttram, Pat
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Date of birth	June 19, 1915
Place of birth	Addison, Alabama
Date of death	January 8, 1994
Place of death	Los Angeles, California

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