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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792859307 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0792859308 Item Dimensions: Label: MGM/United Artists Languages: Manufacturer: MGM/United Artists MPN: 1005525 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: MGM/United Artists Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 13, 2004 Running Time: 820 minutes Studio: MGM/United Artists Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1965 Editorial Review: Product Description: Head back to Hooterville with the complete first season of this TV favorite! Oliver (Eddie Albert) Lisa (Eva Gabor) Arnold the Pig and hilarious assortment of oddballs and bumpkins are back and ready to deliver a bumper-crop of laughs!System Requirements: Running Time 820 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 027616898005 Manufacturer No: 1005525 Amazon.com: The Catalog of Cool describes Green Acres this way: To be truly cool, one must genuinely understand the uselessness of logic and reason in a world gone mad.... Eddie Albert (ostensibly sane) spent six seasons appealing to the whacked out citizens of Hooterville to behave in a rational and orderly manner. Naturally, he got just what he deserved--the gradual erosion of his own mental stability. Aficionados of this show like to call it surreal. I call it real life.All one can add to that, to paraphrase the classic title song, is that DVD is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the first season demonstrates, it provides fertile ground for bizarre behavior for a gallery of classic characters who rival the residents of Twin Peaks. "Oliver Buys a Farm," the series pilot, is a comparatively tame episode that gives little hint of the weirdness to come. Lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Albert), weary of life in New York ("It's a rat race, and the rats are winning!" he declares), buys the Haney place to the horror of his socialite wife Lisa (Eva Gabor), whose ditziness has yet to be established. Look for appearances by Petticoat Junction denizens Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchannan), Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), Hooterville Cannonball engineer Floyd Smoot (Rufe Davis), and everyone's favorite wonder pig, Arnold Ziffel. Among the season's other episodes, in "The Day of Decision," all of Hooterville wonders whether "she will" or "she won't" as Lisa chooses between life on the farm or returning to New York. In "Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth," Hooterville is beginning to look like Peyton Place when Doris Ziffel (Barbara Pepper) becomes convinced that her husband Fred (Hank Patterson) and Lisa are having an affair. "Lisa Bakes a Cake," in which Lisa lists Oliver in the phone book as an attorney, is about as flat and heavy as one of Lisa's infamous creations. --Donald Liebenson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Green Acres Is The Place To Be! Green Acres was a show from 1965 - 1971 during a time when the rural farming communities was still a major source of TV viewing for the American TV networks. The airwaves were full of shows like The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, F Troop, Daniel Boone, etc. This one stood out with it's cartoonish depiction of city people and rural characters. A man who was raised in a wealthy family to become a corporate lawyer in New York fulfills his dream of becoming a farmer and buying a farm no one ... Read More Rating: - an all time favoriteONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SHOWS---I REMEMBER WHEN THIS CAME ON--IT WAS ONE OF MY GRANDMOTHERS FAVORITE SHOWS AND I WOULD GO TO HER HOUSE AND WE WOULD WATCH TOGETHER HERE ON CBS CHANNEL 2....HAVING THESE DVDS IS LIKE BEING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER ONCE AGAIN...IT IS A CLASSIC ALL TIME FAVORITE AND SO FUNNY THE TV WRITERS FROM TODAY COULD LEARN A LOT BY WATCHING GREEN ACRES BECAUSE IT IS ENTERTAINING AND WILL NEVER OFFEND ANYONE....MAY IT LIVE FOREVER.......GARY J....EAST NORTHPORT, NEW YORK Rating:  - i have only one gripei think everything was great except...and this really burns me up...why cant they program these DVDs to play all in sequence, and not the "select episode" after watching each individual episode? at least tell us if its a "play all" DVD or not, and save me the trouble of buying the ones that dont play the entire DVD without fumbling for the remote. Rating: - Very PropheticThis series is almost too true to be funny. It was a prophetic look into the future to the way things are today. Good people, but dumb as a post. Nothing works, there is no common sense, there are scoundrels out to scam you out of your money, yet the good-hearted keep trying to make sense out of it all. Bless their hearts. Episodes in Season 1 were: Disc 1 1. Oliver buys a farm 2. Lisa's first day on the farm 3. The decorator 4. The best laid plans 5. ... Read More Rating: - Green AcresI live in Australia and the only way you can watch Green Acres is on paid tv. So im loving watching the Dvd. Well worth the wait for it. |
