Douglas Farm - Dilapidated farm located four miles outside the town of Hooterville on the sitcom GREEN ACRES/CBS/1965-71. The Douglas farm was owned by Oliver Wendell Douglas, a New York lawyer who left the big city to fulfill his dream of being a farmer. Oliver purchased the farm sight unseen and discovered to his dismay a farm filled with clutter, broken boards, fallow fields, and a telephone mounted on top of the telephone pole. But despite the drawbacks, Oliver decided to stick it out and make the farm a success. To help him run the operation, Oliver hired local yokel Eb Dawson (Tom Lester) as a handyman. Oliver's wife, Lisa (Eve Gabor) was not that optimistic about the move to the country. She would have rather stayed in the Big Apple and enjoyed a "penthouse view." To plow the fields Oliver purchased a Hoyt-Clagwell tractor from Mr. Haney. Whenever the Douglas's' needed supplies they purchased items from storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady) or Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), a fast-talking local business who originally brokered the Douglas farm sale. Local neighbors included pig farmer Fred Ziffel (Hank Patterson), his wife, Doris (Barbara Pepper), and their talented pig pet Arnold (the smartest pig in the county). When Oliver needed farming advice, he consulted with the scatterbrained local agricultural agent, Hank Kimball (Alvy Moore). The Douglas farm was revisited on the CBS TV-movie sequel Return to Green Acres (1990). See also "Arnold Ziffel"

[Top Row] Hank Kimball, Eb Dawson & Mr. Haney,
[Bottom Row] Lisa & Oliver Douglas & Oliver's mother

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Theme Song Lyrics

Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square.

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.

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GREEN ACRES/CBS/1965-71
Cast Credits
Eddie Albert	as	Oliver Wendell Douglas
Eva Gabor	as	Lisa Douglas
Pat Buttram	as	Mr. Eustace Charleton Haney
Tom Lester	as	Eb Dawson
Alvy Moore	as	Hank Kimball
Hank Patterson	as	Fred Ziffel
Barbara Pepper	as	Doris Ziffel (1965-69)
Fran Ryan	as	Doris Ziffel (1969-71)
Frank Cady	as	Sam Drucker
Kay E. Kuter	as	Newt Kiley (1965-70)
Sid Melton	as	Alf Monroe (1966-69)
Mary Grace Canfield	as	Ralph Monroe (1966-71)
Judy McConnell	as	Darlene Wheeler (1970-71)
Eleanor Audley	as	Mother Eunice Douglas (1965-69)
Bea Benaderet	as	Kate Bradley (1965-66)
Edgar Buchanan	as	Joseph P. 'Uncle Joe' Carson (1965-69)
Robert Foulk	as	Mr. Roy Trendell (1966-68)
Robert Foulk	as	Mr. Wheeler (1970-71)
Bob Hastings	as	Sheriff (1970-71)
Vinton Haworth	as	Dr. Faber (1965-67)
Hal Smith	as	Horace Colby (1969-70)
Kay St. Germain Wells	as	Sadie Prentiss (1966-68)
Guy Wilkerson	as	Lud Watson (1966)
Dave Willock	as	Tom Blackwell (1966-67)
Roland Winters	as	Mister Gerber (1969)