Title: Any new GREEN ACRES due out soon?
Raymond Tucker - September 29, 2006 01:32 PM (GMT)
I'm dying to get the one about tax fraud and monkey races on dvd. That episode was 4th or 5th season. That one and the beeping moon rock put me in stitches. I still love it.
Terry Barhorst, Jr. - September 29, 2006 02:46 PM (GMT)
Last box released was season 3 on 06-DEC-2005. The release schedule's been:
season 1: 13-JAN-2004
season 2: 08-MAR-2005
season 3: 06-DEC-2005
Doesn't look too good from here. The dvd sales may not have been acceptable to MGM.
Chris Barry - September 29, 2006 06:05 PM (GMT)
GREEN ACRES is a love it or hate it affair.
Along with PETTICOAT JUNCTION and THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES - I hated GREEN ACRES...
Bob Cashill - September 30, 2006 10:02 PM (GMT)
I loved GREEN ACRES, a bit of cornpone surrealism, and so did my dad. And my college friends, for that matter. But Bill Paley at CBS didn't; despite their high ratings, he said, "I hate these things" and, poof, off they went. That's unthinkable today.
Lon Huber - September 30, 2006 10:57 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Chris Barry @ Sep 29 2006, 12:05 PM) |
GREEN ACRES is a love it or hate it affair.
Along with PETTICOAT JUNCTION and THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES - I hated GREEN ACRES... |
PETTICOAT JUNCTION is beneath contempt, barely a half step up from FAMILY AFFAIR on the ol' treaclemeter. (Except for the episode where beatniks come to Pixley's coffee house and Kate matches their absurdist poetry with a deadpan reading of "Mares eat oats..") THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES has earned my grudging respect over the years for the professionalism of the performers and the overall consistency of the characterizations. But that doesn't mean I can watch it, just that I acknowledge no small amount of talent went into it.
GREEN ACRES, on the other hand, I have absolutely no resistance to. The show just makes me laugh hysterically. Arnold The Pig turns me to jelly. Mr. Haney's cracked-voice Southern drawl sets me giggling. And Eb's crazy but earnest leaps of logic crack me up. Plus Lisa Douglas makes me respond like a wolf in a nightclub full of Tex Avery lounge singers. The only other 60s sitcom I have such a strong reaction to is THE ADDAMS FAMILY.
(Why would Pixley HAVE a coffee house in the first place?)
Hal Horn - October 2, 2006 04:30 PM (GMT)
GREEN ACRES is always funny IMO. Great straight man, great supporting cast. PETTICOAT JUNCTION is just a dull show, and my favorite of the three is THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. The well ran dry for HILLBILLIES around 1968-69 though, and the last two seasons especially have a lot of clunkers. I wish they'd called it a day after 6 or 7 seasons.
I also wish they'd had Louis Nye as Sonny Drysdale on a few more times. And Raymond Bailey's shameless money-grubbing and cheapness has me laughing every time.
Actually my favorite of Paul Henning's big four is LOVE THAT BOB a.k.a. THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW, but we'll never get complete seasons there (half the episodes appear to be in the public domain).
HCH