Green Acres — Season 3

Sept 1967

The committee to select a new state senator considers Oliver Douglas for the job.

Sept 1967

Oliver decides it would be a great idea for Lisa to make her own jam preserves.

Sept 1967

An unlikely but hilarious love affair between Arnold the pig and Cynthia the basset hound captivates the residents of Hooterville.

Sept 1967

Oliver starts a feud with the Hooterville Phone Company and launches a campaign to recall its management.

Oct 1967

Mr. Trendell turns over the keys of the Hooterville Phone Company to Oliver Douglas.

Oct 1967

Oliver sets out to accomplish to changes at the Hooterville Phone Company, now that he's president.

Oct 1967

Oliver sets out to harvest his tomato crops.

Oct 1967

Oliver and Lisa wake up one morning to find that their handyman has eloped.

Nov 1967

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.

Nov 1967

Lisa tells another war story - this one details how she saved Oliver from the Nazis during World War II and how their romance began.

Nov 1967

The residents of Hooterville are in an uproar when Arnold Ziffel the pig is missing.

Nov 1967

Oliver informs Lisa that he plans to attend a farm symposium without her.

Nov 1967

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.

Dec 1967

Ralph, the lady carpenter, runs away from home and stays with the Douglases after having a fight with her brother, Alf.

Dec 1967

Oliver shows symptoms of overwork, so Lisa talks him into going on a picnic.

Dec 1967

The Douglas' handyman returns home from his honeymoon and reveals that he did not get married.

Jan 1968

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.

Jan 1968

A mysterious young boy shows up at the Douglas farm and claims to be from another world.

Jan 1968

Lisa invests $28 in a 10-year-old's "Electric Company;" to show his gratitude, the young wizard "electronificates" the Douglases' farm.

Jan 1968

Lisa and Oliver are taken hostage by two bank robbers who hide out in their farmhouse.

Feb 1968

As part of an agricultural exchange program, Oliver and other Hooterville farmers are offered a chance to join a chartered government flight to Europe.

Feb 1968

Lisa reveals that her mother, the Countess, is going to pay a visit to Green Acres.

Feb 1968

Spring fever sets in at Green Acres when Lisa sets out to produce a Spring festival celebration.

Feb 196830m

Eb decides on a career as a barber and talks Oliver into putting him through a do-it-yourself mail-order barber college.

Mar 196830m

Lisa reminds Oliver that he promised her a New York vacation if she stayed with him on the farm for two years.

Mar 196830m

A fellow Hungarian, Lazlo Broslav, visits Lisa and becomes an unwanted house guest. It is revealed that Lazlo once saved the life of Lisa's uncle, and now her family must repay the debt.

Mar 196830m

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."

Mar 1968

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.

Apr 196830m

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.

Apr 196830m

Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold's trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.