Green Acres

Green Acres was a television show broadcast on CBS from 1965-1971 when (despite solid ratings) it was unceremoniously cancelled during the CBS "rural purge" when it cancelled most of its programming in favor of urban- and liberal-oriented shows. It was related distantly to another CBS show, Petticoat Junction.

The show centered on New York City attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas, who's lifelong dream was to be a farmer (to the consternation of his mother). Eventually he and his wife, Lisa, move to a rural area near Hooterville. The premise was the Douglas's total lack of knowledge of farming, and the interactions with the oddball residents of the area: con-artist Mr. Haney (who sold Douglas a worthless farm, stripped it of anything valuable, and would mysteriously appear when Oliver needed an item and sell it to him at an inflated price), farmhand Eb Dawson (who would call them "Mom" and "Dad" to Oliver's disdain), general store clerk Sam Drucker, scatterbrained county agent Hank Kimball, neighbors Fred and Doris Ziffel and "son" Arnold (who was actually a pig), and the Monroe "Brothers" (Alf and "brother" Ralph -- actually a female, who was called Ralph so they could get jobs; however they rarely finished any job and what work they did was disastrous).

In 1990 a television movie, Return to Green Acres, was filmed. In the plot, the Douglas's move back to New York City but are miserable; the Hooterville townspeople were victimized by another of Mr. Haney's schemes (which would have destroyed the town) and beg the Douglas's to return.