(VHS) Green Acres 1 [VHS] [Import]

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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 home video is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the four episodes on this video demonstrate, 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.

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. Of course she stays, and in "It's Human to Be Humane," she becomes Hooterville's humane officer, which explains the elephant in the farmhouse. This video also includes "Who's Lisa," in which the amnesiac Lisa can remember everyone except Oliver. She is even transformed into a gourmet cook! --Donald Liebenson