Green Acres
Water, Water Everywhere
TV Flash files “Water, Water Everywhere” as hour 34 of 170 in the TV Flash guide — Green Acres (1965–1971) on CBS, season 2, episode 2, aired 1966-09-21, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 34 of 170 in the Green Acres guide, hour 2 of 30 in season 2. It aired 1966-09-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Wings Over Hooterville” (S02E01). Next is “I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier” (S02E03).
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Mr. Haney has Willie the well-witcher to witch him a new well. But when Mr. Haney has plenty of water, Oliver loses his water. The same thing happens when Oliver has a new well witched, then the Ziffels run out of water. When they get a new well, then Mr. Drucker runs out of water. Oliver decides that Hooterville should open a reservoir. Soon afterwards, everyone has enough water, but when everyone turns on their faucets, they lose their electricity.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Water, Water Everywhere sit in the Green Acres guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 34 of 170 — hour 2 of 30 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Green Acres S02E02 air?
Water, Water Everywhere aired 1966-09-21 and is listed at 30 minutes.
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Oliver-and-Lisa arriving in Hooterville is the culture-clash contract: Albert's lawyer despair, Gabor's socialite charm. Arnold Ziffel, the pig treated as a child, is the surrealism at full civic personage.
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Why this series still plays
New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas drags glamorous Lisa to a farm where pigs outrank local officials. Eddie Albert's despair against Eva Gabor's charm made Jay Sommers's Hooterville cousin the smartest, strangest rural sitcom. Absurdist television hiding in overalls — canceled in the rural purge, immortal in reruns.
New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas buys a farm and the window goes surreal. Jay Sommers's *Green Acres* (CBS, 1965–1971) ran **six seasons, 170 episodes** as the smartest, strangest cousin in the Paul Henning rural-verse. Eddie Albert's despair. Eva Gabor's charm. Hooterville logic bent reality weekly; Arnold the pig became a civic personage. Pat Buttram's Mr. Haney and Tom Lester's Eb completed the county. Rex will toast overalls. It was absurdist television hiding in a rural slot — meta-farm life before…
Filed against
- Eddie Albert as Oliver Wendell Douglas
Eddie Albert dragged a New York lawyer into Hooterville as Oliver Wendell Douglas on Green Acres — pigs outranking officials, Eva Gabor's charm as the counterweight, and the smartest rural sitcom hiding in overalls. TV Flash files him as…
- Eva Gabor as Lisa Douglas
Eva Gabor glamorized Hooterville as Lisa Douglas on Green Acres — New York chic versus pigs that outrank officials, Eddie Albert's despair as the counterweight, Jay Sommers's rural sitcom as the smartest weird hour in overalls. TV Flash…
- Pat Buttram as Mr. Haney
Pat Buttram played Mr. Haney on Green Acres, the 1960s Hooterville cousin where a New York lawyer drags glamorous Lisa to a farm and pigs outrank local officials. Eddie Albert’s despair, Eva Gabor’s charm, absurdist television hiding in…
- Tom Lester as Eb Dawson
Tom Lester played Eb Dawson on Green Acres — Hooterville farmhand in a 1960s rural sitcom that hid absurdist television in overalls. Eddie Albert’s despair, Eva Gabor’s charm, a pig that outranked local officials. TV Flash files him as…