Season Five (1969/70)
| Series No. | Season No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119 | 1 | "Lisa's Mudder Comes for a Visit" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | September 27, 1969 (1969-09-27) | 122 |
| Lisa's "mudder" (mother) pays a surprise visit to the Hooterville farm and promptly takes over as a three-week houseguest. | ||||||
| 120 | 2 | "Everybody Tries to Love a Countess" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 4, 1969 (1969-10-04) | 123 |
| Oliver loses all hopes of getting rid of his mother-in-law when Mr. Haney and Uncle Joe Carson vie to become his father-in-law. | ||||||
| 121 | 3 | "Where There's a Will" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 11, 1969 (1969-10-11) | 119 |
| Arnold the pig becomes the focus of attention in Hooterville when word gets out that he might be the heir to a $20,000,000 estate. | ||||||
| 122 | 4 | "A Tale of a Tail" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 18, 1969 (1969-10-18) | 120 |
| Oliver, Lisa and Eb travel to Chicago with Arnold the pig to prove that he is the rightful heir to a $20,000,000 estate. | ||||||
| 123 | 5 | "You and Your Big Shrunken Head" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 25, 1969 (1969-10-25) | 121 |
| When Lisa and Oliver return home with Arnold Ziffel, the townspeople hold a warm reception in honor of Hooterville's first "millionaire pig." | ||||||
| 124 | 6 | "The Road" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and John L. Greene | November 1, 1969 (1969-11-01) | 128 |
| Hooterville's unpaved roads create a major dust problem that sends Oliver and Lisa to the State Capitol to seek remedial action. | ||||||
| 125 | 7 | "Four of Spades" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers & John L. Greene | November 8, 1969 (1969-11-08) | 127 |
| Lisa turns fortune teller and predicts that a mysterious stranger will soon enter Oliver's life. Tommy Roe Guest Stars | ||||||
| 126 | 8 | "The Youth Center" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and John L. Greene | November 15, 1969 (1969-11-15) | 129 |
| Oliver stands up in a town meeting and suggests they build a youth center as a way to keep the young people in Hooterville. | ||||||
| 127 | 9 | "The Special Delivery Letter" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Scott Anderson & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story: Scott Anderson |
November 22, 1969 (1969-11-22) | 132 |
| A special delivery letter addressed to someone in the Douglas family excites the curiosity of the entire Hooterville Valley. | ||||||
| 128 | 10 | "Oliver's Schoolgirl Crush" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | November 29, 1969 (1969-11-29) | 126 |
| Oliver accepts an invitation to address a class in the Hooterville High School, and winds up as the object of a teenager's huge crush. | ||||||
| 129 | 11 | "Ralph's Nuptials" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 13, 1969 (1969-12-13) | 133 |
| Lisa is in her glory as she plans an open-air, farm-style wedding for Hank Kimball and Ralph, the lady carpenter. | ||||||
| 130 | 12 | "Oliver and the Cornstalk" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 20, 1969 (1969-12-20) | 124 |
| Oliver launches a merry, mixed-up corn-planting session which produces a stupendous crop that farmers only dream about. | ||||||
| 131 | 13 | "Beauty is Skin Deep" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 27, 1969 (1969-12-27) | 125 |
| Lisa launches a vigorous beauty campaign when she enlists Sam Drucker as her partner in a chic cosmetics business. | ||||||
| 132 | 14 | "The Wish-Book" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 3, 1970 (1970-01-03) | 131 |
| Oliver and Lisa discover an ancient mail order catalog in the wall of their farmhouse and recognize it as a wishbook. | ||||||
| 133 | 15 | "Rest and Relaxation" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 10, 1970 (1970-01-10) | 135 |
| An old friend of Oliver's pays the Douglases a visit to enjoy a little rest and relaxation. | ||||||
| 134 | 16 | "Trapped" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 17, 1970 (1970-01-17) | 136 |
| Oliver and Lisa realize that they've had a door they've never opened. Upon doing so they find a cave-like basement, with a secret entrance to a room where older generations of Mr. Haney's family used an illegal still. But a sneeze from Lisa collapses the entrance, and the two are trapped down there. The only way to call for help is through the sink in the kitchen, and Eb responds but bumps his head and forgets what he was doing. Now the Douglases only hope is...Arnold!? | ||||||
| 135 | 17 | "Bundle of Joy" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Searle Kramer & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story: Searle Kramer |
January 24, 1970 (1970-01-24) | 134 |
| Oliver says good-bye to Lisa and hurries to New York to help his law firm in a difficult matter. | ||||||
| 136 | 18 | "The Ex-Con" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 31, 1970 (1970-01-31) | 130 |
| Oliver makes an impassioned speech before the County Bar Association on the virtues of hiring ex-convicts, and finds himself with an ex-con for a hired hand. | ||||||
| 137 | 19 | "The Cow Killer" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Scott Anderson & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story: Scott Anderson |
February 7, 1970 (1970-02-07) | 137 |
| Lisa mistakenly labels her husband "The Cow Killer" when Oliver takes a drastic action to rid his farm of a cow that has been trampling his crops. | ||||||
| 138 | 20 | "The Confrontation" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | February 14, 1970 (1970-02-14) | 138 |
| Oliver is elected School Board President and immediately becomes the object of a protest movement to reinstate an expelled student--Arnold the pig. | ||||||
| 139 | 21 | "The Case of the Hooterville Refund Fraud" | Richard L. Bare | Story: Arnold Horwitt Teleplay: Arnold Horwitt & Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat |
February 28, 1970 (1970-02-28) | 139 |
| Oliver unintentionally provides the motive for the residents of Hooterville to illegally receive more than $500,000 from the Internal Revenue Service. | ||||||
| 140 | 22 | "The Picnic" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 7, 1970 (1970-03-07) | 140 |
| Oliver's plans for an intimate family picnic with his wife are ruined when the entire Hooterville Valley turns out to celebrate the event. | ||||||
| 141 | 23 | "The Beeping Rock" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 21, 1970 (1970-03-21) | 141 |
| The Douglas farm succumbs to a bit of "lunar madness" when a precocious child inventor shows up to say he's been to the moon. | ||||||
| 142 | 24 | "Uncle Fedor" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 28, 1970 (1970-03-28) | 143 |
| Lisa's Uncle Fedor makes an unexpected appearance at the Douglas farm and quickly involves them in an old world intrigue of spies and counter-spies. | ||||||
| 143 | 25 | "The Wealthy Landowner" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | April 11, 1970 (1970-04-11) | 142 |
| Eb shows a strong "mail pull" when he represents himself as a wealthy landowner and advertises for a wife. | ||||||
| 144 | 26 | "Happy Birthday" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | April 11, 1970 (1970-04-11) | 144 |
| Oliver anticipates a surprise birthday party for himself--but it's Arnold the pig who winds up with the birthday celebration. |
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