Season One (1965/66)
| Series No. | Season No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Oliver Buys a Farm" | Ralph Levy | Jay Sommers | September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15) | 001 |
| Oliver Wendell Douglas, a big city lawyer who longs for a farm, buys a spread near Hooterville. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Lisa's First Day on the Farm" | Ralph Levy | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | September 22, 1965 (1965-09-22) | 002 |
| Oliver brings his wife Lisa to their new home, a ramshackle farm near Hooterville. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Decorator" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | September 29, 1965 (1965-09-29) | 003 |
| Oliver and Lisa call in a decorator to begin a major overhaul of their dilapidated farm. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Best Laid Plans" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 6, 1965 (1965-10-06) | 004 |
| The Hooterville rumor mill has it that Lisa packed up and left Oliver. Actually, she went back to New York to close up their penthouse apartment. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "My Husband, the Rooster Renter" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 13, 1965 (1965-10-13) | 005 |
| Oliver calls in a roofer, a plumber and an agricultural expert. All of them give the same appraisal of his farm: a disaster. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 20, 1965 (1965-10-20) | 006 |
| The Douglases are awaiting the arrival of their furniture. When it is accidentally delivered to Mr. Haney, he tries to sell them their own possessions. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Neighborliness" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | October 27, 1965 (1965-10-27) | 007 |
| It's plowing time and Oliver runs into trouble with equipment bought from Mr. Haney. The neighbors come to the rescue and plow the field in time for planting. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Lisa the Helpmate" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story: Al Schwartz and Lou Huston |
November 3, 1965 (1965-11-03) | 008 |
| When Oliver sends a sample of his soil to the State Scientific College, a report comes back that his farm contains ingredients never before found in soil. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "You Can't Plug in a 2 with a 6" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | November 10, 1965 (1965-11-10) | 009 |
| Relying on statistics provided by the Department of Agriculture, Oliver plants wheat. His neighbors, using Mrs. Ziffel's lumbago to predict a crop, plant corn. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | November 17, 1965 (1965-11-17) | 010 |
| Oliver finally has a phone installed, but the Hooterville Phone Company installs it directly outside his bedroom window--on top of the telephone pole. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Parity Begins at Home" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | November 24, 1965 (1965-11-24) | 011 |
| Oliver plants his entire 160 acres (0.65 km2) with wheat, only to hear from the Conservation of Stabilization Committee (a local farm organization) that he is not allowed to do so. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Lisa Has a Calf" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Phil Leslie & Jay Sommers & Dick Chevillat Story: Phil Leslie |
December 8, 1965 (1965-12-08) | 012 |
| The cow Oliver bought from Mr. Haney is pregnant. Eb is afraid that if Mr. Haney finds out, he will claim that the calf belongs to him. But the pregnancy leaks and Haney thinks it's Lisa that's due, and this rumor spreads through Hooterville and right to Oliver's mother in New York! | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Wedding Anniversary" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 15, 1965 (1965-12-15) | 013 |
| It's the Douglases' wedding anniversary. Oliver remembers the date but cannot recall the exact number of years he and Lisa have been married. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "What Happened in Scranton?" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 22, 1965 (1965-12-22) | 014 |
| Lisa decides to bring a little culture and charm to Hooterville by means of a beauty parlor. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "How to Enlarge a Bedroom" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | December 29, 1965 (1965-12-29) | 015 |
| After persistent pleas from Lisa, Oliver agrees to have the bedroom enlarged. But Alf and Ralph, the contractors, rip the room apart and cannot finish it because they're only licensed for hen houses and chicken coops! | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Give Me Land, Lots of Land" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 5, 1966 (1966-01-05) | 016 |
| Oliver buys 140 acres (0.57 km2) of land adjoining his property, excluding the farmhouse on it. Lisa misunderstands and thinks the farmhouse is their new home. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 19, 1966 (1966-01-19) | 017 |
| Oliver discovers the only requirement to join the Hooterville Valley Fire Department is that he must play a musical instrument. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Lisa Bakes a Cake" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | January 26, 1966 (1966-01-26) | 018 |
| Oliver is annoyed when Lisa puts a listing in the new phone book: "Oliver Douglas, Attorney at Law." Unfortunately, nobody calls for his services. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Sprained Ankle, Country Style" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | February 2, 1966 (1966-02-02) | 019 |
| Oliver falls through the roof and sprains his ankle while putting up a TV antenna. And while Lisa takes care of him, almost everyone in Hooterville stops by to unintentionally annoy him or hog control of his TV. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "The Price of Apples" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | February 9, 1966 (1966-02-09) | 020 |
| Oliver's apple crop is ready to be harvested, but he must harvest and ship them himself after Pixley reserves the rest like every year. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "What's in a Name?" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | February 16, 1966 (1966-02-16) | 021 |
| Ralph, the lady carpenter, becomes enamored of Mr. Kimball, the county agent. However, he refuses to go out with a girl named Ralph. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "The Day of Decision" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | February 23, 1966 (1966-02-23) | 022 |
| Lisa must decide whether she and Oliver will remain on the farm or go back to New York. She decides yes and Oliver angrily prepares to leave. But Lisa reverses her decision after learning what happens to the animals after they're gone, so Oliver keeps his farm for six more months! | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "A Pig in a Poke" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 9, 1966 (1966-03-09) | 023 |
| Oliver and Lisa leave for New York to attend a reunion of the Harvard Alumni. They are unaware that the Ziffels' pig, Arnold, is a stowaway in the trunk of their car. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "The Deputy" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 16, 1966 (1966-03-16) | 025 |
| Sam Drucker is leaving on vacation, and talks Oliver into assuming his duties as deputy sheriff. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "Double Drick" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | March 23, 1966 (1966-03-23) | 026 |
| Oliver's generator breaks down and he decides it's finally time for the electric company to run power lines into his house. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "The Ballad of Molly Turgis" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | April 6, 1966 (1966-04-06) | 024 |
| There is a local superstition in Hooterville concerning an old hag named Molly Turgiss, who died twenty years before the Douglases came to town. | ||||||
| 27 | 27 | "Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | April 27, 1966 (1966-04-27) | 028 |
| It's a few days before Oliver's birthday, and Lisa goes out and buys the biggest and fanciest tractor she can find. But confusion causes it to be shipped to the Ziffels, who think Mr. and Mrs. Douglas gave it to them as a gift. Their being so generous for it makes it impossible to straighten things out and get their new tractor back. | ||||||
| 28 | 28 | "Send a Boy to College" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | May 4, 1966 (1966-05-04) | 027 |
| Oliver discovers that Eb has a way with sick animals and offers to put him through college. Eb is rejected because he never graduated from high school. | ||||||
| 29 | 29 | "Horse? What Horse?" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | May 11, 1966 (1966-05-11) | 029 |
| A horse follows Oliver home, but every time he tries to show it to his wife, the horse disappears. Lisa assumes that her husband is imagining things and calls a doctor. But Oliver soon thinks he's going mad too when he sees zebras, camels and a boxing kangaroo. Eventually it's revealed that they all escaped from the circus. | ||||||
| 30 | 30 | "The Rains Came" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay: Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat Story: Howard Merrill and Stan Dreben |
May 18, 1966 (1966-05-18) | 031 |
| Mr. Haney sues Oliver for non-payment of a vital contract. He claims that his native american friend caused the rain that helped Oliver's crops grow, now he tries to prove it false and not have to pay Haney. | ||||||
| 31 | 31 | "Culture" | Richard L. Bare | Jay Sommers and Dick Chevillat | May 25, 1966 (1966-05-25) | 030 |
| The Every-Other-Wednesday-Afternoon-Discussion-Club decides that Hooterville needs a little "culture." | ||||||
| 32 | 32 | "Uncle Ollie" | Richard L. Bare | Dick Chevillat and Elon Packard | June 1, 1966 (1966-06-01) | 032 |
| Oliver's nephew arrives for a visit, and Oliver is shaken up when the boy turns out to be a beatnik. |
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