14 Facts about Green Acres

During the 60s Green Acres was the place to be.

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I can still remember the Green Acres theme song. It’s one of the catchiest in the history of TV. The show itself was a pretty good ratings getter for CBS in the 60s. Eventually, however, like The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, it ran afoul of the great CBS rural purge of the early 70s.

So here’s a look back at Green Acres. How much of this do you remember?

1: Arnold Ziffel was the only member of the cast to win an acting award.

Arnold won the PATSY, which stands for Picture Animal Top Star of the Year. I understand, like Brando, Arnold was a method actor and stayed in character all the time.

2: Arnold’s dad, Fred Ziffel, was played by Hank Patterson who was deaf.

To work around that situation Hank had a dialogue coach tap him on the leg with a yardstick when it was time for him to deliver his line. That must have been a fun set when the Ziffels were shooting a scene.

It seems ironic that the man instead of the animal prodded by a stick.

3: Even death didn’t part the Douglases.