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05-14-2004, 10:00 AM

The 48 hour marathon will be the first 96 episodes in order:

Saturday, May 22
6:00AM #1 "Oliver Buys a Farm" New York lawyer Oliver Douglas longs to live on a farm, so he quits his job at the law firm and moves to Hooterville. Lisa sees the farmhouse and explodes.
6:30AM #2 "Lisa's First Day On the Farm" Lisa takes one look at the farm — and for her, one look's plenty.
7:00AM #3 "The Decorator" Lisa discovers that farm life means learning to cook.
7:30AM #4 "The Best Laid Plans" It is rumored that Lisa has left Oliver and moved back to New York, when actually she has returned to retrieve their furniture.
8:00AM #5 "My Husband, the Rooster Renter" Oliver begins repairs on the house, calling in a plumber, a roofer and an agricultural expert. Oliver finds he must rent a rooster and a hen from Mr. Haney in order for the rooster to crow each morning.
8:30AM #6 "Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?" The Douglas' furniture is accidentally sent to Mr. Haney who tries to sell it back to them.
9:00AM #7 "Neighborlines" Oliver gets help from the other farmers when he finds he will not be able to get his field plowed in time for planting.
9:30AM #8 "Lisa, The Helpmate" Oliver has his soil tested by the State Scientific College and finds it is full of strange ingredients.
10:00AM #9 "You Can't Plug in a 2 With a 6" Lisa burns out the generator, just when Oliver has to hear the farm report so he can decide whether or not to plant crops using Mrs. Ziffel's unfailingly accurate lumbago as a predictor.
10:30AM #10 "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" The phone company installs Oliver's telephone with only enough wire to reach the top of the telephone pole
11:00AM #11 "Parity Begins at Home" Oliver learns that he is not allowed to plant his fields with just wheat; if he does he will be fined.
11:30AM #12 "Lisa Has a Calf" Oliver's mother and Mr. Haney both assume Lisa is expecting when Oliver tries to hide the fact that the cow is pregnant.
NOON #13 "The Wedding Anniversary" Oliver remembers his anniversary but doesn’t remember just how long he has been married.
12:30PM #14 "What Happened in Scranton" Lisa opens a beauty parlor in the town, causing trouble because the women now refuse to work on their farms for fear of messing up their hairstyles.
1:00PM #15 "How to Enlarge a Bedroom" Oliver begins work on the enlargement of his bedroom when a building inspector suddenly condemns the house.
1:30PM #16 "Give Me Land, Lots of Land" Oliver buys the land adjacent to his property while Lisa begins to fix up the house on the property, unaware that the house was not included in the sale.
2:00PM #17 "I Didn't Raise My Husband to Be a Fireman" Oliver is asked to join the Hooterville fire department, but only if he can play a musical instrument.
2:30PM #18 "Lisa Bakes a Cake" Oliver gets annoyed when Lisa puts a listing in the phone book claiming he is still practicing law, which he said he gave up when he became a farmer. Meantime, Lisa experiments in the kitchen.
3:00PM #19 "Sprained Ankle, Country Style" Oliver sprains his ankle putting up a TV antenna and never has a moments peace to recuperate.
3:30PM #20 "The Price of Apples (I)" Oliver plans to market his apples himself, but he finds he runs into difficulty trying to get them to the market to sell them.
4:00PM #21 "What's in a Name?" Ralph falls in love with Mr. Kimble, but he refuses to go out with her because her name is Ralph. Oliver assists Ralph’s attempt to change her name legally to Sophia.
4:30PM #22 "The Day of Decision" This is the day that Lisa decides whether she and Oliver stay or return to New York.
5:00PM #23 "A Pig in a Poke" Lisa and Oliver unknowingly bring Arnold, the pig, along to the Harvard. Oliver is the keynote speaker at the Law Society reunion. Guest Stars: Emory Parnell, Terry Phillips. Note: Actor and Musician Harry Dean Stanton has a small role in this episode.
5:30PM #24 "The Ballad of Molly Turgiss" Oliver composes a folk song about a legendary ghost.
6:00PM #25 "The Deputy" Mr. Sam Drucker makes Oliver the deputy sheriff while he goes on vacation. Oliver wants to show Lisa how his new handcuffs work, so he handcuffs himself to Lisa and then can’t find the key.
6:30PM #26 "Double Drick" Oliver’s faulty wiring is blamed as the cause of the power blackout in New York City. Guest Stars: Dave Willock, Jonathan Hole, Bill McLean
7:00PM #27 "Send a Boy to College" Oliver decides to help Eb become a veterinarian.
7:30PM #28 "Never Look a Gift Tractor in the Mouth" Lisa buys the biggest tractor she can find as Oliver's birthday present and Mr. Ziffel assumes it's his.
8:00PM #29 "Horse? What Horse?" A black spotted horse follows Oliver home, but disappears every time he wants to show it to Lisa.
8:30PM #30 "Culture" Lisa brings Leonard Bernstein to Hooterville.
9:00PM #31 "The Rains Came" Haney is suing Oliver because he did not pay him for the services of the Indian he rented to him to perform a rain dance.
9:30PM #32 "Uncle Ollie" Oliver's beatnik nephew visits.
10:00PM #33 "Wings Over Hooterville" The dreaded "bing bug" invades Hooterville, causing panic among the farmers. Oliver and Lisa also flashback to their first encounter in World War II.
10:30PM #34"The Ugly Duckling" Lisa performs an extreme makeover on Ralph.
11:00PM #35 "Water, Water Everywhere" Mr. Haney's well dries up, so he has a new well dug. As soon as Mr. Haney's new well is complete, the Douglas's water goes dry, and a chain reaction of dry wells resulots across the valley.
11:30PM #36 "How to See South America By Bus" Lisa gets jealous when Oliver is hired, for legal advice, by a beautiful and successful female farmer.
MIDNIGHT #37 "I Didn't Raise My Pig to Be a Soldier" Arnold is drafted. (this episode is mastered from a 16mm distribution print because the original negative is lost)
12:30AM #38 "One of Our Assemblymen is Missing" Everyone is worried about Mr. Douglas. It seems that no matter what things happens, he know longer loses his temper. Finally, something comes along that causes him to explode...The State Farm Unattached Duty Tax.
1:00AM #39 "The Good Old Days" Oliver reads to Lisa from a book entitled 40 Years A Farmer. Oliver and Lisa play the parts of Gus and Etta in a flashback fantasy sequence.
1:30AM #40 "Eb Discovers the Birds and the Bees" Eb falls head over heels in love with Betty Jo Bradley.
2:00AM #41 "The Hooterville Image" The people of Hooterville decide that Mr. Douglas doesn't fit in with "The Hooterville Image." They want him to wear overalls instead of one of his many suits.
2:30AM #42 "You Ought to Be in Pictures" The Hooterville Chamber of Commerce decides they need to find ways to bring outside money in (to Hooterville). After deciding that The Hooterville World's Fair or the Olympics won't work, they decide to have a Hollywood Motion Picture made in Hooterville.
3:00AM #43 "A Home Isn't Built in a Day" Lisa threatens to leave if Oliver doesn't finally fix up the house. Oliver hires an architect and contractor, plans are drawn up and it looks as if Green Acres is finally going to be turned into a real farm house.
3:30AM #44 "A Square is Not Round" The Douglas's have a chicken that is laying square eggs, the problem is, they don't know which one.
4:00AM #45 "It's So Peaceful in the Country" Eunice Douglas, Oliver's mother, is suffering from exhaustion, so her doctor recommends she visit Green Acres for a rest.
4:30AM #46 "An Old Fashioned Christmas" Oliver decides to have an old fashioned Christmas by chopping down a tree off his property. Mr. Haney warns him that it's against the law to chop down a tree on his own property.
5:00AM #47 "School Days" Lisa returns to Hooterville High School and causes problems in algebra and history class and wrecks the car in driver's education.
5:30AM #48 "Never Trust a Little Old Lady" Oliver cannot find an accurate means of predicting the weather in Hooterville. Most of the community relies on the TV newscast’s “little old lady” who steps out of a tiny clock with or without an umbrella.

Sunday, May 23
6:00AM #49 "It's So Peaceful in the Country" Oliver's mother comes to the farm for a visit.
6:30AM #50 "Exodus to Bleedwell" When another town offers defense plant jobs to the people of Hooterville, Oliver has the town council reactivate a defense contract from World War I.
7:00AM #51 "It's Human to Be Humane" Oliver discovers that their first year's profit on the farm is $16.42 and Lisa is very bored by the farming life. Oliver suggests she take up a hobby, so she becomes the head of the Hooterville Human Humane Committee.
7:30AM #52 "Never Take Your Wife to a Convention" Lisa and Oliver meet an ex-gangster who has turned farmer at a farm convention.
8:00AM #53 "Never Start Talking Unless Your Voice Comes Out" Oliver’s neighbors become suspicious when he gets a letter from Washington and won’t tell them what it is about.
8:30AM #54 "The Computer Age" Oliver tries to illustrate the prowess of computers to Lisa. To show they are accurate, he brings Lisa to a computer dating service to show that they are compatible. The computer determines they are incompatible and Lisa threatens to leave Oliver.
9:00AM #55 "The Beverly Hillbillies" The Hooterville players give a charity show performance of the “Beverly Hillbillies” in which Oliver plays Jethro, Lisa plays Granny and Mr. Kimble plays Jed.
9:30AM #56 "Lisa's Vegetable Garden" Lisa decides to plant her own vegetables.
10:00AM #57 "The Saucer Season" Oliver is upset that Lisa is still buying vegetables from Mr. Drucker's store and suggests that she does what every country wife does, grow her own.
10:30AM #58 "The Vulgar Ring Story" Lisa tells the story of why every fourth generation of her family had to marry an American man.
11:00AM #59 "Getting Even With Haney" Oliver represents the Ziffels in court when the washing machine Haney sold them goes berserk and nearly wrecks their farm.
11:30PM #60 "Kimball Gets Fired" Mr. Kimble is replaced just when he was saving up enough money to marry Ralph.
NOON #61 "Who's Lisa" Lisa gets hit on the head and loses her memory.
12:30PM #62 "My Mother the Countess" Lisa announces that her mother, the countess, is going to visit Hooterville, and the whole town becomes excited that royalty may be arriving.
1:00PM #63 "Music to Milk" Oliver buys Eb a radio which is later eaten by Eleanor the cow.
1:30PM #64 "The Man For the Job" Oliver is selected as a possible candidate for the office of State Senator.
2:00PM #65 "Love Comes to Arnold Ziffel" Arnold the pig falls in love with Haney’s basset hound Cynthia.
2:30PM #66 "Lisa's Jam Session" Lisa runs out of jam, unfortunately, Mr. Drucker doesn't sell jam, because all the Hooterville women make their own preserves. Not surprisingly, Lisa has a great deal of trouble making peach jam.
3:00PM #67 "Oliver Vs. the Phone Company" Oliver plans to take the phone company to court.
3:30PM #68 "Oliver Takes Over the Phone Company" Oliver and Lisa take over control of the phone company and make a mess of things.
4:00PM #69 "Don't Count Your Tomatoes Before They're Picked" Oliver plans to pick his own tomato crop.
4:30PM #70 "A Kind Word For the President" As president of the phone company, Oliver plans to have his phone moved inside the house and to raise the rates to balance the budget.
5:00PM #71 "Not Guilty" Eb is accused of stealing three hundred dollars from Sam Drucker’s safe when he shows up coincidentally with a new car that costs exactly three hundred dollars. Oliver goes to court to prove his innocence and explain the wild mix-up.
5:30PM #72 "Eb Elopes" Eb elopes and leaves Oliver to find a new hired hand. (Note: Tom Lester went on medical leave after contracting mononucleosis and was not seen for next six episodes.)
6:00PM #73 "The Thing" Oliver is furious that for the third year in a row he has received a $96.00 bill from The East River Van and Storage Company. Lisa doesn't remember what it is she stored, so Oliver demands they send it to him.
6:30PM #74 "Das Lumpen" Lisa tells the story of how Oliver and she first met during World War II.
7:00PM 075 "Won't You come Home, Arnold Ziffel" When Arnold turns up missing, Lisa thinks he has been pig-napped.
7:30PM 076 "Jealousy, English Style" Lisa thinks the farm symposium Oliver is planning to go to is really a stag party.
8:00PM #077 "Haney's New Image" Haney plans to buy back the farm from Oliver when he learns that a new highway might be going through the property.
8:30PM #078 "No Trespassing" Lisa talks Oliver into relaxing from farm duties and going on a picnic. At the lakeside picnic sight, Oliver sees a strange old man who keeps disappearing, and nobody will believe Oliver. When Oliver tells the others, they inform him the old man has been dead for years.
9:00PM #79 "Alf and Ralph Break Up" Ralph runs away from home and takes shelter in the Douglas home. Lisa consoles her because she and her brother, Alf, had a falling out.
9:30PM #80 "Eb Returns" After a supposed honeymoon, Eb returns to reveal that he had never been married at all. Lisa and Oliver had been planning a reception to welcome him home.
10:00PM #81 "Home Is Where You Run Away" From A young boy shows up at the Douglas farm, and he won’t reveal where he is from. Oliver investigates.
10:30PM #82 "Flight to Nowhere" The farmers of Hooterville are offered a good deal on a government chartered trip to Europe as part of an agriculture exchange program. Everyone except Oliver misunderstands the cost of the trip. And, of course, the wives want to go on the trip, too.
11:00PM #83 "How to Succeed in Television Without Really Trying" Lisa invests in the Hooterville Electronical Company and turns Oliver into an unwitting TV star.
11:30PM #84 "Arnold, Boy Hero" Bank robbers Barney and Clyde stick up the Pixley Bank and also take five dollars from Arnold Ziffel, who is opening a new account there. Arnold searches for the crooks and finds them harboring at the Douglas farm, holding Lisa and Oliver hostage.
MIDNIGHT #085 "The Spring Festival" Lisa initiates plans for a spring festival celebration in Hooterville.
12:30AM 086 - Our Son, the Barber Eb decides he wants to cut hair and talks Oliver into paying for a mail-order tonsorial course.
1:00AM 087 - Oliver's Jaded Past After two years on the farm, Oliver takes Lisa on a promised trip back to New York. Lisa finds out what the real Oliver Douglas is like.
1:30AM 088 - The Hungarian Curse Lazlo Broslav, a Hungarian visitor, comes to stay with Lisa and Oliver.
2:00AM 089 - The Rutabaga Story Oliver wants all the farmers to plant rutabagas as primary cash crops so Hooterville will become the rutabaga capitol of the world. The town goes overboard and plans a Rutabaga Bowl football game with USC, including extensive network television coverage.
2:30AM 090 - Instant Family When an expectant mother at Sam Drucker’s store goes into labor, Oliver takes her to the hospital while Lisa arranges for her seven children to live at the Douglas farm for a while. Oliver is driven crazy catering to the children’s requests and transporting them to and from school.
3:00AM 091 - A Star Named Arnold Is Born Part 1 After Arnold makes an appearance in the local community theater production, Lisa helps him get an interview with an old friend who is a Hollywood producer.
3:30AM 092 - A Star Named Arnold is Born Part 2 Oliver and Lisa chaperone Arnold’s trip to Hollywood, where he lands a starring role in a motion picture.
4:00AM 093 - Guess Who's Not Coming to the Luau? All of Hooterville enters a contest with the grand prize being a free trip to Hawaii. Arnold the Pig wins but chooses not to go when he learns a pig roast is included in the trip’s luau.
4:30AM 094 - The Rummage Sale Lisa and Oliver search for some old clothes to donate to the rummage sale, but they cannot find anything they want to part with. Lisa refuses to give away any gowns because they hold too many memories.
5:00AM 095 - Hail to the Fire Chief Uncle Joe Carson names Oliver assistant fire chief in hopes that the promotion will urge Oliver to fund Joe’s trip to the annual convention of fire chiefs.
5:30AM 096 - Eb's Romance Eb attempts to impress his fiancee’s father by pretending to be the son of a wealthy Hootervillian.