untill the other day I did not know there was a radio show called Granbys Green Acres with the same plot. It had the character of Eb and Hank Kimbell and I think the Ziffels. Does anybody know if Paul Henning did anything with Granbys Green Acres.

untill the other day I did not know there was a radio show called Granbys Green Acres with the same plot. It had the character of Eb and Hank Kimbell and I think the Ziffels. Does anybody know if Paul Henning did anything with Granbys Green Acres.

Jay Sommers Wrote and produced Granby's Green Acres for CBS Radio in Summer 1950. Henning took the concept and set it in Hooterville..Henning was producer of the Green Acres TV series and Jay Sommers was credited as show creator.

I have a bit more detail in another thread along with a link to listen to 4 episodes


http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=174035

thanks for the info Tim

...was a short-lived summer replacement series for half of "LUX RADIO THEATER" in July-August of 1950 {CBS, 9:30-10pm(et)}, and lasted for about 7 episodes. Jay Sommers was the creator/producer and head writer, and Gale Gordon & Bea Benaderet co-starred as John & Martha Granby. Louise Errickson was their teenage daughter, and Parley Baer was Eb Dawson. The format and supporting characters was slightly different from the TV version Sommers collaborated with Paul Henning on, but the premise was the same: a "city slicker" tries to live the life of a farmer, and his troubles along the way in adapting to a rural setting. In fact, "GREEN ACRES" wouldn't have become a TV show if Jim Aubrey, CBS' chief programmer before he was fired in early 1965, hadn't begged Henning to deliver a follow-up program to "PETTICOAT JUNCTION". Somehow, Jay Sommers pitched his original radio idea, and the rest is history.

...."GRANBY'S GREEN ACRES" was heard over CBS Radio on Monday nights as a "sustaining" series {no sponsors, just network promos and psa's} in the summer of 1950 (as a partial summer replacement for "LUX RADIO THEATER"); and this little known fact to anyone except those who've seen the first two seasons of "PETTICOAT JUNCTION" [the 1963-'65 black & white episodes]: Jay Sommers was executive producer of the series at the time Paul Henning was pressured by CBS' Jim Aubrey to come up with another rural-based series in early 1965. Sommers offered his idea, and the rest is history. Sommers continued his duties on "PETTICOAT JUNCTION" during the first half-season of "GREEN ACRES" until he devoted his full-time energies to the latter in early 1966.

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