First Aired: Oct. 11, 1967 on CBS

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Season 3 » Episode #06 - A Kind Word For the President

Green Acres - 03x06 A Kind Word For the President

Summary: Now that he's president, Oliver attempts to make changes at the Hooterville Phone Company.

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Guest Stars:

Mr. Haney played by Pat Buttram
Mr. Roy Trendell played by Robert Foulk
Sarah Hotchkiss Trendell played by Merie Earle

Episode Quotes

Oliver Wendell Douglas: Where's all the food you're gonna cook?
Lisa Douglas: [holds up small plastic bag containing white granules] In here.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: Oh boy.
Lisa Douglas: This is a bag of Dee Dee's dehydrofacated Mason-Dixon chicken dinner.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: Dee Dee's dehydrofacated - ?
Lisa Douglas: That means without water.
Lisa Douglas: [to Oliver] Two weeks ago, you were nothing but a plain old farmer, planting your little seeds in the ground and watching them shoosting and now you are the president of the telephone company. Why, yours is a regular Horatio Algebra story!
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Trivia

  • A bag of Dee Dee's Dehydrated Mason-Dixon Chicken Dinner dropped into a quart of boiling water produces fried chicken, corn muffins, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, and apple pie. Also available, Dee Dee's Dehydrated New England Boiled Dinner, and Dee Dee's New Orleans Pompano Dinner with a dehydrated bottle of wine.
  • Alf and Ralph Monroe complain about their costly phone bill: $8.20 for six months service.
  • Looking over the Hooterville Phone Company books, Oliver estimates Roy Trendall lost $6000 on the business last year.
  • The Hooterville Chamber of Commerce votes to give Oliver a $1.35-a-plate testimonial dinner at the Pixley Diner.