What was Arnold's last name?
How did they make a telephone call?
What made the wife "get allergic"?
Name the nearby towns.
Ziffle
Climb a phone pole and use a hand crank phone
Housework
Hooterville
"I get allergic smelling hay..."
Pixley, too.
it's still on.. I set my DVR to record them. my wife thinks I'm nuts. She's right.
On a side note, I used to live near a gravel road "Green Acre Road".. it was THE place for road parties since there were no houses and just corn as far as you could see. and my house was within walking distance to boot! gotta love rural illinois in the 80's!
It was right down the track from Petticoat Junction.
Name the Engineer and Conductor on the train.....
Arnold Ziffle used to own several lots here in our small town. The "Consultant" that started the computer based tax mapping system here in the 80's used that name for any lot they could not identify to real owner.
It took several years for the Appraisal District to fix a lot of the problem areas but it was done right when the local people got through.
James
Got to agree about those corn shrouded, rural Illinois roads. A good time had by all, those were the days! Kind of glad we're not there now, since I've got two kids in high school!
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In honor of the wonderful Eva Gabor, I believe that would be "Hootersville".
Misses Ziffle was HOT!;-)
I can't remember her real name, but in her younger days, Mrs. Ziffle was a looker and a starlet.
I believe both of you are thinking of Eva Gabor who played the wife of Oliver Wendell Douglas. Mrs. Ziffle was the "mother" of Arnold the pig. That role was played by Barbara Pepper according to IMDB.
Barbara Pepper
Date of Birth
31 May 1915, New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
18 July 1969, Panorama City, California, USA (coronary thrombosis)
Birth Name
Marion Pepper
Mini Biography
Barbara Pepper was pure "dame" through and through. Along with other flashy character broads of the 1930s such as Iris Adrian, Joan Blondell and Veda Ann Borg, Barbara had a hard-boiled style all her own. Most people remember her from the late 1960s as the shrill, slovenly barnyard neighbor of Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor on TV's "Green Acres" (1965) who played "mother" to a TV-watching pig named "Arnold Ziffel." It's hard to imagine, then, that this hefty, porcine-like actress was once a blue-eyed, platinum-blonde knockout and former Ziegfeld/Goldwyn Girl.
Barbara was born Marion Pepper in New York City in 1915. By age 16, her mind was already set for a show biz career. Within a short time and against her parents' wishes, she nabbed a show girl spot in Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s Follies and changed her first name to Barbara. Here is where she met fellow chorine Lucille Ball and the two became dedicated friends. Barbara soon integrated radio and film work as well, paying her dues primarily in bit parts as saloon girls, clerks, chippies, and the like. Her film debut was as a slave girl extra (along with Lucy) in Eddie Cantor's Roman Scandals (1933). A couple of movies gave her the chance for brassy stardom, including Our Daily Bread (1934) as a floozie named Sally, and a love interest role opposite comedian Bert Wheeler (of Wheeler and Woolsey) in Mummy's Boys (1936), but the roles were basically one-dimensional and she remained in the secondary ranks. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds and the marriage seemed a happy one. In 1949, however, her husband died tragically in a motorcycle accident. Barbara was absolutely devastated. Overwhelmed with her loss and the prospect of raising two sons alone, severe depression and a debilitating alcohol problem set in. Her weight ballooned, her looks and voice grew bloated and coarse, and she could only muster up tiny roles on film and TV as various comic snoops and harridans. Friends like Lucy stepped in to help. Over the years, Barbara would be glimpsed several times on "I Love Lucy" (1951), including the "Friends of the Friendless" episode and as a frightened hospital nurse who is taken aback by "Ricky Ricardo"'s severe voodoo make-up when Lucy gives birth. Barbara also appeared occasionally on Jack Benny's show and the "Perry Mason" (1957) series playing various small but colorful characters.
In the 1960s, Barbara was glimpsed as a minor fat foil for Jerry Lewis in several of his slapstick film vehicles. One bright note and a steady paycheck came her way toward the very end of her career when she copped the role of "Doris Ziffel" on "Green Acres" (1965) in 1965 with the nearly-deaf crusty veteran character actor Hank Patterson as her dirt-farmer husband Fred. Although "son" Arnold the Pig received more fan mail than the two put together, Barbara was fun in her cranky role. But the fun wouldn't last. Her health deteriorated rapidly during the run of the show and she was eventually forced to give up the part during the 1968-1969 season, with actress Fran Ryan taking over the wifely chores. Plagued by a heart condition, Barbara died of a coronary in July, 1969, at the age of 54, looking at least a decade older, if not more.
Radar
That would be Rufe Davis as Floyd Smoot and Smiley Burnett as Charley Pratt.
Here's a Challenge
What is: Geen beter leven dan het buitenleven
Here's a Challenge
I couldn't agree more...except for the mosquitos.
Mijn moeders familie was Nederlanders.
