10 US Sitcoms Aussie Kids Grew Up With In The 80s

10. Green Acres

15 September 1965 €“ 27 April 1971. 6 seasons. 170 episodes New York City lawyer Oliver Douglas and his city-loving wife Lisa give up the high life and move to a run down farm in the country. Oliver's wanted to be a farmer all his life and he finally decides he's over NYC when he sees an ad for a 160 acre farm that's for sale in a place called Hooterville. He convinces Lisa to give it a try for six months. The show lasted for six years. The rest of the series deals with the Douglas's adjustments to life at Green Acres, the weird-ass Hooterville locals and all the oddball situations that such wildly clashing views of the ideal way of life can create. On the surface it was typical sitcom fare, but most episodes were driven by the absurd, with eccentric plots and bizarre concepts. Example: episode 141, "The Beeping Rock". A local child claims to've come back from the moon with a rock. One character communicates with the child via a two-way radio embedded in a dress ring on his right pinkie and the child delivers the rock to Green Acres driving a solar-powered timber go-cart propelled by a washing machine motor. When the rock starts beeping Oliver takes it to a doctor to be x-rayed to discover its contents. Later, Arnold the pig begins oinking at the rock and the rock beeps back. The rest of the series' 169 episodes were more-or-less as weird. One particular aspect of Green Acres never made sense: despite the premise of fine living and high standards established in the first episode, by episode 170 the exterior of the house was still as rundown as the day it was bought, the walls were still dirty and covered in peeling wallpaper and the Douglas's still had to climb a telegraph pole to make phone calls.