Green Acres (TV Series)

Home Is Where You Run Away From (1968)

Eddie Albert: Oliver Wendell Douglas

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• Gilbert Henshaw : Why did you move out there? Were you disbarred?

  Oliver Wendell Douglas : No. I came out here to get away from the rat race of the city. Out here where I could breathe the pure air

  [background fife begins playing "Yankee Doodle"] 

  Oliver Wendell Douglas : work the fertile soil. Where a man can plant his seeds and watch 'em shoot upwards toward the sun and the sky, like our forefathers did. The farmer's the backbone of America. It's his gnarled hands, aching back that gives America its great strength. Without the farmer...

  Gilbert Henshaw : How do you do that?

  Oliver Wendell Douglas : How do I do what?

  Gilbert Henshaw : Talk and play the fife at the same time?

• Eustace Charleton Haney : [describing the dress modeled by Nancy]  Now this is a copy of a gen-u-wine imitation of an original Parisian design stolen by...

  Oliver Wendell Douglas : I'm looking for something for an 8-year-old boy.

  Eustace Charleton Haney : You couldn't get anything better for an 8-year-old boy than little Nancy!