FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

George Redding It seemed that, as the saying goes, that if you saw it once you saw it a million times, and I feel that the show was more stupid as the years went along. I was definitely impressed, I will say, with the veteran actor Eddie Albert (who played Jeff Douglas) and the appealing actress Eva Gabor, who played his wife who in the series was a high society lady from New York, did a good turn at her role. The other actors were there for decorative purposes only. The basic story line: a man goes to New York to study law and there meets the fashionable lady from the Big Apple itself whom he marries before they return to his dystopic hometown Hooterville, a corny farce of a country town. Think about the stupidity of the thing: when the telephone rang someone there had to step outside on the phone pole to answer it. And too, the county agent, (played by Alvy Moore) literally could not remember one thing to the next when anyone was speaking to him. Pat Buttram, (Gene Autry's sidekick from back in the '30's)tried to sell Eb a coat for that boy who was planning to go to college (though Eb ended up not going); the coat was an anachronism: it was a raccoon-collared coat for boys who went to college in the twenties. And too, far more ridiculous than that, the pig Arnold Ziffel was trying to be a movie star in Hollywood! REALLY! Nominally it was a comedy, but at the same time it was an insult to people's intelligence. It was an absurdity replete with a multitude of far too many groaners, and I personally feel that that is being diplomatic to say that.

ruffy-43-99630 Hands Down, the best show, comedy or otherwise, ever on TV. Subtle comedy that many just "don't get" need a certain sense of humor to really appreciate the sheer genius of writing and acting. Oliver is so surrounded by nuts he begins to wonder if he's the one who is nuts and everybody else is 'normal'. Eva Gabor has a real-life sense of humor previously unknown and brought to life. Frank Cady as Sam Drucker cannot be praised enough, Tom Lester as Eb were also so very very good at their roles driving Oliver to the point of most people run screaming pulling out their hair, and at the risk of leaving anybody out, not one actor/actress failed in what the writers and directors wanted, maybe even improvising. No show has ever given as many belly-laughs to tears.

SanteeFats I love this series!!! I think it is funny as heck. It is somewhat absurd because you have a New York lawyer running around doing farm work in a suit vest, tie, and slacks but that is also part of its rural charm. Also Ava Gabor is out there as the wife who is almost always in designer gowns, is extremely helpful to the local women and high school girls, loaning out her very expensive clothes at the least excuse. The support cast is great with Haney as the con artist and Sam Drucker as the everything official. It is just a great old time show that has with stood the changes in American TV. Too bad it was cancelled along with Petticoat Junction and the Beverly Hillbillies when some moronic CEO got in and decided they were no longer worth doing!!!

Jeffrey R. Dzik I watched this show every Saturday night on and off with my babysitter through much of its run. For someone 10-15 years old, it was funny slapstick with eccentric characters. As an adult, recently, I reviewed the DVD's and discussed it with other adults. Oliver was supposed to be the "voice of reason" although he reveals that he can be a bit eccentric himself. Lisa is the ardent consumer. Mr. Haney is the capitalist and Mr. Kimball is the inefficient bureaucrat. You've got Mr. Drucker trying to sell whatever he can get his hands on. The Monroe brothers represent the shady repairmen we deal with everyday who can't fix it right the first time. Others are just simple country folk. The show mimics real life in many ways and the real humor is how Oliver Wendell Douglas deals with the incompetent, inept bureaucrats and society as a whole. Kudos to the cast of supporting characters. I loved Barbara Pepper as Doris Ziffel. Eva Gabor was wonderful as was Eddie Albert, one of the great "straight man' roles of television.