This wasn't much of a Green Acres episode. Seemed to be more like a pilot for a spinoff. The last two episodes of the series both seemed like it.
10 Reviews
Spinoff ??
jimmy-376546 May 2021
Turkey Time
rod_burley2049 April 2021
An absolute dud in the series. Horrible script, acting and minimal screen time for Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor.
Meant to be a pilot for a new series, which CBS smartly passed on it. Switch to the next channel, should this ever air during reruns!!
Meant to be a pilot for a new series, which CBS smartly passed on it. Switch to the next channel, should this ever air during reruns!!
The death knell for "Green Acres".....avoid this episode if you love the show.
planktonrules11 November 2016
Through the 1960s and into the early 70s, CBS television had several very, very successful TV shows all set in rural settings. "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" were all produced by the same production company and made CBS a top network as did the network's "Andy Griffith Show". But with changing times came an edict from the network execs that these shows should be canceled...even though they still had excellent ratings. Apparently more gritty and realistic shows like "All in the Family" were the future for CBS. So, with the writing on the wall, the makers of "Green Acres" decided to try their hand at non-rural comedies. This particular episode of "Green Acres" as well as the next (and final) were Filmway's pilots for two new shows...and at least in the case of "Hawaiian Honeymoon" I am thrilled the series was never approved by the network!
This episode of "Green Acres" has no cast from this show other than Oliver (Eddie Albert)) and Lisa (Eva Gabor). They are the tenuous connection between this show and the TV pilot. Out of no where, Lisa announces they're going to Hawaii on a second honeymoon...and soon the location switches to 'Hawaii' (actually it's obviously just made in some sound stage with sloppy rear projection of Hawaiian scenery). It's set in a hotel where the manager (Don Porter) has a 'kooky' (in other words, dopey and annoying) daughter with an inexplicable English accent. What follows is a far from hilarious mix-up where the Douglas family AND the manager's daughter's friends share the same suite...though they don't know it.
So why did I give this one a 2? Well, there are also 2 reasons. First, it's a terrible episode of "Green Acres" and has nothing to do with the great show. Second, there isn't a single laugh within the show...none. No wonder the network passed on this lame pilot...I don't see how they could have green lighted this awful mess of a show!!
By the way, I don't normally review individual episodes of this show but this one is so god-awful I am reviewing it in the hope that I save you the pain of experiencing it!
This episode of "Green Acres" has no cast from this show other than Oliver (Eddie Albert)) and Lisa (Eva Gabor). They are the tenuous connection between this show and the TV pilot. Out of no where, Lisa announces they're going to Hawaii on a second honeymoon...and soon the location switches to 'Hawaii' (actually it's obviously just made in some sound stage with sloppy rear projection of Hawaiian scenery). It's set in a hotel where the manager (Don Porter) has a 'kooky' (in other words, dopey and annoying) daughter with an inexplicable English accent. What follows is a far from hilarious mix-up where the Douglas family AND the manager's daughter's friends share the same suite...though they don't know it.
So why did I give this one a 2? Well, there are also 2 reasons. First, it's a terrible episode of "Green Acres" and has nothing to do with the great show. Second, there isn't a single laugh within the show...none. No wonder the network passed on this lame pilot...I don't see how they could have green lighted this awful mess of a show!!
By the way, I don't normally review individual episodes of this show but this one is so god-awful I am reviewing it in the hope that I save you the pain of experiencing it!
Dreadful, unfunny
Tyypo30 September 2021
My title pretty much sums it up. It's not really as much a Green Acres episode (as has been pointed out) as a failed pilot for a proposed new series. The new characters had zero chemistry or likability, and it was agonizing to watch. It was a terrible way to waste one of the last episodes of the show, completely dishonoring to the established cast.
Awful Pilot That Never Flew
hogwrassler10 September 2020
I agree with the review by MartinHafer, except that I can only give this episode one star. There really isn't a single laugh. The basic premise of this failed spinoff was that the free spirited, young daughter of the conservative hotel owner would run rings around him breaking all the rules and doing wonderful favors for her wonderful friends. Pamela, the daughter, gives the honeymoon to her two nice but poor buddies who can't afford a tent. The problem is that the Oliver and Lisa have the suite reserved. So, the hip hotel staff has to keep the two couples from running into one another. Don, the hotel owner, is an American while daughter Pamela speaks with an English accent. He explains that "my daughter was raised and educated in England." No explanation as to why, when he was living in Hawaii. This must have been a CBS effort to attract a younger audience with young, hip, attractive kids breaking all the rules and teaching their elders how wonderful is to be a rebel. The problem is that it just isn't funny or interesting. No wonder CBS passed on it.
Two stars, one for Eddie and one for Eva
david-thor25 April 2023
A terrible episode; the supporting cast was gone and Richard L. Bare, one of the best directors in television history, wisely had no part in this. Jay Sommers must have already known about the "rural purge" that CBS was about to execute. Not funny, entirely forgettable, and perhaps there were some sort of contractual issues that forced this, and the next, episode to be created out of nothing. These two final episodes are a sad way to end a classic satire of rural life. There is one scene with a couple, the woman in yellow and the man in white, where you actually see the man mouthing the woman's script. Two stars for the two stars, zero otherwise.
Fun, attempted series pilot starring the wonderful Pamela Franklin
smithbea11 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I enjoyed this ep very much. No problem if Lisa and Oliver are the only GA regular characters in it (other eps sometimes had only them in them). Oliver is, however, a weak character once more (rather typical for the sixth season) as Lisa interrupts most of what he is saying or trying to say.
On other points
Pamela Franklin was sexy and beautiful at just 21 and she plays Pamela Carter, the college-student daughter of a man who runs a hotel. Don Porter was fine as her dad. This show certainly would have been a fun enough series had it took off as a weekly TV program. It could have been innocent enough too if they just stayed away from the actually-appropriate-for America-Vietnam War issues (see my postings). Actually also, by the time this was made the war in Nam was winding down for America.
On other points
Pamela Franklin was sexy and beautiful at just 21 and she plays Pamela Carter, the college-student daughter of a man who runs a hotel. Don Porter was fine as her dad. This show certainly would have been a fun enough series had it took off as a weekly TV program. It could have been innocent enough too if they just stayed away from the actually-appropriate-for America-Vietnam War issues (see my postings). Actually also, by the time this was made the war in Nam was winding down for America.
There are too (two) laughs in this episode!
pmike-113126 January 2022
While others here have said there were no laughs in this horrendous episode, there are in fact two. Both attributable to Lisa (Eva Gabor). She was great! (the phoney seaside background with the non-moving ocean waves was good for a chuckle, as well).
A Dreadfully Dull show, a would-be pilot with no laughs
FlushingCaps8 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The previous episode where Lisa studies psychology was really the last episode of this series. This one and the follow-up were both pilots for proposed new series that never came close to being picked up by a network. They only seem decent when compared to the rubbish that's on TV in the last 20 years.
Here we have Lisa telling Oliver when they wake up one day that she had a dream that Oliver was taking a trip and moments later he agrees to a fifth honeymoon trip to Hawaii. The series would have been about Gidget's TV father, Don Porter, playing a man named Bob Carter who is manager of a hotel in Hawaii, who is forever troubled by his college-age daughter, Pam, played by Sally Field, err, Pamela Franklin. Really, the premise was very close to that short-lived TV series of a few seasons earlier.
It seems the daughter loves to interfere with her father's work and love life-he is apparently widowed-no mention was ever made about Pam having a mother. We learn she was raised by an aunt in England, for reasons not mentioned either. So Pam has an English accent, but Dad doesn't. Laughing yet?
Pam has two young friends who are getting married and they cannot afford a cheap motel for a honeymoon. No mention is made for how they are going to support themselves if they cannot even afford a one-night stay in a cheap motel. Pam says he dad will put them up in the honeymoon suite at his hotel-and promises she will ask dad before they arrive tomorrow night.
But when she gets back to the hotel later, a noisy rock band is playing in the lobby, to the great annoyance of Bob, who didn't know anything about it Pam scheduling an audition for them. I didn't quite get why they would just set up and start playing without the guy they are to audition for being present, but what do I know about show business? Bob tells her he doesn't want to see any more of her college friends in the hotel.
So of course Pam goes ahead with her scheme without telling Dad-what could go wrong?
We see the entire wedding scene-I guess to fill in the time because nothing happened that was even supposed to be funny there. It was perhaps the briefest wedding service in history. We heard the "Dearly beloved, we are gathered sentence." Then we heard the minister at this beach wedding ask "Do you take this man?" "I do." "Do you take this woman?" "I do." I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." That was the entire wedding? As the great Hawaiian detective Harry Hoo, on Get Smart, would say, "Amazing." There was no "to have and to hold," "in sickness and in health," or "Who gives this woman?"
We are treated to another scene with the Douglases. On the airplane they are quietly chatting and a woman seating in front of them is eavesdropping. She seems concerned when they mention taking the honeymoon suite even though they didn't get married (not understanding the implied "this time.") Then the pilot stops to chat with them, and he turns out to be an old friend of Oliver's from the Army Air Corps names Jack _____. This is to set up a later scene when he walks through the seats again and Lisa calls out, "Hi Jack!" alarming the lady in front.
Pam's friends sneak into the hotel and she puts them up in this honeymoon suite that was large enough to be occupied by two dozen people. I understand fancy hotels have rooms and suites sometimes larger than the places I can afford. But the door from the hallway opened to a gigantic central room, with two enormous bedrooms on either side. That's right. The "Honeymoon Suite" has two large bedrooms, either of them as big as an entire suite at a typical hotel. If we want to accept that some honeymooners take their honeymoon with their children-can't imagine anyone not having the kids stay with someone else if they are getting married a second time-what I cannot accept is that a hotel that, as depicted here, has one honeymoon suite and that one has two bedrooms. For almost all honeymooners, one bedroom would be all they would want to pay for.
Pam doesn't find out about the Douglases wanting this suite until she has let her friends into their bedroom, when Dad brings Oliver and Lisa in. She manages to direct them, awkwardly, into the opposite bedroom and after insulting Oliver twice by suggesting-for no reason we can figure-that he has both rheumatism and arthritis, she is asked to leave by her dad.
So to get her friends out of there before they are discovered, she tries phoning the suite. Oliver answers and despite having just heard his voice in person, she fails to notice it doesn't sound anything like her friend, and quickly says, "Pack your bags and leave immediately." Next, Oliver phones for champagne and caviar and Pam intercepts this call and takes care of it herself.
She doesn't knock on the door, just walks in-which doesn't match any room service I've ever seen. She carries the tray with the food and drink over to her friends' bedroom, knocks on the door and the guy answers, thanks her for the treat and ignores her when she tries to tell him it's not for him. If at all smart enough for college, would have told him what he needed to hear, but she lets him close the door and leaves him. Oliver hears something, comes out of his room, sees her across the big living room near the other bedroom door and is not concerned that she has entered his suite and is walking around in there without knocking. He asks what she wants, as though she has just knocked on the door. She says, "I just wanted to see if you have enough ashtrays."
She leaves. Now the real honeymooners have enjoyed their food, eaten much of the caviar and drunk most of the champagne, and like most of this show, for reasons that make no sense, the guy brings the tray out of his enormous bedroom and places it on the table in the living room. He doesn't put it in the hallway, but thought it important to walk 20 feet away from his bedroom, when there was plenty of space in the bedroom to leave it.
So Oliver comes out a bit later and sees the tray on the table. Again he is not concerned that room service entered his suite without knocking, and isn't troubled that they just left it on this table for him to find. He is, of course, troubled that most of the food and drink is gone. He calls the lobby, again gets Pam, and asks to speak to the manager. She lies-this comes quite naturally to her-and says he's not there. But Bob has entered the room and he tells Oliver he'll be right up when told something is very odd.
Now Pam maneuvers her dad into taking some female customer to cocktails saying she will take care of the problem in the honeymoon suite. This man has just personally told a guest that he will be right up. Suddenly, he's willing to go off on an unplanned visit with this woman-he can't tell her he'll meet her in a few minutes but right now he has a problem to take care of? Of course he would fulfill the promise to Oliver.
So Pam goes back to the super-suite and again enters on her own and tries to get to her friends but is found by Oliver who again heard someone in his hotel suite, but doesn't seem to be bothered by that. He sees the young couple, hears how they were put in the same suite as he and Lisa and the Douglases quickly decide to share their suite with the youngsters and everyone's happy-except the viewers who watched this thinking it would provide them with a laugh or two. We wuz robbed. I give it a 2 because I'm in a good mood.
Here we have Lisa telling Oliver when they wake up one day that she had a dream that Oliver was taking a trip and moments later he agrees to a fifth honeymoon trip to Hawaii. The series would have been about Gidget's TV father, Don Porter, playing a man named Bob Carter who is manager of a hotel in Hawaii, who is forever troubled by his college-age daughter, Pam, played by Sally Field, err, Pamela Franklin. Really, the premise was very close to that short-lived TV series of a few seasons earlier.
It seems the daughter loves to interfere with her father's work and love life-he is apparently widowed-no mention was ever made about Pam having a mother. We learn she was raised by an aunt in England, for reasons not mentioned either. So Pam has an English accent, but Dad doesn't. Laughing yet?
Pam has two young friends who are getting married and they cannot afford a cheap motel for a honeymoon. No mention is made for how they are going to support themselves if they cannot even afford a one-night stay in a cheap motel. Pam says he dad will put them up in the honeymoon suite at his hotel-and promises she will ask dad before they arrive tomorrow night.
But when she gets back to the hotel later, a noisy rock band is playing in the lobby, to the great annoyance of Bob, who didn't know anything about it Pam scheduling an audition for them. I didn't quite get why they would just set up and start playing without the guy they are to audition for being present, but what do I know about show business? Bob tells her he doesn't want to see any more of her college friends in the hotel.
So of course Pam goes ahead with her scheme without telling Dad-what could go wrong?
We see the entire wedding scene-I guess to fill in the time because nothing happened that was even supposed to be funny there. It was perhaps the briefest wedding service in history. We heard the "Dearly beloved, we are gathered sentence." Then we heard the minister at this beach wedding ask "Do you take this man?" "I do." "Do you take this woman?" "I do." I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride." That was the entire wedding? As the great Hawaiian detective Harry Hoo, on Get Smart, would say, "Amazing." There was no "to have and to hold," "in sickness and in health," or "Who gives this woman?"
We are treated to another scene with the Douglases. On the airplane they are quietly chatting and a woman seating in front of them is eavesdropping. She seems concerned when they mention taking the honeymoon suite even though they didn't get married (not understanding the implied "this time.") Then the pilot stops to chat with them, and he turns out to be an old friend of Oliver's from the Army Air Corps names Jack _____. This is to set up a later scene when he walks through the seats again and Lisa calls out, "Hi Jack!" alarming the lady in front.
Pam's friends sneak into the hotel and she puts them up in this honeymoon suite that was large enough to be occupied by two dozen people. I understand fancy hotels have rooms and suites sometimes larger than the places I can afford. But the door from the hallway opened to a gigantic central room, with two enormous bedrooms on either side. That's right. The "Honeymoon Suite" has two large bedrooms, either of them as big as an entire suite at a typical hotel. If we want to accept that some honeymooners take their honeymoon with their children-can't imagine anyone not having the kids stay with someone else if they are getting married a second time-what I cannot accept is that a hotel that, as depicted here, has one honeymoon suite and that one has two bedrooms. For almost all honeymooners, one bedroom would be all they would want to pay for.
Pam doesn't find out about the Douglases wanting this suite until she has let her friends into their bedroom, when Dad brings Oliver and Lisa in. She manages to direct them, awkwardly, into the opposite bedroom and after insulting Oliver twice by suggesting-for no reason we can figure-that he has both rheumatism and arthritis, she is asked to leave by her dad.
So to get her friends out of there before they are discovered, she tries phoning the suite. Oliver answers and despite having just heard his voice in person, she fails to notice it doesn't sound anything like her friend, and quickly says, "Pack your bags and leave immediately." Next, Oliver phones for champagne and caviar and Pam intercepts this call and takes care of it herself.
She doesn't knock on the door, just walks in-which doesn't match any room service I've ever seen. She carries the tray with the food and drink over to her friends' bedroom, knocks on the door and the guy answers, thanks her for the treat and ignores her when she tries to tell him it's not for him. If at all smart enough for college, would have told him what he needed to hear, but she lets him close the door and leaves him. Oliver hears something, comes out of his room, sees her across the big living room near the other bedroom door and is not concerned that she has entered his suite and is walking around in there without knocking. He asks what she wants, as though she has just knocked on the door. She says, "I just wanted to see if you have enough ashtrays."
She leaves. Now the real honeymooners have enjoyed their food, eaten much of the caviar and drunk most of the champagne, and like most of this show, for reasons that make no sense, the guy brings the tray out of his enormous bedroom and places it on the table in the living room. He doesn't put it in the hallway, but thought it important to walk 20 feet away from his bedroom, when there was plenty of space in the bedroom to leave it.
So Oliver comes out a bit later and sees the tray on the table. Again he is not concerned that room service entered his suite without knocking, and isn't troubled that they just left it on this table for him to find. He is, of course, troubled that most of the food and drink is gone. He calls the lobby, again gets Pam, and asks to speak to the manager. She lies-this comes quite naturally to her-and says he's not there. But Bob has entered the room and he tells Oliver he'll be right up when told something is very odd.
Now Pam maneuvers her dad into taking some female customer to cocktails saying she will take care of the problem in the honeymoon suite. This man has just personally told a guest that he will be right up. Suddenly, he's willing to go off on an unplanned visit with this woman-he can't tell her he'll meet her in a few minutes but right now he has a problem to take care of? Of course he would fulfill the promise to Oliver.
So Pam goes back to the super-suite and again enters on her own and tries to get to her friends but is found by Oliver who again heard someone in his hotel suite, but doesn't seem to be bothered by that. He sees the young couple, hears how they were put in the same suite as he and Lisa and the Douglases quickly decide to share their suite with the youngsters and everyone's happy-except the viewers who watched this thinking it would provide them with a laugh or two. We wuz robbed. I give it a 2 because I'm in a good mood.
Not even a Green Acres Episode
stewieboy20082 December 2021
The Douglases are hardly in it and we're stuck with annoying British woman who is quite annoying. She just keeps talking and talking. It wasn't even funny with her and the Dad. This was supposed to be a pilot of a new show? Glad this piece of garbage wasn't picked up. The English lady is quite irritating. This is how they do the second to last episode? It's not even a green acres episode, it's a spoiled little annoying British girl and her Daddy. Can't believe they phoned it in when it's the last season and second to last episode. That's just laziness.
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