page_title: Lisa Douglas
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Lisa Douglas / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo from the premiere of the television program Green Acres. Pictured are Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor.
context_page_description: Lisa Douglas was the leading female character in the 1960s CBS situation comedy Green Acres, which ran for six years, from 1965 to 1971. The character was reprised in the 1990 film Return to Green Acres. CNN rated the character as being amongst "The most stylish TV housewives of all time".
context_section_description: In the initial episodes, Lisa plays a Manhattan socialite who has no desire to leave the luxuries of her lifestyle in New York, but is forced to do so and move to rural Hooterville, when her husband, whom she loves considerably, decides to undertake farming. After shifting to Hooterville, she becomes close to many farm animals, especially to the neighboring family's pet piglet Arnold, and takes up various cooking activities. Yet, despite her attempts, Lisa is unable to fit into the Hooterville culture, wishing relentlessly to go back, while her husband sticks resolutely to his philanthropic values of remaining embedded to the rural heartland.
  As the episodes progress, it is Lisa who becomes comfortably enmeshed with the Hooterville life, undertaking various entrepreneurial and philanthropic activities, while Oliver faces numerous challenges, both in his entrepreneurial work and philanthropic orientation. The final episodes impress the significance of Lisa's rise to prominence in the Hooterville community and the apparent lack of importance that Hooterville residents accord to her husband. The concluding episode of the series, titled Lisa the Psychologist, reemphasizes this portrayal, showcasing Lisa as a psychoanalyst whose services are much sought after by one and all.
  The character of Lisa Douglas is reprised in the 1990 film Return to Green Acres, which shows Lisa and Oliver, after a spate of disappointments, shifting to New York. However, subsequent to Hooterville residents reaching out to Lisa and Oliver for support to save their homes from being usurped by a local developer, both Lisa and Oliver realize their significant emotional attachment to Hooterville; and finally decide to move back.
caption: Eva Gabor's portrayal of Lisa Douglas, featured above in the 1965 show-premiere publicity image, garnered broad critical acclaim
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