I remember reading somwhere if "Green Acres" had never been cancelled (shortly after the sixth season), the writers were considering future episodes wherein Oliver and Lisa conceived and raised a child.
Is this true, or not ?
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Bump!
It could have possibly had them adopting a child, that girl who was in a lot of the last season's episodes who stayed with them on the farm maybe.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
I haven't seen those episodes in a long time. I almost forgot about that girl.
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I doubt the story, for the show never really did much of anything funny with the little girl (Victoria Paige Meyerink). She was like Seven in MARRIED WITH CHILDREN; there just was no place for her. The show worked when every character was reacting as crazily as we would expect them to be but the girl wasn't allowed to be really funny. I don't think she could have handled that anyway.
So, no, they should have learned their lesson from the 8 episodes she was in that the Douglases didn't need any help, especially from their own children. Just my opinion...
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"holbrookp"...Like I said previously, I haven't seen the last season episodes in a long time.
So, I can't really have a viewpoint regarding the "little girl" character and her potential as a "foster daughter" for Oliver and Lisa. However, I enjoy discussing "what if" scenarios.
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Steve B.
what could she have done to be really funny? (the character of the girl) on the show.
In what ways so that she would fit in or on the show.
Nothing, given the character she was. She was too nice and normal. She would have had to be really dumb, mischievous, or something to be comedy material. The writers just didn't seem to know what to do with her, other than make her the target of the Douglas' kindness.
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Maybe it's just me, but I kind of felt the quality was slipping a little bit in the sixth season. (That odd, disconnected pilot episode for another series sure didn't help.) It may be that it's just as well it was cancelled.
Don't get me wrong, I love the show, but it seems its heyday was seasons 2-5. A seventh season, with a kid? No, no, a thousand times no. Usually adding a kid is more a sign of desperation, of running out of ideas, than anything else. "Get Smart" was brilliant...until the episodes involving Max and 99 getting married and having a baby, which were pretty dreadful.
I agree, "Green Acres" started to "jump the shark" during the sixth season. Adding a child to the main cast of a sitcom is a telltale sign the writers are running out of ideas and chances are, the show is on its way out.
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Steve.
I found the episodes with Victoria to be fairly good. Of course she wasn't the only child to enter the storylines -- there was also Johnnie Whittaker and the "moon rocks," and there had been a memorable episode related to Arnold Ziffel going to school.
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Thanks for your input "jgs1935." Based on your positive comments, I wouldn't mind revisiting those particular episodes of GA.
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Steve.