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Today's most interesting DVD release is, believe it or not, season 2 of Petticoat Junction .

London's next mayor! Read our report on who has the inside track for London's top political job in 2010 As everyone knows -- well, everyone except anyone who's been eaten by a lion, squashed by an elephant or propositioned by a squid at a keg party -- animals are our friends.

Swine Flu's on-again, off-again, on-again rubber bouncing up and down the news agenda might not say much about the media or about how seriously today's global biological threats take their jobs, but it did get us to thinking about thematically related movies.

Mary Clark is a native Washingtonian. Her husband, Barry, grew up near Syracuse, N.Y. Both have lived the city life.

Despite their often adorable appearance , pigs haven't been getting the best press of late .

In the old TV series Green Acres, Eddie Albert portrayed a successful Manhattan attorney who moves to the country to follow his life-long dream of becoming a farmer.

Elwood Hurd is the Sam Drucker of Wedron. In the far reaches of television land, Sam Drucker was the general store owner-postmaster on the shows "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction." Sam's place was ground zero for the imaginary community of Hooterville, in which both shows were set.

Imagine the Mississippi Delta right around the Civil War. Plantations are scattered throughout the region, but times of prosperity aren't what they were before.

The term "Green Acres" might still remind some people of the homey 1965-1971 television comedy starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor, but in Minnesota, Green Acres refers to the Minnesota Agricultural Property ...

Come and ride the little train that is moving down the track to the junction...Petticoat Junction! Those were the opening lines from another show in the prolific repertoire of producer Paul Henning.

Ford's "Eva" electronic personal assistant will be the latest in a line of famous Evas.

'PETTICOAT JUNCTION: THE OFFICIAL FIRST SEASON' 3 1/2 stars = Very good Ratings explained Forty-five years after Paul Henning took artistic custody of rural America, one has to wonder at the layers of political ...