Green Acres News

In a certain Spokane household, cosmetics are referred to as "cosmeteticals" because Eva Gabor once said that in an episode of "Green Acres." What's an example of intentional misspeaking in your family? People are swell: Mary Anne Will let the driver of a tan Suburban change lanes and pull in front of her so that the vehicle's passengers could get ...

If HBO ever remakes "Green Acres," I will replace Eva Gabor. Despite living in a 19th-century farmhouse in upstate New York, I'm a city slicker at heart.

Running time: 2 hr Does anyone else recall The Beverly Hillbillies ' crossover with Petticoat Junction ? It all started when Granny went to Hooterville to help Bobbie Jo have ... well, what happened doesn't matter as much as that it did happen, that these two separate sitcoms were suddenly in the same universe .

First in a special series for Halloween on award-winning and nominated horror and suspense films and television programs: In 1963, the successful anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" was expanded from 30 minutes to 60.

Thanks in large part to Nick at Nite, practically everyone over 25 can quickly conjure the iconic theme songs for 1960s TV seriesA The Addams Family and Green Acres , and that is the deeply impressive legacy of composer Vic Mizzy, who died of heart failure yesterday at 93 .

Forty-four years before Grammer's "Hank," there was this "Hank." The sitcom starred Dick Kallman as Dearborn, a young man determined to get a college education at any cost.

Custom cars, including a tricked out Monte Carlo driven by Dan Gouger of Raytown, took part in the Greater Kansas City Labor Day Parade and Picnic.

Only one of the five stars shown below reaped an Emmy bid. That sole nominee was also a winner.

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.