The worst Green Acres episode, by far, was 'Hawaiian Honeymoon' aired the previous week, and like this episode, it was meant to be a pilot, Richard L. Bare had wisely not directed them, Jay Sommers got roped into writing them, and there was no supporting cast in either. Clearly, the production team knew they had been axed. I've thought about this episode for a long time as to how bad it really was, but it did co-star Elaine Joyce, who went on to have a great Broadway career and was sparkling in this episode, along with other veteran supporting actors. If this was a pilot, there just wasn't enough there to develop a series from it; at least Star Trek's inserted pilot, 'Assignment:Earth' had strong ties to the existing Star Trek original series.
Review of The Ex-Secretary
