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Elaine Joyce was an attractive blonde who specialized in good-hearted ditzy women, the kind who cause trouble, make mistakes and get guys in trouble because they speak first (very fast but thankfully without the vocal fry many women speak in today) and think later. She enjoyed a very busy career and married well later on (Neil Simon). This was a potential pilot for a spinoff from Green Acres that went nowhere. Richard Deacon from Dick Van Dyke was her irritable boss and she was his receptionist. Elaine wears a sheer, skintight minidress that clings to her trim but shapely body like plastic wrap and a push-up and out bra, and bends over a lot. This alone is worth watching. Deacon is immune to her assets and just looks irritated by her behavior. In the second half, she changed into a terrible pantsuit outfit to get a check back from a con-man. Surprisingly, Elaine never got her own sit-com considering her roles and cheery personality on Love American Style, the Love Boat and other comedic TV shows plus the stage.

To any Green Acres fan, the saddest part about the last two episodes is watching the closing credits and realizing that none of the original supporting characters were involved, only actors who had no affiliation, and no ownership, to the program's original storyline.

Pilot or not, it was a disappointing way to close out the series.

I never saw this before and had trouble watching the whole thing. What were they thinking ?

Looking at this episode purely as an individual pilot rather than a regular episode of Green Acres it IS actually very enjoyable. Elaine Joyce plays the main role and I feel she is both likeable and brings a lot of energy to the episode. Richard Deacon is brilliant as always and it would have great to see him week after week had this pilot became a reality. It's also great to have Emmaline Henry once again on our screens in what could have been her next regular series since 'Jeannie'.

Looking at the negative aspects of this pilot, my main criticism is of the humour which is at times predictable and silly. I also think actor Cliff Norton should of been replaced as he is neither handsome, funny or entertaining and brings the show down a bit.

Incidentally, watching this reminded me a bit of "Here's Lucy" (which had already been on the air for 3 years).

Overall a entertaining pilot which should have got at least 13 episodes. 7 1/2 / 10.

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.

The year was 1971 and orgy jokes were very common. Don't ask me why they were common because I don't know and I had no idea what an orgy was in 1971, just being a little kid at the time. But there is an orgy joke in this episode. You don't hear too many orgy jokes these days...just a thought, not important.

I'm assuming this was a pilot for a new series that never got picked up. And that's too bad because it would have been one of the best comedies on the air back then. This is a lot of fun and very likable with a very likeable cast.

It's fun, sexy, witty, wacky, nutty, crazy, and a feast for the eyes with not one, but two gorgeous women. I have no doubt that this would have been one of my favorite shows back then. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.