Do You Remember ‘Return to Green Acres,’ the 1990 Film That Reunited the Cast?

35 years ago today, on May 18, 1990, the Douglases said goodbye, city life, for the second time, when Return to Green Acres aired on CBS. The made-for-TV movie — which was part of an ’80s and ’90s trend for classic sitcom reunions, including Leave It to Beaver and The Beverly Hillbillies — brought together nearly all of the entire original series’ cast, for a tale that followed Oliver (Eddie Albert) and Lisa (Eva Gabor) Douglas, who had finally returned to New York City … only to realize that the townspeople of Hooterville needed them more than ever.

Premiering in 1965, Green Acres followed the adventures of the Douglases, a glamorous and wealthy New York couple, who move to the country to fulfill husband Oliver’s longtime dream of living on a farm. The show lasted for six seasons of increasingly surreal fish-out-of-water antics, as the cosmopolitan Douglases and the rural residents of Hooterville worked to adjust to each other.