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Green Acres

The Rains Came

Season 1, Episode 30, Aired May 18, 1966

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A drought in Hooterville has crops wilting in the fields. Oliver is so desperate, he agrees to pay Haney $350 if he can bring some relief. That's when Haney presents dancing Chief Thundercloud. When the rains eventually arrive, Oliver refuses to pay. He says the Chief's dancing is not what did the trick.moreless

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Howard Smith

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J. Pat O'Malley

Diller Fangworth
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Ray Kellogg (II)

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Eddie Albert

Oliver Wendell Douglas
Eva Gabor

Lisa Douglas

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- No one in court believes Oliver's a real lawyer because he never hangs out in the saloon across the street.
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- Lisa has named the sunflower by the back door Rudolph.
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- Chief Thundercloud says he's not allowed back on the reservation because he was made an honorary "paleface" in Milltown, Montana.
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- At the beginning of the case, Oliver claims Lisa made it rain by watering Rudolph the sunflower. At the end, he claims it was the act of Chief Thundercloud washing his car that made it pour.
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- Haney: (to Oliver, after several more days of drought) Off your knees Mr. Douglas, you don't have to beg.
  Oliver: I'm not begging! I'm fixing my tractor.
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- (Fangworth takes off his coat and struts around the courtroom while snapping his suspenders)
  Oliver: What's he doing?
  Haney: Warmin' up. Ain't that a great imitation of Spencer Tracy? The judge's fav-o-rite actor.
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- Haney: (to Lisa, arriving in court) Doggone, you look as good as a 350-dollar judgement against your husband.
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- Diller Fangworth is doing his Spencer Tracy impression when he struts around coatless, popping his suspenders. Tracy behaves this way when he portrays lawyer Henry Drummond in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, based on the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial.
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