My arrangement for the theme song of the classic TV show "Green Acres," which I used to think was the dumbest sitcom ever created. As we have seen over the years, though, there have been many TV shows that are much worse than this. Even late-night legend Conan O'Brien has said that he loves Green Acres, and it does have its place in television history. It was also a spin-off of the show Petticoat Junction.

Green Acres is about Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), a prominent and wealthy New York City attorney, fulfilling his dream to be a farmer, and Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor), his glamorous Hungarian wife, uprooted unwillingly from an upscale Manhattan penthouse apartment to a dilapidated farm in Hooterville that Oliver purchases from the ever-hustling Mr. Haney, to the disbelief of the residents.

The debut episode is a mockumentary about their decision to move to a rural area, anchored by former ABC newscaster John Charles Daly. Daly was the host of the CBS game show What's My Line, and a few weeks after the show's debut Albert and Gabor returned the favor by appearing on What's My Line as that episode's Mystery Guests, and publicly thanked Daly for helping to launch their series.

Although many Green Acres episodes were still standard 1960s sitcom fare, the show developed a regular undercurrent of surrealism and satire. The writers soon developed a suite of running jokes and visual gags, and characters often broke the fourth wall, such as looking around to try and figure out where the fife music is coming from when Oliver launches into one of his frequent "American dream" monologues.

The show is set in the same television universe as Henning's Petticoat Junction, featuring such towns as Hooterville, Pixley, Crabwell Corners, and Stankwell Falls, as well as sharing characters such as Joe Carson, Fred and Doris Ziffel, Sam Drucker, Newt Kiley, and Floyd Smoot.

My arrangement is for:

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Sax section (sorprano, alto, tenor, baritone)
Glockenspiel
Vibraphone
Xylophone
Marimba (grand staff)
Piano
Hand bells

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This arrangement © me and me alone
Information taken from Wikipedia and all sources thereof
Original music composed by Vic Mizzy
Green Acres © Filmways, MGM Television, Warner Bros., et al

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Theme I attempted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbPAt1_vc4