Ok, all you "ole" Boomers: Come say goodbye to Green Acre's (Pettycoat Junction's) Mr. Drucker

[hlthe2b]

Come on now, I know you are out there....



Frank Cady, a character actor best known as the general-store owner on the sitcom "Green Acres," has died. He was 96.

Cady played Sam Drucker, one of the less loony denizens of Hooterville in "Green Acres." The show, about a Manhattan couple who left the big city to live in a rundown farm, ran from 1965 to 1971. Cady also played the same character in "Petticoat Junction" and "The Beverly Hillbillies."

He also had a recurring role as Doc Williams on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."

He and his wife, Shirley, moved to Oregon in the 1990s. She died in 2008. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/frank-cady-dead-green-acres-actor-dies_n_1587103.html

RIP, Mr. Cady... Some of the "fun" has gone out of shows, today, but You live forever (in syndication)...

[femmocrat]

1. I hated that show.

I don't remember Mr. Drucker but the actor does look familiar.

[nolabear]

2. He was great fun. I liked his take on Arnold.

Cady was good at aaaalllllmost being the sane one, until you got that little twist that told you he was right there in "Hootersville" with everyone else. RIP to a good comedic actor.

[pipi_k]

3. Actually my favorite character

was Arnold Ziffel

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Good-bye, Mr. Drucker,

"one of the less loony denizens of Hooterville"

[Still Blue in PDX]

5. Gosh, I didn't realize he lived just down the track from us. nt

[ManyShadesOf]

6. Mr Drucker rawks!!

That Big Band in Heaven now has a wicked banjo

[HopeHoops]

7. I remember both well. My maternal grandparents always watched both.

My paternal grandparents wouldn't have been caught dead with such a thing on the TV.

[twogunsid]

8. Goodbye, Sam...

we'll all meet again someday in Pixley.


"Green Acres: Oliver and the Cornstalk (#5.12)" (1969)
Sam Drucker: (Lisa asks if he was able to order any caviar) No, but they told me they were coming out with a do it yourself caviar kit.
Oliver Wendell Douglas: A caviar kit?
Sam Drucker: Yeah, you cook up a box of tapioca and you stir in some licorice for color, and then add some sardine oil for the fish taste.
Lisa Douglas: Order me one of those!

[Phentex]

9. Loved that show!

There are many places around here that remind me of Hooterville. And not in a good way.

Of course, I loved when Arnold Ziffel was on.