S:5 E:23
This episode was filmed not long after astronaut Neil Armstrong’s fabled “moon walk” in the summer of 1969. Gullible Lisa (Eva Gabor) is convinced when child inventor Dinky Watson (Johnny Whitaker) insists that he, too, has been to the moon. Purchasing a “moon rock” from Dinky, Lisa receives a stinging admonition from her less impressionable husband Oliver (Eddie Albert). But when a strange beeping sound begins to emanate from the rock, everyone in Hooterville becomes moon-struck!, Lunar madness hits Hooterville when Lisa buys a moon rock. Oliver: Eddie Albert. Haney: Pat Buttram. Eb: Tom Lester. Dinky: Johnnie Whitaker. Dr. Stuart: Frank Ferguson. Wilson: Jerome Cowan.
