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In the top-rated 1964 episode "The Giant Jackrabbit," Granny mistook a kangaroo for a rabbit. In this fourth-season installment, Granny assumes that an ostrich is the oversized chicken that has been raiding her tomato patch. Reportedly, during filming of "The Big Chicken," actor Raymond Bailey (Mr. Drysdale) became impatient with the trained ostrich used in the show and at one point tried to punch the bird in the beak! The episode first aired on February 2, 1966.