The version of the pilot episode that sold the series to CBS It was originally titled: “The Hillbillies Of Beverly Hills.”
When an oil wildcatter discovers a huge pool of oil in Jed Clampetts’ swamp, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company for $34 million. At the urging of his cousin, Pearl, Jed moves his family to a 35 room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
When the Clampetts arrive at their new Mansion, they are mistaken by miss Hathaway for a staff of bumbling, insubordinate, backwoods servants.
The Clampetts find that the comforts of the mansion do not always compare to the comforts of their former mountain shack. Meanwhile, Cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man.
When Mr. Drysdale describes Mrs. Drysdale as being a hypochondriac, the Clampets assume she must be a drunk.
Granny prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem while Jed follows Mr. Drysdale’s suggestion to buy “stock” by buying cows, pigs, and chickens.
The homesick Clampetts, unaware that it’s Halloween, decide to go calling on their new Beverly Hills neighbors.
Drysdale attempts another step in social renovation of the Clampetts by lending them his servants.
A private school teacher is shocked to learn that her new 5th-grade student is Jethro.
Mr. Drysdale convinces his self-absorbed stepson Sonny to date Elly May. Granny and Jed make preparations for Thanksgiving.
Sonny Drysdale decides he needs to be Pygmalion to Elly’s Galatea and remake her from a hillbilly into a woman of society, while Granny uses love charms to heat up their relationship.
Granny believes that Sonny Drysdale is going to propose to Elly May and becomes a matchmaker. Cousin Pearl tries to hurry Jethrine’s relationship with Jasper Depew.
Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales after Sonny breaks up with Elly May instead of marrying her.
Jed, Elly May, Jethro, and Granny take their first plane flight home for Christmas to surprise cousin Pearl, who is busy cooking up a feast to try win Mr. Brewster’s heart.
Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl plays the piano for the “new” movie in town to impress Mr. Brewster.
Pearl’s efforts to snag Mr. Brewster seem doomed until he makes an overly theatrical public proposal.
Jed is confronted with too many cooks and not enough vittles when he invites Pearl and Jethrine to Beverly Hills.
Trying to cool a feud between Granny and Pearl, Jed takes his family on a sightseeing tour of Beverly Hills.
Jed believes that the Drysdale’s marriage is threatened when he looks to cousin Pearl for a housekeeper while his wife is away.
The police and Elly’s animals converge on the Clampett estate when Pearl starts giving yodeling lessons.
Two of Cousin Pearl’s most ardent former suitors come to visit her in Beverly Hills.
Granny’s plan to stop Pearl’s yodeling backfires when the police she called find her illegal still.
Duke, Jed’s bloodhound, becomes matchmaker for his master and Mademoiselle Denise, a glamorous Frenchwoman who is accompanying a French poodle intended for the Drysdale’s dog.
A confidence man tries to sell Jed the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the Hollywood Freeway.
Jed is made a bank vice president so he can compete in an interbank skeet shoot.
An authority on American history finds evidence that Jed’s ancestors preceded the Mayflower to America.
Pearl wants the family to be in High Society now that their forebears were one of the first families to come to America. Will Jed’s family become famous worldwide?
Miss Hathaway’s brilliant-but-frumpy bank protegee, Gloria, is really a sultry gold-digger with eyes for Jed’s $34 million, and Jed’s just had his annual dose of Granny’s spring tonic.
When an IRS agent gets chased away by Granny, Mr. Drysdale tell him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.
Jed and Jethro play golf with a famous baseball coach who witnesses Jethro’s pitching arm and wants to sign him up.
Denise returns for the birth of her dog’s puppies, and to see Jed for some “courtin’ and sparkin’.” Mrs. Drysdale isn’t nearly so happy when she finds the puppies share more in common with Duke the bloodhound than Claude the poodle.
Jed arranges a party to cheer up Granny, but Mr. Drysdale fears that attending with his visiting boss will reveal that he’s been lying about their sophistication.
A couple who ran into the Clampetts’ car fake injuries and sue the Clampetts to try to get rich.
Jethro needs a health certificate to graduate from the 5th grade, but he ends up at a psychiatrist.
Jethro finally gets his bill of health from the psychiatrist he visited, but Doctor Twombly really wants to talk to Granny again about her mountain remedies.
When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed decides helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary.
Jethro brings home a friend, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, who is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as frail. The Clampetts know better, and show him a good time, friendship, and family.
Jed pretends to be sick so Granny can practice her Doctorin’. Mr. Drysdale helps out too, but then Granny won’t let them out of bed.
Mr. Drysdale and his doctor try to get Granny to stop her mountain-medicine practice while the Clampetts are expecting to celebrate Possum Day.
Granny wants to plough the front lawn of the mansion to grow vegetables, but Mr. Drysdale and Jane try to convince them otherwise.
Mrs. Drysdale recommends Elly for a high-brow finishing school in hopes that humiliating her will drive the Clampetts away.
A new fashion called “The Clampett Look” has come to Beverly Hills. Its greatest fans are the wealthy Fenwicks, who the Clampetts think are paupers.
Jethro falls in love with a burlesque dancer named Chickadee Laverne that he meets at the bank. He takes her home to the mansion to meet the family, but Chickadee thinks he wants to engage her for a party, not for marriage.
Jethro still wants to marry burlesque dancer Chickadee Laverne, while she tries to figure out what the Clampetts want her to do in her dance routine.
Jed’s bank statement and another J.D. Clampetts bank statement are sent to the wrong address. J.D. (Jake) Clampett, an unemployed actor, is suddenly $36 million richer.
When Jake Clampett tells Jed he’s a cousin, he soon has everyone but Jed thinking about and dressing for a role in their next movie.
Granny plans for war when she sees the Indians Mrs. Drysdale hired for a Thanksgiving picture.
Mrs. Drysdale throws a garden party which the Clampetts attend by mistake. They get sent back to their cement pond to start the “overflow” crowd.
Jed thinks Elly May needs taming, so he decides to look for a wife. Mr. Drysdale ties to hitch Jed with Widow Fenwick to help with a real estate development project.
The Clampetts are feeling out of place and need to decide between going home or getting a taste of culture.
Mr. Drysdale buys lavish Christmas presents for the Clampetts, which they are not familiar with.
Granny thinks TV hero Quirt Manly might be just the man to tame Elly.
While out hunting, Granny confuses the Drysdale’s new kangaroo with a giant jackrabbit.
Lafe Crick arrives from “back home” with his daughter, Essiebelle. He found love letters that Jethro wrote to her and schemes to get them married as a way to get rich.
Lafe Crick returns with a new scheme to get rich, but Granny wants him to look for a job.
Elly May enters the Miss Beverly Hills beauty contest.
Lafe Crick continues to try to find where “Jed has his money buried.” Jed and Mr. Drysdale try more matchmaking for Elly.
Lafe Crick tries some matchmaking between Elly and his son Dub.
Mr. Drysdale tries to interest the Clampetts in deep-sea fishing by sending them to Sea World.
Dr. Martin of the zoo keeps giving Elly more critters than Granny can stand. Jim Gardner comes to sell “bug vittles” but ends up falling for Elly.
Country musicians Flatt & Scruggs conspire with Miss Jane and Mr. Drysdale to try to find a city woman for Jed the same way they found theirs – by holding auditions for backup singers.
The Weather Bureau predicts fair weather when Granny’s beetle predicts rain, so Granny thinks that they should meet.
Granny’s made a batch of tonic and sends a sample to their new neighbor, the Countess Maria. She loves it and throws a party to celebrate.
Mr. Drysdale is having a ground-breaking ceremony for a new bank building and the Clampetts think they need to pitch in to help build it. Meanwhile, Mr. Drysdale’s associates try to get stock market tips from Jed.
The Clampetts get a big food package from home and two of Mr. Drysdale’s associates think that the crawdads have something to do with the development of military reconnaissance technology.
Mr. Drysdale has Jed buy a Beverly Hills dress store for an investment and the Clampetts show up to help “the poor widow and her starving girls.”
The Clampetts try to turn their newly acquired Beverly Hills dress boutique, The House of Renee, into a country store, The House of Granny.
Jed sends Elly to the Beverly Hills dress boutique he used to own, (now the House of Maurice), to learn how to be a lady, where Mrs. Drysdale mistakes her for royalty.
Mr. Drysdale wants Jed to incorporate for the tax advantages. So the Clampetts take over the top floor of the Commerce Bank and start doing what they can to stimulate the economy by getting more money into the hands of more people.
Motorists and pedestrians become endangered species when Granny learns to drive.
When Granny feels home-sick, Mr. Drysdale get’s Jed’s old cabin from back home and sets it up in the Clampetts’ backyard to surprise her on her birthday. A coed with a sociology major thinks that they live there as the Drysdale’s servants.
When Mrs. Drysdale hires a demolition man to remove the Clampetts’ cabin, Mr. Drysdale decides to occupy it so it can’t be removed. The Clampetts think a “home wrecker” is breaking up the Drysdale’s marriage.
Jethro is graduating at last – from the 6th grade.
When Jed buys a struggling movie studio, the family tries to help by working there.
The Clampetts mistake a movie-lot prop town for Drysdale's planned new Clampett City development.
The Clampetts try to run the general store on the empty studio set but can’t understand the lack of customers.
Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper enlists Jed’s help to try to save the movie studio.
The family mistakes Jed’s honorary doctorate degree for a medical license, which doesn’t sit well with Granny.
Mrs. Drysdale plots to force the Clampetts out by throwing herself at Jed.
Jethro decides to join the Marines, so the Clampetts try to enlist him at the Marineland aquarium park.
Johnny Poke, a friend from back home, has become a teen idol, but the Clampetts think he is a delusional failure.
Granny schemes to fix Johnny Poke’s mother up with Jed.
Mrs. Drysdale solicits Jed’s donation to save the local ballet company.
The Drysdales’ new butler, Arthur Pinckney, accidentally ends up at the Clampetts’ new boarding house and tries to mold them into the perfect staff.
The Drysdales’ butler leaves the Clampetts in frustration, but when he returns, he is put on trial for failing to pay for his boarding.
Mrs. Drysdale’s frustration with the Clampetts lands her in the hospital with a nervous condition, and she refuses to leave until the Clampetts are gone.
Mrs. Drysdale wakes to find she is no longer in the hospital but is being treated at the Clampetts’ mansion.
Jethro falls for a movie starlet, Kitty Devine, who is not interested in him until she discovers that his uncle owns the studio.
Elly May takes a job at the movie studio and meets movie star Dash Riprock.
Elly is disappointed about losing Dash to Miss Jane, so Jed and Mr. Drysdale try to fix everything.
Hippie Sheldon Epps crashes his car after seeing Elly May in a bathing suit, so the Clampetts take him in to recover.
Mr. Drysdale sets Granny up with a playboy member of the bank’s board of directors.
Granny practices what she intended to preach against when she sets out to save Jed from the evils of gambling.
Jethro seeks to become a “double naught” spy in the mold of James Bond.
A rival banker tries to lure Jed and his money from Drysdale’s bank.
Granny demands to see her money in cash, and Drysdale tries to talk her out of it.
The Clampetts try to give newlyweds Mr. Brewster and his wife a hillbilly-style honeymoon.
Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs drop by again and try to cure Granny’s homesickness.
When Countess Maria returns in time for Granny’s spring tonic, Jed thinks she is after him.
Beatnik houseguest Sheldon Epps returns along with some offbeat friends.
Granny tries to rescue Elly May and Jethro from a band of beatniks.
After Mr. Drysdale tries to get Jed interested in a hobby to stop him from roving the neighborhood with a fix-it wagon, two banks end up fighting over giving Jed a job.
The Clampetts help an accountant, Leroy Lester, who is being replaced by a computer at Mr. Drysdale’s bank.
Luke Short’s son Beau comes from back home, and Granny wants him to marry Elly May.
The newly married Brewsters try to avoid the Clampetts when they plan a move to Beverly Hills.
Granny puts her things in a wheelbarrow and heads back to the hills on foot.
Mrs. Drysdale wants to get rid of the Clampetts and add culture to Beverly Hills by getting them to donate their home as an art gallery.
Mr. Drysdale wants Jed to buy a yacht and join the Yacht club, but the Clampetts end up shopping at a Navy shipyard by mistake.
Granny thinks Mrs. Drysdale has used black magic to turn herself into a crow.
A Sheik tries to help Jed by sending him four dancing girls for wives, but he’d also like to add Elly May to his harem.
Jethro continues his fantasy of being a “double nought” spy and gets an office in the bank.
Mr. Drysdale plans a Possum Day parade to keep the Clampetts from heading home.
Mr. Drysdale tricks Granny into thinking his wife is campaigning for Possum Day queen.
The Drydales’ new maid uses Jethro to watch sports on his color TV.
Granny tries to conjure a man for Elly May.
The Clampetts believe they've met their new neighbor when they've actually only met her maid.
Jed mistakes a dieting billionaire for a poor farmer.
The Clampetts throw a wingding, complete with guest musicians.
Mrs. Drysdale’s father, Mr. Farquhar, tries to recoup his gambling losses at Jed's expense.
Granny mistakes Mrs. Drysdale’s father's invitation to Las Vegas for a marriage proposal.
Mr. Drysdale gets aspiring general Jethro into a military school for boys.
Granny believes she has a cure for the common cold and opens up her own doctor’s office.
The world’s richest woman schemes to acquire the Clampett estate.
The Clampetts buy an expensive racing horse to pull Granny's buggy.
Mr. Drysdale convinces his wife to compete against Granny in a horse-and-buggy race.
The Clampetts think the local cat burglar is after their felines.
Granny thinks an ostrich is a big chicken that got into her tonic.
Sonny Drysdale returns and is forced to propose to Elly May.
Mr. Drysdale stops the clan from leaving by pretending the Brewsters are having a baby.
After seeing Marvo the Magnificent perform, Jethro decides to become a magician.
Jed's schemes to prevent Granny from cleaning the entire mansion makes her think she’s being sent to the old folks home.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs return, with Flatt's wife desperate for a career in singing.
Jethro abandons his career as an astronaut to become a folk singer with Miss Jane.
The Clampetts think a Swedish method actress is a poor sharecropper’s daughter.
Jethro tries to be a playboy by fitting a cramped trailer with all the necessary items.
Miss Jane’s bird-watching leader, Professor Biddle, comes to visit. Jed and Granny try to get Elly May to go out with Dash Riprock again instead of the professor.
Jethro takes a job as Dash Riprock’s stunt double and attracts a girl eager to get a screen test.
Professor Biddle’s personality changes after drinking Granny’s tonic.
Jethro tries college while Elly May ends up in a karate school.
Granny demands a party line so she can listen in on telephone conversations.
Granny enters a soup contest under Elly’s name.
Jethro takes lessons from Dash Riprock to make time with a cute carhop.
A visitor from home turns out to be a blackmailer working with a devious accomplice.
The Clampetts' blackmailers turn their scheme on Mr. Drysdale.
The Clampetts assign chores to a man in a gorilla suit, believing he is a real ape.
The Clampetts demand the return of Herby the gorilla.
Jed runs for office after Granny runs afoul of the Smog Commission.
The Clampetts try to help a couple of swindlers revive their dance school.
Jeb joins the board of O.K. Oil and converts the corporate plane into a commercial airliner.
Mr. Drysdale enlists his father-in-law to woo Granny and keep her money in his bank.
The Clampetts make a silent movie with Gloria Swanson.
Jethro joins a scout group to get close to a beautiful birdwatcher.
The Clampetts help Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs make a soap commercial.
The Clampetts get jobs to help Mrs. Drysdale, whom they believe is destitute.
The Clampetts mistake three Italian midgets dressed as martians for real space aliens.
The mayor of Bug Tussle arrives in search of money to bail him out of trouble.
My. Drysdale tries to stop Granny from retiring from medicine and returning to the hills.
Believing his wealth to be a curse, Jed gives all his money to a group of college students.
Granny is convinced that Indians are on the warpath for Beverly Hills.
A computer matchmaking machine wreaks havoc for the Clampetts and Miss Jane.
Mrs. Drysdale tries to make Elly's social coming-out party an embarrassing failure.
Jethro wants to become a matador but Elly May adopts his bull as a pet.
Mrs. Drysdale hires two gypsies to convince Granny that the mansion is cursed.
A visiting king tries to court Elly May.
Granny sees a hippo next door at the Drysdale’s and thinks it’s the biggest hog she’s ever seen.
Dr Clyburn wants to charge Granny with dispensing medicine without a licence.
Lester, Gladys, and Earl are in Beverly Hills to film a screen test for Gladys, even though Lester doesn't like the idea.
A nephew of the Drysdales arrives for a visit and tries to profit off the Clampetts.
Granny takes up arms after mistaking Mrs. Drysdale’s new dahlia beds for graves.
Jed gets a letter in the mail saying he has inherited a castle in England.
The Clampetts fly to London to visit their inherited castle. Granny encounters difficulty with both the customs inspector and an English 'druggist'.
The Clampetts arrive at their Castle in London and meet the staff and neighbors. Confusion reigns, and Jethro insists on acting like a medieval knight.
Jethro thinks he's started the “War of the Roses” when he chased a dragon through the neighbors rose garden, so the Clampetts return to Beverly Hills and cause some mayhem in Griffith Park.
Miss Jane, Mr. Drysdale, Jed, and Granny go to Griffith Park looking for Jethro and Elly. Jethro continues to masquerade as the Robin Hood of Griffith Park, and gains the admiring allegiance of a band of hippies.
Jethro gets a letter from the President to enlist in the Army, so the Clampetts reckon he should get a tank.
Jethro wants to be inducted into the Army, but Granny's physical causes him some problems.
Mr. Drysdale wants Elly to date Mr. Universe, while a rival banker wants Elly to date Troy Apollo.
Jed wants to find some land for Granny to raise some crops, but he accidentally calls a cemetery. Two confused salesmen attempt to sell Jed a cemetery plot for a much-alive Granny.
Mrs Drysdale is jealous of Granny getting a visit from Adeline Ashley.
Jethro is trying to figure out if he should be a frogman in the Navy or to visit the Moon. He experiments with underwater demolition while practicing to be a Navy frogman in the swimming pool.
Jethro goes to join the Army Reserve wearing an old uniform from Granny's Grandpappy and is mistaken for an extra in a Civil War movie.
Granny believes that a Civil War movie is a real battle coming to the Culpepper plantation.
Jethro joins the Army Reserve in the midst of more confusion surrounding the Civil War movie. Granny thinks she has captured General Ulysses S Grant and sets out to woo him by donning a bathing suit.
Jethro wants to be Dash Riprock’s co-star in a new TV show, “Batchelor Sherriff Knows Best.” Can he compete with Elly May’s pet ape?
Mrs. Drysdale's expensive art sculpture is delivered to the Clampetts’ mansion by mistake, inspiring some Hillbilly art projects. Granny paints a picture to try and help Mrs Drysdale win the Beverly Hills Culture Committee Award.
Dash wants to marry Elly, but the Clampetts think he should marry Miss Jane.
Jed feels guilty about Granny having to clean the mansion all by herself, so he has Mr Drysdale help him find a housekeeper.
Jed wants Jethro to open up a business, so he decides to try to open a restaurant.
Jethro tries to help out his restaurant by using Elly as a “topless” waitress (no hats allowed).
Granny is homesick for snow back in Bugtussle, but Mr Drysdale tries to trick them into staying home.
Granny and Mrs. Drysdale have a scrap and Jed’s ashamed of Granny for fightin’ with the neighbour. Jethro says that in Beverly Hills everyone rassles, he’s seen it on TV. The Clampetts gather around the TV to watch the Boston strong girl battle it out with sweet lil ol’ Rebecca who only rassles to earn money so her parents won’t be evicted from their farm. Granny wants Jethro to take her to the wrestling centre. They’re standing at ringside when the Boston strong girl is beatin’ up on sweet lil Rebecca. Granny can’t take it any more and climbs in to the ring and beats up the Boston strong girl.
Rebecca and her Manager come to the Clampetts’ place. The Manager wants a rematch between Granny and the Boston strong girl. Granny says no. Jed offers to pay Rebecca’s parents mortgage and writes them a cheque. Rebecca and Manager want to cash cheque but instead bring Rebecca’s parents to meet the Clampetts. Rebecca’s Manager convinces Granny to fight with the Boston strong girls parents in a tag team match and Granny beats them all single handed.
Granny wants Jed to propose marriage to Miss Jane. He says no, so she asks Jethro. Jethro is going to ask but meets Ilsa on the way and forgets all about it. Granny tells him to invite Miss Jane to dinner at a fancy restaurant where he can ask her then. Granny and Elly sit at the next booth where they can hear what’s happening and coach Jethro when needed. Jethro asks, Miss Jane accepts and Jethro runs. Later Miss Jane reluctantly turns down his proposal.
Miss Jane and Jethro attend a violin recital and Miss Jane suggests Jethro takes violin lessons.
Granny thinks her favourite TV soap opera is real. She invites the star to the Mansion because on the show he was sick and she wanted to Doctor him. When she thinks she’s cured him off he goes back to work. Next day Granny sees him sick on TV again, so this time asks Jethro to take her to the TV studio because something there must be making him sick. When they arrive He’s in the operating theatre and Granny takes him home so he’ll get better under her care.
Granny becomes enraged when Elly May's herd of canine friends trample her every time she announces a meal is ready. Granny threatens to leave unless Elly gets rid of her menagerie.
Supernatural shenanigans spook the Clampetts. Granny convinces herself that she has the gift of prophecy and starts making doubtful predictions for her family and friends.
Mr. Drysdale wants to make a commercial starring the Clampetts as lazy hillbillies wasting their lives at the beginning, to successful contributors to society at the end. He dresses as SuperBanker and they recite to the camera how worthless their existence was before SuperBanker changed things for them.
Cousin Roy arrives and wants to open a Hollywood branch of Mother Mabel’s elixir. Granny doesn’t want her old rival Mabel to be sucessful at her expense, so Granny and Jethro set up a stall on the sidewalk to sell Granny’s elixir. That is until a cop arrests them for operating a stall without a permit. Mr. Drysdale flys Mother Myrtle out to Beverly Hills and just as Jethro and Granny arrive home, she sees Myrtle and runs into the house for her gun.
When Jethro leads Jed to believe that Queen Elizabeth is having money trouble, Jed wants to donate a huge sum to help her out, much to the horror of Mr. Drysdale.
The Clampetts are flying to London to give the Queen the deed to Canada. When they arrive at the castle, Colonel Dumbarton next door fires off his sunset canon and lowers the Union Jack flag. Granny thinks he’s startin’ the war of the roses all over again.
When Jethro challenges the neighbors to the war of the roses, Colonel Dumbarton accepts and they commence to joust. Jed wants to go to see the Queen and give her the deed to Canada.
Jethro spies Col. Dumbarton’s niece through his telescope, but Jed mistakes her brother in a kilt for the niece and elists Granny to help break up a potential marriage.
After Mr. Drysdale learns about the Ghost of Clampett Castle, he tries to use the information to scare the Clampetts into going home. However, Jethro wants to hold a seance.
Granny plans a trip to Hooterville but gets side-tracked when she thinks that Jed is planning to marry Miss Hathaway. Petticoat Junction citizens take Granny’s potent potions.
Still in Hooterville, Granny mistakes Steve & Betty Jo’s dog for their baby and tries to use tonic to effect some change. Jethro wires Granny to tell her that they are starving in her absence while also hiring a beautiful Italian girl to do the cooking.
Jethro begins dressing and acting like the noblest Roman of them all to win the hand of Maria, the beautiful Italian cook who stirs up a storm.
The hillbillies get to play the part of gangsters when Mr Drysdale makes a commercial for his bank. Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs play themselves in a spoof of Bonnie and Clyde.
Thanksgiving with the folks from Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
Drysdale casts Dash Riprock in a new role, that of Elly May’s lover, farm boy Homer Noodleman.
Jethro wants to junk his “old wreck” and Granny thinks he means her. Jethro tells Jed and Granny that they're no longer "with it" and trades the old family car for a new and powerful hot rod.
The hustle and bustle increases as Christmas nears. The hillbillies head for a Christmas in Hooterville and a possible wedding for Granny and Sam Drucker.
The hillbillies celebrate the Christmas holidays in Hooterville, where Eb courts Elly May and Granny pursues Sam Drucker.
Banker Drysdale is jailed for transporting Granny's white lightning and Elly May's drunken bear in Jethro's truck.
Drysdale has the flu, and too many well-meaning visitors.
Jethro starts his own Hollywood talent agency on the entire 5th floor of The Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills. Cousin Roy pays a visit when a record agent heard him play back in his hometown, and the gang wants Jethro to take Roy on as a client.
Roy is still hoping to make it in show biz so Jed decides to back him. Jethro faces eviction from his office at the Commerce Bank.
Drysdale evicts Jethro from the bank building.
Chaos is rampant at Clampett Enterprises. A building inspector probes the strangely assorted Jed Clampett enterprises on the fifth floor of Drysdale's bank building.
Drysdale hires troubleshooter Homer Bedloe to evict the Clampetts from his building's fifth floor.
Business is booming – if confusing – at Clampett Enterprises. A beautiful secretary at Drysdale's bank breaks the heel of her shoe and hobbles to 'cobbler' Jed Clampett for help.
Sam Drucker of Petticoat Junction wins a trip to Hollywood, and Granny assumes that he's come to marry her. He foments family unrest when he visits the Hillbillies.
The mansion becomes a mecca for a phony guru.
When the Clampetts take up jogging as a hobby, Mr Drysdale puts on a jogging suit to trot along and seek new business for his bank.
The Drysdales sell their mansion to singer Pat Boone, who is intrigued by Granny's steaming backyard kettle of hillbilly stew.
The Clampetts head for the hills to snare a man for Elly May, much to the dismay of banker Drysdale.
Partly filmed in the Ozarks: the Clampetts’ hectic homecoming. The Clampetts arrive in the mountain town of Silver Dollar City, where Granny starts a feud with an old rival, Elverna Bradshaw.
Granny is trying to snare a spouse for Elly May, extolling the young girl's virtues to every bachelor she meets.
Jane and Jethro become involved in the search for Elly’s groom-to-be.
The Clampetts plan Elly’s wedding to Matthew Templeton, unaware that banker Drysdale wants it stopped.
Con man Shifty Shafer meets Jed in the Ozarks.
Phil Silvers as con man Shifty Shafer. Partly filmed in New York.
Drysdale and Jane arrive in New York to try to persuade the hillbillies to abandon their half-built cabin in Central Park and return home. Sammy Davis Jr. has a cameo on the Hillbillies’ New York jaunt.
Granny complicates things for Elly and her beau.
Shorty Kellems, proprietor of the hotel in Silver Dollar, sells out and leaves the hills to join the Clampetts in California for a fling at the wild life.
A rumor that Shorty is a millionaire lands him loads of dates.
Granny uses her shotgun as she punishes Jethro for leading too wild a Hollywood life with Shorty Kellems. Granny wants to send Shorty packing.
Soupy Sales plays the Drysdales’ air-ace nephew.
Mrs Drysdale's nephew, Air Force ace Jetstream Bradford, who possesses a wealth of confidence but no talent, takes over Drysdale's private office at his Beverly Hills Bank.
Jethro arrives in Hooterville wearing the uniform of a general. Jed arranges to go into the airline business with pilot Steve Elliott.
Rumor has it that the Clampetts plan to merge their interests with a tycoon. Banker Drysdale eagerly prepares to set up the deal for a new airline formed by Jed and farmer Howard Hewes, thinking him the famous millionaire Howard Hughes.
Silver Dollar City’s mayor is fixin’ to send Shorty back to the hills. Jed Clampett and Shad Heller conspire to line up Shorty Kellems as a husband for the strong-minded widow Elverna Bradshaw.
The marriage battle between Shorty and Elverna rages on.
Elusive Shorty Kellems gets off the marital hook with Elverna by convincing his eager bride-to-be that he is an inveterate gambler.
Jed and Shad Heller discover it's a full-time job keeping Shorty Kellems corralled until his marriage to the indomitable Elverna.
How to calm a nervous groom: lock him in a bear cage.
Shorty and Elverna engage in marital mayhem. The Clampetts set up a miniature farm so Shorty's bride Gloria can sample farm life, and soon the exhausted girl is delighted to hear she's not really married.
The hillbillies leave Shorty Kellems temporarily in charge of the Clampett mansion and he turns it into a hotel for single secretaries.
Slave driver Drysdale meets his secretary’s burly brother. The Clampett mansion is set up as a hotel for women, and banker Drysdale decides to extort a few dollars from his secretary guests.
Con man Shifty Shafer hooks Jed on a plan to rid Los Angeles of smog.
Shifty Shafer and his wife scheme to defraud the Clampetts. Jed prepares to underwrite con man Honest John's scheme to drill a channel in the mountains to draw off the smog in Los Angeles.
Jed plans to hand his millions over to the President to help fight air pollution.
The Clampetts arrive in Washington, DC to give the President $95 million to help in the fight against smog. A con man tries to sell Washington, D.C., to Jed.
Shifty Shafer cons Jed into buying the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and various other choice pieces of Washington real estate.
Romance enters Elly May's life in a big way when Navy Lt Mark Templeton arrives at the Clampett mansion to pay a visit. One Granny plus one Navy frogman equals a running gag: Granny thinks Elly’s new beau is a frog.
Granny’s trying to cure her frog fixation with a potent elixir.
Granny believes that Elly’s beau is a web-footed freak. Granny consults a psychiatrist to give 'modern medicine' a chance to keep frogman Mark Templeton from turning into a real frog.
A dream sends Granny to a psychiatrist.
Granny battles to keep her family out of the swimming pool, convinced that if they get wet they'll turn into frogs.
Drysdale tries to stop Elly’s marriage.
Granny’s frog fears prod her to invite Shorty Kellems back from the hills to help break up Elly May’s romance with Mark Templeton.
Can Elly find happiness married to a frog? Granny’s still fighting the match. Granny thinks Shorty Kellems has turned into a seal because he ignored her warnings about swimming in the Clampett pool.
Can Granny finally be convinced that Elly May's boyfriend, Mark Templeton, is fully human and not half-frog?
The Clampetts go to war against a school of fish which they believe to be hostile aliens.
The hillbillies, encouraged by Mr Drysdale, continue to guard the Malibu beach and repel the mythical grunion invaders.
Women’s lib protests hit Drysdale’s bank when his downtrodden secretaries organize to fight for better wages and working conditions.
Granny and Elly launch a fem lib protest. They join the Women's Liberation Movement and leave all the household chores to Jed and Jethro.
How to thwart a women’s lib strike: hire geisha girls.
Granny and Elly seek happiness as liberated women.
The women’s movement strikes at the bank. The hillbilly women, assured of their equal rights, return to the Clampett mansion.
Elly joins the women’s lib battle against Drysdale. She gets a job at Mr Drysdale's bank and moves into co-worker Jane Hathaway's apartment.
Jethro’s bachelorhood seems headed for extinction. He leaves home when he learns his ugly childhood sweetheart is coming for a visit, not knowing she has become a beauty contest winner.
An unemployed actor is making a big play for Jane.
An actor plans to capture the Clampett millions by passing himself off as kin to Davy Crockett.
Jane Hathaway learns her new boyfriend is a fortune hunter who would like to marry Elly May and her family's millions.
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
Ebsen, Douglas, and Baer reunite onscreen for the only time in the CBS-TV retrospective television special, The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies which ranked as the fourth most watched television program of the week—a major surprise given the mediocre rating for the 1981 TV-movie. It was a rare tribute from the “Tiffany network,” which owed much of its success in the 1960s to the series, but has often seemed embarrassed by it in hindsight, often down-playing the show in retrospective television specials on the network’s history and rarely inviting cast members to participate in such all-star broadcasts. The Legend of The Beverly Hillbillies special ignored several plot twists of the TV movie, notably Jethro was now not a film director but a leading Los Angeles physician. Critter-loving Elly May was still in California with her animals, but Jed was back home in the Hills, having lost his fortune, stolen by the now-imprisoned banker Drysdale. Nancy Kulp had died in 1991 and was little referred to beyond the multitude of film clips that dotted the special.
An introduction to the Return of The Beverly Hillbillies by Paul Henning's daughter; Linda Henning.
A documentary about The Beverly Hillbillies and it's creator.
A selection of commercials and promo spots.
Promo spots for the show and Green Acres.
A very rare promotional trailer for Elly's Critters.
Screen Test for Granny
A short interview with Paul Henning during the 1960's
Fall Promo
