The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 1
CBS (1963)
TV Series  /  Comedy, Family
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IMDB   7.3
1031 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc    US - TV-PG
Buddy Ebsen Jed Clampett
Donna Douglas Elly May Clampett
Max Baer Jr. Jethro Bodine
Irene Ryan Daisy Moses
Raymond Bailey Milburn Drysdale
Bea Benaderet Cousin Pearl Bodine
Nancy Kulp Jane Hathaway
Harriet E. MacGibbon Mrs. Margaret Drysdale
Linda Henning Jethrine Bodine
Frank Wilcox John Brewster
Duke Dog
Louis Nye Sonny Drysdale
Orangey Rusty--Cat
Rosemary DeCamp Pricilla Rolfe Alden Smith-Standish
Phil Gordon Jasper 'Jazzbo' Depew
Director
Richard Whorf
Ralph Levy
Producer Paul Henning
Al Simon
Writer Paul Henning
Phil Shuken
Cinematography Lester Shorr
Archie R. Dalzell
Musician Perry Botkin Sr.


The Beverly Hillbillies (1962 - 1971) is an American sitcom that was one of the most successful comedies in the history of American television.


The story of Jed Clampett, a widowed, simple backwoods mountaineer who becomes a millionaire when oil is discovered on his property in Sibly (an Ozark community). Episodes relate his misadventures when he and his family move to Beverly Hills, California, and struggle to adjust to the fast, sophisticated modern life of the big city.
Episodes
 58 mins    9/26/1962  1.  The Clampetts Strike Oil
A backstory presentation of how a dirt poor mountain family acquired millions in oil and moved to Beverly Hills, California.
 26 mins    10/3/1962  2.  Getting Settled
The Clampett clan finds features of their new Beverly Hills mansion beyond their comprehension. Highly educated bank secretary Jane Hathaway finds them beyond hers.
 26 mins    10/10/1962  3.  Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin
Without a pump anywhere on the premises, only the cement pond provides the Clampetts with wash water.
 26 mins    10/17/1962  4.  The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale
Snooty Mrs. Drysdale zooms in from her Boston retreat to see for herself what kind of people are the Clampetts. Meanwhile, the Clampetts discover the telephone.
 26 mins    10/24/1962  5.  Jed Buys Stock
As Mrs. Drysdale revives from her first encounter with the Clampetts, she thinks she's hallucinating due to Clampett efforts to help her, believing her a lush.
 26 mins    10/31/1962  6.  Trick or Treat
Fired up over Beverly Hills unfriendliness, Granny aims to return to the hills. Jed talking her into visiting their neighbors themselves coincides with Halloween.
 26 mins    11/7/1962  7.  The Servants
To give the Clampetts some polish, Mr. Drysdale has them take in his butler and maid, hoping they'll work wonders.
 26 mins    11/14/1962  8.  Jethro Goes to School
A letter from Pearl reminds Jed to enroll Jethro in the 5th grade. A snooty Beverly Hills headmistress does not catch on that the Jethro they're enrolling is not a little boy.
 25 mins    11/21/1962  9.  Elly's First Date
Mr. Drysdale convinces his self-absorbed stepson Sonny to date Elly May to Mrs. Drysdale's consternation, while Granny and Jed make preparations for Thanksgiving.
 26 mins    11/28/1962  10.  Pygmalion and Elly
While Sonny Drysdale decides he needs to be Pygmalion to Elly's Galatea and remake her from a hillbilly into a woman of society, Granny uses love charms to heat up their relationship.
 25 mins    12/5/1962  11.  Elly Races Jethrine
Pearl and Jethrine finally arrive. Granny and Pearl fall immediately into a competition on who they can get married first, Jethrine or Elly Mae.
 24 mins    12/12/1962  12.  The Great Feud
Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales since Sonny courted Elly May then stood her up when Granny suggested marriage.
 26 mins    12/19/1962  13.  Home for Christmas
Jed, Elly May, Jethro, and Granny take their first airplane flight back home for Christmas to visit cousin Pearl, who's busy cooking up a feast to win Mr. Brewster's unwilling heart.
 25 mins    12/26/1962  14.  No Place Like Home
Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl plays the piano for the "new" movie in town (the silent version of Ben Hur) to impress Mr. Brewster.
 25 mins    1/2/1963  15.  Jed Rescues Pearl
For man-hungry Pearl to save face, Jed has Mr. Brewster publicly propose, with Pearl to turn him down, but hamming it up makes things not go as planned.
 25 mins    1/9/1963  16.  Back to Californy
Once returned to California, sparks fly between Granny and Pearl, two mountain women each of a mind to mind the mansion in their own ways.
 30 mins    1/16/1963  17.  Jed's Dilemma
Granny and Cousin Pearl are at each other's throats over who's going to take care of cooking and the house, so Jed has to find ways to keep them apart.
 25 mins    1/23/1963  18.  Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage
A misunderstanding has Jed believing he has to save the Drysdale's marriage from Pearl's man-mesmerizing yodeling.
 25 mins    1/30/1963  19.  Elly's Animals
When Pearl starts selling music lessons, Mrs. Drysdale complains about the noise to the police. Mrs. Drysdale also calls the dog catcher on Duke.
 30 mins    2/6/1963  20.  Jed Throws a Wingding
Flatt and Scruggs and their wives come to visit their old sweetheart, but Pearl thinks they're there to propose. Jed throws a wingding for them and the duo play music for the Clampetts.
 30 mins    2/13/1963  21.  Jed Plays Solomon
Granny can't stand Pearl's yodeling so she reports her to the police. When one of the officers takes Pearl out, Granny thinks she got Pearl in trouble and becomes sad and contrite. Meanwhile, the police find her still, and new trouble results.
 30 mins    2/20/1963  22.  Duke Steals a Wife
Jed and his dog Duke are both feeling down without a woman in their lives, until they see and pursue a French woman and her poodle that she brought to breed with Mrs. Drysdale's dog. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drysdale has arranged a "marriage" between the dogs, complete with a decorated bedroom.
 30 mins    2/27/1963  23.  Jed Buys the Freeway
Henry Jones shows up at the Clampett's, pretends to be an old friend and tries to sell the family the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the freeway.
 30 mins    3/6/1963  24.  Jed Becomes a Banker
Drysdale hires Jed to be a banker when he needs a crack shot to help beat a rival banker in a skeet shooting competition, but his partner needs to be an employee.
 30 mins    3/13/1963  25.  The Family Tree
Mrs. Drysdale wants to get rid of the Clampetts before the arrival of Mrs. Smith-Standish, the head of a 'first family' historical society. But Mrs. Smith-Standish goes to the Clampett's home first, and becomes enchanted with their antiques and way of life, even roping the horrified Mrs. Drysdale into helping do the chores the old-fashioned way.
 30 mins    3/20/1963  26.  Jed Cuts the Family Tree
Mrs. Drysdale continues to be forced into doing "practices from the past" by Mrs. Smith-Standish, who discovers that Jed's family is possibly the first to come the country. If so they'd be famous worldwide, but does Jed want that?
 30 mins    3/27/1963  27.  Granny's Spring Tonic
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 double his annual dose of Granny's spring tonic.
 30 mins    4/3/1963  28.  Jed Pays His Income Tax
When an IRS agent gets chased away by Granny, Mr. Drysdale tells him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.
 30 mins    4/10/1963  29.  The Clampetts and the Dodgers
Jed and Jethro go golfing with Leo Durocher, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wants to recruit Jethro as a pitcher when he sees how well he can throw.
 30 mins    4/17/1963  30.  Duke Becomes a Father
Mlle. Denise comes back for the birth of her dog's puppies, and to see Jed. They do 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.
 30 mins    4/24/1963  31.  The Clampetts Entertain
Jed arranges a party to get Grannie out of her doldrums and invites the Drysdale. But when Mr. Drysdale's boss comes and wants to meet them for dinner, he wonders if he's going to be sent to an Alaskan bank when his boss finds out he's been lying about Jed and his family being sophisticated.
 30 mins    5/1/1963  32.  The Clampetts in Court
When a couple who ran into the Clampett's car discover that they're rich, they fake injuries and sue the Clampetts.
 30 mins    5/8/1963  33.  The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed
Jethro needs a health certificate to graduate from the fifth grade, so he goes to the only doctor the Clampetts know about: Mrs. Drysdale's psychiatrist. He gets nowhere with Jethro, so Pearl comes, and she thinks he is testing her virtue when he invites her to lie on his couch.
 30 mins    5/15/1963  34.  The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted
Jethro finally gets his bill of health from Dr. Twombly so he can graduate the fifth grade, but Twombly really wants to talk to Granny again. Drysdale brings him to the Clampetts' just as Granny shows Pearl how to use a love potion, so everyone thinks Twombly's interest in Granny is love.
 30 mins    5/22/1963  35.  Elly Becomes a Secretary
When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary, while Jethro finds a speech that Drysdale accidentally uses instead of his own. All the while a new teller sucks-up to the men and flirts with the women.
 30 mins    5/29/1963  36.  Jethro's Friend
Jethro invites his 5th grade classmate to visit his home. Armstrong Dueser McHugh III arrives in a limo; he is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as sickly and frail. The Clampetts know better and teach "Duesy" how to have a good time.
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Series The Beverly Hillbillies
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