The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 3
CBS (1964)
TV Series  /  Comedy, Family
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IMDB   7.3
1020 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
Nancy Kulp Jane Hathaway
Raymond Bailey Milburn Drysdale
Judy the Chimpanzee Cousin Bessie
Duke Dog
Arnie Dog
Orangey Rusty--Cat
Harriet E. MacGibbon Mrs. Margaret Drysdale
Higgins Dog
Sharon Tate Janet Trego
Skipper Chimpanzee
Roy Roberts John Cushing
Director
Joseph Depew
Producer Joseph Depew
Paul Henning
Writer Paul Henning
Mark Tuttle
Cinematography Harry L. Wolf
Musician Curt Massey

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
 30 mins    9/23/1964  1.  Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
Mr. Drysdale buys Mammoth Pictures, a movie studio. Jed, Granny, Elly and Jethro try to "help" the studio, which is losing money, by working at the studio.
 30 mins    9/30/1964  2.  Clampett City
Mr. Drysdale tells the Clampetts that he is building a city on the location where Jed's movie studio is located. The Clampetts mistake a western prop town for the city.
 30 mins    10/7/1964  3.  Clampett City General Store
The Clampetts decide to run the store on the empty studio Western set but can't understand why they don't have any customers.
 30 mins    10/14/1964  4.  Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
The Clampetts are still at the studio hoping their "city" prospers. Mr. Drysdale is still trying to tear the studio down for his building project. A famous Hollywood columnist enlists Jed's help to save the studio.
 30 mins    10/21/1964  5.  Doctor Jed Clampett
Jed gets an honorary doctorate when he donates money to the college that Mr. Drysdale attended. Now the family thinks he can practice medicine, which doesn't sit well with Granny.
 30 mins    10/28/1964  6.  Jed the Heartbreaker
Mrs. Drysdale thinks she can get the hillbillies to move out by throwing herself at Jed. Meanwhile Granny is itching to fight her because she fell into the cement pond when Jed had to stop a fight between them earlier.
 30 mins    11/4/1964  7.  Back to Marineland
Jethro decides to enlist in one of the armed forces but he isn't sure which one. The Clampetts go to Marineland thinking that's where he would go to join the Marines.
 30 mins    11/11/1964  8.  Teenage Idol
An old friend from back in the hills is now an Elvis-like singing idol. The Clampetts misunderstand the situation and decide to help Johnny "get on his feet".
 30 mins    11/18/1964  9.  The Widow Poke Arrives
Johnny Poke's mother arrives from the Ozarks and Granny's matchmaking begins. Jed and Emma Poke come up with a plan to discourage her.
 30 mins    11/25/1964  10.  The Ballet
Mrs. Drysdale needs Jed to donate $190,000 to save the Beverly Hills Ballet, but he has his hands full trying to keep Granny from heading back to the hills, pushing all her stuff in a wheelbarrow.
 30 mins    12/9/1964  11.  The Boarder
Mr. Drysdale talks the butler into staying on, posing as a boarder, so that he can teach the Clampetts how to be more civilized.
 30 mins    12/16/1964  12.  The Boarder Stays
The Clampetts still don't realize that Mr. Pinckney is their butler instead of their boarder. When he tries to leave them, Granny thinks he is trying to skip out on paying his rent.
 30 mins    12/29/1964  13.  Start the New Year Right
Hospitalized for nerves from dealing with the hillbillies, Mrs. Drysdale threatens to stay there until Mr. Drysdale gets rid of them, and she even sends for a specialist. Unfortunately, the Clampett clan is on their way to visit her.
 30 mins    1/6/1965  14.  Clampett General Hospital
Mrs. Drysdale wakes up to find she is no longer in the hospital. The Clampetts, unhappy with what they feel as the hospital's poor level of care, break her out and set her up in their mansion.
 30 mins    1/13/1965  15.  The Movie Starlet
A young actress becomes interested in Jethro when she finds out Jed owns a movie studio.
 30 mins    1/20/1965  16.  Elly in the Movies
Elly May goes to Jed's studio to be in a movie and meet a potential husband.
 30 mins    1/27/1965  17.  Dash Riprock, You Cad
Elly May loses another suitor to Miss Jane in another case of mistaken identity.
 30 mins    2/3/1965  18.  Clampett A-Go-Go
After the Clampetts accidentally run into a beatnik he's moves into the Clampett mansion, but neither he nor they know what to make of each other.
 30 mins    2/17/1965  19.  Granny's Romance
As a favor to Jed, Mr. Drysdale arranges for a playboy bank director (who normally only dates women half his age) to come court Granny, while Jed goes out with a beautiful woman who dates rich older men.
 30 mins    2/24/1965  20.  Jed's Temptation
Granny wants Jed to find a wife and asks for Mr. Drysdale's help. He introduces Jed to Phyllis but learns too late that she is a gold digger, and becomes alarmed when they head to the track. But it's Granny they need to worry about.
 30 mins    3/3/1965  21.  Double Naught Jethro
Jethro decides to become a "double naught" spy and converts the family's truck into his idea of a Bondmobile. But he becomes the unwitting pawn in another banker's scheme. They also help Jethro after he bumps his head.
 30 mins    3/10/1965  22.  Clampett's Millions
Mr. Drysdale's biggest rival John Cushing succeeds in getting the Clampetts to transfer all of their money to his bank.
 30 mins    3/17/1965  23.  Drysdale's Dog Days
Mrs. Drydale's poodle Claude is to enter a dog show but gets sick right before. Granny offers to doctor the dog but Ellie Mae is concerned he doesn't know any tricks so she decides to help out with one of her own pets.
 30 mins    3/24/1965  24.  Brewster's Honeymoon
John Brewster, the oilman from Tulsa, is bringing his new bride to California for their honeymoon. Somehow the Clampetts get the idea that their backyard rustic cabin is the ideal place for the Brewsters to stay.
 30 mins    3/31/1965  25.  Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs
To cure Granny of her homesick blues Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs come to visit.
 30 mins    4/14/1965  26.  Jed and the Countess
With the arrival of spring the Countess returns for Granny's new batch of spring tonic. Granny thinks she's looking for a new husband and that Jed is her perfect match.
 30 mins    4/21/1965  27.  Big Daddy, Jed
Mr. Drysdale owns a building that houses a beatnik's club. He hopes to get rid of them when they can't pay their rent but they find a new a sponsor: Jed Clampett.
 30 mins    4/28/1965  28.  Cool School Is Out
Jed soon regrets helping out the beatniks with their money problems when Jethro, Elly May (and even Granny!) decide to join them.
 30 mins    5/5/1965  29.  The Big Bank Battle
Mr. Drysdale is appalled to learn that Jed is going door-to-door peddling his services as a handyman. But then he's apoplectic when he discovers that Jed has been hired by a rival bank.
 30 mins    5/12/1965  30.  The Clampetts vs. Automation
A longtime employee of the Commerce Bank is being forcibly retired to make way for a new computer system. A chance meeting with the Clampetts gives him an idea about dealing with Mr. Drysdale.
 30 mins    5/26/1965  31.  Luke's Boy
Beauregard Short arrives in Beverly Hills from back home. Everyone assumes he's looking for a wife and Jethro decides to show him how to be like him, an international playboy.
 30 mins    6/2/1965  32.  The Brewsters Return
Mr. Brewster, the oil man who made Jed a multi-millionaire, arrives in Beverly Hills with his wife planning to build their dream house. Jed and Granny think they have the perfect house in mind for their dream home.
 30 mins    6/9/1965  33.  Jed, the Bachelor
Granny is determined to go back home even if she has to walk back all by herself. When she reaches Las Vegas she has second thoughts. Jethro gets arrested by an undercover cop.
 30 mins    6/16/1965  34.  The Art Center
Mrs. Drysdale thinks she has a new way of getting rid of the Clampetts: talk Jed into donating their mansion to the city for an art museum. They agree, on the assumption that they are supposed to provide the artworks and not move out.
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Series The Beverly Hillbillies
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
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