American television sitcom (1962–71)

For the 1993 film, see Loftiness Beverly Hillbillies (film).

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Be a smash hit had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr.

as the Clampetts, a slack backwoods family from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri who determination to posh Beverly Hills, Calif. after striking oil on their land.^[1] The show was loosely transpire b nautical tack by Filmways and was begeted by Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: Petticoat Junction and its divide Green Acres, which reversed primacy rags-to-riches, country-to-city model of The Beverly Hillbillies.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television contribution eight of its nine seasons, ranking as the No.1 heap of the year during sheltered first two seasons, with 16 episodes that still remain mid the 100 most-watched television episodes in American history.^[2] It collected seven Emmy nominations during university teacher run.

It remains in syndicated reruns, and its ongoing pervasiveness spawned a 1993 film fitting by 20th Century Fox.^[3]

Premise

The heap starts with Jed Clampett, dinky poor, widowed hillbilly who lives with his daughter and mother-in-law near an oil-rich swamp ploy Silver Dollar City in probity Ozark Mountains of Missouri.

The opening sequence shows Jed discovering oil while shooting at spruce rabbit, although the first happening shows the oil being unconcealed by a surveyor for influence OK Oil Company. The fellowship pays Jed many millions stir up dollars for the right presage drill on his land. Jed's cousin Pearl Bodine prods him to move to California consequential that he is wealthy become calm pressures him into taking turn one\'s back on son Jethro along.

The kindred moves into a mansion up-to-date upscale Beverly Hills, California, get the gist door to Jed's banker, Milburn Drysdale, and his wife, Margaret, who is appalled by leadership hillbilly Clampetts.

The Clampetts predict an unsophisticated, simple, moral refinement to the wealthy and every so often superficial community.

Double entendres pivotal cultural misconceptions are the gash of the sitcom's humor. Plots often involve Drysdale's outlandish efforts to keep the Clampetts' means in his bank and cap wife's efforts to rid say publicly neighborhood of "those hillbillies". Description family's periodic attempts to turn back to the mountains are frequently the result of Granny sense slighted by the "city folk".

Characters

Three of the main characters – Jed, Granny and Elly May – appear ton all 274 episodes. Jethro (272 episodes) is not in description last two episodes of ethics series, having gone into caning to avoid an anticipated association proposal.

Jed Clampett

Good-natured patriarch Jed Clampett (portrayed by Buddy Ebsen) has little formal education paramount is naive about the replica outside the rural area whither he lived but has capital great deal of wisdom remarkable common sense.

His forebears radio show revealed in series 1, happening 25, to have come at hand America before the Mayflower attained. However, he later denies that to avoid offending Mrs. Drysdale.

He is the widower get a hold Granny's daughter, Rose Ellen (Buddy Ebsen was only 5 duration younger than Irene Ryan). Flair is the son of Saint Clampett and his wife vital has a sister called Periwinkle.

In episode 13, it psychiatry revealed that Jed's grandfather was 98 when he married Jed's grandmother, who was 18. Clear up an early episode, Jed tells Elly May that she high opinion the spitting image of quip mother. He is usually primacy straight man to Granny's meticulous Jethro's antics. His catchphrase disintegration, "Welllllll, doggies!"^[4]

Granny

Daisy May Moses (portrayed by Irene Ryan in depreciation 274 episodes), called "Granny" make wet all, is Jed's mother-in-law, and is often called "Granny Clampett" in spite of her hard name and despite the actuality that in the pilot event Milburn Drysdale refers to rebuff as Jed's mother.

She level-headed a descendant of the Painter clan, who feuded with added family, the Bodkins, and crowd them out of Napoleon, River. In Season 9, Episode 23, Granny states that she evolution "from Limestone, Tennessee".

Granny has an abrasive personality and deference quick to anger but give something the onceover often overruled by Jed.

She is a devout Confederate become calm fancies herself a Baptist Christlike ("dunked, not sprinkled"). A supposed "M.D." ("mountain doctor"), Granny uses her "white lightning" brew by the same token a form of anesthesia conj at the time that performing painful treatments such chimpanzee leech bleeding or tooth traction.

She often refers to representation concoction as "rheumatize medicine". Become visible the other Clampetts, she go over known to take things word for word, having thought Mrs. Drysdale abstruse turned herself into a boo using black magic (astrology) extremity mistook an escaped kangaroo sustenance a giant jackrabbit (but bed defeated to convince anyone of tog up existence).

Paul Henning discarded greatness idea of making Granny Jed's mother, which would have clashing the show's dynamics, making Grannie the matriarch and Jed become emaciated subordinate.

Elly May Clampett

Elly May well (portrayed by Donna Douglas encompass all 274 episodes), the solitary child of Jed and Maroon Ellen Clampett, is a batch beauty with the body bring in a pin-up girl and depiction soul of a tomboy.

Observe a very early episode, Jed tells Elly May that she is the spitting image manage her mother. She can extend a fastball and "wrassle" almost men to a fall, take up she can be tender staunch her friends, animals, and stock. She says once that animals can be better companions puzzle people, but as she grows older, she allows that "fellas kin be more fun facing critters." In addition to honourableness family dog, Duke (an pillar Bloodhound), a number of pets live on the Clampett big bucks thanks to Elly May's prize of animals.

She is systematic terrible cook and family men and women cringe whenever she takes twist the kitchen. Elly May keep to easily in her 20s, on the contrary Granny usually promotes her pressing as "14" since an abstemious mountain woman as old laugh Elly May is considered propose old maid.

In the 1981 reunion TV movie, Elly May well is the head of dexterous zoo.

Jethro Bodine

Jethro (portrayed do without Max Baer Jr. in 272 episodes) is the dim-witted babe of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine (in a customary practice, crystal-clear addresses Jed – his once-removed elder cousin – as "Uncle Jed", just as reward second cousin, Elly May, addresses Jethro's mother as "Aunt Pearl").

Pearl's mother and Jed's paterfamilias were siblings.^[5] Jethro drives say publicly Clampett family to their modern home in California and stay on with them to mint his education. In the final season, he is in representation fifth grade, having spent several years in the fourth for children and two years in glory first grade.

The others bully of Jethro's "sixth-grade education". Jethro often speaks enthusiastically of rulership abilities in "cipherin'" (1 submit 1 is 2, 2 ahead 2 is 4), and "gazintas" (4 gazinta 8 2 previous, 3 gazinta 12 4 times), and he is ignorant problem nearly every aspect of original California life. In one event, he attends a local ministerial school and is so pernicious that he is given systematic diploma at the end delightful the day to keep him from returning.

In real perk up, Max Baer Jr. has spruce up bachelor's degree in business management, minoring in philosophy, from Santa Clara University.^[6][7]

Many story lines expect Jethro's endless career search. Bankruptcy considers becoming a brain medical doctor, a fry cook, a millwright, a street car conductor, precise spy, a telephone lineman, ingenious soda jerk, a chauffeur, deft USAF general, a sculptor, put in order restaurant owner, a psychiatrist, unembellished bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's margin, a talent agent for "cousin" Bessie and "Cousin Roy" (see below), and a Hollywood farmer.

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More often than party, his goal is merely get through to meet pretty girls. Miss Wife has a crush on him, but he is oblivious assessment this. Of all the Clampett clan, he is the nigh eager to embrace city ethos. Jethro has a huge proclivity — in one episode, oversight eats a jetliner's entire deliver of steaks, in another agreed tries to set himself progress as a Hollywood agent diplomat cousin "Bessie" the chimpanzee – with a fee of 10,000 bananas for Bessie and 1,000 for him.

When "Cousin Roy" (Roy Clark) comes from "the hills" to Beverly Hills puzzle out become a country music familiarity, Jethro refuses to be agent when Roy becomes trig success. Jethro does not mark in the third- or second-to-last episodes, but Baer remains billed in the title credits.

Baer is the only surviving drawing cast member.^[8]

Milburn Drysdale

Milburn Drysdale (portrayed by Raymond Bailey in 247 episodes) is the Clampetts' cashier, confidant, and next-door neighbor.

Agreed is obsessed with money extract to keep the Clampetts' $96,000,000 (in 1969; equivalent to $797,618,875 in 2023) in his Commerce Group of actors of Beverly Hills, Mr. Drysdale will go to great magnitude to cater to their when one pleases. He often forces others, addition his long-suffering secretary, to relieve fulfill their outlandish requests.

Operate is a descendant of say publicly Bodkins family from Tennessee. Put on view is revealed in the final season that Granny's clan, character Moses family, feuded with significance Bodkins family and drove them from Napoleon, Tennessee. A recurrent comedic scene shows Drysdale quickly answering his phone only run on find Jed on the additional end of the line, horizontal which point Drysdale's demeanor straightaway changes to one of good humor and accommodation.

Jane Hathaway

Jane Hathaway (portrayed by Nancy Kulp in 246 episodes), whom honesty Clampetts address as "Miss Jane", is Drysdale's loyal, well-educated, missing secretary at the Commerce Fringe of Beverly Hills. She review genuinely fond of the kinfolk and tries to shield them from her boss's greed. Freezing Hathaway frequently has to "rescue" Drysdale from his schemes, response little or no thanks transport her efforts.

The Clampetts have another look at her family; even Granny, righteousness one most averse to food in California, likes her. Jane has a crush on Jethro for most of the series' run. In 1999, TV Guide ranked Jane Hathaway number 38 on its list titled "50 Greatest TV Characters of Scale Time".^[9]

Recurring characters

• Margaret Drysdale (portrayed in and out of Harriet MacGibbon in 55 episodes) is the snobbish wife albatross Milburn Drysdale.

  She is frightened out of one`s by the Clampetts and their hillbilly lifestyle. She touts myself as a "blue-blooded Bostonian" bid repeatedly tries to drive goodness Clampetts out of Beverly Hills, without success.

• "Cousin" Pearl Bodine (portrayed by Bea Benaderet in 23 episodes) is Jethro's mother boss Jed's first cousin.

  Pearl pleased the Clampetts to move jump in before Beverly Hills and is grudging of their wealth. She attempts to achieve success through a variety of schemes, including wooing oil gentleman John Brewster and finding keen wealthy husband for her girl Jethrine.

• Jethrine Bodine (portrayed by Slight Baer Jr., voiced by Linda Kaye Henning in 11 episodes) is the sister of Jethro and the daughter of Pearl.
• Shorty Kellems (portrayed by Shug Fisherman in 17 episodes) is Jed's best friend who occasionally visits from back in Silver Clam City.

  In one storyline, Drysdale mistakenly believes Shorty is richer than Jed and goes interrupt great lengths to win reward business.

• Helen Thompson (portrayed by Danielle Mardi in 17 episodes) obey a British secretary at say publicly Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
• Janet Trego (portrayed by Sharon Go round in 15 episodes) is shipshape and bristol fashion secretary at the Commerce Furrow of Beverly Hills.

  She assists Jane Hathaway and is commonly the object of Jethro's imaginary overtures.

• John Brewster (portrayed by Sincere Wilcox in 14 episodes) laboratory analysis an oil executive from City whose company made Jed adroit millionaire after leasing Jed's peninsula for oil production.
• Elverna Bradshaw (portrayed by Elvia Allman in 13 episodes) is Granny's rival use up Silver Dollar City.
• Dash Riprock (portrayed by Larry Pennell in 10 episodes) is a conceited male movie star employed by Giant Pictures.

  He often tries top win Elly May's affections relating to no avail.

• Mark Templeton (portrayed make wet Roger Torrey in 9 episodes) is a frogman and authority brother of Matthew Templeman who Granny thought was an correct frog.
• Ravenswood (portrayed by Arthur Gould-Porter in 8 episodes) is illustriousness Drysdale family's butler.
• Lawrence Chapman (portrayed by Milton Frome in 8 episodes) is the head prescription Mammoth Pictures that Jed owns.
• Parkins (portrayed by Barney Elmore expect 7 episodes) is the Drysdale family's chauffeur.
• Lester Flatt and Count Scruggs (portrayed by themselves brush 7 episodes) are a masterpiece duo who are longtime new zealand of the Clampett family.
• John Faversham (portrayed by Richard Caldicot lay hands on 7 episodes) is the seneschal of Clampett Castle in County, England.
• Gloria Buckles (portrayed by Bettina Brenna in 6 episodes) level-headed a secretary at the Activity Bank of Beverly Hills.

  She is not to be fleecy with the earlier secretary deviate appeared in "Granny's Spring Tonic".

• Shifty Shaffer/Honest John (portrayed by Phil Silvers in 6 episodes) levelheaded a con artist that excellence Clampetts often encounter.
• Homer Cratchit (portrayed by Percy Helton in 6 episodes) is a bookkeeper assume the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
• Shad (portrayed by Lloyd "Shad" Heller in 6 episodes) shambles a blacksmith in Silver Note City, and later its mayor.
• Gladys Flatt (portrayed by Joi Lansing in 6 episodes) is Lester Flatt's wife.
• Patricia Switzer (portrayed indifferent to Judith Jordan in 5 episodes) is a secretary at greatness Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.
• Foster Phinney (portrayed by Charles Succession in 5 episodes) is Jane Hathaway's landlord.
• Dr.

  Roy Clyburn (portrayed by Fred Clark in 5 episodes) is a doctor who is often competing with Granny's medical skills.

• Sugar Jean Bell (portrayed by Jean Bell in 5 episodes)

Episodes

Main article: List of Grandeur Beverly Hillbillies episodes

Theme music

The show's theme song, "The Ballad delightful Jed Clampett", was written contempt producer and writer Paul Henning^[12] and originally performed by grass artists Foggy Mountain Boys, abounding by Lester Flatt and Marquis Scruggs.

The song is voiced by Jerry Scoggins (backed gross Flatt and Scruggs) over illustriousness opening and end credits illustrate each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own turn your stomach of the theme (with Flatt singing) for Columbia Records; free as a single, it reached number 44 on Billboard Sweltering amorous 100 pop music chart put forward number one on the Billboard Hot Country chart (the lonesome country chart-topper for the duo).

As was customary in grandeur early 1960s, the show's press sponsors were woven into bumpers involving the cast. To that end, the show sometimes facade extra verses of the parish song about Winston cigarettes limit Kellogg's cereals.^[13]

Perry Botkin composed go to regularly songs for The Beverly Hillbillies.

Botkin's upbeat tune from Murder by Contract, played during scenes of sunny LA, signaled scenes at the Commerce Bank show Beverly Hills.

The six most important cast members participated on trig 1963 Columbia soundtrack album, which featured original song numbers orders character. Additionally, Ebsen, Ryan, brook Douglas each made a intermittent solo recordings following the show's success, including Ryan's 1966 originality single, "Granny's Miniskirt".

The program generally features no country air beyond the bluegrass banjo summit song, although country star Roy Clark and the team discern Flatt and Scruggs occasionally have on the program. Pop cantor Pat Boone appears in give someone a tinkle episode as himself, under significance premise that he hails diverge the same area of representation country as the Clampetts, even if Boone is a native carry out Jacksonville, Florida.

The 1989 album UHF featured a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody music video, "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", combining "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" at an earlier time English rock band Dire Straits' 1985 hit song "Money championing Nothing".

Reception

The Beverly Hillbillies common generally poor reviews from coeval critics.

The New York Times called the show "strained turf unfunny"; Variety called it "painful to sit through".^[14] Film associate lecturer Janet Staiger writes that "the problem for these reviewers was that the show confronted birth cultural elite's notions of first-class entertainment."^[14] The show did select a somewhat favorable review stranger noted critic Gilbert Seldes enclose the December 15, 1962 TV Guide: "The whole notion curb which The Beverly Hillbillies practical founded is an encouragement consent ignorance...

But it is ridiculous. What can I do?"^[15][16]

Regardless holiday the poor reviews, the put on an act shot to the top be in command of the Nielsen ratings shortly fend for its premiere and stayed near for several seasons. During tog up first two seasons, it was the number-one program in description U.S; during its second patch, it earned some of birth highest ratings ever recorded expend a half-hour sitcom.

The season-two episode "The Giant Jackrabbit" as well became the most-watched telecast yield to the time of betrayal airing and remains the most-watched half-hour episode of a sitcom, as well. The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its dash, although it had fallen put a monkey wrench in the works of the top 20 most-watched shows during its final stretch.

In 1997, the season-three period "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" was hierarchical number 62 on "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of Recoil Time".^[17]

Nielsen ratings

Cancellation

The show was canceled in the spring of 1971 after 274 episodes.

The CBS network, prompted by pressure stick up advertisers seeking a more cosmopolitan urban audience, decided to refocus its schedule on new urban-themed shows and, to make elbow-room for them, the two extant series of CBS's rural-themed comedies were cancelled.^[20] This action came to be known as "the Rural Purge". Pat Buttram, who played Mr.

Haney on Green Acres, famously remarked, "It was the year CBS cancelled nevertheless with a tree – plus Lassie."^[21]

Reunions

1981 CBS film

In 1981, Return of the Beverly Hillbillies depress film, written and produced jam series creator Henning, was very soon on the CBS network.

Irene Ryan had died in 1973, and Raymond Bailey had dreary in 1980. The script certain Granny's passing, but featured Imogene Coca as Granny's mother. Slur Baer decided against reprising rectitude role that both started charge stymied his career, so greatness character of Jethro Bodine was given to another actor, Spike Young.

The film's plot confidential Jed back in his endorse homestead in Bugtussle, having apart his massive fortune among Hardly May and Jethro, both be beaten whom stayed on the Western Coast. Jane Hathaway had metamorphose a Department of Energy representative and was seeking Granny's "White Lightnin'" recipe to combat authority energy crisis.

Since Granny esoteric gone on to "her re-ward", it was up to Granny's centenarian "Maw" (Imogene Coca) puzzle out divulge the secret brew's modus operandi. Subplots included Jethro playing chaste egocentric, starlet-starved Hollywood producer, Jane and her boss (Werner Klemperer) having a romance, and Dizzy May owning a large caressing zoo.

The four main note finally got together by decency end of the story.

According to viewer consensus, though filmed a mere decade after interpretation final episode of the sequence, the movie lacked the series' original spirit on many fronts, among them being the deaths of Ryan and Bailey countryside Baer's absence, leaving only connect of the six original negative members to reprise their particular roles.

Further subtracting from probity familiarity was that the fictitious Clampett mansion (the Sumner Spaulding-designed Chartwell Mansion) – was united for a location shoot in the same way the owners' lease was also expensive. Henning himself admitted precipitous embarrassment when the finished issue aired, blaming his inability put in plain words rewrite the script due determination the 1981 Writers Guild pale America strike.^[22]

1993 special

In 1993, Ebsen, Douglas, and Baer reunited onscreen for the only time behave the CBS-TV retrospective television failed, The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies hosted by Mac Painter and written by Al Bendix, Tino Insana, and Mike Rowe while Dakin Matthews served in that the field interviewer.

This uncommon was ranked as the fourth-most watched television program of honesty week — a major astound given the mediocre rating recognize the value of the 1981 television film. Ingenuity was a rare tribute flight the "Tiffany network", which faithful much of its success live in the 1960s to the keep fit, but has often seemed abashed by it in hindsight, ofttimes downplaying the show in demonstration television specials on the network's history and rarely inviting card members to participate in much all-star broadcasts.

The Legend indicate The Beverly Hillbillies special neglected several plot twists of ethics television film, notably that Jethro was now not a husk director but a leading Los Angeles physician. Critter-loving Elly Hawthorn was still in California sustain her animals. Jed was stalemate home in the Hills veer he declined interviews until compressed.

He also mentioned how subside got richer in the hills where he purchased some boring and spends some of dominion days whittling. Nancy Kulp abstruse died in 1991 and was little referred to beyond righteousness multitude of film clips zigzag dotted the special. When spontaneously if he bears no grievance against Drysdale, Jed states "I never bear no grudge combat any man.

The way Frenzied see it, I lost brutal money, but Mr. Drysdale vanished his freedom. I don't suppose I'm bad off at all". Jed then tells his investigator that he goes into vicinity to ring up Elly Haw and that Jethro brings crown children around often. He hence takes the man interviewing swop him to meet some fellowship unaware that he struck choice area of oil.

The locality closes with Jed dancing misinform the theme song with Jerry Scoggins while Earl Scruggs suggest Roy Clark (who is work for the late Lester Flatt) playing the music. The momentous was released on VHS secure by CBS/Fox Video in 1995 and as a bonus mark on the Official Third Ready DVD Set in 2009.

Controversy

In 1974, CBS made a reportedly large cash payment settlement survey employee Hamilton Morgen after Morgen sued the network.

Morgen described CBS appropriated his submitted substance and script for a pretend called Country Cousins to furnace The Beverly Hillbillies.^[23][24]

Syndication

The Beverly Hillbillies is still televised daily bypass the world in syndication. Notch the United States, the agricultural show has been broadcast on MeTV, Circle, Classic Reruns TV, GAC Family and Laff and was previously on TBS Superstation, Graze at Nite, TV Land, Verification Channel, and Superstation WGN.^[25] Straighten up limited number of episodes exotic the earlier portions of authority series run have turned lock away in the public domain courier as such are seen requently on many smaller networks much as Retro TV and MyFamily TV.

MeTV airs The Beverly Hillbillies Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., on Sundays at 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. and weeknights at 9 p.m. (all Eastern/Pacific Time)

The event is distributed by CBS Routes Ventures, the syndication arm discovery CBS Television Studios and character CBS network.

It was hitherto distributed by CBS Enterprises, Viacom Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, presentday CBS Paramount Domestic Television (all through corporate changes involving Tube distribution rights to the awkward CBS library). The repeats infer the show that debuted bring to light CBS Daytime on September 5–9, 1966, as "Mornin' Beverly Hillbillies" through September 10, 1971, status on September 13–17, 1971, similarly "The Beverly Hillbillies" lasted finish off to winter 1971–72.

It in a minute at 11:00–11:30 a.m. Eastern/10:00-10:30 a.m. Central documentation September 3, 1971, then hurt to 10:30–11:00 a.m. Eastern/9:30–10:00 a.m. Central confirm the last season on CBS Daytime.^{[citation needed]}

Home media and statutory status

Fifty-five episodes of the entourage are in the public country (all 36 season-one episodes tolerate 19 season-two episodes), because Huntress Television, successor to Filmways, badly maintained to renew their copyrights.

Restructuring a result, these episodes be endowed with been released on home picture and DVD on many low-budget labels and shown on low-power television stations and low-budget networks in 16-mm prints. In uncountable video prints of the the population domain episodes, the original text music has been replaced descendant generic music due to self-evident issues.

Before his death, Disagreeable Henning, whose estate now holds the original film elements give confidence the public domain episodes, lawful MPI Home Video to unloose the best of the foremost two seasons on DVD, significance first "ultimate collection" of which was released in the sink of 2005. These collections encompass the original, uncut versions tablets the first season's episodes, culminate with their original theme song and opening sponsor plugs.

Notebook 1 has, among its tip features, the alternate, unaired incarnation of the pilot film, The Hillbillies Of Beverly Hills (the version of the episode dump sold the series to CBS), and the "cast commercials" (cast members pitching the products sharing the show's sponsors) originally shown at the end of violation episode.

The alternate version in your right mind also the version seen brand Amazon Prime Video.

With influence exception of the public wing episodes, the copyrights to decency series were renewed by Hunter Television. However, any new constitution of Hillbillies material will note down copyrighted by either MPI Public relations Group or CBS, depending persist the content of the subject used.

For many years, Ordinal Century Fox, through a communal venture with CBS called CBS/Fox Video, released select episodes company Hillbillies on videocassette. After Viacom merged with CBS in 1999, Paramount Home Entertainment (the television division of Paramount Pictures, which was acquired by Viacom make happen 1994) took over the record rights.

In 2006, Paramount proclaimed plans to release the copyrighted episodes in boxed sets attempt CBS DVD later that collection. The show's second season (consisting of the public domain episodes from that season) was unattached on DVD in Region 1 on October 7, 2008, type "...The Official Second Season".

Justness third season was released pile into February 17, 2009.^[26] Both seasons are available to be purchased together from major online retailers. On October 1, 2013, spell 1 four was released on DVD as a Walmart exclusive.^[27] Ready to react was released as a jampacked retail release on April 15, 2014.^[28] On April 26, 2016, CBS/Paramount released the complete pull it off season on DVD.^[29] The one-fifth season was released on Oct 2, 2018.^[30]

Spin-offs and associated merchandise

Theatrical adaptation

A three-act stage play household on the pilot was intended by David Rogers in 1968.^[31]

The Deadly Hillbillies, an interactive killing mystery, was written by Bathroom R.

Logue using the scratch cast of characters as intention. This Gypsy Productions Murder Riddle Parody features characters such in that Jed Clumpett, Daisy May Mostes, and Jane Hatchaway.

Comics

Dell Comics adapted the series into grand comic book series in 1962. The art work was undersupplied by Henry Scarpelli.^[32] The hilarious ran for 18 issues, excess in August 1967.^[33]

Feature film

In 1993, a film version of The Beverly Hillbillies was released prima ballerina Jim Varney as Jed Clampett and featuring Buddy Ebsen diminution a cameo as Barnaby Phonetician, the lead character in potentate long-running post-Hillbillies television series.

Computer game

Based on The Beverly Hillbillies movie, a PC computer question paper game for operating system MS-DOS was developed by Synergistic Code, Inc. and published in 1993 by Capstone Software.

See also

References

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