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36 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Wed, Sep 26, 196258 mins
Jed Clampett is told by an oil company wildcatter that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil. (The oil company employee has been hauled in by Jed's daughter Elly May who asks whether she can keep him.) Mr. Brewster, the head of the oil company, later does a deal with Jed. Jed tells Cousin Pearl that he'll receive 25 to 100 of "some new kind of dollar." Pearl, thinking Jed has been "slickered," asks what kind of dollar he's talking about. "Mill'yen dollars," Granny, Jed's mother-in-law, replies. "Jed, you're a millionaire," Pearl says. "Yeah, that's what that Brewster fella said." Pearl convinces Jed to move to Beverly Hills, California (pronouncing it "Cal-i-forn-ee"), and volunteers her son, Jethro, to drive Jed, Elly May and Granny there. Upon arriving, Granny complains the hills aren't that high. Jed says at least there are hills and "we'll be among our own kind of people." The Clampett clan mistakes their new home for a prison and the groundskeepers for escaping convicts. The Clampetts end up in jail, but Milburn Drysdale, their new banker, gets them freed. As Drysdale tries to take the Clampetts to their new mansion, the foursome flee, fearing they're going to prison.
Episode 2
Wed, Oct 3, 196226 mins
Introduced to their new Beverly Hills home, the Clampetts encounter such things as food freezers (with ham Granny thinks will require two days to thaw out), a flue-less oven, and a "cement pond." Jed also confronts the maturing of his daughter Elly May, telling her that he, in effect, should not have raised her as a boy. Jethro's tale of an encounter with a pink chicken (a flamingo) causes Jed to suspect he's been dipping into Granny's moonshine. When Miss Hathaway, executive secretary to banker Milburn Drysdale, comes along, she critically mistakes the Clampetts for cheap "domestic" help, mistaking Granny for a back talking hired cook and Elly for a maid.
Episode 3
Wed, Oct 10, 196226 mins
While Granny boils pool water for washing (due to the "lack of a pump") and Elly May gets a feminine make-over by Miss Hathaway, cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man while he gives her a ride to the nearest phone.
Episode 4
Wed, Oct 17, 196226 mins
Mr. Drysdale panics when Mrs. Drysdale comes back from Boston early, because she'll meet the Clampetts. He sets Miss Hathaway on a plan to get them to go to Palm Springs. Meanwhile, Granny and Jed come to think Mrs. Drysdale is a drunk and make plans to cure her.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 24, 196226 mins
Granny prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem while Jed does as Mr. Drysdale suggests and buys stock: cows, goats, pigs, and chickens. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drysdale recovers from the shock of her first meeting with the Clampetts and is convinced she's imagining things.
Episode 6
Wed, Oct 31, 196226 mins
As folks seem so unfriendly (no one has come to call), Granny wants to go home. After Jed convinces her that they should call on them instead, they find that people welcome them openly and give them all manner of gifts, showing up on Halloween in their normal hillbilly clothes. Jed also works on getting Pearl to come visit while she's trying to get hitched to Mr. Brewster the oilman and looking to find a young man for Jethrine.
Episode 7
Wed, Nov 7, 196226 mins
Elly May starts wearing dresses but takes it as an insult when someone says she looks like a city girl. Mr. Drysdale talks Jed into taking in his butler and upstairs girl in a plan to civilize the Clampetts, but they don't quite understand the idea of servants. Miss Hathaway takes Jethro bowling and begins to show an interest in him.
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 14, 196226 mins
Jed enrolls Jethro at an exclusive Beverly Hills elementary school. Millicent Schuyler-Potts, the proprietor of the school, is aghast when Jed and Jethro show up, convinced this is part of some ghastly hoax. After Jed says that banker Milburn Drysdale is his neighbor, she calls the banker. It turns out that Drysdale's bank holds the mortgage on the school. Schulyer-Potts suddenly warms to the charms of the Clampetts, even if it means accepting Jethro as a fifth grader.
Episode 9
Wed, Nov 21, 196225 mins
While Jed and Mr. Drysdale commence to get Elly and Sonny together on a blind date, Granny has a memorable first encounter at a supermarket. Elly's meet with Sonny goes awry when his sweet gift isn't candy and he seems about to bite her. Thankfully, Thanksgiving is just around the corner.
Episode 10
Wed, Nov 28, 196226 mins
The relationship development between Sonny and Elly moves too slowly for Granny, so she pulls out her tried and true ingredients to fashion a love charm. As it seems to work, Jane wants one, too. Jed gets one as a bonus, but the charms seem all too powerful and must be nullified.
Episode 11
Wed, Dec 5, 196225 mins
When Sonny Drysdale promises to give Elly May a ring, Granny thinks he's going to propose and becomes a matchmaker. Cousin Pearl can't stand the idea that Elly May will get married before Jethrine, so she sets to matchmaking Jethrine with Jasper Depew.
Episode 12
Wed, Dec 12, 196224 mins
Grannny's all for feuding after Sonny flees from marrying Elly, but Jed would rather talk first than readily pull his trigger (leaving Granny to challenge his manhood). Mistaken for a robber at Milburn's bank, Jed lands in jail, putting Granny in charge of the feud. She takes Drysdale's butler, Ravenswood, hostage (despite Jethro's plea to hang onto pretty upstairs maid Marie instead). In straightening out matters at the Drysdale mansion, Milburn lets slip that he's from the Botkin clan, which Granny's Moses clan once drove out of the hills. With the old Moses feud rekindled, and under Jed's advice, Milburn makes a run for it.
Episode 13
Wed, Dec 19, 196226 mins
Hearing of the Clampetts packing puts Milburn in a panic, thinking they're leaving Beverly Hills for good. They're not. They're just going to visit Cousin Pearl for Christmas. Miss Jane arranges for them to take a flight instead, which becomes their first experience with air travel. Meanwhile, Mr. Brewster, finally understanding Pearl's intent to snag him as a husband, struggles to keep Pearl at home without getting hitched or spoiling the Clampetts' surprise visit.
Episode 14
Wed, Dec 26, 196225 mins
Back in the hills for Christmas, the Clampetts help Cousin Pearl's attempts to land oil man John Brewster as a husband, extolling her many wifely virtues, despite interference from Grandpa Winch, a rival for her affections. Efforts culminate in Pearl's pie-anny playin' for the 1925 silent film release of Ben-Hur (with lyrics sung by Jethrine). Meanwhile, Elly's mink coat troubles her reunion with her many worried woodland animal friends.
Episode 15
Wed, Jan 2, 196325 mins
Mr. Brewster doesn't want to get married, but the whole county knows that Cousin Pearl has her cap set for him. Jed comes up with a plan for her to save face by having Mr. Brewster propose in public, then having her turn him down, but Jed doesn't count on Mr. Brewster's background in the theater and the huge production he makes of the proposal.
Episode 16
Wed, Jan 9, 196325 mins
The Clampetts pack up to return to Beverly Hills, so Jethrine tries to pack Jazzbo Depew. Elly says goodbye to her animals. Back in Beverly Hills, Miss Hathaway dresses the vamp to meet Jethro at the airport, and once home, the feuding starts between Granny and Pearl over who's running Granny's kitchen.
Episode 17
Wed, Jan 16, 196330 mins
Granny and Pearl are two strong-minded mountain women, each determined to run the cooking and cleaning in Jed's mansion. Jed does all he can to stop his kin from feuding with each other, but not even a drive through Beverly Hills can cool these tempestuous women for long.
Episode 18
Wed, Jan 23, 196325 mins
When Mrs. Drysdale heads for a health farm, stating that Mr. Drysdale will soon have a new "young, glamorous, slim, trim and beautiful" wife, and recalling the powerful effect Pearl's yodeling had on Mr. Drysdale previously, Jed mistakes Mr. Drysdale's attempt to hire Cousin Pearl to keep his house for wanting to marry Pearl, so he comes up with a plan to "save" the Drysdales' marriage.
Episode 19
Wed, Jan 30, 196325 mins
Pearl decides to give yodeling lessons to Beverly Hillians, but students don't seem to be flocking at the door. Her yodeling does cause Duke to run away and Mrs. Drysdale to call the police for disturbance of the peace and the dog catcher for Duke. After Elly trounces the dog catchers, she and Miss Jane bring Duke home along with all the other dogs at the shelter. As for the cops, one is stunned by Elly's beauty, the other by Granny's cider.
Episode 20
Wed, Feb 6, 196330 mins
Flatt and Scruggs, with their wives in tow, come to visit their old sweetheart, but Pearl thinks that they're there to propose. Jed throws a wingding for them, and the duo play music for the Clampetts.
Episode 21
Wed, Feb 13, 196330 mins
Granny can't stand Pearl's yodeling so she reports her to the police. When one of the officers takes Pearl out, Granny thinks that she has gotten Pearl into trouble and becomes contrite about it. Meanwhile, new trouble sizzles up when the police discover her moonshine still.
Episode 22
Wed, Feb 20, 196330 mins
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.
Episode 23
Wed, Feb 27, 196330 mins
Henry Jones shows up at the Clampetts' pretending to be an old friend, and tries to sell the family the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the freeway.
Episode 24
Wed, Mar 6, 196330 mins
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.
Episode 25
Wed, Mar 13, 196330 mins
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 Clampetts' home first and becomes enchanted with their antiques and way of life, even roping the horrified Mrs. Drysdale into helping to do the chores the old-fashioned way.
Episode 26
Wed, Mar 20, 196330 mins
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?
Episode 27
Wed, Mar 27, 196330 mins
Miss Hathaway's brilliant-but-frumpy bank protegée 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.
Episode 28
Wed, Apr 3, 196330 mins
After Granny chases off an IRS agent, Mr. Drysdale tells him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.
Episode 29
Wed, Apr 10, 196330 mins
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.
Episode 30
Wed, Apr 17, 196330 mins
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 discovers that the puppies have more in common with Duke the bloodhound than with Claude the poodle.
Episode 31
Wed, Apr 24, 196330 mins
Jed arranges a party to get Granny out of her doldrums and invites the Drysdales. But when Mr. Drysdale's boss comes and wants to meet them for dinner, he wonders if he's about to be sent to an Alaskan bank when his boss finds out that he's been lying about Jed and his family being sophisticated.
Episode 32
Wed, May 1, 196330 mins
When a couple who ran into the Clampetts' car discovers that they're rich, they fake injuries and sue the Clampetts.
Episode 33
Wed, May 8, 196330 mins
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.
Episode 34
Wed, May 15, 196330 mins
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.
Episode 35
Wed, May 22, 196330 mins
When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale must 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. Meanwhile, a new teller sucks up to the men and flirts with the women.
Episode 36
Wed, May 29, 196330 mins
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.