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The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
Wed, Sep 23, 196430 mins
Mr. Drysdale buys Mammoth Pictures, a movie studio. Jed, Granny, Elly May, and Jethro try to "help" the studio, which is losing money, by working there.
Episode 2
Clampett City
Wed, Sep 30, 196430 mins
Mr. Drysdale tells the Clampetts that he is building a city on the location where Jed's movie studio is located, and they mistake a Western prop town for the city.
Episode 3
Clampett City General Store
Wed, Oct 7, 196430 mins
The Clampetts decide to run the store on the empty studio's Western set but can't understand why they have no customers.
Episode 4
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Wed, Oct 14, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 5
Doctor Jed Clampett
Wed, Oct 21, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 6
Jed the Heartbreaker
Wed, Oct 28, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 7
Back to Marineland
Wed, Nov 4, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 8
Teenage Idol
Wed, Nov 11, 196430 mins
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".
Episode 9
The Widow Poke Arrives
Wed, Nov 18, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 10
The Ballet
Wed, Nov 25, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 11
The Boarder
Wed, Dec 9, 196430 mins
Mr. Drysdale talks the butler into staying on, posing as a boarder, so that he can teach the Clampetts how to be more civilized.
Episode 12
The Boarder Stays
Wed, Dec 16, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 13
Start the New Year Right
Tue, Dec 29, 196430 mins
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.
Episode 14
Clampett General Hospital
Wed, Jan 6, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 15
The Movie Starlet
Wed, Jan 13, 196530 mins
A young actress becomes interested in Jethro when she finds out Jed owns a movie studio.
Episode 16
Elly in the Movies
Wed, Jan 20, 196530 mins
Elly May goes to Jed's studio to be in a movie and meet a potential husband.
Episode 17
Dash Riprock, You Cad
Wed, Jan 27, 196530 mins
Elly May loses another suitor to Miss Jane in another case of mistaken identity.
Episode 18
Clampett A-Go-Go
Wed, Feb 3, 196530 mins
Distracted by the sight of Elly May, an eccentric beatnik artist crashes his car into the wall around the Clampett mansion. He becomes a houseguest while recovering and tries to sell his odd painting to Mr. Drysdale and others. The family can't understand his peculiar hipster slang and think he's mentally impaired from the accident.
Episode 19
Granny's Romance
Wed, Feb 17, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 20
Jed's Temptation
Wed, Feb 24, 196530 mins
Phyllis continues to pursue Jed. They go to the race track, where Jed is able to pick the winner of every race. Granny goes to the track to save Jed from the evils of gambling. When she fails to find Jed, she mistakes a losing gambler for someone who needs money for food and offers to help, Once she starts to pick race winners, she gets the gambling fever herself.
Episode 21
Double Naught Jethro
Wed, Mar 3, 196530 mins
Jethro sees a James Bond movie. Naturally he's very impressed & decides that this is his new calling in life. So he commissions himself double naught 10. And of course he needs a spy car like Bond has, he tricks out the family truck with smoke screen machine, a single barrel shotgun that fires from the back of his vehicle in case he is being pursued by the bad guys, and the topper - an iron canopy that completely fits over his head. Just one problem that Uncle Jed points out, Jethro neglected to put in a window in the canopy so he can see where he is going. All in all, another typical half-baked Jethro gaff. After Jethro bumps his head, he is tended to by the bank people.
Episode 22
Clampett's Millions
Wed, Mar 10, 196530 mins
Mr. Drysdale's biggest rival, John Cushing, succeeds in getting the Clampetts to transfer all of their money to his bank.
Episode 23
Drysdale's Dog Days
Wed, Mar 17, 196530 mins
Mrs. Drysdale is beside herself when her poodle Claude is suffering from poor self-esteem, at least according to his psychiatrist. Mrs. Drysdale's well-being is in trouble as well when Elly May enters one of her own beloved critters in the prestigious dog show.
Episode 24
Brewster's Honeymoon
Wed, Mar 24, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 25
Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs
Wed, Mar 31, 196530 mins
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs come to visit to cure Granny of her homesick blues.
Episode 26
Jed and the Countess
Wed, Apr 14, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 27
Big Daddy, Jed
Wed, Apr 21, 196530 mins
Mr. Drysdale owns a building that houses a beatniks' club. He hopes to get rid of them when they can't pay their rent, but they find a new a sponsor: Jed Clampett.
Episode 28
Cool School Is Out
Wed, Apr 28, 196530 mins
Jed soon regrets helping out the beatniks with their money problems when Jethro, Elly May, and even Granny decide to join them.
Episode 29
The Big Bank Battle
Wed, May 5, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 30
The Clampetts vs. Automation
Wed, May 12, 196530 mins
Leroy Lester, the timid bookkeeper at Mr. Drysdale's bank for 47 years, is being replaced by a computer and being forced into retirement. After being shown the door, Leroy's car breaks down and he is taken in by the Clampetts. Jethro and Elly May work on his car while Granny gives him some liquid courage. He goes back to the bank, where Mr. Drysdale's computer has now died. He offers Leroy his job back, but he informs Mr. Drysdale that he will be taking an extended vacation and staying with his new friends, the Clampetts.
Episode 31
Luke's Boy
Wed, May 26, 196530 mins
Beauregard Short arrives in Beverly Hills from back home. Everyone assumes that he's looking for a wife and Jethro decides to show him how to be like him: an international playboy.
Episode 32
The Brewsters Return
Wed, Jun 2, 196530 mins
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.
Episode 33
Jed, the Bachelor
Wed, Jun 9, 196530 mins
Granny is determined to go back home even if she has to walk back all by herself, but when she reaches Las Vegas she has second thoughts. Meanwhile, Jethro gets arrested by an undercover cop.
Episode 34
The Art Center
Wed, Jun 16, 196530 mins
Mrs. Drysdale thinks she has a new way to get rid of the Clampetts: talking them into donating their mansion to the city for an art museum. They agree, on the assumption that they are supposed to provide the artwork--and not move out.
