X

Join or Sign In

Sign in to customize your TV listings

Continue with Facebook Continue with email

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.

The Beverly Hillbillies Season 5 Episodes

30 Episodes 1966 - 1967

Episode 1

The Party Line

Wed, Sep 14, 196630 mins

Granny receives a box from Cousin Pearl in the hills. One of the items in the box is an old-fashioned crank telephone. Granny asks Jethro to hook it up to a party line on the pole so she can listen in on the party line.

Where to Watch

Episode 2

The Soup Contest

Wed, Sep 21, 196630 mins

Despairing of Elly May ever finding a husband, Granny decides to promote her non-existent cooking skills and enters her into a TV-show cook-off, but nothing she fixes is edible.

Where to Watch

Episode 3

Jethro Takes Love Lessons

Wed, Sep 28, 196630 mins

Jethro is in love with Susie, the carhop waitress at the local drive-in, but Susie keeps rejecting his advances. Jed advises a dejected Jethro to take dating advice from Dash Riprock, the movie star/playboy neighbor to the Clampetts. Dash advises Jethro to buy a convertible, invite Susie to go on a double date with Elly Mae and him, and even lets Jethro use his bachelor pad. Despite Dash's efforts, Jethro still can't get past his hillbilly ways to Susie's heart.

Where to Watch

Episode 4

The Badger Game

Wed, Oct 5, 196630 mins

Two con artists arrive separately intent on getting some of the Clampett cash. Colonel Foxhall turns the charm on Granny while Emmaline seems to be a simple hill lass with a cuckoo clock who moves into the mansion. Jethro falls in love again.

Where to Watch

Episode 5

The Badgers Return

Wed, Oct 12, 196630 mins

Jethro decides to sophisticate Emaline but she has bigger plans for blackmailing Mr. Drysdale with her cuckoo clock camera. The colonel continues to woo Granny. The two swindlers though haven't met someone as sharp as Jed.

Where to Watch

Episode 6

The Gorilla

Wed, Oct 19, 196630 mins

Jethro is chopping wood while a chimpanzee named May Bell watches. He wishes that he could teach May Bell to chop wood. When Elly May comes by, she and Jethro talk and decide that they want a gorilla.

Where to Watch

Episode 7

Come Back, Little Herbie

Wed, Oct 26, 196630 mins

The Clampetts miss Herbie and ask Mr. Drysdale to get the tame gorilla back. The banker promises to help but actually hinders the effort.

Where to Watch

Episode 8

Jed in Politics

Wed, Nov 2, 196630 mins

Granny's soap making sends noxious smoke into the air, which gets the attention of smog commissioner Tinsley. He shuts down the operation and Jed decides to run against him when he misunderstands Mr. Drysdale's advice.

Where to Watch

Episode 9

Clampett Cha Cha Cha

Wed, Nov 9, 196630 mins

Out-of-work vaudeville team Marvin and Marita offer Granny free in-home dance lessons in a scheme to get a foot in the door and hopefully sell the Clampetts additional lessons. Believing the schemers have lost their lease on their dance school, Jed and Granny generously offer to have Marvin and Marita bring their other [non-existent] students to the Clampett mansion. This episode offers a couple of good jokes, a wink and a nod to the brother and sister vaudeville dance team of Buddy and Vilma Ebsen, and ends with Jed's tap routine at the Bankers Convention Variety Show.

Where to Watch

Episode 10

Jed Joins the Board

Wed, Nov 16, 196630 mins

Feeling idle, Jed takes a job as a "sanitation engineer" (garbage man). Mr. Drysdale, fearing potential embarrassment, convinces John Brewster to put Jed to work on the board of directors of O.K. Oil Company. After the set up, the episode becomes rather random, with Brewster discovering that oil losses are due to the Beverly Hills section of a pipeline having been accidentally tapped by the Clampetts and the episode ending with the Clampetts converting the O.K. Oil company jet to a commercial carrier (with Jethro as pilot and Granny a swill-serving stewardess).

Where to Watch

Episode 11

Granny Lives It Up

Wed, Nov 23, 196630 mins

Cushing makes another attempt to get the Clampetts to move their money to his bank by romancing Granny. When Drysdale learns of this, he decides to bring his father-in-law Lowell Farquhar, who had once dated Granny, to draw Granny away from Cushing.

Where to Watch

Episode 12

The Gloria Swanson Story

Wed, Nov 30, 196630 mins

Gloria Swanson and Drysdale are doing some business which involves her selling her house and some of her possessions and donating the proceeds to charity and then she is moving East. When the Clampetts read about her moving away, Jethro who heard the story that she's auctioning off her things, thinks that she's broke and that she's being forced to sell her possessions. Granny being a big fan is heart broken. They go to see her and try to lift up her spirits by saying they like her movies and that they're still being shown in their hometown. Jed decides to ask Chapman, who runs his movie studio, to make a silent movie with Swanson in it.

Where to Watch

Episode 13

The Woodchucks

Wed, Dec 7, 196630 mins

Jethro is so desperate to meet a woman that when Miss Hathaway's bird-watching group arrives, he goes out of his way to try to impress one of the pretty birdwatchers.

Where to Watch

Episode 14

Foggy Mountain Soap

Wed, Dec 14, 196630 mins

Flatt and Scruggs are visiting to film a TV commercial for a detergent. Commodore Ratterman thinks the Clampett authenticity would help sell the soap. He doesn't count on their honesty or Jethro's incompetence as a director.

Where to Watch

Episode 15

The Christmas Present

Wed, Dec 21, 196630 mins

Granny is feeling blue as Christmas approaches, and Jed decides to make Christmas more like it was back home by doing something special for a neighbor: Mrs. Drysdale. Thinking that the Drysdales are broke, the Clampetts decide to buy back Mrs. Drysdale's Christmas rummage-sale donations as a gift, and to do so they take seasonal jobs in a department store (Jethro is the store Santa) where, among other things, they manage to get Mrs. Drysdale arrested for shoplifting. The episode ends with all of the regular cast singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to the TV audience.

Where to Watch

Episode 16

The Flying Saucer

Wed, Dec 28, 196630 mins

Mr. Drysdale hatches a crazy advertising scheme that includes Martians descending into the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in a balloon modified to look like a flying saucer. Drysdale hires three Italian midgets - "The Flying Montenaros" - to play the little green men, dresses them in Martian costumes, and hides them along with the flying saucer in his back yard. Nosy Granny discovers Drysdale's little green house guests and they are eventually invited to the Clampett mansion for victuals... Granny has some good lines in this one.

Where to Watch

Episode 17

The Mayor of Bug Tussle

Wed, Jan 4, 196730 mins

Amos Wentworth Hogg, Mayor of Bug Tussle, travels to Beverly Hills to visit the Clampetts with hopes of raising money to cover an embezzlement debt. The Clampetts, however, believe he has eyes for Granny.

Where to Watch

Episode 18

Granny Retires

Wed, Jan 11, 196730 mins

Feeling old and unneeded, Granny decides to retire from doctorin' and move back home with her share of the Clampett fortune. Mr. Drysdale convinces Dr. Clyburn to help him in a scheme to make Granny feel needed and to keep her (and her millions) in Beverly Hills.

Where to Watch

Episode 19

The Clampett Curse

Wed, Jan 18, 196730 mins

Feeling burdened by their wealth, Jed and Granny decide to donate all of their millions to a young woman seeking funds for a phony foundation for needy UCLA college students. Heading back home, the Clampetts run out of fuel before they get out of Los Angeles and decide to make the best out of the situation and to clear part of a park and take up sharecropping.

Where to Watch

Episode 20

The Indians Are Coming

Wed, Feb 1, 196730 mins

Misinterpreting a phone call from Cousin Pearl, Granny believes that Indians have attacked Bug Tussle and taken over Clampett land. It's actually a simple boundary dispute, and when Chief Running Wolf and Little Fox travel to Beverly Hills to settle it with Jed, Granny prepares for an all-out Indian war and Mr. Drysdale goes to war to protect the Clampett fortune. John Wayne visits Granny at the end after the Indians "attack."

Where to Watch

Episode 21

The Marriage Machine

Wed, Feb 8, 196730 mins

Granny decides to distill a match-making potion for Jed. When that fails, she follows Jethro to a computer dating service. As the dates arrive at the Clampett mansion, there is a mix-up between who is to see Jed and who is to see Jethro. In the end, everyone gets a date.

Where to Watch

Episode 22

Elly Comes Out

Wed, Feb 15, 196730 mins

After reading the Society page Granny decides to best way to get Elly a husband is to throw her a coming out party, complete with possum burgers and gopher gravy. Mrs. Drysdale, hoping to forever humiliate them, is all too happy to help.

Where to Watch

Episode 23

The Matador

Wed, Feb 22, 196730 mins

Jethro decides to get a job and he goes to the studio to become a director or a producer. But once he sees the way women flock around a famous matador, he decides that he'll become a bull fighter. Jethro wants "El Magnifico" to teach him how to become a bull fighter, but the matador is more interested in Elly May. She doesn't cotton to way he treats his critters, though.

Where to Watch

Episode 24

The Gypsy's Warning

Wed, Mar 1, 196730 mins

The Clampetts come across Narda and Yerko, two gypsies, who decide to run a scam on the unsuspecting clan. Involving both a marriage prophecy and and a curse, the crooks see the families 's naivety to their advantage.

Where to Watch

Episode 25

His Royal Highness

Wed, Mar 8, 196730 mins

The Clampetts are visited by a real king, Alexander so Granny and Mrs. Drysdale start matchmaking. The broke royal needs a wealthy bride and courts Ellie. Drysdale niece Doreen is tricked by a costumed Jethro and ends up unimpressed.

Where to Watch

Episode 26

Super Hawg

Wed, Mar 15, 196730 mins

The Drysdales have temporary custody of a baby hippo and when Granny spots it she thinks it's a giant hog. She makes plans for turning into future meals while Ellie sees it as another pet.

Where to Watch

Episode 27

The Doctors

Wed, Mar 22, 196730 mins

Granny continues her doctoring and is especially pleased with her new batch of tonic. Dr. Clyburn is determined to get her to stop so invites her to his office to show her how modern medicine works. Granny has other ideas.

Where to Watch

Episode 28

Delovely and Scruggs

Wed, Mar 29, 196730 mins

Country-music legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs visit the Clampetts while Lester's "citified" wife Gladys heads to Mammoth Studios for a screen test directed by Jethro (at Lester's request).

Where to Watch

Episode 29

The Little Monster

Wed, Apr 12, 196730 mins

The Clampetts agree to watch their banker's nephew Milby but they don't know he's spoiled rotten. His behavior tests the patience of all, especially Granny who has a few ideas on teaching him manners.

Where to Watch

Episode 30

The Dahlia Feud

Wed, Apr 12, 196730 mins

Mrs. Drysdale's dahlias spark a feud with the Clampetts when she accuses Granny of theft.

Where to Watch