The Beverly Hillbillies
Meet the Clampett clan: There's Jed, the kind, intelligent patriarch (although lacking formal education) turned into an overnight millionaire through a stroke of luck. While he appears to be in a state of retirement, he is still frequently kept busy by trying to keep his family out of trouble and make peace with his neighbors. Then there is Granny, the matriarch of the clan who is mature, highly opinionated, paranoid of new-fangled ways and things. She considers herself to be highly educated (a self-proclaimed Doctor of Hillbilly Medicine) and has difficulty understanding why anyone doubts her wisdom. Then there is Elly May; beautiful, but awkwardly naive. Apparently in her late teens or early twenties, she is considered an 'Old Maid' by the standards of her culture back in the mountains of her childhood. Last but definitely not least, there is Jethro Bodine, the somewhat slow-witted nephew of Jed. He is constantly attempting to find a girlfriend by impressing them with his education (elementary school) and imaginary skills as a 'Secret Agent'. Other recurring characters are Mr. Drysdale, a greedy banker who will do anything to keep the Clampett money in his bank; and "Miss Jane" Hathaway, the overworked under-appreciated secretary of Mr. Drysdale.
- 1962-1971
- 9 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy, Family
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Meet the Clampett clan: There's Jed, the kind, intelligent patriarch (although lacking formal education) turned into an overnight millionaire through a stroke of luck. While he appears to be in a state of retirement, he is still frequently kept busy by trying to keep his family out of trouble and make peace with his neighbors. Then there is Granny, the matriarch of the clan who is mature, highly opinionated, paranoid of new-fangled ways and things. She considers herself to be highly educated (a self-proclaimed Doctor of Hillbilly Medicine) and has difficulty understanding why anyone doubts her wisdom. Then there is Elly May; beautiful, but awkwardly naive. Apparently in her late teens or early twenties, she is considered an 'Old Maid' by the standards of her culture back in the mountains of her childhood. Last but definitely not least, there is Jethro Bodine, the somewhat slow-witted nephew of Jed. He is constantly attempting to find a girlfriend by impressing them with his education (elementary school) and imaginary skills as a 'Secret Agent'. Other recurring characters are Mr. Drysdale, a greedy banker who will do anything to keep the Clampett money in his bank; and "Miss Jane" Hathaway, the overworked under-appreciated secretary of Mr. Drysdale.
Season 5 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
The Party Line
Wed, Sep 14, 1966 30 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.
Episode 2
The Soup Contest
Wed, Sep 21, 1966 30 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.
Episode 3
Jethro Takes Love Lessons
Wed, Sep 28, 1966 30 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.
Episode 4
The Badger Game
Wed, Oct 5, 1966 30 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.
Episode 5
The Badgers Return
Wed, Oct 12, 1966 30 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.
Episode 6
The Gorilla
Wed, Oct 19, 1966 30 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.
Episode 7
Come Back, Little Herbie
Wed, Oct 26, 1966 30 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.
Episode 8
Jed in Politics
Wed, Nov 2, 1966 30 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.
Episode 9
Clampett Cha Cha Cha
Wed, Nov 9, 1966 30 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.
Episode 10
Jed Joins the Board
Wed, Nov 16, 1966 30 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).
Episode 11
Granny Lives It Up
Wed, Nov 23, 1966 30 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.
Episode 12
The Gloria Swanson Story
Wed, Nov 30, 1966 30 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.
Episode 13
The Woodchucks
Wed, Dec 7, 1966 30 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.
Episode 14
Foggy Mountain Soap
Wed, Dec 14, 1966 30 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.
Episode 15
The Christmas Present
Wed, Dec 21, 1966 30 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.
Episode 16
The Flying Saucer
Wed, Dec 28, 1966 30 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.
Episode 17
The Mayor of Bug Tussle
Wed, Jan 4, 1967 30 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.
Episode 18
Granny Retires
Wed, Jan 11, 1967 30 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.
Episode 19
The Clampett Curse
Wed, Jan 18, 1967 30 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.
Episode 20
The Indians Are Coming
Wed, Feb 1, 1967 30 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."
Episode 21
The Marriage Machine
Wed, Feb 8, 1967 30 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.
Episode 22
Elly Comes Out
Wed, Feb 15, 1967 30 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.
Episode 23
The Matador
Wed, Feb 22, 1967 30 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.
Episode 24
The Gypsy's Warning
Wed, Mar 1, 1967 30 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.
Episode 25
His Royal Highness
Wed, Mar 8, 1967 30 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.
Episode 26
Super Hawg
Wed, Mar 15, 1967 30 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.
Episode 27
The Doctors
Wed, Mar 22, 1967 30 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.
Episode 28
Delovely and Scruggs
Wed, Mar 29, 1967 30 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).
Episode 29
The Little Monster
Wed, Apr 12, 1967 30 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.
Episode 30
The Dahlia Feud
Wed, Apr 12, 1967 30 mins
Mrs. Drysdale's dahlias spark a feud with the Clampetts when she accuses Granny of theft.