Beverly Hillbillies

In The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly May Clampett was famous for her love of “critters”—animals of every kind. But the show’s animal stars were no mere […]

Slapstick comedy has long been a staple of television, but on The Beverly Hillbillies, one of its funniest running gags had a surprising element of […]

Before Buddy Ebsen stepped into the role of Jed Clampett, the producers of The Beverly Hillbillies envisioned the patriarch as a broad caricature—a simpleminded hillbilly ripe for […]

When The Beverly Hillbillies rolled onto television screens in the early 1960s, mainstream fashion for women was often rigid: dresses, skirts, gloves, pearls—usual television fare. Elly May […]

When The Beverly Hillbillies was in the works, the character of Jed Clampett was nearly written as a comic buffoon—uneducated, clueless, incapable of understanding much beyond the […]

When The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, audiences were instantly charmed by the Clampetts—a backwoods family that suddenly struck oil and moved into a Beverly Hills mansion. […]

In this story from October 1993, the actress best known as Elly May Clampett reveals how God met her halfway in her pursuit of an […]

It takes a great deal of love for something to be able to admit its shortcomings. So often, when people love their work, they’re reluctant […]

Sometimes, the backstage ongoings are more interesting than the actual show. While we’re free to revisit every episode of most of our favorite shows, some […]

Andy Griffith has served as an inspiration for many actors who came after him. Ron Howard, who got his beginnings as an actor on The Andy […]