Beverly Hillbillies

Americans like our autos like we like our celebrities — sleek and sexy or macho and muscular, but always, always with enough panache to make […]

It was a rural revolution. The 1960s were filled with TV comedies populated by simple country folk. The trend started in the late 1950s. The […]

In a career that spanned 50 years, the actress performed on stage, the radio, the big screen and television So often it seems impossible to […]

What rhymes with “Kellogg’s”? “Come listen to a story ’bout a man named Jed….” You know how the tune goes. The Beverly Hillbillies theme song was a […]

“The Beverly Hillbillies” premiered on CBS in the fall of 1962, chronicling the misadventures of the Clampetts, a family from the Ozark mountains of Missouri […]

“Hello, is Granny there?” Some city-slickers might slight the Clampett family of The Beverly Hillbillies, writing them off as outrageous and impolite. However, avid watchers of the […]

So often it seems impossible to separate an actor from their most famous character, and that is certainly true of Irene Ryan, who filled viewers […]

Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed, whose family were a 60s TV hit The Beverly Hillbillies, all packed up and […]

While The Beverly Hillbillies may be one of those ’60s sitcoms lost to time and all the network television that came afterward, in the moment, it was hugely popular. […]

Actor Buddy Ebsen, without realizing at the time, found himself at the center of the TV sitcoms landscape of the 1960s when he agreed to […]