Beverly Hillbillies

He wasn’t a hillbilly, but Ebsen was closer to Clampett than you might expect. Sure, Buddy Ebsen wasn’t a poor mountaineer. Unlike his most famous […]

Max Baer Jr. was the definition of a starving artist. Before The Beverly Hillbillies, he was eating beans out of a can. Before his time […]

“Drysdale became a buffoon, then a real heel,” said Raymond Bailey. The Beverly Hillbillies didn’t feature a ton of meaningful character arcs. It wasn’t designed […]

You can live like the Clampetts for the new low price of $195 million. It’s where Jed Clampett moved his family the moment he became […]

Here’s how Irene Ryan had all the energy she needed to become America’s most beloved shotgun-carrying granny. Irene Ryan played the role of the shotgun-toting […]

The sitcom paid $500 per day to rent this sprawling estate. In the first episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, when the Clampetts first lay eyes […]

“Come listen to a story ’bout a man named Jed….” You know how the tune goes. The Beverly Hillbillies theme song was a No. 1 […]

Before he was the most feared villain in the galaxy, David Prowse played bagpipes for Elly May. Though James Earl Jones will always be closely […]

“Who are these people?! Where are they from?” a narrator asks, as a 1921 Oldsmobile Model 43-A touring car rumbles down the road in sunny […]

“It was the year CBS killed everything with a tree in it.” Throughout the 1960s, one network reigned supreme. Sure, NBC had Bonanza, which was […]