Beverly Hillbillies

“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 […]

On The Beverly Hillbillies, Max Baer Jr. played a character whose luck changed dramatically. Baer’s real life followed a surprisingly familiar trajectory. Before he landed the role of Jethro Bodine […]

In the pilot episode of this beloved rags-to-riches sitcom, hayseed mountaineer Jed Clampett becomes an overnight multimillionaire when an oil-rich swamp is discovered on his […]

“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 […]

One of the main actors from The Beverly Hillbillies lost a role in The Wizard of Oz for a very specific and unusual reason. The […]