Beverly Hillbillies

The television world of Paul Henning stretched from the Appalachian Mountains to the Hollywood Hills. The sitcom creator struck gold (well, oil) three times with […]

For Henning, knowing a thing or two about hillbilly history was just as important as other skills listed on a resume. In the 1960s, a […]

“By the time I finished laughing, I had signed a contract.” Not to generalize, but if Buddy Ebsen is in a television series, it’s probably […]

“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 […]

The actor worried he was destined to play Jethro Bodine forever. It’s pretty standard after the ending of a television series for an actor to […]

The actor found himself in a frightful situation after a scene went out of control. Most of us don’t consider our day jobs a matter […]

“The audience was so hysterical laughing at me that I went backstage and cried.” You may remember Nancy Kulp as Jane Hathaway, Mr. Drysdale’s long-suffering […]

Fran Drescher announced plans for a Broadway musical adaptation of her ‘90s sitcom The Nanny on Jan. 8, 2020. She’d already formed a company with […]

Kissing Fran Drescher made ‘The Nanny’ star Charles Shaughnessy’s kids upset Turns out Maxwell Sheffield didn’t like kissing Fran Fine. Despite “The Nanny” going off […]

The Beverly Hillbillies is one of the most iconic shows of the 1960s. The show featured the Clampett family in their rags-to-riches tale, as they […]