Seasons & episodes

The version of the pilot episode that sold the series to CBS, originally titled "The Hillbillies of Beverly Hills".

Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.

A mockumentary-style tribute with in-character appearances by Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett), Donna Douglas (Elly Mae Clampett), Max Baer (Jethro Bodine), Louis Nye (Sonny Drysdale), Roy Clark (Cousin Roy), and Larry Pennell (Dash Riprock).

An introduction to the Return of The Beverly Hillbillies by Paul Henning's daughter, Linda Kaye Henning.

A documentary about The Beverly Hillbillies and it's creator. Actors and business associates who worked with television, radio and film writer-producer Paul Henning recall his many talents, including his creation of "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Petticoat Junction," "The Bob Cummings Show" (aka "Love That Bob") and his association with George Burns & Gracie Allen on radio and TV. Includes clips from Henning's productions and rare, behind-the-scenes footage.

A selection of commercials and promo spots.

Promo spots for The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.

A very rare promotional trailer for the first season episode "Elly's Animals," using its working title.

Irene Ryan's original screen test for the part of Daisy May "Granny" Moses, Jed Clampett's moonshiner mother-in-law on The Beverly Hillbillies.

A short interview with Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, during the '60s.

Fall promotional for The Beverly Hillbillies

Photos from the show set to the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies.

Extended version of the series' first episode with unaired scenes.

S1 · E1The Clampetts Strike Oil 1962-09-26 · 25 min＋

The pilot starts after the theme song when Jed struck oil in his Lake. A rural Ozark family relocates to Beverly Hills after oil is discovered on their property worth $25 million. After finding oil on the land, the family is surprised when Mr. Brewster of the OK Oil Company offers to buy it. After much coaxing by Cousin Pearl, Jed sells the swamp and moves the family to a mansion in Beverly Hills. Upon their arrival, they are arrested because of a case of mistaken identity but are later returned to the mansion safely.

S1 · E2Getting Settled 1962-10-03 · 25 min＋

The Clampetts begin to settle in their new home in Beverly Hills. They are having to adjust to things such as refrigerators, ovens and the "cement pond" (swimming pool). Jethro also encounters a flamingo that he thinks is a chicken (which causes Jed to suspect Jethro has been sneaking drinks of moonshine). Meanwhile, Miss Hathaway, executive secretary to banker Milburn Drysdale, mistakes the Clampetts for "domestic" help. She thinks Granny is a cook and Elly a maid.

S1 · E3Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin 1962-10-10 · 25 min＋

Jane Hathaway finds that making the Clampetts more sophisticated will be harder than expected, while Pearl Bodine tries to get the attention of Mr. Brewster.

S1 · E4The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale 1962-10-17 · 25 min＋

Mr. Drysdale panics when Mrs. Drysdale comes back from Boston early, because she'll meet the Clampetts. He sets Miss Hathaway on a plan to get them to go to Palm Springs. Meanwhile, Granny and Jed come to think Mrs. Drysdale is a drunk and make plans to cure her.

S1 · E5Jed Buys Stock 1962-10-24 · 25 min＋

Upon Mr. Drysdale's advice to buy good stock, Jed purchases cows, pigs, and chickens to raise. Granny prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drysdale is convinced she's imagining things, because she sees Granny hovering outside her window and sees a goat and a chicken in her bathroom.

S1 · E6Trick or Treat 1962-10-31 · 25 min＋

Granny wants to go home because folks are so unfriendly and no one has come to call. Jed convinces her they should call on them, and they find that people welcome them and give them all manner of gifts when they show up on Halloween in their normal hillbilly clothes. Meanwhile, Jed works on getting Pearl to come visit while she's trying to get hitched to the oilman and find a young man for Jethrine.

S1 · E7The Servants 1962-11-07 · 25 min＋

Elly May starts wearing dresses but takes it as an insult when someone says she looks like a city girl. Mr. Drysdale talks Jed into taking in his butler Ravenswood and upstairs girl Marie in a plan to civilize the Clampetts, but they don't quite understand the idea of servants.

S1 · E8Jethro Goes to School 1962-11-14 · 25 min＋

Pearl continues to pursue Mr. Brewster, while a Jasper Depew courts Jethrine. Jed tries to enroll Jethro at an exclusive Beverly Hills elementary school. When the headmistress learns that the Clampetts are neighbors of Mr. Drysdale, who holds the mortgage on the school, she warms up to the idea. There is a bit of a shock when she comes by to pick up Jethro and realizes who will be her new fifth grader.

S1 · E9Elly's First Date 1962-11-21 · 25 min＋

Misunderstandings abound as the spoiled college student Sonny Drysdale attempts to woo Elly May, only to flee to his mother in the end. In an attempt to smooth things over Granny and Jed invite the Drysdales for Thanksgiving.

S1 · E10Pygmalion and Elly 1962-11-28 · 25 min＋

Sonny Drysdale decides he needs to be Pygmalion to Elly's Galatea and remake her from a hillbilly into a woman of society. Meanwhile Granny makes love charms for Elly, Miss Jane and Jed.

S1 · E11Elly Races Jethrine 1962-12-05 · 25 min＋

When Sonny Drysdale promises to give Elly May a ring, Granny thinks he's going to propose and becomes a matchmaker. Cousin Pearl can't stand the idea that Elly May will get married before Jethrine, so she sets to matchmaking Jethrine with Jasper Depew.