The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies was an American sitcom that between 1962 and 1971 on the American channel CBS aired. The series ranks as one of the most successful Americansitcoms ever. For seven of the nine seasons the series was in the top 12 of best viewed American programs.

The series received seven Emmy Awards. Several episodes of the first two seasons are in the public domain and can be downloaded at the Internet Archive.



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[verbergen]  *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == When the Clampett family farmers accidentally oil finds in the swamp on their land, they all of a sudden millionaire. They decide to Beverly Hills, California to move. There they have to get used to a whole new world. The family tries despite their wealth to lead a life as normal as possible yet, but that doesn't really work. The greedy banker Drysdale and his Secretary miss Jane Hathaway trying to teach upper class-the family ways.
 * 2 Background
 * 2.1 title song
 * 2.2 Popularity
 * 2.3 impact on other series
 * 2.4 Merchandising
 * 3 Movies
 * 4 external links

The Clampett family consists of father Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen), Daisy "Granny" Moses (Irene Ryan), daughter Elly May (Donna Douglas) and nephew Jethro Bodine (Max Bear Jr). The role of banker Drysdale was played by Raymond Bailey, his wife Margaret by Harriet e. MacGibbon and of his Secretary miss Jane Hathaway by Nancy Culp.

Most episodes turned to how the lifestyle of the Clampett family clashes with the lifestyle of their neighbors. Despite their new living environment in the countryside that they continue to live as they were accustomed to.For example, they have a large number of animals run loose on their estate, growing their own vegetables, and seem always ready to shoot their firearms and within easy reach to have. Some running gags in the series revolve around how the Clampetts from one surprise to another fall at the sight of contemporary situations. For example, as they are not used to sound movies because the movies near their old home only showed silent films . ==Background[ Edit] == ===Title song[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title song of the series, "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", was written by producer and writer Paul Henningand originally recorded by the Bluegrassartist Flatt and Scruggs. The text was sung by Jerry Scoggins. The song took out the 44th place on list in 1962, and became a number 1 countryhit. ===Popularity<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite that the series was savaged by some critics, the series soon after its premiere a great success. The series scored high on the Nielsen Ratings, and retained that position some seasons. The show took out some of the highest ratings for a half-hour sitcom.

<p lang="en" len="34" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Nielsen Rating of the show was:

===Influence on other series<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because of the success of the series, asked CBS to invent more similar series Paul Henning. This marked the beginning of a series of so-called rural sitcoms during the 1960s. One of these shows was Petticoat Junction, which also turned to a rural family. Another series was Green Acres, in which just the opposite scenario if the Beverly Hillbillies was used; This series revolved around two city people who went to live in the countryside.
 * 1962-1963: # 1<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]
 * 1963-1964: # 1<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]
 * 1964-1965: # 12<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]
 * 1965-1966: # 8<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]
 * 1966-1967: # 9<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]
 * 1967-1968: # 12<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]
 * 1968-1969: # 10<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]
 * 1969-1970: # 18<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="175" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]
 * 1970-1971: # 33

<p lang="en" len="88" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some actors from the Beverly Hillbillies also played in these other series, such as:

===Merchandising<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 60 's brought the series a large merchandising on, mainly in the form of toys. So there were coloring books, puzzles and a comic book series about the Hillbillies. There were also halloween costumes, lunch Hilbillies drums and a trading card game. The Hillbillies also had several times the covers of the tv guides. ==Movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1981, the TV movie Return of the Beverly Hillbillies. This was produced by Paul Henning, and first broadcast on CBS. Almost all actors from the television series played with it.
 * Bea Benaderet played the mother of the family in Petticoat Junction.
 * Linda Kaye Henning played daughter Betty Jo Bradley in Petticoat Junction.
 * Edgar Buchanan, who starred in all the episodes of Petticoat Junction and 17 episodes of Green Acres, also had a guest role in three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. He played the same character In all three series: Uncle Joe Carson.
 * Charles Lane (actor) played the same character in both series: Homer Bedloe ', Vice President of the c. & f. w. Railroad.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1993 the film The Beverly Hillbillies. This was a feature film with a completely new cast.