"three Paul Henning series overlap. The Clampett family makes several trips to Hooterville (which was first mentioned in season 1 episode 6 when Jazzbo Depew attempts to sweet talk Jethrine Bodine), Sam Drucker visits Beverly Hills, and Granny (Irene Ryan) does two guest appearances on ""Petticoat Junction"". In season eight (1969–70), the Clampett family visits Hooterville one last time for a two-part episode. ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" received poor reviews from some contemporary critics. ""The New York Times"" called the show ""strained and unfunny""; ""Variety"" called it ""painful to sit through"". Film professor Janet Staiger writes that ""the problem for these"
"in his long-running post-""Hillbillies"" television series. Based on ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" movie, a PC computer adventure game for operating system MS-DOS was developed by Synergistic Software, Inc. and published in 1993 by Capstone Software. The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom (situation comedy) television series originally broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozarks region who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was"
"in Branson. In 1962, Paul Henning, inspired by a Boy Scout camping trip to the Ozarks, created ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", which ran on first-run television until 1971. The first five episodes of Season 8 in 1969 are set in the Branson area when the Clampetts return to their home. Henning later donated for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson. He also donated the modified 1921 Oldsmobile truck used as the vehicle in the series to the College of the Ozarks, where it is on display in the Ralph Foster Museum. The Presley family became the first to"
"reviewers was that the show confronted the cultural elite's notions of quality entertainment."" The show did receive a somewhat favorable review from noted critic Gilbert Seldes in the December 15, 1962 ""TV Guide"": ""The whole notion on which ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" is founded is an encouragement to ignorance... But it ""is"" funny. What can I do?"" Regardless of the poor reviews, the show shot to the top of the Nielsen ratings shortly after its premiere and stayed there for several seasons. During its first two seasons, it was the number one program in the U.S. During its second season, it"
"The Beverly Hillbillies (film) The Beverly Hillbillies is a 1993 American comedy film starring Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Lea Thompson, Rob Schneider and Penny Fuller. It is based on the 1962–1971 TV series of the same name and features cameo appearances by Buddy Ebsen (the original Jed Clampett, in his final motion picture appearance, playing his other classic character, Detective Barnaby Jones), Dolly Parton, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The film was directed by Penelope Spheeris. The film follows a poor hillbilly named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), who becomes a billionaire when he"
"model of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television episodes in history. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. The series remains in syndicated reruns, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox. The series starts as Jed Clampett, an impoverished and widowed mountaineer, is living alongside an oil-rich swamp with his daughter and mother-in-law. A surveyor for the"
"a peak of number one for three weeks and reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. During the original run of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", special lyrics were written and inserted into the opening theme, advertising regular sponsors such as Kellogg's cereals and Winston cigarettes. ""Weird Al"" Yankovic merged the first two stanzas of the ""Ballad"" with the instrumentals to the Dire Straits song ""Money for Nothing"" in his 1989 single ""Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*"", which was written for his film ""UHF."" In the late 1970s, ""Saturday Night Live"" did a spoof on the ""Beverly Hillbillies"" in a sketch"
"of CBS-TV's ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" decided to pay a visit to Silver Dollar City (treated as an actual town, rather than a theme park) to start off the 1969–1970 season. The plotline involved Granny (Irene Ryan) attempting to find a husband for Elly May (Donna Douglas) back in the hills, while Jed (Buddy Ebsen) socialized with hotel clerk Shorty Kellems (Shug Fisher). They visited the blacksmith Shad Heller, soapmaker Granny Ethel Huffman, and woodcarver Peter Engler, and Miss Hathaway (Nancy Kulp) was seen in the Ozark woods. The ""Hillbillies"" were from the area surrounding Silver Dollar City and Branson, and"
"CBS sitcom ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". Aside from the top-billed Ebsen, principal cast members included Irene Ryan as Jed's mother-in-law, Daisy Moses, also known as Granny; Max Baer Jr. as Jed's dimwitted nephew Jethro Bodine; Donna Douglas as Jed's only child, the curvaceous, critter-loving Elly May Clampett; Raymond Bailey as Milburn Drysdale, a bank president who oversees the Clampett fortune; and Nancy Kulp as Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's secretary. Although scorned by critics, ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" attracted as many as 60 million viewers between 1962 and 1971 and was several times the highest-rated series on television. The show also spawned similar Paul"
"Jed Clampett"". ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" was one of the highest-rated series of all time, and later became a feature film about three decades later. After the major success of ""Hillbillies"", CBS gave Henning another half-hour time slot on its schedule. In 1963, ""Petticoat Junction"" debuted on CBS and was a great success as well. This series had a starring role for Henning's daughter (who shared a September 16 birthday with her father), Linda Kaye Henning, simply billed as Linda Kaye. In 1965, this was followed by ""Green Acres"", although Henning was only the casting director and executive producer. All three"
"movies of this or any year. The Beverly Hillbillies (film) The Beverly Hillbillies is a 1993 American comedy film starring Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Dabney Coleman, Lea Thompson, Rob Schneider and Penny Fuller. It is based on the 1962–1971 TV series of the same name and features cameo appearances by Buddy Ebsen (the original Jed Clampett, in his final motion picture appearance, playing his other classic character, Detective Barnaby Jones), Dolly Parton, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. The film was directed by Penelope Spheeris. The film follows a poor hillbilly named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney),"
"Films, Viacom Enterprises, Paramount Domestic Television, and CBS Paramount Domestic Television (all through corporate changes involving TV distribution rights to the early CBS library). The repeats of the show that debuted on CBS Daytime on September 5–9, 1966, as ""Mornin' Beverly Hillbillies"" through September 10, 1971 and on September 13–17, 1971 as ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" lasted up to winter 1971–72. It aired at 11:00–11:30 am Eastern/10:00-10:30 am Central through September 3, 1971, then moved to 10:30–11:00 am Eastern/9:30–10:00 am Central for the last season on CBS Daytime. Fifty-five episodes of the series are in the public domain (all 36 season-one"
"""Bonanza"". There was nothing to see but a working cattle ranch, but people enjoyed it because of the ""Bonanza"" connection. Baer decided that tourists would also pay for something dealing with ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". He began using his Jethro Bodine role as a marketing opportunity toward the gambling and hotel industry. Baer obtained the sublicensing rights, including food and beverage rights, to ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" from CBS in 1991. His business partner estimates the cost of obtaining the rights and developing the ideas has been US$1 million. Sixty-five ""Beverly Hillbillies"" slot machines were built in 1999 and placed in 10"
"Beverly Hills Buntz Beverly Hills Buntz is an American comedy series and a spin-off of ""Hill Street Blues"" that aired on NBC from November 5, 1987, to April 22, 1988. The show was a half-hour dramedy, a hybrid between light private eye fare and a sitcom. The main character, Norman Buntz, was previously seen as a morally and ethically questionable cop on ""Hill Street Blues"", which was a dramatic series (this series is one of a handful of examples of a series in one genre (drama) spinning off a series in another (comedy)). The series has the character quitting the"
"Yet when the feature film ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" was made 22 years later, reports cited Baer's dissatisfaction that only Ebsen was asked to do a cameo. He appeared in the 1993 television special ""The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies"", reprising his role as Jethro. By 2004, Baer had recognized the marketability of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and appeared with actress Donna Douglas at the annual TV Land Awards. In 1985, Baer began investigating the gambling industry. He noted that tourists paid a US$5 to US$6 admission to tour the """"Ponderosa Ranch"""", which was the location for filming some episodes of TV's"
"primary funding source. After the collapse of their just renewed deal at Paramount Pictures, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer moved their production company to Hollywood Pictures in January 1991. The division issued primarily inexpensive comedies for the first six years with a few box office flops films, amongst them ""Holy Matrimony"", ""Aspen Extreme"", ""Super Mario Bros."", ""Swing Kids"", ""Blame It on the Bellboy"", ""Born Yesterday"" and ""Guilty as Sin"". The division only had one box office success, ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"", and one critical success, ""The Joy Luck Club"", which did not out weigh the general anemic box"
"being bumped from first place only due to the rise of ABC in the mid-1970s. Perhaps because of its status as the top-rated network, during the late 1960s and early 1970s CBS felt freer to gamble with controversial properties like the ""Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"" and ""All in the Family"" (and its many spinoffs) during this period. By the end of the 1960s, CBS was very successful in television ratings, but many of its shows (including ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", ""Gunsmoke"", ""Mayberry R.F.D."", ""Petticoat Junction"", ""Hee Haw"" and ""Green Acres"") were appealing more to older and more rural audiences and less"
"12, 2013, ""Return of the Beverly Hillbillies"" was released on DVD for the first time by MPI Home Video. Return of the Beverly Hillbillies Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (also known as Beverly Hillbillies Solve the Energy Crisis) is a 1981 American made-for-television comedy film based on the 1962–1971 sitcom ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" which reunited original cast members Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas and Nancy Kulp reprising their characters of Jed Clampett, Elly May Clampett and Jane Hathaway, along with newcomers Werner Klemperer as C.D. Medford, Ray Young as Jethro Bodine and Imogene Coca as Granny's 100-year-old mother; noticeably absent are"
"Beverly Hills. Bailey began visibly displaying symptoms of Alzheimer's disease during the final episodes of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". He made only two film appearances after the show's 1971 cancellation — the Disney features ""Herbie Rides Again"" (1974) and ""The Strongest Man in the World"" (1975) — before retiring in 1975 due the effects of the disease. In his final years, Bailey divided his time between a condo and a houseboat in Laguna Niguel, California. He kept in touch with former co-star Nancy Kulp (whom he nicknamed ""Slim"") but was primarily a recluse. Raymond Bailey died of a heart attack on"
"Return of the Beverly Hillbillies Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (also known as Beverly Hillbillies Solve the Energy Crisis) is a 1981 American made-for-television comedy film based on the 1962–1971 sitcom ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" which reunited original cast members Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas and Nancy Kulp reprising their characters of Jed Clampett, Elly May Clampett and Jane Hathaway, along with newcomers Werner Klemperer as C.D. Medford, Ray Young as Jethro Bodine and Imogene Coca as Granny's 100-year-old mother; noticeably absent are cast members Irene Ryan (Granny) and Raymond Bailey (Milburn Drysdale), who had died in 1973 and 1980 respectively, and"
"him due to his style. Their 1962 duet, ""Willingly"", climbed to No. 10 and was his first chart hit, but it failed to establish him as a star. In 1962, Collie was offered the role of semi-regular character Pearl Bodine on the CBS-TV series ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", but instead began touring with Nelson, playing bass guitar in his band. They married in Las Vegas in 1963. As Nelson's career flourished, he talked her into staying home in Ridgetop outside Nashville, where she helped raise his three children by his first wife, Martha. The couple co-wrote his 1968 single ""Little Things"","
"""publicity was fine, but you can’t eat it...My motto was, pay me something, or I don’t play."" In 1931, Tom Murray, who had recently left the Beverly Hill Billies, offered Fisher a spot with his new group, the Hollywood Hillbillies, based in Los Angeles. Fisher learned to play the bass fiddle with the group and claimed he was one of the first to play the instrument in a country band. The Hillbillies appeared on the ""Hollywood Breakfast Club"" radio show and were fairly popular around Los Angeles but had little income to show for it. In late 1933, Fisher and"
"and they accept. In 1977, Paramount executive Don Simpson came up with a movie idea about a cop from East L.A. who transferred to Beverly Hills. Screenwriter Danilo Bach was called in to write the screenplay. Bach pitched his idea to Simpson and Paramount in 1981 under the name ""Beverly Drive"", about a cop from Pittsburgh named Elly Axel. However, his script was a straight action film and Bach was forced to make changes to the script, but after a few attempts the project went stale. With the success of ""Flashdance"" (1983), Simpson saw the Beverly Hills film as his"
"the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968. ""The Deadly Hillbillies,"" an interactive murder mystery, was written by John R. Logue using the core ""Beverly Hillbillies"" cast of characters as inspiration. This Gypsy Productions Murder Mystery Parody features characters such as ""Jed Clumpett,"" ""Daisy May Mostes,"" and ""Jane Hatchaway."" Dell Comics adapted the series into a comic book series in 1962. The art work was provided by Henry Scarpelli. In 1993, a movie version of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" was released starring Jim Varney as Jed Clampett and featuring Buddy Ebsen in a cameo as Barnaby Jones, the lead character"
"time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property ""Beverly Hills,"" subdivided it, and began selling lots. The development was named ""Beverly Hills"" after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts and because of the hills in the area. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, although sales remained slow. Beverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents. It was also forbidden to"
"the first ""ultimate collection"" of which was released in the fall of 2005. These collections include the original, uncut versions of the first season's episodes, complete with their original theme music and opening sponsor plugs. Volume 1 has, among its bonus features, the alternate, unaired version of the pilot film, ""The Hillbillies Of Beverly Hills"" (the version of the episode that sold the series to CBS), and the ""cast commercials"" (cast members pitching the products of the show's sponsors) originally shown at the end of each episode. With the exception of the public domain episodes, the copyrights to the series"
"weeks, with the drama ""21 Jump Street"", and comedies ""Mr. President"" and ""Duet"" completing its Sunday schedule. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the supernatural drama series ""Werewolf"", which began with a two-hour pilot movie event. Three other series were added to the Saturday lineup over the next three weeks: comedies ""The New Adventures of Beans Baxter"", ""Karen's Song"" and ""Down and Out in Beverly Hills"" (the latter being an adaptation of the film of the same name). Both ""Karen's Song"" and ""Down and Out in Beverly Hills"" were canceled by"
"Kidettes"", ""The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show"", ""Birdman and the Galaxy Trio"", ""The Herculoids"", ""Shazzan"", ""Fantastic Four"", ""Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor"" and ""Samson & Goliath"" (a.k.a. ""Young Samson""). ""The Banana Splits Adventure Hour"", ""The Adventures of Gulliver"" and ""The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" arose on the air in 1968, while the successful ""Wacky Races"" and its spinoffs ""The Perils of Penelope Pitstop"" and ""Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines"" aired on CBS, returned Hanna-Barbera to straight comedy, followed by ""Cattanooga Cats"" for ABC. The studio had its first (and only) record label Hanna-Barbera Records, headed by Danny"
"""The Andy Griffith Show"", absent Andy Taylor and son Opie. ""Mayberry R.F.D."" was number four in the Nielsen ratings the first two years of its run. While its ratings were strong enough for renewal at the end of its third season (number 15), it was canceled despite public complaints. That year CBS, seeking a more urban image, canceled all its rural-themed shows including ""Green Acres"", ""Hee Haw"" and ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" in what became known as the ""rural purge"". Mayberry R.F.D. Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation of ""The Andy Griffith Show""."
"a success. Parton made a cameo appearance as herself in ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" (1993), an adaptation of the long-running TV sitcom of the same name (1962–71). Parton has done voice work for animation for television series, playing herself in ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"" (episode ""Urban Chipmunk"", 1983) and the character Katrina Eloise ""Murph"" Murphy (Ms. Frizzle's first cousin) in ""The Magic School Bus"" (episode ""The Family Holiday Special"", 1994). She also has guest-starred in several sitcoms, including a 1990 episode of ""Designing Women"" (episode ""The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century"") as herself, the guardian"
"and science teacher in two episodes under different character names, Miss Harris and Miss Fisher. Shortly after her performances on ""My Three Sons"" in 1962, Kulp landed her breakout role as Jane Hathaway, the love-starved, bird-watching, perennial spinster, on the CBS television series ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". In 1967, she received an Emmy Award nomination for her role, and she remained with the show until its cancellation in 1971. In 1978, she appeared on ""The Love Boat"" in the episode ""Mike and Ike / The Witness / The Kissing Bandit"" and she played Aunt Gertrude in the episode ""Tony and Julie"
"""The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"" was introduced as the sixth spin-off in March 2010, and premiered on October 14, 2010. In March 2010, Bravo has ordered a series titled ""Miami Social Club"", which would serve as a reconstruction of the series ""Miami Social"", the series was later re-titled to ""The Real Housewives of Miami"" and served as the seventh spin-off in the franchise, and premiered on February 22, 2011. and ended on November 4, 2013 after three seasons. After the cancellation of ""The Real Housewives of Miami"", it had been almost five years that no new installments had been"
"to move from his humble home in the Ozarks after he strikes oil on his property and becomes a millionaire. Prior to shooting the pilot, Benaderet enlisted a dialect coach to help her learn a hillbilly accent. Impressed with her performance while screening the pilot to potential sponsors, Henning made Cousin Pearl a recurring character in the 1962–63 first season as she moved into the Clampetts' Beverly Hills mansion, feuded with Granny, and pursued oil tycoon Mr. Brewster (Frank Wilcox) as a love interest. Bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs, who performed the show's opening theme, recorded a comedic serenade in"