With Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr. A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their. Post acting career. Douglas received her real estate license after The Beverly Hillbillies finished production. She did not work in that field long, however, as she. The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons, from September 26, 1962, to March 23, 1971. The show had an ensemble cast. The best scenes of the true interior of what is known as the Clampett mansion can be seen in the 1987 movie. Diorderlies. I bought my dvd from Amazon. The Beverly Hillbillies Wikipedia. The Beverly Hillbillies, episode 1. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning inspired country cousin series on CBS Petticoat Junction, and its spin off Green Acres, which reversed the rags to riches, country to city model of The Beverly Hillbillies. The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 2. The series remains in syndication on Me. TV, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1. Century Fox. A surveyor for the OK Oil Company realizes the size of the oil field, and the company pays him a fortune for the right to drill on his land. Patriarch Jeds cousin Pearl prods him to move to California after being told his modest property could yield 2. Jethro along. The family moves into a mansion in wealthy Beverly Hills, California, next door to Jeds banker, Milburn Drysdale. The Clampetts bring a moral, unsophisticated, and minimalistic lifestyle to the swanky, sometimes self obsessed and superficial community. I/61vd-u1fuJL._SY445_.jpg' alt='Beverly Hillbillies Season 1 Episode 8' title='Beverly Hillbillies Season 1 Episode 8' />Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcoms humor. Plots often involve the outlandish efforts Drysdale makes to keep the Clampetts in Beverly Hills and their money in his bank. The familys periodic attempts to return to the mountains are often prompted by Grannys perceiving a slight from one of the. Mac. Gibbon as Margaret Drysdale, Mr. Drysdales ostentatious wife. Bea Benaderet as Jeds cousin Pearl season 1Episodes. Jed is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister called Myrtle. A principal character of the show, Jed is a good natured man he is the apparent head of the family. Jeds wife Elly Mays mother died, but is referred to in the episode. Jed is shown to be an expert marksman and is extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags to riches journey to Beverly Hills. Episode Recap The Beverly Hillbillies on TV. Watch The Beverly Hillbillies episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. With Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr. Jed Clampett is told by a representative of an oil company that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil. The Beverly Hillbillies. The Beverly Hillbillies TV show was so popular when it aired from 1962 to 1971, that it attracted as many as 60 million viewers a week. Although he longs for the old ways back in the hills, he makes the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he has anything on his mind, he sits on the curbstone of his mansion and whittles until he comes up with the answer. His catchphrase is,. Paul Henning, the shows creatorproducer, quickly disposed of the idea of Granny being Jeds mother, which would have changed the shows dynamics, making Granny the matriarch and Jed subordinate to her. Granny can be aggressive, but is often overruled by Jed. She is a Confederate to the core, defending President Jefferson Davis, the Stars and Bars, and the simple life. Short fused and easily angered, Granny fancies herself a. She abhors. A self styled. In lieu of anesthesia, Granny uses her. She fires it once at the front lawn when Jed is witching for water and several times on the skeet shooting range. During the mock Indian invasion, she believed she was shooting live shells, though Milburn Drysdale had removed the buckshot to protect the actors portraying the Indians. She fires rock salt and bacon rind at a crow during the. She fires at and hits in the posterior Milburn Drysdale with rock salt, believing he is the ghost of. Grant during. Without her glasses, Granny is extremely nearsighted  once in a crossover with the Petticoat Junction show, Granny mistakes a dog for a baby child and a coffee pot for a telephone. Two of Grannys phobias are. In a long story arc in season nine, Elly May dates a U. S. Navy frogman, which confuses Granny After seeing the frogman climb out of the pool in his skin diving wear, she thinks that anyone who swims in the pool will be turned into a frog. She also has a peculiar way of retelling the War Between The States, in which she thinks the South has won and Jefferson Davis is the president, while calling Shermans March. She even set Jethro straight on the subject of slavery. She is also known for slicing off switches to use on Jethro, mainly whenever he goes too far with his idiotic schemes. References are given to Granny growing up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. From episode 9. Likewise in a Flatt and Scruggs guest episode, her favorite song is. Granny is frequently referred to as. Granny appears in all 2. Elly May Clampett. She can throw a fastball as well as. She said once that animals could be better companions than people, but as she grew older, she saw that,. Other boyfriends for Elly include Sonny Drysdale, Beau Short, accountant Fred Penrod, beatnik Sheldon Epps, and Mark Templeton, a Navy frogman. Ellys most notable weakness, often mentioned when she is being. Family members cringe when, for plot reasons, Elly takes over the kitchen. Rock like donuts and cookies, for example, are a plot function in an episode featuring Wally Cox as bird watching Professor Biddle. On one of the familys visits back to the hills, a miller bought a cake baked by Elly May at a fair because he needed a new grindstone for his flour mill. Elly is briefly considered for film stardom at the movie studio owned by Jed. In one episode, hearing Rock Hudson and Cary Grant are both single, Granny asks that Elly be introduced to them. During the final season, Elly May takes a job as a secretary at the Commerce Bank after Jed and Granny persuade her that it would be a good way to. These animals were collectively known as her. The most prominent pets were chimpanzees, but other animals from typical dogs and cats to less traditional house pets, such as deer, opossums, bobcats, bears, goats, raccoons, and kangaroos were also occasionally featured. In the 1. 98. 1 TV movie of The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly May is head of a zoo. Jethro Bodine. He drove the Clampett family to their new home in California and stayed on with them to further his education. The whole family boasts of Jethros. Jethro is simply naive in the first season of the show, but becomes incredibly ignorant and pompous as the series progresses. He often shows off his cyphering abilities with multiplication and. He was in the fifth grade when the show began, and in the second season he graduated from the sixth grade. He claims he was. In a later episode, he decides to go to college. He manages to enroll late in the semester at a local secretarial school due to his financial backing and earns his diploma by the end of the day because he did not understand what was going on in class and was too disruptive. This was an ironic in joke in real life, Max Baer Jr. More often than not, his overall goal in these endeavors is to obtain as many pretty girls as humanly possible. A running gag is that as usual Jethro fails catching girls for example, a girl he had known from the hills became a successful actress, yet when she tries to talk to Jethro, he always hangs up on her. The nearest Jethro ever succeeded at anything was when he was sworn in as member of the. Another storyline had Lester Flatts wife auditioning for an actress screen test with Jethro as a. Flatt actually passedUnfortunately for Jethro, Mrs. Flatt decides to give up a Hollywood career however Jethro decides to have another screen test candidate who is none other than Miss Jane Hathaway who actually. Another running gag is that Jethro is known as the. At one time, Jed mentions Jethro was the only baby he knew born with a full set of teeth. Jethro does not appear in the third or second to last episodes, but Baer remains billed in the title credits. With the January 2. Donna Douglas, Baer is the only surviving cast member. Mac. Gibbon 5. 5 episodes in 1. Sonny Louis Nye The Drysdales are the Clampetts next door neighbors. Milburn is the Commerce Banks tightwad president and the friendly bumpkins confidant. The haughty Mrs. Drysdale boasts of a heritage that traces back to the Mayflower, but Milburns concerns are strictly monetary. When suffering an anxiety attack, Milburn sniffs a stack of money and is quickly revived. Donna Douglas Wikipedia. Donna Douglas. Douglas in 1. Born. Doris Ione Smith1. September 2. 6, 1. Gerard High School. Occupation. Actress, singer, writer. Years active. 19. SpousesRoland John Bourgeois, Jr. Leeds 1. 97. 11. Children. Danny P. Bourgeois. ParentsEmmett Ratcliff Smith, Sr. Elma Robinson Smith. Donna Douglas born Doris Ione Smith September 2. January 1, 2. 01. Americanactress and singer, known for her role as Elly May Clampett in CBSs The Beverly Hillbillies 1. Following her acting career, Douglas became a real estate agent, Gospel singer, inspirational speaker, and author of books for children and adults. Early life. Gerard Catholic High School. Douglas was named. These and other television appearances led New York photographers and newspaper reporters to award her the. Wallis saw the Sullivan episode and cast her in the role of Marjorie Burke in the movie drama Career 1. Anthony Franciosa, Dean Martin and Shirley Mac. Laine. This was followed by a bit part in the musical comedy. Lil Abner 1. 95. Lover Come Back 1. Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Her other credits included in U. S. Marshal, Tightrope, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Bachelor Father, Adam 1. Route 6. 6. Douglas also appeared in Thriller, season 1, episode 1. This series ran for nine consecutive seasons, beginning in 1. Continually typecast as a result of her Hillbillies role, Douglas decided to focus on her career as a gospel singer. In a 2. 00. 3 interview with. She is a wonderful little door opener for me because people love her, and they love the Hillbillies. Even to this day its shown every day somewhere. But, as with any abilities, she may open a door for you, but you have to have substance or integrity to advance you through that door. In 1. 99. 3, Douglas, Ebsen, and Baer reunited on The Jerry Springer Show, and for a final time in a CBS TV television special, The Legend of The Beverly Hillbillies. These dolls were Samantha Stephens from Bewitched, played by Elizabeth Montgomery, Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie, played by Barbara Eden and Elly May Clampett. She appeared at conventions and trade fairs. She recorded several gospel albums, the first released in 1. The book included Bible stories featuring animals combined with a coloring book. In November 2. 01. Miss Donnas Mulberry Acres Farm. The book also has a section on good manners called. The couple divorced that same year. Leeds, director of The Beverly Hillbillies, in 1. Douglas remained a close friend of Buddy Ebsen for 3. In a 2. 01. 1 interview with The Lincoln Times News, she described Ebsen as. Douglas and Baer visited Ebsen in the hospital, and following his death both delivered a eulogy at his funeral. A decade later, Douglas revealed the depth of her feelings for Ebsen in an interview with. He reminded me so much of my own dad. Most of my scenes were with Buddy, and most of Maxs with Irene. Buddy was just a wonderful man. I related to him so easily. The night before he died, Max and I went up to the hospital to see him. Douglas and Wilson claimed that in 1. Watch V_H_S_2 Online Metacritic there. The lawsuit claimed that there were more than 1. Douglas and Wilson. The lawsuit claimed that the developed screenplay had been submitted to Disney, Goldberg, and Midler three times during 1. Watch Online Watch Kenny Chesney: Summer In 3D Full Movie Online Film. The judge found in favor of Walt Disney Pictures and the other defendants. Wilson stated at the time,. The suit alleged that packaging for the. Douglas maintained she never endorsed the doll nor gave Mattel permission to use her name to promote its sale. In the lawsuit, Douglas claimed that CBS and Mattel needed her approval to design the doll, while CBS and Mattel maintained that they didnt need her consent or approval because the network holds exclusive rights to the character. Details of the settlement were confidential both sides claimed to be content with the outcome. You always saw her with all her makeup on. She never looked her age. Douglas often added scriptural verses to her gifts. Marshal 1. 95. 9. Joyce Markham. Janet Tyler. Woman 1. Gloria Larkey. Sandra Hoyle. William Shatner. Russel Johnson. Donna Douglas. Rhoda Sheridan. Nancy Gard. Dusa Quick. Kildare 1. Jane Parker. Francine. Elly May Clampett. The Defenders 1. Mary Andrews. Mildred Mc. Vane. Nina Draper. Elly May Clampett. The Super Mario Bros. Ellie Mae. The Jerry Springer Show 1. The Nanny March 3. Mantracker Season 4 Episode 8 here. Friday, October 7, 1. Port Allen, as the result of a boating accident. He was 8. 1, a native of Baywood and resident of Zachary. He was a retired Standard Oil Co. Visiting at Galilee Baptist Church, Deerford Road, 1. Sunday, conducted by the Rev. Tommy Jackson. Burial in Bluff Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Bluff Creek. She died Wednesday, December 3. She was 9. 3, born in Olive BranchClinton and a resident of Zachary. Visiting was at Charlet Funeral Home Inc., Zachary, from 5 p. Thursday, with recitation of the rosary at 7 p. Visiting at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church from 1. Friday, conducted by the Rev. Kenny Laird. Burial in St. Isidore Catholic Church Cemetery, Baker. Find a Grave. Retrieved October 2. The Beverly Hillbillies a fortieth anniversary wing ding Rev. Nashville, Tennessee Cumberland House. ISBN 1 5. 81. 82 3. Senior Voice. Retrieved January 2, 2. The New York Times. Retrieved January 2, 2. Retrieved January 2, 2. Donna Douglas Elly May Still Loves Her Critters. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved January 2, 2. Retrieved January 2, 2. Retrieved January 2, 2. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 2, 2. Retrieved December 7, 2. Bloomberg Business. Week. Associated Press. Retrieved January 2, 2. Tate Publishing and Enterprising, LLC. Tate Publishing and Enterprising, LLC. Retrieved January 3, 2. Retrieved December 7, 2. The Hollywood Reporter. January 2, 2. 01. Retrieved 2. 01. 5 0. Donna Douglas, best known for her role as the tomboy, critter loving Elly May Clampett on the 1. CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, died on New Years Day. Pride, LA WAFB. Retrieved January 2, 2. Baton Rouge Advocate. Retrieved January 3, 2.