In the pilot episode of this beloved rags-to-riches sitcom, hayseed mountaineer Jed Clampett becomes an overnight multimillionaire when an oil-rich swamp is discovered on his property. With his ...

When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

The premise of The Beverly Hillbillies was pretty simple. Jed Clampett and his family left their monetary struggles behind in Missouri and moved to California after Jed shot a hole in the ground and ...

When TV series creator Paul Henning was driving cross-country in 1959, he stopped to see Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, and the visit sparked an idea that would eventually become The Beverly Hillbillies ...

Who doesn’t love a good rags-to-riches story? In 1962, CBS struck gold with The Beverly Hillbillies cast in a sitcom about a backwoods family who packed up and moved from the Ozarks to California ...

"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 who become suddenly wealthy when they ...

FARMVILLE — It’s been more than half a century since folks could “come and listen to a story about a man named Jed” — except in reruns. Television audiences said goodbye to Jed and all his kin back in ...

MICHIGAN CITY — “The Beverly Hillbillies” opens Nov. 1 and continues through Nov. 10 at the Footlight Players’ theater, 1705 Franklin St. Based on the 1960s television series by Paul Henning of the ...