Name: The Beverly Hillbillies
Uploaded: 2021-02-01T23:03:24.000Z
Description: A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways.

A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways.

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Jed Clampett is told by a representative of an oil company that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil. (The oil company employee has been hauled in by Jed's daughter Elly May who asks whether she can keep him.) Later, Mr. Brewster, the head of the oil company, does a deal with Jed. Jed tells Cousin Pearl that he'll receive 25 to 100 of "some new kind of dollar." Pearl, thinking Jed has been "slickered", asks what kind of dollar he's talking about.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E1 - The Clampetts Strike Oil

The Clampetts begin to settle in their new home in Beverly Hills, California. They are having to adjust to things such as refrigerators (Granny remarks how a ham will require two days to thaw out), ovens and the "cement pond." Jed also is having to confront how his daughter Elly May is maturing. He tells her that he, in effect, raised her as a boy and should not have.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E2 - Getting Settled

While Granny boils pool water for washing (due to the "lack of a pump") and Elly May gets a feminine make-over by Miss Hathaway, cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man while he gives her a ride to the nearest phone.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E3 - Meanwhile, Back At The Cabin

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, Grannie and Jed come to think Mrs. Drysdale is a drunk and make plans to cure her.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E4 - The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale

Grannie prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem while Jed does as Mr. Drysdale suggests and buys stock: cows, goats, pigs, and chickens! Meanwhile, Mrs. Drysdale recovers from the shock of her first meeting with the Clampetts and is convinced she's imagining things.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E5 - Jed Buys Stock

Granny wants to go home because folks is so unfriendly 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. Also, 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.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E6 - Trick Or Treat

Ellie 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 and upstairs girl in a plan to civilize the Clampetts, but they don't quite understand the idea of servants. Miss Hathaway takes Jethro bowling and begins to show an interest in him.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E7 - The Servants

Jed enrolls Jethro at an exclusive Beverly Hills elementary school. Millicent Schuyler-Potts, the proprietor of the school, is aghast when Jed and Jethro show up, convinced this is part of some ghastly hoax. After Jed says that banker Milburn Drysdale is his neighbor, she calls the banker. It turns out that Drysdale's bank holds the mortgage on the school. Schulyer-Potts suddenly warms to the charms of the Clampetts, even if it means accepting Jethro as a fifth grader.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E8 - Jethro Goes To School

Mr. Drysdale convinces his self-absorbed stepson Sonny to date Elly May to Mrs. Drysdale's consternation, while Granny and Jed make preparations for Thanksgiving.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E9 - Elly's First Date

Sonny Drysdale decides he needs to be Pygmalion to Elly's Galatea and remake her from a hillbilly into a woman of society, while Granny uses love charms to heat up their relationship.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E10 - Pygmalion And Elly

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.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E11 - Elly Races Jethrine

Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales since Sonny courted Elly May and then stood her up when granny suggested marriage.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E12 - The Great Feud

Jed, Ellie May, Jethro and Granny take their first plane flight back home for Christmas to visit cousin Pearl, who is busy cooking up a feast to win Mr. Brewster's unwilling heart.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E13 - Home For Christmas

Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl plays the piano for the "new" movie in town (the silent version of Ben Hur) to impress Mr. Brewster.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E14 - No Place Like Home

Since Mr. Brewster doesn't want to get married, but since the whole county knows that Cousin Pearl had her hat set for him, Jed comes up with a plan for her to save face by having Mr. Brewster proposed in public and then have her turn him down. Jed didn't count on Mr. Brewster's background in the theater and him making a huge production out of it.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E15 - Jed Rescues Pearl

The Clampetts pack up to return to Beverly Hills, so Jethrine tries to pack Jazzbo Depew. Elly says goodbye to her animals. Back in Beverly Hills, Miss Hathaway dresses the vamp to meet Jethro at the airport, and once home the feuding starts between Grannie and Pearl over who's running Grannie's kitchen.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E16 - Back To Californy

Grannie and Cousin Pearl are at each other's throats over who's going to take care of cooking and the house, so Jed has to find ways to keep them apart.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E17 - Jed's Dilemma

Mrs Drysdale leaves for a health farm saying Mr. Drysdale is "going to have a new wife," while Mr. Drysdale tells Cousin Pearl he'd like her to keep his house. However, the Clampett's think he's wanting to marry Pearl, so Jed comes up with a plan to "save" the Drysdale's marriage.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E18 - Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage

When Pearl starts selling music lessons, Mrs. Drysdale complains about the noise to the police. Mrs. Drysdale also calls the dog catcher on Duke.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E19 - Elly's Animals

Flatt and Scruggs and their wives come to visit their old sweetheart, but Pearl thinks they're there to propose. Jed throws a wingding for them and the duo play music for the Clampetts.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E20 - Jed Throws A Wingding

Granny can't stand Pearl's yodeling so she reports her to the police. When one of the officers takes Pearl out, Granny thinks she got Pearl in trouble and becomes sad and contrite. Meanwhile, the police find her still, and new trouble results.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E21 - Jed Plays Solomon

Jed and Duke his dog are both down without a woman in their lives, until they see and pursue a French woman and her poodle that she brought to breed with Mrs. Drysdales dog. Meanwhile Mrs. Drysdale has arranged a "marriage" between the dogs, complete with a decorated bedroom.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E22 - Duke Steals A Wife

Henry Jones shows up at the Clampett's, pretends to be an old friend and tries to sell the family the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the freeway.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E23 - Jed Buys The Freeway

Drysdale hires Jed to be a banker when he needs a crack shot to help beat a rival banker in a skeet shooting competition, but his partner needs to be an employee.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E24 - Jed Becomes A Banker

Mrs. Drysdale wants to get rid of the Clampett's before the arrival of Mrs. Smith-Standish, the head of a 'first family' historical society. But Smith-Standish goes to the Clampett's first and becomes enchanted with their antiques and way of life. She ropes Mrs. Drysdale's into helping with chores done the old way, to her horror.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E25 - The Family Tree

Mrs. Drysdale continues to be forced into doing "practices from the past" by Mrs. Smith-Standish, who discovers that Jed's family is possibly the first to come the country. If so they'd be famous worldwide, but does Jed want that?

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E26 - Jed Cuts The Family Tree

Miss Hathaway's brilliant-but-frumpy bank protegee Gloria is really a sultry gold-digger with eyes for Jed's $34 million, and Jed's just had his annual dose of Granny's spring tonic.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E27 - Granny's Spring Tonic

When an IRS agent gets chased away by Granny, Mr. Drysdale tells him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E28 - Jed Pays His Income Tax

Jed and Jethro go golfing with Leo Durocher, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wants to recruit Jethro as a pitcher when he sees how well he can throw.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E29 - The Clampetts And The Dodgers

Mlle. Denise comes back for the birth of her dog's puppies, and to see Jed. They do some "courtin' and sparkin'" Mrs. Drysdale isn't nearly so happy when she finds the puppies share more in common with Duke the bloodhound than Claude the poodle.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E30 - Duke Becomes A Father

Jed arranges a party to get Grannie out of her doldrums and invites the Drysdale. But when Mr. Drysdale's boss comes and wants to meet them for dinner, he wonders if he's going to be sent to an Alaskan bank when his boss finds out he's been lying about Jed and his family being sophisticated.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E31 - The Clampetts Entertain

When a couple who ran into the Clampett's car discover that they're rich, they fake injuries and sue the Clampetts.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E32 - The Clampetts In Court

Jethro finally gets his bill of health from Dr. Twombly so he can graduate the fifth grade, but Twombly really wants to talk to Grannie again. Drysdale brings him to the Clampetts' just as Grannie showed Pearl how to use a love potion, so everyone thinks Twombly's interest in Grannie is love.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E34 - The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted

When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary, while Jethro finds a speech that Drysdale accidentally uses instead of his own. All the while a new teller sucks-up to the men and flirts with the women.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E35 - Elly Becomes A Secretary

Jethro brings home a friend, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, who is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as frail. The Clampetts know better, and show him a good time, friendship and family.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S1 E36 - Jethro's Friend

Jed cheers up Granny by pretending to be sick so she can doctor him. Soon Drysdale and his doctor, Clyburn, are subject to her methods as well.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E1 - Jed Gets The Misery

After Granny cuts off the top of Drysdale and Clyburn's (his doctor) hair for some homegrown remedy, Clyburn tries to keep her from ever doctoring again. Meanwhile, the Clampetts are looking forward to the Possum Day parade, which of course isn't celebrated in Beverly Hills, so Drysdale has to figure out how to have one to keep them happy.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E2 - Hair-Raising Holiday

Grannie has everyone up at the crack of down to plow the front yard for her garden, while Mr. Drysdale, Miss Hathaway, and a stubborn mule try to stop her.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E3 - Granny's Garden

Mrs. Drysdale recommends Elly for a high-brow finishing school in hopes that humiliating her will drive the Clampetts away; but instead Miss Hathaway convinces the girls at the school that Elly is a fashion trend-setter. Elly invites the filthy rich Fenwicks over, thinking they're destitute.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E4 - Elly Starts To School

Cynthia Fenwick makes her filthy rich mother dress in the "Clampett Look" when they visit the Clampetts, since she thinks Elly is a fashion maven. That only reinforces the Clampett's belief that the Fenwicks are poor.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E5 - The Clampett Look

Jethro decides he wants to go a courtin', so after Jed gives him a little education he finds a woman, who happens to be a stripper. As usual, neither she or the Clampetts know what the other is really saying.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E6 - Jethro's First Love

Jethro thinks he's in love with Chickadee Laverne, a stripper he met at the bank. She and the Clampetts have meet and have different ideas about what an "engagement" is, while Miss Hathaway tries to avert this disaster.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E7 - Chickadee Returns

The Clampetts receive an overdraft from the bank intended for the deadbeat actor J.D. 'Jake' Clampett, while he gets their statement and starts to spend their money.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E8 - The Clampetts Are Overdrawn

When Jake Clampett tells Jed he's his cousin, he's welcomed into the home and soon has everyone but Jed thinking about and dressing for a role in their next movie.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E9 - The Clampetts Go Hollywood

Elly bonds with the Thanksgiving turkey so the family can't bring themselves to kill it; Mrs Drysdale hires some Indians to take a Thanksgiving picture, which puts Granny on the warpath.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E10 - Turkey Day

Mrs. Drysdale has a garden party and 'invites' the Clampetts by mistake. They end up back by their 'cement pond' to handle the 'overflow' from Mrs. Drysdale's party. A gun shot by Granny starts the real party.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E11 - The Garden Party

Mr. Drysdale needs investors for his real estate development project, so he enlists the Widow Fenwick, and aims to cement the deal by hitching her to Jed Clampett, who is looking to find a mother for his daughter, Elly May.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E12 - Elly Needs A Maw

The Clampetts decide to get a taste of culture to fit in the high-class society of Beverly Hills.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E13 - The Clampetts Get Culture

Mr. Drysdale's idea for Christmas presents are ones only fit for coastal California, like diving suits and a boat, and a television set, which Granny thinks is some kind of fancy washing machine.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E14 - Christmas At The Clampetts

Granny tries to find the perfect man for Elly May.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E15 - A Man For Elly

Granny encounters a kangaroo, and thinks she's found a giant jackrabbit, but no one will believe her.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E16 - The Giant Jackrabbit

A father and daughter from back home come to Beverly Hills to meet Jed.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E17 - The Girl From Home

Backwoods freeloader Lafe Crick lingers on at the Clampett mansion as an unwanted guest in search of an easy fortune.

The Beverly Hillbillies: S2 E18 - Lafe Lingers On

Elly May competes in a contest to determine "The Queen of Beverly Hills."

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