Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the pilot episode of this beloved rags-to-riches sitcom, hayseed mountaineer Jed Clampett becomes an overnight multimillionaire ...

While "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" became a big hit, Scruggs' wife and manager, Louise, almost put a stop to the project. Speaking with NPR in 2003, she recalled showrunner Paul Henning approaching ...

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"The Beverly Hillbillies" made its cast super famous, but that's not all they're known for. In fact, one actor said the show was the worst moment of his life.

Buddy Ebsen was known for a lot of different acting roles. He appeared in a series of successful TV shows and movies before opting to portray Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies. The famed actor ...

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 ...

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Ever-rising price of “Texas tea” contributes to the hillbilly billionaire’s big bottom line. Clampett Oil courted disaster when an oil tanker spilled 20,000 barrels of crude in the Gulf of Alaska last ...

The Beverly Hillbillies was a hilarious show when it aired, and the funniest episodes still hold up even half a century later. Before The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, American sitcoms tended ...