The cast of another CBS show, The Beverly Hillbillies, had some connection with the characters in Petticoat Junction, when Cousin Pearl contacted Granny to assist with Betty Jo Bradley's baby ; the Clampetts themselves hailed from Bug Tussle, Arkansas.

" He particularly objected to Goldman's constant slurs against Presley's background, including his characterization of Presley's parents as " the original Beverly Hillbillies " without bothering to include the explanatory context that the situation comedy was actually the story of suddenly rich innocents, as Presley's parents themselves were, who were trying to cope with the fear that even money and social access would never be enough to enable them to belong.

These were: Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One ( 1970 ), Muswell Hillbillies ( 1971 ), Preservation: Act 1 ( 1973 ), Preservation: Act 2 ( 1974 ), Soap Opera ( 1975 ) and Schoolboys in Disgrace ( 1976 ).

Earlier, in the 1920s, there were records by a band called the Beverly Hillbillies.

Hollywood Star Cars Museum features Mayberry's Squad Car, The Beverly Hillbillies jalopy, DRAG-U-LA from The Munsters, Batmobile, Camaro from Charlie's Angels, General Lee, and Herbie the Love Bug which were designed by George Barris.

The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six ( of the films Operation Bikini and Beach Party ) and Donna Douglas ( of television's The Beverly Hillbillies ), respectively.

Despite proving to be a ratings hit, staying in the top twenty for its first four seasons, Green Acres along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, were cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's infamous " rural purge "— an attempt to attract a younger viewer demographic, as most viewers of the series were at least 40 years old.

Orion's interest in Filmways stemmed from the company's library of 500 films ( largely inherited from American International Pictures, which Filmways had bought a few years before ) as well as its distribution operation and its library of well-remembered TV shows from the late 1960s, such as Green Acres, Mister Ed and The Addams Family ( two other Filmways productions, The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction were owned by CBS ).

The Beverly Hillbillies and other shows with rural settings, including Hee Haw and Mayberry R. F. D., were also dropped at that time.

Television series were featured on View-Master disks, such as Doctor Who, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Star Trek, The Man From U. N. C. L. E., Here's Lucy, and The Beverly Hillbillies.

Sixty-five Beverly Hillbillies slot machines were built in 1999 and placed in ten casinos.

Thus in 1971, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres were canceled as a result of the " rural purge ", joining Petticoat Junction ( which ended the year before ) in syndicated reruns.

Drucker and his bank were featured in later episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.

The theme songs for Hawaii Five-O, The Partridge Family, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Green Acres were all recorded at Western Recorders.

The main characters in the story were a family of four country yokels — " Ma " and " Pa " and their children Billy and Daisy — who had come into a great deal of money ( possibly inspired by The Beverly Hillbillies ).

In the late 1990s, more first run syndicated talk and reality shows, such as Forgive or Forget and Ricki Lake began moving onto KTXA while the amount of sitcoms, such as Family Matters, The Jeffersons, Good Times, All in the Family, Gomer Pyle, U. S. M. C., The Beverly Hillbillies, Amen, Step by Step, Sister, Sister, Hangin ' with Mr. Cooper, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Living Single, Mad About You, Coach, Martin, and cartoons, such as Street Sharks, Mighty Max, Monster Rancher, Brand Spanking New Doug, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Mummies Alive !, Pocket Dragon Adventures, Extreme Ghostbusters, Jumanji, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Pokémon, DuckTales, and Hercules were reduced.

In spite of finishing in 15th place for the year, Mayberry RFD was canceled in 1971 in what was called " the rural purge ", where shows set in a bucolic locale ( The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction ) were replaced with the more hip fare of Norman Lear ( All In The Family ) and other modern shows like the The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

* Television: Three episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies ( originally aired in 1971 ) were about an expected grunion run (" The Grunion Invasion ", " The Girls from Grun ", and " The Grun Incident ").

His show packages included a variety of stars, one of those casts were Donna Douglas, “ Elly Mae Clampett ” of “ The Beverly Hillbillies ,” Sonny Shroyer “ Enos ” from “ The Dukes of Hazzard ” and himself.

In 1997, MGM bought Orion Pictures Corporation, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and Motion Picture Corporation of America from Metromedia ( who are best known as the former owners of several TV stations that are now Fox O & O's and for the taping of television programs at Metromedia Square, now Fox Television Center ) As of the present time, MGM Television owns the movies / shows originally handled by Filmways, Inc., Orion Television, American International Television, Heatter-Quigley Productions and Samuel Goldwyn Television, with the main exceptions of The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction -- these were distributed by Viacom Enterprises, and are currently owned by CBS Television Distribution.

The Hillbillies were from the area surrounding Silver Dollar City and Branson, and references to Jim Owens and his White River float trip business and some Missouri mountain locations were made throughout the show's nine-year run.

Five episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies were eventually shot in the park.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

Hopper also had several acting roles during the latter part of her career, including brief cameo appearances as herself in the movie Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and The Patsy ( 1964 ), as well as episodes of The Martha Raye Show, I Love Lucy, The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, and The Beverly Hillbillies, starring Buddy Ebsen.

He was the brother of heavyweight boxing contender Buddy Baer and father of actor Max Baer, Jr. ( best known as Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies ).

Silvers frequently guest-starred on Buddy Ebsen's The Beverly Hillbillies as a character called Honest John.

In an ( 4 / 10 / 63 ) airing of The Beverly Hillbillies, Durocher plays golf with Jed Clampett ( Buddy Ebsen ) and Jethro Bodine ( Max Baer, Jr .), and he tries to sign Jethro to a baseball contract after discovering Jethro has a strong pitching arm.

To her dismay, Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen supported Shuster and even appeared in a radio commercial in which he called Kulp " too liberal ".

This prompted Shuster to recruit Kulp's Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen, a Republican, to record radio spots declaring, " Hey Nancy, I love you dearly but you're too liberal for me — I've got to go with Bud Shuster.

Nevertheless, when the feature film The Beverly Hillbillies was made twelve years later, Baer was reportedly upset that only Buddy Ebsen was asked to do a cameo.

This role brought Ebsen to the attention of the casting director of the CBS situation comedy The Beverly Hillbillies.

Ebsen became famous as Jed Clampett, an easygoing backwoods mountaineer who strikes oil and moves with his family to Beverly Hills, California in the long-running, fish-out-of-water CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

Not all was harmony among cast members on The Beverly Hillbillies set, especially between the politically conservative Ebsen and the more liberal Kulp.

Ebsen appeared as Barnaby Jones on two other television productions as well: a 1975 episode of Cannon, and in the 1993 film The Beverly Hillbillies.

However, in 1993, Ebsen reprised the role of Barnaby Jones in the big-screen remake of his most famous television series, The Beverly Hillbillies.

Beverly Hillbillies Episode 18: Jed Saves The Drysdales Marriage

The Beverly Hillbillies series starts with the OK Oil Company learning of oil in Jed Clampett's swamp land and paying him a fortune to acquire the rights to drill on his land.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

On September 24, 1962, singer Jerry Scoggins, Lester Flatt and Scruggs recorded " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " for the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, which was released October 12, 1962.

A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

* The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1963 ) in episode 23 " Jed Buys the Freeway ," in season 1.

James Albert " Jim " Varney, Jr. ( June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000 ) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Ernest P. Worrell, who was used in numerous television commercial campaigns and movies in the following years, giving Varney fame worldwide and playing Jed Clampett in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Varney also played Jed Clampett in the 1993 production of The Beverly Hillbillies, Rex, a carnival worker / associate of Dennis Quaid in Wilder Napalm, which is about two pyrokinetic brothers, played by Quaid and Arliss Howard, and as the accident-prone entertainer / watch guard ( aka " safety guy / human torch ") Rudy James in the movie Snowboard Academy.

* In The Beverly Hillbillies, Jed Clampett's reason for going to Beverly Hills was to live in the same place as Tom Mix.

In 1989 " Weird Al " Yankovic recorded " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *", the lyrics of " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " ( theme from The Beverly Hillbillies ) to the music of the Dire Straits song " Money for Nothing ".

He was noted for his work with Gene Autry and Bing Crosby, and for singing " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", the theme song to the 1960s sitcom " The Beverly Hillbillies ".

As the title implies, this song merges the lyrics from The Beverly Hillbillies theme song (" The Ballad of Jed Clampett ") with the tune of " Money For Nothing ".

* The Beverly Hillbillies, in three episodes ; as Mr. Landman in " Jed Pays His Income Tax " ( 3 April 1963 ), and as Professor Robert Graham in " Cabin in Beverly Hills " ( 27 May 1964 ) and in " Jed Foils a Home Wrecker " ( 3 June 1964 ).

*" The Ballad of Jed Clampett " ( listen )-used as the theme for the Beverly Hillbillies television series.