I kinda liked that." In 1972, approximately one year after The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled (due to the great "country purge" by CBS), the network cast Ebsen in the lead in a new detective series.

Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood to which they still cannot quite adjust.

When “The Beverly Hillbillies” made its debut on CBS ... And who, incidentally, was years younger than her character. Irene Ryan (who was 59 when the series first appeared on Sept.

Huffman, when initially proposing the idea, called the story a “fish out of water” scenario, where the Ozark hillbillies have ...

When “The Beverly Hillbillies” made its debut on CBS ... And who, incidentally, was years younger than her character. Irene Ryan (who was 59 when the series first appeared on Sept.