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 ...

On the studio lot, the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies prepares to film another scene in the Clampett family’s truck. Buddy Ebsen (Jed), Max Baer Jr. (Jethro) and Donna Douglas (Elly May ...

Still, Beverly Hillbillies featured a unique story — Jed Clampett, a gentle ... including “Granny,” Elly May, and Jethro, move to Beverly Hills, into an incredible mansion.

"The Beverly Hillbillies" was ... we were introduced to Jed Clampett, his mother-in-law Granny, his daughter Elly May, and cousin Jethro, all poor mountaineers scraping out a happy but subsistence ...

On the show, Baer played Clampett's nephew ... restaurant and other properties using Beverly Hillbillies themes, Freis said. Jethro's BBQ essentially dilutes the "Jethro" brand that Baer has ...

Families with a penchant for good old-fashioned country-fried laughter made the Clampett clan of "The Beverly Hillbillies" part ... the imaginative Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.), a wannabe ladies ...

Even the theme song, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” was a hit ... before auditioning for the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies to master Jethro’s accent. R aymond Bailey’s path to stardom ...

In a 1965 episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” we ... At the end of the episode, Jethro brings a traveling pharmaceutical salesman to the Clampett mansion. After hearing about Granny ...

It was a decade ago this month when I reviewed “The Beverly ... Elly May’s and Jethro’s would-be new romances and a couple of swindlers trying to take control of the Clampett’s fortune.

No doubt lots of audiences across the country loved the idea of the noodle-brained Clampett clan ... But beyond that, “The Beverly Hillbillies” is like Cousin Jethro: a big, witless lunk ...