The BEST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies

Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies!

The Beverly Hillbillies is among the most successful comedies in American television history, and remains one of the few sitcoms to involve serial plotlines. It centered around Jed Clampett, a simple backwoods mountaineer who becomes a millionaire when oil is discovered on his property and then moves his family to Beverly Hills. The fish-out-of-water farce ran for nine seasons.

Last Updated: 12/1/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended

9.40

83 votes

#1 - The Family Tree

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1963

An authority on American history finds evidence that Jed’s ancestors preceded the Mayflower to America.

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9.33

86 votes

#2 - Duke Becomes a Father

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/17/1963

Denise returns for the birth of her dog’s puppies, and to see Jed for 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.

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8.94

83 votes

#3 - Jed Cuts the Family Tree

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/20/1963

Pearl wants the family to be in High Society now that their forebears were one of the first families to come to America. Will Jed’s family become famous worldwide?

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8.94

66 votes

#4 - Jed Gets the Misery

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1963

Jed pretends to be sick so Granny can practice her Doctorin’. Mr. Drysdale helps out too, but then Granny won’t let them out of bed.

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8.80

10 votes

#5 - Three-Day Reprieve

Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1970

Jed and Shad Heller discover it's a full-time job keeping Shorty Kellems corralled until his marriage to the indomitable Elverna.

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8.56

50 votes

#6 - The Girl from Home

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1964

Lafe Crick arrives from “back home” with his daughter, Essiebelle. He found love letters that Jethro wrote to her and schemes to get them married as a way to get rich.

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8.56

61 votes

#7 - Elly Becomes a Secretary

Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/22/1963

When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed decides helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary.

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8.55

60 votes

#8 - Hair-Raising Holiday

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1963

Mr. Drysdale and his doctor try to get Granny to stop her mountain-medicine practice while the Clampetts are expecting to celebrate Possum Day.

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8.53

55 votes

#9 - The Giant Jackrabbit

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1964

While out hunting, Granny confuses the Drysdale’s new kangaroo with a giant jackrabbit.

Directors: Richard Whorf

Writer: Mark Tuttle, Paul Henning

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8.51

49 votes

#10 - A Man for Elly

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1964

Granny thinks TV hero Quirt Manly might be just the man to tame Elly.

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8.50

52 votes

#11 - Chickadee Returns

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1963

Jethro still wants to marry burlesque dancer Chickadee Laverne, while she tries to figure out what the Clampetts want her to do in her dance routine.

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8.50

10 votes

#12 - Shorty Spits the Hook

Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1970

Elusive Shorty Kellems gets off the marital hook with Elverna by convincing his eager bride-to-be that he is an inveterate gambler.

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8.49

59 votes

#13 - Jed Plays Solomon

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1963

Granny’s plan to stop Pearl’s yodeling backfires when the police she called find her illegal still.

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8.47

55 votes

#14 - Christmas at the Clampetts

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/1963

Mr. Drysdale buys lavish Christmas presents for the Clampetts, which they are not familiar with.

Writer: Mark Tuttle, Paul Henning

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8.45

11 votes

#15 - Hotel for Women

Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1970

The hillbillies leave Shorty Kellems temporarily in charge of the Clampett mansion and he turns it into a hotel for single secretaries.

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8.43

58 votes

#16 - Jed Buys the Freeway

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1963

A confidence man tries to sell Jed the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the Hollywood Freeway.

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8.42

59 votes

#17 - Granny's Garden

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1963

Granny wants to plough the front lawn of the mansion to grow vegetables, but Mr. Drysdale and Jane try to convince them otherwise.

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8.38

26 votes

#18 - The Critter Doctor

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1964

Dr. Martin of the zoo keeps giving Elly more critters than Granny can stand. Jim Gardner comes to sell “bug vittles” but ends up falling for Elly.

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8.38

56 votes

#19 - The Clampetts in Court

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/1/1963

A couple who ran into the Clampetts’ car fake injuries and sue the Clampetts to try to get rich.

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8.35

63 votes

#20 - Elly Starts to School

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1963

Mrs. Drysdale recommends Elly for a high-brow finishing school in hopes that humiliating her will drive the Clampetts away.

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8.34

50 votes

#21 - The Race for Queen

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1964

Elly May enters the Miss Beverly Hills beauty contest.

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8.33

12 votes

#22 - The Wedding

Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1970

How to calm a nervous groom: lock him in a bear cage.

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8.31

13 votes

#23 - Shorty Go Home

Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1969

Granny uses her shotgun as she punishes Jethro for leading too wild a Hollywood life with Shorty Kellems. Granny wants to send Shorty packing.

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8.29

24 votes

#24 - Jed the Heartbreaker

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1964

Mrs. Drysdale plots to force the Clampetts out by throwing herself at Jed.

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8.29

62 votes

#25 - Back to Californy

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1963

Jed is confronted with too many cooks and not enough vittles when he invites Pearl and Jethrine to Beverly Hills.

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