The BEST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 1
Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 1!
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.
#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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#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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#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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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 - 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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#9 - Elly's Animals
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1963
The police and Elly’s animals converge on the Clampett estate when Pearl starts giving yodeling lessons.
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#10 - Home for Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1962
Jed, Elly May, Jethro, and Granny take their first plane flight home for Christmas to surprise cousin Pearl, who is busy cooking up a feast to try win Mr. Brewster’s heart.
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#11 - Jed Rescues Pearl
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1963
Pearl’s efforts to snag Mr. Brewster seem doomed until he makes an overly theatrical public proposal.
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#12 - Jed Becomes a Banker
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1963
Jed is made a bank vice president so he can compete in an interbank skeet shoot.
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#13 - Granny's Spring Tonic
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/27/1963
Miss Hathaway’s brilliant-but-frumpy bank protegee, Gloria, is really a sultry gold-digger with eyes for Jed’s $34 million, and Jed’s just had his annual dose of Granny’s spring tonic.
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#14 - Jethro's Friend
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/29/1963
Jethro brings home a friend, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, who is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as frail. The Clampetts know better, and show him a good time, friendship, and family.
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#15 - The Clampetts and the Dodgers
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/10/1963
Jed and Jethro play golf with a famous baseball coach who witnesses Jethro’s pitching arm and wants to sign him up.
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#16 - Getting Settled
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1962
When the Clampetts arrive at their new Mansion, they are mistaken by miss Hathaway for a staff of bumbling, insubordinate, backwoods servants.
#17 - Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1963
Jed believes that the Drysdale’s marriage is threatened when he looks to cousin Pearl for a housekeeper while his wife is away.
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#18 - Duke Steals a Wife
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1963
Duke, Jed’s bloodhound, becomes matchmaker for his master and Mademoiselle Denise, a glamorous Frenchwoman who is accompanying a French poodle intended for the Drysdale’s dog.
#19 - Jed Pays His Income Tax
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/3/1963
When an IRS agent gets chased away by Granny, Mr. Drysdale tell him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.
#20 - The Clampetts Entertain
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/24/1963
Jed arranges a party to cheer up Granny, but Mr. Drysdale fears that attending with his visiting boss will reveal that he’s been lying about their sophistication.
#21 - Elly Races Jethrine
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1962
Granny believes that Sonny Drysdale is going to propose to Elly May and becomes a matchmaker. Cousin Pearl tries to hurry Jethrine’s relationship with Jasper Depew.
#22 - The Clampetts Strike Oil
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1962
When an oil wildcatter discovers a huge pool of oil in Jed Clampetts’ swamp, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company for $34 million. At the urging of his cousin, Pearl, Jed moves his family to a 35 room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
#23 - Jed Throws a Wingding
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1963
Two of Cousin Pearl’s most ardent former suitors come to visit her in Beverly Hills.
#24 - Jethro Goes to School
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1962
A private school teacher is shocked to learn that her new 5th-grade student is Jethro.
#25 - No Place Like Home
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1962
Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl plays the piano for the “new” movie in town to impress Mr. Brewster.