The BEST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 2
Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 2!
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 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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.
#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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.
#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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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#11 - 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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#12 - Son of Lafe Returns
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1964
Lafe Crick tries some matchmaking between Elly and his son Dub.
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#13 - Jed Foils a Home Wrecker
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/3/1964
When Mrs. Drysdale hires a demolition man to remove the Clampetts’ cabin, Mr. Drysdale decides to occupy it so it can’t be removed. The Clampetts think a “home wrecker” is breaking up the Drysdale’s marriage.
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#14 - Granny Versus the Weather Bureau
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1964
The Weather Bureau predicts fair weather when Granny’s beetle predicts rain, so Granny thinks that they should meet.
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#15 - The Clampetts Go Hollywood
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1963
When Jake Clampett tells Jed he’s a cousin, he soon has everyone but Jed thinking about and dressing for a role in their next movie.
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#16 - The Bank Raising
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/1964
Mr. Drysdale is having a ground-breaking ceremony for a new bank building and the Clampetts think they need to pitch in to help build it. Meanwhile, Mr. Drysdale’s associates try to get stock market tips from Jed.
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#17 - Elly Needs a Maw
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1963
Jed thinks Elly May needs taming, so he decides to look for a wife. Mr. Drysdale ties to hitch Jed with Widow Fenwick to help with a real estate development project.
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#18 - The Clampett Look
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1963
A new fashion called “The Clampett Look” has come to Beverly Hills. Its greatest fans are the wealthy Fenwicks, who the Clampetts think are paupers.
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#19 - The Garden Party
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1963
Mrs. Drysdale throws a garden party which the Clampetts attend by mistake. They get sent back to their cement pond to start the “overflow” crowd.
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#20 - The Clampetts Go Fishing
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1964
Mr. Drysdale tries to interest the Clampetts in deep-sea fishing by sending them to Sea World.
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#21 - Lafe Lingers On
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1964
Lafe Crick returns with a new scheme to get rich, but Granny wants him to look for a job.
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#22 - Jethro's Graduation
Season 2 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/10/1964
Jethro is graduating at last – from the 6th grade.
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#23 - Cabin in Beverly Hills
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/27/1964
When Granny feels home-sick, Mr. Drysdale get’s Jed’s old cabin from back home and sets it up in the Clampetts’ backyard to surprise her on her birthday. A coed with a sociology major thinks that they live there as the Drysdale’s servants.
#24 - Granny Learns to Drive
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/1964
Motorists and pedestrians become endangered species when Granny learns to drive.
#25 - A Bride for Jed
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1964
Country musicians Flatt & Scruggs conspire with Miss Jane and Mr. Drysdale to try to find a city woman for Jed the same way they found theirs – by holding auditions for backup singers.