The BEST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 8
Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 8!
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 - 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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#2 - 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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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - Jane Finds Elly a Man
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1969
Jane and Jethro become involved in the search for Elly’s groom-to-be.
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#7 - Simon Legree Drysdale
Season 8 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1970
Slave driver Drysdale meets his secretary’s burly brother. The Clampett mansion is set up as a hotel for women, and banker Drysdale decides to extort a few dollars from his secretary guests.
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#8 - Back to the Hills
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1969
The Clampetts head for the hills to snare a man for Elly May, much to the dismay of banker Drysdale.
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#9 - Home Again
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1969
Granny complicates things for Elly and her beau.
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#10 - Annul That Marriage
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1970
Shorty and Elverna engage in marital mayhem. The Clampetts set up a miniature farm so Shorty's bride Gloria can sample farm life, and soon the exhausted girl is delighted to hear she's not really married.
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#11 - Honesty is the Best Policy
Season 8 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1970
Shifty Shafer and his wife scheme to defraud the Clampetts. Jed prepares to underwrite con man Honest John's scheme to drill a channel in the mountains to draw off the smog in Los Angeles.
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#12 - Marry Me, Shorty
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1970
The marriage battle between Shorty and Elverna rages on.
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#13 - Silver Dollar City Fair
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1969
Granny is trying to snare a spouse for Elly May, extolling the young girl's virtues to every bachelor she meets.
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#14 - Honest John Returns
Season 8 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1970
Con man Shifty Shafer hooks Jed on a plan to rid Los Angeles of smog.
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#15 - The Hero
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1969
Soupy Sales plays the Drysdales’ air-ace nephew.
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#16 - The Hills of Home
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1969
Partly filmed in the Ozarks: the Clampetts’ hectic homecoming. The Clampetts arrive in the mountain town of Silver Dollar City, where Granny starts a feud with an old rival, Elverna Bradshaw.
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#17 - Midnight Shorty
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1969
A rumor that Shorty is a millionaire lands him loads of dates.
#18 - Wedding Plans
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1969
The Clampetts plan Elly’s wedding to Matthew Templeton, unaware that banker Drysdale wants it stopped.
#19 - The Clampett-Hewes Empire
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1970
Rumor has it that the Clampetts plan to merge their interests with a tycoon. Banker Drysdale eagerly prepares to set up the deal for a new airline formed by Jed and farmer Howard Hewes, thinking him the famous millionaire Howard Hughes.
#20 - Manhattan Hillbillies
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1969
Drysdale and Jane arrive in New York to try to persuade the hillbillies to abandon their half-built cabin in Central Park and return home. Sammy Davis Jr. has a cameo on the Hillbillies’ New York jaunt.
#21 - Shorty Kellems Moves West
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1969
Shorty Kellems, proprietor of the hotel in Silver Dollar, sells out and leaves the hills to join the Clampetts in California for a fling at the wild life.
#22 - The Clampetts in New York
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1969
Phil Silvers as con man Shifty Shafer. Partly filmed in New York.
#23 - Buzz Bodine, Boy General
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1969
Jethro arrives in Hooterville wearing the uniform of a general. Jed arranges to go into the airline business with pilot Steve Elliott.
#24 - What Happened to Shorty?
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1970
Silver Dollar City’s mayor is fixin’ to send Shorty back to the hills. Jed Clampett and Shad Heller conspire to line up Shorty Kellems as a husband for the strong-minded widow Elverna Bradshaw.
#25 - Our Hero the Banker
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1969
Mrs Drysdale's nephew, Air Force ace Jetstream Bradford, who possesses a wealth of confidence but no talent, takes over Drysdale's private office at his Beverly Hills Bank.