The BEST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 9
Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies season 9!
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 - Doctor, Cure My Frog
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1970
Granny believes that Elly’s beau is a web-footed freak. Granny consults a psychiatrist to give 'modern medicine' a chance to keep frogman Mark Templeton from turning into a real frog.
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#2 - Farm in the Ocean
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1970
Drysdale tries to stop Elly’s marriage.
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#3 - Do You, Elly, Take This Frog?
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1970
A dream sends Granny to a psychiatrist.
#4 - The Grunion Invasion
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1971
The Clampetts go to war against a school of fish which they believe to be hostile aliens.
#5 - The Girls from Grun
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1971
The hillbillies, encouraged by Mr Drysdale, continue to guard the Malibu beach and repel the mythical grunion invaders.
#6 - The Frog Family
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1970
Granny battles to keep her family out of the swimming pool, convinced that if they get wet they'll turn into frogs.
#7 - The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty Crockett
Season 9 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1971
An actor plans to capture the Clampett millions by passing himself off as kin to Davy Crockett.
#8 - Don't Marry a Frogman
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1970
Granny’s trying to cure her frog fixation with a potent elixir.
#9 - Love Finds Jane Hathaway
Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1971
An unemployed actor is making a big play for Jane.
#10 - Jed Buys the Capitol
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1970
Shifty Shafer cons Jed into buying the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and various other choice pieces of Washington real estate.
#11 - The Great Revelation
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1970
Can Granny finally be convinced that Elly May's boyfriend, Mark Templeton, is fully human and not half-frog?
#12 - Elly, the Working Girl
Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1971
Elly joins the women’s lib battle against Drysdale. She gets a job at Mr Drysdale's bank and moves into co-worker Jane Hathaway's apartment.
#13 - The Clampetts in Washington
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1970
The Clampetts arrive in Washington, DC to give the President $95 million to help in the fight against smog. A con man tries to sell Washington, D.C., to Jed.
#14 - Shorty to the Rescue
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1970
Granny’s frog fears prod her to invite Shorty Kellems back from the hills to help break up Elly May’s romance with Mark Templeton.
#15 - Welcome to the Family
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1970
Can Elly find happiness married to a frog? Granny’s still fighting the match. Granny thinks Shorty Kellems has turned into a seal because he ignored her warnings about swimming in the Clampett pool.
#16 - Elly, the Secretary
Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1971
Jethro’s bachelorhood seems headed for extinction. He leaves home when he learns his ugly childhood sweetheart is coming for a visit, not knowing she has become a beauty contest winner.
#17 - The Pollution Solution
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1970
Jed plans to hand his millions over to the President to help fight air pollution.
#18 - Mark Templeton Arrives
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1970
Romance enters Elly May's life in a big way when Navy Lt Mark Templeton arrives at the Clampett mansion to pay a visit. One Granny plus one Navy frogman equals a running gag: Granny thinks Elly’s new beau is a frog.
#19 - The Grun Incident
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1971
Women’s lib protests hit Drysdale’s bank when his downtrodden secretaries organize to fight for better wages and working conditions.
#20 - Women's Lib
Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1971
Granny and Elly launch a fem lib protest. They join the Women's Liberation Movement and leave all the household chores to Jed and Jethro.
#21 - Jethro Returns
Season 9 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1971
Jane Hathaway learns her new boyfriend is a fortune hunter who would like to marry Elly May and her family's millions.
#22 - The Palace of Clampett San
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1971
Granny and Elly seek happiness as liberated women.
#23 - The Teahouse of Jed Clampett
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1971
How to thwart a women’s lib strike: hire geisha girls.
#24 - Lib and Let Lib
Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1971
The women’s movement strikes at the bank. The hillbilly women, assured of their equal rights, return to the Clampett mansion.