The WORST episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies
Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.
#1 - Turkey Day
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1963
Granny plans for war when she sees the Indians Mrs. Drysdale hired for a Thanksgiving picture.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Jethro Gets Engaged
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1966
Jethro takes a job as Dash Riprock’s stunt double and attracts a girl eager to get a screen test.
#4 - The Dahlia Feud
Season 5 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/19/1967
Granny takes up arms after mistaking Mrs. Drysdale’s new dahlia beds for graves.
#5 - The Teahouse of Jed Clampett
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1971
How to thwart a women’s lib strike: hire geisha girls.
#6 - The Flying Saucer
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1966
The Clampetts mistake three Italian midgets dressed as martians for real space aliens.
#7 - The Party Line
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1966
Granny demands a party line so she can listen in on telephone conversations.
#8 - The Palace of Clampett San
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1971
Granny and Elly seek happiness as liberated women.
#9 - Luke's Boy
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/26/1965
Luke Short’s son Beau comes from back home, and Granny wants him to marry Elly May.
#10 - The Servants
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1962
Drysdale attempts another step in social renovation of the Clampetts by lending them his servants.
#11 - 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.
#12 - His Royal Highness
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1967
A visiting king tries to court Elly May.
#13 - Trick or Treat
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1962
The homesick Clampetts, unaware that it’s Halloween, decide to go calling on their new Beverly Hills neighbors.
#14 - Robin Hood of Griffith Park
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1967
Jethro thinks he's started the “War of the Roses” when he chased a dragon through the neighbors rose garden, so the Clampetts return to Beverly Hills and cause some mayhem in Griffith Park.
#15 - The Buggy
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1966
Mr. Drysdale convinces his wife to compete against Granny in a horse-and-buggy race.
#16 - The Big Bank Battle
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/5/1965
After Mr. Drysdale tries to get Jed interested in a hobby to stop him from roving the neighborhood with a fix-it wagon, two banks end up fighting over giving Jed a job.
#17 - Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1962
The Clampetts find that the comforts of the mansion do not always compare to the comforts of their former mountain shack. Meanwhile, Cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man.
#18 - The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1962
When Mr. Drysdale describes Mrs. Drysdale as being a hypochondriac, the Clampets assume she must be a drunk.
#19 - Jed Buys Central Park
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1969
Con man Shifty Shafer meets Jed in the Ozarks.
#20 - War of the Roses
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1968
When Jethro challenges the neighbors to the war of the roses, Colonel Dumbarton accepts and they commence to joust. Jed wants to go to see the Queen and give her the deed to Canada.
#21 - The Housekeeper
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/3/1968
Jed feels guilty about Granny having to clean the mansion all by herself, so he has Mr Drysdale help him find a housekeeper.
#22 - The Gypsy's Warning
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1967
Mrs. Drysdale hires two gypsies to convince Granny that the mansion is cursed.
#23 - Elly Comes Out
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1967
Mrs. Drysdale tries to make Elly's social coming-out party an embarrassing failure.
#24 - Come Back, Little Herby
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1966
The Clampetts demand the return of Herby the gorilla.
#25 - 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.