I was really proud that my childhood friend, Jim Varney, was cast to play Jed Clampett in the movie. I thought he did a fine job and my favorite scene was Jim and the young actress playing Elly May up in the tree. Jim was a lovely southern gentleman, who never thought of us as hillbillies, but Hill-Williams. I sure miss him. He and my cousin, who was his best friend from elementary school to adulthood, died just a month apart, from the same kind of cancer. I often wondered if it was due to something they had been exposed to in California.
Had an opportunity to have a nice 30-minute chat with Donna Douglas. This was around 2010. We were seatmates on an airplane flying to DFW. I didn't know who she was. A flight attendant stopped by our row and asked her, "Miss Douglas, would you please autograph this for my nephew?". So, I'm thinking, "Miss Douglas? Who is this?" I then watched her write: Donna "Ellie Mae" Douglas. Until we landed about 30 minutes later, with little else to do, we chatted about her current activities. I never mentioned The Beverly Hillbillies, which I watched every week as a kid. I figured she was always getting *those* questions. A very pleasant lady.
There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
The best line from the whole series was in the first episode. The conversation between cousin Pearl and Jed. " your eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You cook on a wood cookstove summer and winter. You make your own moonshine. Your overrun with possums, skunks, coons, coyotes and bobcats, and you ask should you move" ? And Jeds reply, " yeah Pearl I reckon youre right! A man would be a dang fool to leave all this".
The show was cancelled unexpectedly, so I am sure they wanted to do much more with the series finale. Too bad that didn't happen. There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
@@GentileMysteriesConspiracies CBS wanted to change its image and attract a different audience. So they said bye-bye to every rural sitcom. The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry RFD, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres. There may be more. Those are the ones I remember at the moment
@@cmm2145 - I agree, but look at the ratings of what they replaced them with compared to the previous ratings. Most Americans do not even live within city limit signs, they are in counties.
I only vaguely recall seeing that episode. Max Baer Jr. was right. Paul Henning was running out of ideas. It probably confused some folks using a Petticoat Junction actor in a different role. But that wouldn't have been unusual back then. This plotline sounds bad like the ones with Shorty and the frogman. Parting episodes weren't that common at the time. But this series deserved a better ending. Did Max use a fake beard? He and Donna's real ages were more apparent in the color episodes.
Well, Bea Benaderet played both Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley at the Shady Rest (which the Clampetts visited). And they also ran into the Douglasses from "Green Acres" on more than one occassion, but there was the episode where the Hooterville theatre put on a play about that great television show "The Beverly Hillbillies" (Lisa Douglass: "I really like the man who plays Jed Clampett, Buddy Epstein."). 🤣
Barely remember it but a lot of the set up sounds really familiar. A long, long time ago indeed. Slept since then, but it always seems to be that the best episodes are in the beginning of the series and the end is always, “ meh!” Hard to reconcile the two ends too.
According to a follow up shortly after this Jed lost his fortune because of drysdale’’s greed and reckless management. He still had enough left to return to the hills, granny passed away, Elle never married and jethro actually becomes a doctor and regrets never pursuing Ms Jane who went into hiding after the bank folded and she helped the state prosecute drysdale.
50+ years later and I'm still upset about the rural purge. Another show that was cancelled was Hogan's Heroes and it bothers me very much that HH didn't have a farewell episode. A BH farewell episode-Granny & Jed would have returned to Tennessee, but the young uns would have stayed in Caleeforniay.
As a kid we would take trips to Silver Dollar City, they film five episodes there, and the Cast would make vists there after and one such times I met Granny and Jed, they were the nicest people, I told Granny I would love to try her cooking because it was just like soul food.
Well done Uncle Bob!! CBS canceled everything with a tree, but Paul Henning got the last laugh! With The Beverly Hillbillies being SOOO popular, it ran one season longer than the also popular Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, which had pretty much run its course. (Especially considering the death of Bea Benaderet, and other cast members.) He got the last laugh by hiring people from Petticoat Junction to work on The Beverly Hillbillies! Not only keeping them on CBS, whether the network liked it or not, but letting them continue to earn a paycheck!! Mr. Henning was so worried about nepotism that he made his daughter change her name from Linda Kay Henning to Linda Kaye! It must not have mattered so much with in-laws! The proof of that being one of the people he hired was as you already mentioned, Uncle Bob, his son-in-law Mike Minor! He also put Lori Saunders to work, and even his old friend Dick Wesson as producer and director!!🇺🇲📺🎬🐵🐕🚂🚜🏦💲🎶🎻🪕🎙🪗🎶✖️6️⃣9️⃣✖️
Growing up in upper East Tennessee in the 60s, about 20 minutes North of Davy Crockett’s place of birth, my family really found the program funny and quite ironic given it’s little bits of true Appalachian culture. My grandfather was quite the possum connoisseur.
I was in the Navy in 1971` Saw this years later on various nostalgia channels. CBS dumped all cornpone type shows & made a BIG mistake doing so. Jethro as a Double Naught spy & Granny cures the common cold were my favorites.
According to a follow up show in the 90s at some point in the 70s jed lost almost all his money because of drysdale mishandling it. Ms Jane reported him to the police and he went to prison and she went into hiding. Jed barely had enough left to go back to the hills and buy a new cabin. By that point granny passed away, Elle never married and jethro somehow managed to become a doctor and regretted never pursuing ms jane.
Nice presentation. My wife and I just finished watching all available episodes---including the last episode to air in its first run---within the past week. I was around to watch the original espisodes each and every week with my family during its first run on television. I was 14 when the show first started. Now I'm 75. I still consider the Beverly Hillbillies one of the finest television shows of all-time. My wife and I watched The Beverly Hillbillies movie from 1993 just last night. This was only the second time I'd ever seen the movie. I liked it vastly better than the first time I saw it while The Beverly Hillbillies (1993 movie) first became available as a VHS tape. (We watched it last night on a DVD.) You have a wonderful presentation here! Keep up the great work for this fabulous television show! Andy McKane, 26 June 2023, Molokai, Hawaii.
The end of the show wasn't good. There was no real ending. Only to find out that Jed finally took out all his millions and divided equally to Elle Mae and Jethro. While he returned to the hills after granny went to her reward on the 1981 movie.
Love this show as kid, still do. I particularly loved the Jeffro career days episodes where he would try to decide his future employment options. The double 00 spy was my favorite when he shot Granny over the mansion's roof with his homemade ejector seat he had rigged up in the truck. Hilarious!
@@gj4578 Dash Riprock AKA Homer Noodleman of Peoria IL , played by the beefy and brawny Larry Pennell seemed to be a good choice if Mr Henning had gone that way . He and Ellie seemed to really like each other desprite of the money and stardom jazz .
Thanks for this fun video and update on them Hillbillies :) new subscriber here for sure...wish they had some new shows that were as fairly harmless as this... seems ALL new shows have hidden agendas hidden in them...thanks again and may God bless you and family i pray...
Enjoyed that installment Bob, never recall seeing it. Always enjoyed the show, such a shame they made a train wreck of the storyline with the movie....
Interesting. I saw an episode that i thought was the final one. Here on RUclips. Granny had passed, Jethro and Ellie were doing there thing. Uncle Jed is talking to a reporter back in Bug-tussle, he was telling the story how Drysdale had squandered the Clampett fortune, and was in prison for it. Music starts and Jed says they gotta go listen and dance, throws his whittling knife in the ground and strikes oil again. Hmm it was Buddy Ebsen dances to the ballad of Jed Clampett. so maybe it wasn't the last episode....
@@hermittaono it just concluded. The young actor wanted to stop acting and go to high school normally. They concluded the series with Wally's last days of HS, and a clip show of the family looking through a photoalbum
I meet Ellie May once. Several years before she pasted, on of our men in town paid her to come to Henderson, KY. She gave her testimony at one of local baptist churches. She could still whistle. She talked bout how she came to be in the show.
Alvy Moore (aka Hank Kimball from Green Acres TV), would attend a Baptist church, as well. I was able to ask him that personally in 1994, just three years before he left this life. it's great that you were able to hear her testimony about being in TV.
Years ago while Working at my Dads service station, a 65 Cadillac Coupe Deville pulled in for gas. The driver said to fill it up and after he handed me his credit card which is when I realized it was Max Baer at the wheel. Nice person but not over the top like some actors. He was a very handsome sturdy looking guy!!
1971 was a sad year. My dad hated loosing Hee Haw. He was country all the way. And I liked it to with the Beverly Hillbillies. But not so much with Green Acars.
There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
I loved watching Beverly Hillbillies along with Green Acres I grew up in farmland and could relate to some of the portrayals but also understood it was a parody that is what made these shows so funny. Too bad they don't have good clean humor anymore. I have often wondered how many takes some of the scenes took because how could you not laugh playing those rolls.
Love the way you can escape paying Royaltys, by putting the pictures' images in backwards, and playing a Slightly different banjo solo! Would the lawyers REALLY be that petty, after ALL These Years ?? DON'T answer that ! I know SHYSTERS!
The secret to a lot of these old shows was--Vaudeville. A lot of the writers and actors worked in Vaudeville before going into TV and their skill at comic writing and delivery came from that experience. When Hollywood tried to reproduce the comedy on the big screen, it failed because by then the writers and actors used had no contact with Vaudeville and didn't know how to reproduce the comic rhythm. All they could do was produce a bad parody of a good comedy which no one really wants to see.
It seems like you're still working without an outer mic. And that's a good thing. Now between the opening and closing and your commentary your videos have a nice consistency.
Yeah I always thought they just ended it as a normal episode, I dont need to see anymore, thanks. I hated that period TV shows Hogan's Heroes, Mission Impossible, Get Smart, on and on and on, Gilligan's Island, etc etc etc. One reason though why you can watch the episodes in random order, it doesn't matter.
This was 1 of the best shows on TV at that time. Donna Douglas had competition with at least 1,000 other girls for that spot of Ellie Mae Clampett. She was a natural animal lover & could do a lot of the things the others couldn't, she was a natural (Tom Boy) & that increased her chances & she had previous acting ability & she looked good in all the clothes they tried her in. She was finally chosen to be Ellie Mae Clampett & after the show ended, she ended in Real Estate & became successful in that, wrote children books & put some Christian albums out too, but along the way she lost her beautiful figure. She passed away at 81 & is buried in Buff Creek, Ind.
Oftentimes, episodes are aired out of order, so maybe one of the other episodes is the true ending. Most of the time, it is noticeable in the final season.
They packed a lot in the last episode...maybe hoping the suits would reconsider and re-plant the trees 🌲🌲Well, little did they know that TBHB was a perennial, and will be with us forever.
@@NJP76 they started to run out of ideas. The Beverly Hillbillies never truly blended in. Jethro remained incredibly stupid, Ellie May never married and in reality was 39 by the time the show ended and yet they portrayed her as a woman much younger and still behaving the way she did at the show’s beginning.
This is the way all shows should end. No cheesy, shark-jumping "series finale" that ruins everything and puts a stop to our imaginations. Instead, the final episode reruns on Tuesday and loops back to the first episode on Wednesday. TV immortality!
You seem to have forgotten about the regular cast monie. Irene Ryan already past away so they added granny s ma. Max bear was replaced also. Jed moved back to the hills. Drysdale stole money and went away
I don't even remember the show leaving the first-run schedule in 1971, it was already in heavy syndication rotation. And it wasn't cutting edge television in the age of All in the Family.
I think they should make a modern-day Beverly hillbillies series I mean if they work hard at it they can become a success again just got to find the right actors and actress
I grew up watching the show, bieng from those mountains of Kentucky I felt offended by the sterio types. People were not like that. Not at all. We were hard working coal miners, teachers, policemen nurses, doctors lawyers and some of the best soldiers.the army ever had.
Actually your mistaken, with there hints of Eureka Springs Arkansas and episodes of their relationship with southern Missouri where 'silver dollar city 'is Iwould say they from Arkansas or maybe southern MO but I get your point on the 'hick' reference.
I could see them all going back to the hills. I could also see something like Elly Mae meeting a fellow. Miss Jane has a nephew or a younger cousin named Robert Lee Hathaway, they call him Bobby. He works at a Zoo. He moves to Beverly Hills from out of state. He is introduced to Elly and of course Granny loves that his name is Robert Lee. They date for about Episodes and are married. Jed buys a local Zoo, in which Bobby and Elly spend their lives working with many critters. Miss Jane also meets a guy and leaves the bank to be a world explorer. I also thought of the possibility that Mr. Drysdale retires and Miss Jane becomes the new president of the bank. Not sure that would work. Jed and Granny turn the Mansion into a boarding house for the poor and needy in Beverly Hills. Jed Finally has that long talk with Jethro!
The show was cancelled unexpectedly, so I am sure they wanted to do much more with the series finale. Too bad that didn't happen. There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
This was very informative. I am not a big BH fan but like the other "rural" comedies. Bob, ever think of doing a Green Acres or Petticoat Junction channel or a combined Hooverville channel? I really enjoy your TAGS channel.
The network canceled all rural comedies at the same time even though they all still had good ratings. The next season had MASH, The Bob Newhart Show and other now classic CBS shows.
Apparently what happened shortly after this is Jed and everyone else who banked at or invested in the commerce bank went broke because of Drysdale mishandling their money. Ma Jane reported him to the police and he went to prison and she went into hiding. Jed had just enough money left to buy another cabin in the hills. Granny passed away, Elle refused to ever marry preferring the company of animals and jethro actually became a doctor with numerous children.
Once they concluded the second trip to England the Henning staff writers were completely out of ideas. The Navy Frog Man gag went on too long and even Granny couldn't be believed in her stupidity anymore. There was only one fresh and funny episode toward the end involving the gorilla cage. A ery pretty black secretary decided to have fun in Ellie's clothes doing chores in back of the mansion by the shack cabin. Hanging out with Ellie was Mr Drysdale's idea. Her famous and BIG football player brothers found her there....assumed Drysdale of trying to put her to slave chores...and locked him in the cage. A bit of a controversial plot even at the time. Only Chapelle would get away with it today.
Frist time watching your show. Thank you very much, for talk about " The Bevery Hillbilies. I have learned so much from hearing you talk about the show. I grew all as many and still watch this classic. Thank you very much. And have a blessed day.
I don't know about the rest of yoù but I liked the hillbilly's movie. I know it did not have any of the originals in it but I thought it was still good.
The Beverly Hillbillies was enjoyable for the first 5 or 6 years or so,but unfortunately during the last few years it started growing cobwebs and the later towards the end of its run it was so desperate it basically continued the episode from its last episode clearly running out of good Ideas, where some shows like Seinfeld for example its later years were still funny, but Beverly Hillbillies like All in the Family were good for so many years but started running out of steam and that's what happened to this show, at least in my opinion.
Lame final episode with no true ending made only worse by the RETURN movie with Granny's Ma who was stated to already be dead during the series and the 1993 special that says Drysdale STOLE from Jed. No matter how greedy he was, he would never do that....complete character assignation.
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I was really proud that my childhood friend, Jim Varney, was cast to play Jed Clampett in the movie. I thought he did a fine job and my favorite scene was Jim and the young actress playing Elly May up in the tree. Jim was a lovely southern gentleman, who never thought of us as hillbillies, but Hill-Williams. I sure miss him. He and my cousin, who was his best friend from elementary school to adulthood, died just a month apart, from the same kind of cancer. I often wondered if it was due to something they had been exposed to in California.
Had an opportunity to have a nice 30-minute chat with Donna Douglas. This was around 2010. We were seatmates on an airplane flying to DFW. I didn't know who she was. A flight attendant stopped by our row and asked her, "Miss Douglas, would you please autograph this for my nephew?". So, I'm thinking, "Miss Douglas? Who is this?" I then watched her write: Donna "Ellie Mae" Douglas. Until we landed about 30 minutes later, with little else to do, we chatted about her current activities. I never mentioned The Beverly Hillbillies, which I watched every week as a kid. I figured she was always getting *those* questions. A very pleasant lady.
Very cool story and a really nice way to handle meeting and conversing with her
You lucky person! I've flown into DFW a few times, but never with a memory like that. You had the right flight and the right seat.
I met Donna Douglas on the 80's in Baton Rouge airport.....very pleasant lady
There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
The best line from the whole series was in the first episode. The conversation between cousin Pearl and Jed. " your eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You cook on a wood cookstove summer and winter. You make your own moonshine. Your overrun with possums, skunks, coons, coyotes and bobcats, and you ask should you move" ? And Jeds reply, " yeah Pearl I reckon youre right! A man would be a dang fool to leave all this".
Love it🏖️
I created a collection of home videos for my brother and inserted this clip in the midst of it!
The show was cancelled unexpectedly, so I am sure they wanted to do much more with the series finale. Too bad that didn't happen. There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
@@GentileMysteriesConspiracies
CBS wanted to change its image and attract a different audience. So they said bye-bye to every rural sitcom. The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry RFD, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres. There may be more. Those are the ones I remember at the moment
@@cmm2145 - I agree, but look at the ratings of what they replaced them with compared to the previous ratings. Most Americans do not even live within city limit signs, they are in counties.
Max baer was the funniest customer i ever had,working retail! Allways funny and colorful jokes,max has a memory of people that's un believe able.
I listened to an interview of his, I could have listened for ever, he is highly entertaining.
I only vaguely recall seeing that episode. Max Baer Jr. was right. Paul Henning was running out of ideas. It probably confused some folks using a Petticoat Junction actor in a different role. But that wouldn't have been unusual back then. This plotline sounds bad like the ones with Shorty and the frogman. Parting episodes weren't that common at the time. But this series deserved a better ending. Did Max use a fake beard? He and Donna's real ages were more apparent in the color episodes.
Well, Bea Benaderet played both Cousin Pearl and Kate Bradley at the Shady Rest (which the Clampetts visited). And they also ran into the Douglasses from "Green Acres" on more than one occassion, but there was the episode where the Hooterville theatre put on a play about that great television show "The Beverly Hillbillies" (Lisa Douglass: "I really like the man who plays Jed Clampett, Buddy Epstein."). 🤣
Barely remember it but a lot of the set up sounds really familiar. A long, long time ago indeed. Slept since then, but it always seems to be that the best episodes are in the beginning of the series and the end is always, “ meh!” Hard to reconcile the two ends too.
According to a follow up shortly after this Jed lost his fortune because of drysdale’’s greed and reckless management. He still had enough left to return to the hills, granny passed away, Elle never married and jethro actually becomes a doctor and regrets never pursuing Ms Jane who went into hiding after the bank folded and she helped the state prosecute drysdale.
@@leerogish7223 Yeah I remember that shortly before the special ended he struck oil again
@@BrianSmith-jx7td No it ended with Jed being content with his current situation.
50+ years later and I'm still upset about the rural purge. Another show that was cancelled was Hogan's Heroes and it bothers me very much that HH didn't have a farewell episode. A BH farewell episode-Granny & Jed would have returned to Tennessee, but the young uns would have stayed in Caleeforniay.
me too the timing really sucked
Jed wasn't from Tennessee; only Granny was.
@FestusHagginsyep! Northwest Arkansas. In the early episodes they always mentioned Eureka Springs.
I think that. Hogans Heros should be the next TV show to a movie. Probably with the James Franco crew
Great idea!!!!
As a kid we would take trips to Silver Dollar City, they film five episodes there, and the Cast would make vists there after and one such times I met Granny and Jed, they were the nicest people, I told Granny I would love to try her cooking because it was just like soul food.
Lucky man!
Well done Uncle Bob!! CBS canceled everything with a tree, but Paul Henning got the last laugh! With The Beverly Hillbillies being SOOO popular, it ran one season longer than the also popular Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, which had pretty much run its course. (Especially considering the death of Bea Benaderet, and other cast members.) He got the last laugh by hiring people from Petticoat Junction to work on The Beverly Hillbillies! Not only keeping them on CBS, whether the network liked it or not, but letting them continue to earn a paycheck!! Mr. Henning was so worried about nepotism that he made his daughter change her name from Linda Kay Henning to Linda Kaye! It must not have mattered so much with in-laws! The proof of that being one of the people he hired was as you already mentioned, Uncle Bob, his son-in-law Mike Minor! He also put Lori Saunders to work, and even his old friend Dick Wesson as producer and director!!🇺🇲📺🎬🐵🐕🚂🚜🏦💲🎶🎻🪕🎙🪗🎶✖️6️⃣9️⃣✖️
Growing up in upper East Tennessee in the 60s, about 20 minutes North of Davy Crockett’s place of birth, my family really found the program funny and quite ironic given it’s little bits of true Appalachian culture. My grandfather was quite the possum connoisseur.
I was in the Navy in 1971`
Saw this years later on various nostalgia channels.
CBS dumped all cornpone type shows & made a BIG mistake doing so.
Jethro as a Double Naught spy & Granny cures the common cold were my favorites.
Norman Lear Sank. the Rural Shows
Last two years were awful, but still one of the best comedies of the era.
Long live the Hillbillies from Bugtussle, Tennessee.
Jed Clampett changed his name to Barnaby Jones.
I'd always wondered about that last episode & why the abrupt ending. Has always been one of my favorite sitcoms! Thanks!
According to a follow up show in the 90s at some point in the 70s jed lost almost all his money because of drysdale mishandling it. Ms Jane reported him to the police and he went to prison and she went into hiding. Jed barely had enough left to go back to the hills and buy a new cabin. By that point granny passed away, Elle never married and jethro somehow managed to become a doctor and regretted never pursuing ms jane.
Nice presentation. My wife and I just finished watching all available episodes---including the last episode to air in its first run---within the past week. I was around to watch the original espisodes each and every week with my family during its first run on television. I was 14 when the show first started. Now I'm 75. I still consider the Beverly Hillbillies one of the finest television shows of all-time. My wife and I watched The Beverly Hillbillies movie from 1993 just last night. This was only the second time I'd ever seen the movie. I liked it vastly better than the first time I saw it while The Beverly Hillbillies (1993 movie) first became available as a VHS tape. (We watched it last night on a DVD.) You have a wonderful presentation here! Keep up the great work for this fabulous television show! Andy McKane, 26 June 2023, Molokai, Hawaii.
I still love and watch The Beverly Hillbillies. For some reason I think Miss Jane Hathaway was the funniest character.
The end of the show wasn't good. There was no real ending. Only to find out that Jed finally took out all his millions and divided equally to Elle Mae and Jethro. While he returned to the hills after granny went to her reward on the 1981 movie.
Yeah jed wood never be that dumb to give them all had money
Love this show as kid, still do. I particularly loved the Jeffro career days episodes where he would try to decide his future employment options. The double 00 spy was my favorite when he shot Granny over the mansion's roof with his homemade ejector seat he had rigged up in the truck. Hilarious!
Did you mean Jethro or did I miss something?
@@72PRODIGALSON He may pronounce Jethro as jeffro!
Best sitcom ever! I grew up with this show..
Should’ve ended with Elly May marrying a beau that BHs fans liked.
Dash Riprock would be a good one.
@@gj4578 Dash Riprock AKA Homer Noodleman of Peoria IL , played by the beefy and brawny Larry Pennell seemed to be a good choice if Mr Henning had gone that way . He and Ellie seemed to really like each other desprite of the money and stardom jazz .
Thanks for this fun video and update on them Hillbillies :) new subscriber here for sure...wish they had some new shows that were as fairly harmless as this... seems ALL new shows have hidden agendas hidden in them...thanks again and may God bless you and family i pray...
Enjoyed that installment Bob, never recall seeing it. Always enjoyed the show, such a shame they made a train wreck of the storyline with the movie....
Totally agree
Interesting. I saw an episode that i thought was the final one. Here on RUclips. Granny had passed, Jethro and Ellie were doing there thing. Uncle Jed is talking to a reporter back in Bug-tussle, he was telling the story how Drysdale had squandered the Clampett fortune, and was in prison for it. Music starts and Jed says they gotta go listen and dance, throws his whittling knife in the ground and strikes oil again. Hmm it was Buddy Ebsen dances to the ballad of Jed Clampett. so maybe it wasn't the last episode....
Shows back then usually ended without a finale. I believe the only show around that time that had a finale was Leave ItTo Beaver in 1963.
The Fugitive also had a finale in 1967 when Dr. Kimble finally confronted his wife's killer, the one-armed man.
What's that? They cancelled Leave it to Beaver? Of all the ....
@@hermittaono it just concluded. The young actor wanted to stop acting and go to high school normally.
They concluded the series with Wally's last days of HS, and a clip show of the family looking through a photoalbum
That was the finale..thats why they did the photo album episode
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 of course...self evident.
I meet Ellie May once. Several years before she pasted, on of our men in town paid her to come to Henderson, KY. She gave her testimony at one of local baptist churches. She could still whistle. She talked bout how she came to be in the show.
Alvy Moore (aka Hank Kimball from Green Acres TV), would attend a Baptist church, as well. I was able to ask him that personally in 1994, just three years before he left this life. it's great that you were able to hear her testimony about being in TV.
Years ago while Working at my Dads service station, a 65 Cadillac Coupe Deville pulled in for gas. The driver said to fill it up and after he handed me his credit card which is when I realized it was Max Baer at the wheel. Nice person but not over the top like some actors. He was a very handsome sturdy looking guy!!
Cool
The feature movie of the Beverly Hillbillies in 1993 was a joke. I didn’t like it. It more or less just made fun of the original Beverly Hillbillies
1971 was a sad year. My dad hated loosing Hee Haw. He was country all the way. And I liked it to with the Beverly Hillbillies. But not so much with Green Acars.
Acres..... Learn to spell.
Still watch every night alone with Green Acers and petticoat junction 😊 pluto tv
Pat was always funny...didn't know he made the tree joke.
They were cancelled, they had no idea that was last episode.
There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
I loved watching Beverly Hillbillies along with Green Acres I grew up in farmland and could relate to some of the portrayals but also understood it was a parody that is what made these shows so funny. Too bad they don't have good clean humor anymore. I have often wondered how many takes some of the scenes took because how could you not laugh playing those rolls.
Petticoat Junction also
@@seerstone8982 I loved Petticoat Junction and Bea Benadaret!
Green Acres was especially trippy
@@seerstone8982 Someone painted Hooterville on the water tower in the little town where I grew up
Good stuff Bob! Thanks! I don't recall seeing this episode but it looks like it would be a good one. Have a great day and God bless!
Max's dad would have loved him as Jethro.
Love the way you can escape paying Royaltys, by putting the pictures' images in backwards, and playing a Slightly different banjo solo! Would the lawyers REALLY be that petty, after ALL These Years ?? DON'T answer that ! I know SHYSTERS!
The secret to a lot of these old shows was--Vaudeville. A lot of the writers and actors worked in Vaudeville before going into TV and their skill at comic writing and delivery came from that experience. When Hollywood tried to reproduce the comedy on the big screen, it failed because by then the writers and actors used had no contact with Vaudeville and didn't know how to reproduce the comic rhythm. All they could do was produce a bad parody of a good comedy which no one really wants to see.
I met the hillbillies at silver dollar city when I was 5 years ol I had my picture taken with them I was sitting on a cracker barrel 😅
That's when TV went down the drain. Those were golden family friendly shows.
Yup
It seems like you're still working without an outer mic. And that's a good thing. Now between the opening and closing and your commentary your videos have a nice consistency.
Yeah I always thought they just ended it as a normal episode, I dont need to see anymore, thanks. I hated that period TV shows Hogan's Heroes, Mission Impossible, Get Smart, on and on and on, Gilligan's Island, etc etc etc. One reason though why you can watch the episodes in random order, it doesn't matter.
This was 1 of the best shows on TV at that time. Donna Douglas had competition with at least 1,000 other girls for that spot of Ellie Mae Clampett. She was a natural animal lover & could do a lot of the things the others couldn't, she was a natural (Tom Boy) & that
increased her chances & she had previous acting ability & she looked good in all the clothes they tried her in. She was finally chosen
to be Ellie Mae Clampett & after the show ended, she ended in Real Estate & became successful in that, wrote children books & put some Christian albums out too, but along the way she lost her beautiful figure. She passed away at 81 & is buried in Buff Creek, Ind.
Oftentimes, episodes are aired out of order, so maybe one of the other episodes is the true ending. Most of the time, it is noticeable in the final season.
I found this interesting
I wonder if they’ll ever release the remaining seasons on DVD?
I hope they will
Wow!! Thanks, I never knew what the last episode was about?? It seemed like a lukewarm "goodbye" after 9 years of hysterical laughter.
They packed a lot in the last episode...maybe hoping the suits would reconsider and re-plant the trees 🌲🌲Well, little did they know that TBHB was a perennial, and will be with us forever.
Do you know the original name of the series? Got cha? Lol
Ok...why not just play the epposode instead of telling about it...yer to in love with your voice..geez
I personally feel that the Beverly Hillbillies started going downhill when they switched to color.
Absolutely agree. Many early shows that started in black and white seemed to tank after switching to color.
A friend of mine said the same thing. I was too young for the original run of the show, so I am playing catch up on ME TV.
@@NJP76 they started to run out of ideas. The Beverly Hillbillies never truly blended in. Jethro remained incredibly stupid, Ellie May never married and in reality was 39 by the time the show ended and yet they portrayed her as a woman much younger and still behaving the way she did at the show’s beginning.
Considering the quality of that last episode's script, it was probably best to cancel.
Thanks Bob!!!! Boy, Jethro sure looked different with a Beard!!!!
Petticoat junction and Bewitched both just ended after an episode with no finale.
On the other hand, All In The Family had a finale, then kept going another five years.
This is the way all shows should end. No cheesy, shark-jumping "series finale" that ruins everything and puts a stop to our imaginations. Instead, the final episode reruns on Tuesday and loops back to the first episode on Wednesday. TV immortality!
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Great Video, Thank you !.....Godspeed..
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Same thing happened to Hogan's Hero's. The last episode was just a regular show with no real ending to the series.
You seem to have forgotten about the regular cast monie. Irene Ryan already past away so they added granny s ma. Max bear was replaced also. Jed moved back to the hills. Drysdale stole money and went away
I don't even remember the show leaving the first-run schedule in 1971, it was already in heavy syndication rotation. And it wasn't cutting edge television in the age of All in the Family.
Thanks for the video. I did not know this was the final episode of the series.
Hated the beverly hillbillies movie. Thought it was a poor representation of a fun clean tv show. Too much innuendo.
by 1969 1970 country bumpkin shows like the beverly hillbillies green acres and hee haw all past their peak
I think they should make a modern-day Beverly hillbillies series I mean if they work hard at it they can become a success again just got to find the right actors and actress
Did Paul Henning said anything about the ending of Beverly Hillbillies?
I grew up watching the show, bieng from those mountains of Kentucky I felt offended by the sterio types. People were not like that. Not at all. We were hard working coal miners, teachers, policemen nurses, doctors lawyers and some of the best soldiers.the army ever had.
After the TV show ended, Geoff Bodine raced in NASCAR, driving the # 5 car for Rick Hendrick Motorsports.
And bankers arent really that greedy and no secretary is that loyal...it's a sitcom not meant to depict real life
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 Exactly.
Actually your mistaken, with there hints of Eureka Springs Arkansas and episodes of their relationship with southern Missouri where 'silver dollar city 'is Iwould say they from Arkansas or maybe southern MO but I get your point on the 'hick' reference.
Loved this show. Granny & that greedy banker my favorite
It ashamed such whole same shows like the Beverly Hillbillies. Get treated like they do.
Who is douglas baer..... Max baer jr. played jerhro bodine
Here's a trivia question: What is Ellie May's full name?
What about Aunt Pearl and that lot,werent they Petticoat Junktion related or some thing?
Jackrabbit breakfast? Giant jackrabbit! How would you have written the final episode?
Good question
They go back to their previous life where they are the happiest.
My favorite episode
I could see them all going back to the hills. I could also see something like Elly Mae meeting a fellow. Miss Jane has a nephew or a younger cousin named Robert Lee Hathaway, they call him Bobby. He works at a Zoo. He moves to Beverly Hills from out of state. He is introduced to Elly and of course Granny loves that his name is Robert Lee. They date for about Episodes and are married. Jed buys a local Zoo, in which Bobby and Elly spend their lives working with many critters.
Miss Jane also meets a guy and leaves the bank to be a world explorer. I also thought of the possibility that Mr. Drysdale retires and Miss Jane becomes the new president of the bank. Not sure that would work.
Jed and Granny turn the Mansion into a boarding house for the poor and needy in Beverly Hills.
Jed Finally has that long talk with Jethro!
@@jasongoben2336 I love that you've really given this some thought. Ha! They needed you on the scriptwriting team.
That wasn't the last episode. You just can't watch the last episode.
The show was cancelled unexpectedly, so I am sure they wanted to do much more with the series finale. Too bad that didn't happen. There is a quote from an Andy Griffith Show documentary where a producer of that era says "That was the year CBS cancelled everything with a TREE in it." Like the network was purposely targeting rural themed shows.
Even as a kid, I never liked people playing stupid.
Who's stupid?
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Nice video. Thanks.
Thnx Al
I was hoping to see the actual program.
There is one where my Drysdale goes to jail.
It was good for sixth year s them it down hill
This was very informative. I am not a big BH fan but like the other "rural" comedies.
Bob, ever think of doing a Green Acres or Petticoat Junction channel or a combined Hooverville channel?
I really enjoy your TAGS channel.
TV was never the same. Everything was video taped, live audience mediocrity. 9 out of 10 stunk. Too ethnic.
The network canceled all rural comedies at the same time even though they all still had good ratings. The next season had MASH, The Bob Newhart Show and other now classic CBS shows.
I ran into Max Jr at a strip club in Las Vegas great guy
He talked about opening a hillbilly themed casino. Did he ever get funding?
Apparently what happened shortly after this is Jed and everyone else who banked at or invested in the commerce bank went broke because of Drysdale mishandling their money. Ma Jane reported him to the police and he went to prison and she went into hiding. Jed had just enough money left to buy another cabin in the hills. Granny passed away, Elle refused to ever marry preferring the company of animals and jethro actually became a doctor with numerous children.
Once they concluded the second trip to England the Henning staff writers were completely out of ideas.
The Navy Frog Man gag went on too long and even Granny couldn't be believed in her stupidity anymore.
There was only one fresh and funny episode toward the end involving the gorilla cage. A ery pretty black secretary decided to have fun in Ellie's clothes doing chores in back of the mansion by the shack cabin. Hanging out with Ellie was Mr Drysdale's idea. Her famous and BIG football player brothers found her there....assumed Drysdale of trying to put her to slave chores...and locked him in the cage.
A bit of a controversial plot even at the time. Only Chapelle would get away with it today.
Frist time watching your show. Thank you very much, for talk about " The Bevery Hillbilies. I have learned so much from hearing you talk about the show. I grew all as many and still watch this classic. Thank you very much. And have a blessed day.
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1960s Alot of Black Folks Love the Down Home Clampetts Family They Were Not WS. I Still Want the Series on DVD.
I don't know about the rest of yoù but I liked the hillbilly's movie. I know it did not have any of the originals in it but I thought it was still good.
Another SNAPPED episode. 😅
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Larry Harnisch told me you're not a really a Kentucky boy you're from Tennessee
Lol...not sure who Larry is, but if he's talking about me, he's wrong
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 he's a Copy editor for the LA Times he claims he met you in the Philippines
I been to the philippines many times..got married there...but i have no recollection of him..and im from kentucky
@@thebeverlyhillbilliesfacts2663 oh ok. He claims to know everbody. I think he had too many gin and tonics. He cant play golf for shucks either.
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The Beverly Hillbillies was enjoyable for the first 5 or 6 years or so,but unfortunately during the last few years it started growing cobwebs and the later towards the end of its run it was so desperate it basically continued the episode from its last episode clearly running out of good Ideas, where some shows like Seinfeld for example its later years were still funny, but Beverly Hillbillies like All in the Family were good for so many years but started running out of steam and that's what happened to this show, at least in my opinion.
It should have ended with Jed and Granny returning to the Hills where they were happiest and giving the mansion to Elly and Jethro
Watch this one few times and did know it was the last episode
Color tv was the Pitts being poor and that’s all you have . You can’t save color.
I really don't remember the early episodes, except reruns. It ended when I was 9.
They did have a TV movie with the then remaining cast members years later.
Lame final episode with no true ending made only worse by the RETURN movie with Granny's Ma who was stated to already be dead during the series and the 1993 special that says Drysdale STOLE from Jed. No matter how greedy he was, he would never do that....complete character assignation.
Totally agree
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