When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

Buddy Ebsen, that is, star — along with Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr., and co. — of The Beverly Hillbillies. The ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

I kinda liked that." In 1972, approximately one year after The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled (due to the great "country purge" by CBS), the network cast Ebsen in the lead in a new detective series.

He loved it." In 1962, Ebsen experienced a new wave of success when he was cast as mustachioed patriarch Jed Clampett in "The Beverly Hillbillies." The CBS sitcom focused on an Ozark farm family ...

On the studio lot, the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies prepares to film another scene in the Clampett family's truck. Buddy Ebsen (Jed), Max Baer Jr. (Jethro) and Donna Douglas (Elly May ...