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from 1960 until 1970 when it went of this air, this show never left the top 3 shows of each year! when it was cancelled in 1970 for cbs going urban, it was number 2! they cancelled a #2 show! wow! anyways, jethro is magnificent, so is jed, and the banker, granny has her moments, and ellie mae as well has her light moments of humor. a great show with many special guest.

still watch it most mornings on WGN...

funny as hell

It was stupid then and is still stupid.

When I do watch TV, these are the kind of classics that I watch. It is kind of sappy, but very entertaining and decent.

A fun show and a classic. Got dumber with each passing year. The interplay between Jed and Jethro was priceless.

andy griffith. green acres. beverly hillbillies... do we see a pattern?

Best comedy show ever.

good movie show was allright

What's the big deal? Hillbillies go to Beverly Hills all the time.

They're better known as Reality TV Producers.

I don't care what the snobs say--this program was fun!

The black and white episodes were classic. The color episodes were aimed at a seven-year-old audience.

Great show and the music by Lester Flats and Earl Scruggs made it even better.Y'all come back now. Hear!

Though based on a simple 'fish out of water' concept and lots or repetitive storylines, "The Beverly Hillbillies" still did the job well for what the series was. Of the core cast (i.e. Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Max Baer, and Donna Douglas), Douglas was clearly the weakest on-screen talent, so the plots usually focused on the other three. As stated earlier, these storylines were often repetitive, revolving around Granny's fights with the neighbors, Jethro's foolish slapstick and comedy of errors, and Milburn Drysdale (Raymond Bailey) getting increasingly silly in order to keep the Clampetts from returning home. (The Drysdale character was much more of a straight man in the earlier shows.) Nevertheless, the physical comedy was good for what it was, and the scripts were kept fresh with pop culture references (e.g. Jethro wanting to be a spy after seeing "Goldfinger"). As the series aged, instead of going out when it should have, the producers starting moving the family around for new conflicts (e.g. their trip to Europe). Notwithstanding these flaws, the bottom line is that a show based on this type of premise could have only lasted for 8+ years due to solid writing.

Case in point that not ALL of the classic old TV shows were good...

Granny and her vittles, Jethro and his appetite for her vittles, Mr Drysdale and his appetite for money made for some great, classic comedy. There were some hot chicks on the show also. No not Ms Jane but Ellie Mae!!

One of my favorites, especially in the first 3/4 of the show's run. The hillbillies were thought of as stupid but always ended up kwowing more than the sophisticated folks of the Beverly Hills neighborhood they lived in. Elly May Clampett was gorgeous.

Great idea! Great character developement and very funny writing. Buddie Epson was made for his role. I love the great southern expressions too, like Jed saying about one of Ellie May's boyfriends "Granny that boy is as yeller as the summer squash." And Jed talking about a girl saying "She's as purdy as a red winged black bird atop of a yeller pumkin." Great, clean funny stuff.

Loved it as a kid, and still watch reruns

Great show! Watched it as a child and watch it today. I can watch the reruns and have a good laugh over and over again. It is a great funny family show with good clean comedy !!!

Granny was so funny.

A great show for what it is meant to be, a comedy. If you take this show seriously and study the plot and character development you are thinking to much. Haven't heard anyone ask if "you want some possum pie" on TV since.

some episodes were really funny but after a while it seemed like it was just the same thing over and over. jed,granny,jethro, and elly mae were great characters played by talented actors.

Funny, funny, funny. So stupid it was funny. Jethro MADE the show. Max Baer was a very underrated comedian. (On the other hand, I always wanted Cousin Bessie to end up at the bottom of the Ce-ment pond, but I have a real distaste for monkeys, nothing against the show.)

Truly one of the best, even if elitist critics didn't like it, at least the regular folks did. Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Max Baer and Donna Douglas were simply outstanding.

it's a great one my mom always says sit a spell great

A fantastic show for the first 3 or 4 episodes. Miss Jane: Jethro, have you looked upstairs yet? Jethro: No - what's up there? Miss Jane: Your suite! Jethro, blushing, So are you. But the show quickly went downhill after that. The only good thing about it was the ever-likeable Buddy Ebsen.

i probably liked this better as a kid when this was on. It still can get a laugh from me. A kind of fish out of water show. where some hollbillies who had nothing strike oil and move to Beverly Hills. a greedy banker moves them in next door so they will keep their money in his bank. Jed the sensible one who heads the family, Granny the feisty one who cooks up the vittles and has a hard time adapting to all the new stuff like washing machines etc. Elly May the pretty tomboy daughter who loved critters and can beat up Jethro the dimwit cousin who proudly gradiated from the 6th grade can be dumb at times. and I am sure insulting to those who really come from the hill yet there were some funny shows.

Well doggies, Anybody who doesn't like the Beverley Hillbillies should smoke some Crawdads and if you are married have some rumatis medicine. This was the All time classic funny, no foul language, clever show of all time. I'll never forget the Giant Jackrabbit Kangaroo. The giant Hog (Hippo). War of the roses, M.D. = (Mountain Doctor) Fabersham Quirt Manley (Arte Johnston??) I can't remember. cousin Roy, Flatts and Scrugs Double Naught Spy Jethro De Bodine the movie producer Money Man (Drysdale) comic. Thsi was one of the greatest shows ever.

This might be the funniest sitcom of all time. At least, it's the one that made me laugh the most. The Clampetts were hilarious in all of the fish out of water scenes, and the humor was never crude or cruel. I still chuckle when I think about the episode where Jed kept Mrs. Drysdale in a bird cage.

A wonderful and underrated show. It's really funny. And Granny and Jethro are very funny. And the daughter (Donna Douglas?) is very beautiful. It's a clever show--Paris Hilton's show in reverse.

This show was not witty and smart like Seinfeld, and it did not pretend to be. Rather, it was an absurdist farce. Uncle Jed (Buddy Ebsen) was the easygoing foil to nutty and extreme characters like Granny, Jethro, and Mr. Drysdale. Next to Seinfeld, I think this is the funniest sitcom ever.

I cringe everytime I see this waste of time on my television set. The show was NOT funny, badly written, the acting was beyond horrible, and the storylines were just awful. And don't even get me started on the show's theme song...good grief ! Very painful...

hicksville crap

Terrible is right! A whiny wrinkled old lady of a hot-temper with nothing else better to do except to drive everyone in sane until their blue in face, not to mention aggravate viewers away to the point of flipping the channel. This is one over-the-top sitcom that's extremely overrated. Not to mention it's boring and annoying as hell.

UNLIKE COUNTRY COUSIN GREEN ACRES, THIS ONE JUST STUNK! ESPECIALLY BAD AS IT APPROACHED, THANKFULLY, THE END! IRENE RYAN, MAX AND DONNA WERE GOOD WITH WHAT THEY WERE GIVEN BUT BUDDY EBSEN JUST BLEW!

Totally corny humour, but great fun! I don't go out of my way to watch it, but if I'm flipping channels I'll stop and hang out with the Beverly Hillbillies! :)

One of the best shows ever. Miss Jane was awesome and Jethro was built.

A funny show..liked the old black and white ones the best...I liked the one where they go to the bank and ask to draw out all their money (several million) in cash. Mr. Drysdale has to explain he can't give the money right away..then they ask don't you have it?...and he says I have it but then again I don't...he's trying to explain the money has been invested etc. but they don't understand.

Possibly the best comedy ever with the best ensemble of characters that stayed together for the entirety of the show's great run. Irene Ryan was so wonderful!

Great and fun show

This is one of the few worst sitcoms from the 1960's. Talk about an over-the-top little show that often got very annoying with such silly non-sense storylines. "The Beverly Hillbillies" is truly the worst 60's sitcom of All-Time due to what it lacks: modified, well-written storylines that ring true, great acting & characters, ect.

A real gem had 9 great years that a still great after all this time.

It's so bad it's good. Jethroe Bodine was truly a character for the ages.

Superb! Ellie May Clampett was one of the most profound, complex and multi-dimensional characters of all time. Well-written with subtle plot twists and sophisticated humor.

i love the beverly hillbillies. funny show

The first two years of the Beverly Hillbillies were the best two years of a sit-com ever. Wonderful show, very well done. Some of the greatest characters ever created on television.

Come listen to my story about a man named Jed. The poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shooting at some food, and up from the ground came a bubbling crude... I loved this show when I was a kid, plus, I remember the theme song after 40 years.

One of the funniest sit-coms ever, I still laugh out loud when I watch it. Why cant they make shows this funny today?

This was already in reruns when I was a kid, but I just loved it. The characters were so larger than life, and Granny was hilarious. But, as they say, you can never go back again, and when I watch it now, I don't have nearly the same enjoyment.

One of the many classics of the time! I loved everything about it. Great cast, scenery, and stories.

i have always liked the beverly hillbillies it has always been a show i watch, will watch and will keep on watching

It's hilarious how dumb and hilarious they are. Did that make sense lol? This show is pretty funny I catch at least 2 episodes a week on TV Land.

great show! I watch it almost every night!! and STILL laugh at it, after all these years! I liked the scene in the first one, when they've just moved in, and Granny asks Jed for an ax, and Miss Hathaway (who they just met, and she thinks Granny is the cook) says "And why does cook need an ax?" and later in the same scene, when she says "Now, what are we preparing for Mr. Clampett?" "I don't know about you, but I was just gonna make some grits. Why, you got somethin' else in mind?" "Certanily, a nice,fluffy, souflette." "Fine, you kill it, & you skin it" "You don't know what a soufllete is? What kind of cook are you?" "I'll tell you. I got eggs that won't crack, a bin full o' food that's froze solid, and a smart-alecky city woman tryin' to tell me my buisness!!" "Don't you know I can have your job?" "Allright! The sooner, the better!!!"

If they would have stopped after the first two or three episodes I would have rated it higher. It went downhill almost immediately. I'll give it a point for being decent but it just got too silly for my taste. It is sometimes put in the same category as The Andy Griffith Show, which bothers me because there is no comparison. Unlike Andy Griffith, the characters were over exaggerated and the situations were not as believable. It became mere slapstick.

This show is another excellent example of how to make both an uproarious and family-friendly comedy at the same time. The southern expressions are funny and so is the constant interaction with animals and clashing with city culture. The money-minded Drysdale and mate-searching Hathaway also provide humor. Unfortunately, the show was axed prematurely in 1971 due to CBS's bad "let's kill all the rural sitcoms" campaign.

A great comedy show should always have a serious theme. The basic theme of this show was man in paradise. This family was taken from their home in the hills and moved to the land of plenty. Many were there to tempt them, the crooked banker, the beautiful women, the schemers and the liars. But the Clampett family remained upright, they could not be corrupted. I wish there were more people in the world with the morals of the Clampetts.

This is one that kids will recognize the title in the next century. Totally unforgetable and a classic.

The Beverly Hillbillies was an extremly likeable comedy. The show was kind of corny, but it was generally amusing and you can always find me watching it. I really didn't enjoy it's black and white run from 1962-1965, but when it was finally in color, it had taken shape. Sharon Tate was in it, and I never noticed it. She was the one who was murdered by the Manson Family.

As unique, cartoon-like and off-the-wall in its time as the Addams Family. In a sense, it was a lot like the Addams Family - extremely odd collection of people who didn't fit into "normal" society, yet were completely oblivious to it. And, as usual, insanity always ensued. The cast was top notch and each suited his or her part well. Irene Ryan really stole the show as Granny and Max Bauer Jr. was excellent as Jethro - the eternal doofus without a clue. Their scenes together were especially good. Unfortunately, like so many hit sitcoms, it outlasted its initial appeal and lost its zip long before it dawned on the network that it was time to pack up the truck and move on.

FUNNY HOW A GOOD CASTING JOB USUALLY EQUALS A GOOD SHOW. JETHRO, THE PERFECT HICK. GRANNY THE BEST!

"Come listen to a story bout a man named Jed, poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. Then one day he was shootin at some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude- oil, that is... Texas tea...." I had to give this cartoonish show a 4 rating because after 25 years I can still remember the theme song as well as the shows. Although it is available on a channel I get now, I don't wish to watch it anymore. There are a handful of classic shows I do still watch - this one won't be one of them. I did love it when I was a teen though-- especially Granny- she's the best part of the show.

It was the best comedy on tv . I know almost all the lines before they are said I have seen them so often but I still can't help but laugh at them. Jethro,Granny,and Mr. Drysdale were alway's my favorite's And Donna Douglas was a real fox.

I absolutely detest "The Beverly Hillbillies." Talk about a stupid show! Granny drove me crazy the way she was always running around with that rifle, squawking and complaining, and Jethro and Elly May were boring, pathetic characters (although Elly May scored points with me for being so nice to all of her unusual pets). The storylines with Mr. Drysdale were predictable and tiresome. The only saving grace was the hilarious Miss Jane Hathaway, Mr. Drysdale's birdwatching secretary. "The Beverly Hillbillies" definitely ranks as one of the worst sitcoms of all time.

Fully developed characters, my drama professor in college said it was the most well done show on TV.

another great comedy of the 60s, isnt it a shame that 80s and 90s comedy on tv is so bad except for the british

One of the most watched shows in the history of television.