EPISODE GUIDE

The Beverly Hillbillies
Season 5.

30 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.

1. The Party Line

Air date: 1966-09-14 · 30 min

Granny receives a box from Cousin Pearl in the hills. One of the items in the box is an old fashioned crank telephone. Granny asks Jethro to hook it up to a party line on the pole so she can listen in on the party line.

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2. The Soup Contest

Air date: 1966-09-21 · 30 min

Granny despairs of Elly Mae ever finding a husband and decides to promote her non-existent cooking skills. She is entered into a TV show cook-off, but nothing she fixes is edible.

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3. Jethro Takes Love Lessons

Air date: 1966-09-28 · 30 min

Jethro is in love with Susie, the carhop waitress at the local drive-in, but Susie keeps rejecting his advances. Jed advises a dejected Jethro to take dating advice from Dash Riprock, the movie star/playboy neighbor to the Clampetts. Dash advises Jethro to buy a convertible, invite Susie to go on a double date with Elly Mae and him, and even lets Jethro use his bachelor pad. Despite Dash's efforts, Jethro still can't get past his hillbilly ways to Susie's heart.

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4. The Badger Game

Air date: 1966-10-05 · 30 min

A con artist pretends to be someone from back home and stays with the Clampetts. She plans to get photos of Jed in a compromising position in order to blackmail him.

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5. The Badgers Return

Air date: 1966-10-12 · 30 min

Jethro decides to sophisticate Emaline but she has bigger plans for blackmailing Mr. Drysdale with her cuckoo clock camera. The colonel continues to woo Granny. The two swindlers though haven't met someone as sharp as Jed.

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6. The Gorilla

Air date: 1966-10-19 · 30 min

Jethro is chopping wood while a chimpanzee named May Bell watches. He wishes that he could teach May Bell to chop wood. When Elly May comes by, she and Jethro talk and decide that they want a gorilla.

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7. Come Back, Little Herby

Air date: 1966-10-26 · 30 min

The Clampetts miss Herbie and ask Mr. Drysdale to get the tame gorilla back. The banker promises to help but actually hinders the effort.

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8. Jed in Politics

Air date: 1966-11-02 · 30 min

Granny's soap making sends noxious smoke into the air, which gets the attention of smog commissioner Tinsley. He shuts down the operation and Jed decides to run against him when he misunderstands Mr. Drysdale's advice.

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9. Clampett Cha Cha Cha

Air date: 1966-11-09 · 30 min

Granny wins free lessons from a supposedly acclaimed dance school.

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10. Jed Joins the Board

Air date: 1966-11-16 · 30 min

Jed takes a job on the board of directors of O.K. Oil Company.

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11. Granny Lives It Up

Air date: 1966-11-23 · 30 min

Cushing makes another attempt to get the Clampetts to move their money to his bank by romancing Granny. When Drysdale learns of this, he decides to bring his father-in-law Lowell Farquhar, who had once dated Granny, to draw Granny away from Cushing.

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12. The Gloria Swanson Story

Air date: 1966-11-30 · 30 min

Gloria Swanson and Drysdale are doing some business which involves her selling her house and some of her possessions and donating the proceeds to charity and then she is moving East. When the Clampetts read about her moving away, Jethro who heard the story that she's auctioning off her things, thinks that she's broke and that she's being forced to sell her possessions. Granny being a big fan is heart broken. They go to see her and try to lift up her spirits by saying they like her movies and that they're still being shown in their hometown. Jed decides to ask Chapman, who runs his movie studio, to make a silent movie with Swanson in it.

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13. The Woodchucks

Air date: 1966-12-07 · 30 min

Jethro is so desperate to meet a woman that when Miss Hathaway's bird watching group arrives, he goes out of his way to try to impress the women.

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14. Foggy Mountain Soap

Air date: 1966-12-14 · 30 min

Flatt and Scruggs are visiting to film a TV commercial for a detergent. Commodore Ratterman thinks the Clampett authenticity would help sell the soap. He doesn't count on their honesty or Jethro's incompetence as a director

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15. The Christmas Present

Air date: 1966-12-21 · 30 min

In order to buy Mrs. Drysdale a special Christmas present, the Clampetts take seasonal jobs in a department store

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16. The Flying Saucer

Air date: 1966-12-28 · 30 min

Granny discovers Martians next door at the Drysdale mansion.

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17. The Mayor of Bug Tussle

Air date: 1967-01-04 · 30 min

Amos Wentworth Hogg, Mayor of Bug Tussle, travels to Beverly Hills to visit the Clampetts with hopes of raising money to cover an embezzlement debt. The Clampetts, however, believe he has eyes for Granny.

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18. Granny Retires

Air date: 1967-01-11 · 30 min

Granny decides to take her share of the Clampett millions and move back home.

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19. The Clampett Curse

Air date: 1967-01-18 · 30 min

Jed and Granny decide to donate the burden of their millions to some college students and move back home.

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20. The Indians Are Coming

Air date: 1967-02-01 · 30 min

When Crowfoot Indians come to Beverly Hills to discuss a boundary dispute at the Clampett oil field, Granny prepares for war.

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21. The Marriage Machine

Air date: 1967-02-08 · 30 min

Jethro goes to a computer dating service, and Granny follows to find a date for Jed.

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22. Elly Comes Out

Air date: 1967-02-15 · 30 min

After reading the Society page Granny decides to best way to get Elly a husband is to throw her a coming out party, complete with possum burgers and gopher gravy. Mrs. Drysdale, hoping to forever humiliate them, is all too happy to help.

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23. The Matador

Air date: 1967-02-22 · 30 min

Jethro learns about bullfighting and decides bring a matador would be a perfect job. El Magnifico is to teach him but then he meets Ellie Mae and wants to marry the Clampett heiress. Her concern is for the bulls.

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24. The Gypsy's Warning

Air date: 1967-03-01 · 30 min

The Clampetts come across Narda and Yerko, two gypsies, who decide to run a scam on the unsuspecting clan. Involving both a marriage prophecy and and a curse, the crooks see the families 's naivety to their advantage.

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25. His Royal Highness

Air date: 1967-03-08 · 30 min

The Clampetts are visited by a real king, Alexander so Granny and Mrs. Drysdale start matchmaking. The broke royal needs a wealthy bride and courts Ellie. Drysdale niece Doreen is tricked by a costumed Jethro and ends up unimpressed.

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26. Super Hawg

Air date: 1967-03-15 · 30 min

The Drysdales have temporary custody of a baby hippo and when Granny spots it she thinks it's a giant hog. She makes plans for turning into future meals while Ellie sees it as another pet.

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27. The Doctors

Air date: 1967-03-22 · 30 min

Granny continues her doctoring and is especially pleased with her new batch of tonic. Dr. Clyburn is determined to get her to stop so invites her to his office to show her how modern medicine works. Granny has other ideas.

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28. Delovely and Scruggs

Air date: 1967-03-29 · 30 min

Country music legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs visit the Clampetts while Lester's "citified" wife, Gladys, heads to Mammoth Studios for a screen test directed by Jethro (at Lester's request).

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29. The Little Monster

Air date: 1967-04-12 · 30 min

The Clampetts agree to watch their banker's nephew Milby but they don't know he's spoiled rotten. His behavior tests the patience of all, especially Granny who has a few ideas on teaching him manners.

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30. The Dahlia Feud

Air date: 1967-04-19 · 30 min

Mrs. Drysdale's dahlias spark a feud with the Clampett's when Margaret Drysdale accuses Granny of theft.

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