EPISODE GUIDE

The Beverly Hillbillies
Season 9.

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

1. The Pollution Solution

Air date: 1970-09-15 · 30 min

The Clampetts are determined to help the nation solve the smog problem. When Jed offers to give his millions to President Nixon for the cause, Mr. Drysdale resorts to some outrageous schemes to keep the money in his bank.

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2. The Clampetts in Washington

Air date: 1970-09-22 · 30 min

The Shafers meet the Clampetts in in Washington D.C. to "broker" more prime real estate.

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3. Jed Buys the Capitol

Air date: 1970-09-29 · 30 min

After Honest John explains to Jed why they couldn't visit the White House, he sells them other Washington landmarks each conveniently only $1 million. Mr. Drysdale finds out and sends Miss Jane to bring the Clampetts home.

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4. Mark Templeton Arrives

Air date: 1970-10-06 · 30 min

Rev. Matthew's lookalike brother Mark, a Naval officer, shows up to meet Elly May. The two head to the cement pond, but later when Granny sees Mark in his diving gear, she is convinced that the water turns him into a man-frog.

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5. Don't Marry a Frogman

Air date: 1970-10-13 · 30 min

Elly continues dating Navy man Mark. Granny objects, convinced he is part frog. While Jed tries to keep Mark from eating his daughter's cooking, Granny works to find a cure for his amphibious ways.

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6. Doctor, Cure My Frog

Air date: 1970-10-27 · 30 min

Granny is desperate to keep Mark from being a frog so he can eventually marry Elly. She heads to the bank, believing that if Miss Jane kisses the frog, it will become human again. Jane refers her to psychiatrist Dr. Klingner.

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7. Do You Elly Take This Frog?

Air date: 1970-11-10 · 30 min

Granny goes to extreme measures to keep Elly from Mark, who she's convinced is turning the family into frogs. Mark tells Jed more about his naval duties, especially about harvesting food from the sea.

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8. The Frog Family

Air date: 1970-11-17 · 30 min

Granny remains convinced that Mark is turning the rest of the Clampetts into frogs. She takes the amphibians to psychiatrist Dr. Klingner in the belief he is able to return them back into humans.

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9. Farm in the Ocean

Air date: 1970-11-24 · 30 min

Mark shows Granny and the rest of the family a film about his navy job to help her understand his frogman activities. She remains unconvinced. Mr. Drysdale is alarmed that Jed wants to invest millions in underwater farms.

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10. Shorty to the Rescue

Air date: 1970-12-01 · 30 min

Shorty returns and Granny convinces him to pretend to be Elly's boyfriend to drive Mark away. Mr. Drysdale tells Jed that the idea of him giving millions to the ocean project has made Miss Jane mentally unstable.

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11. Welcome to the Family

Air date: 1970-12-08 · 30 min

Granny and Mr. Drysdale are desperate for different reasons. Granny hopes that if Mark tastes Elly's cooking, he will leave. Mr. Drysdale dresses as Napoleon Bonaparte to keep Jed from investing in Mark's ocean project.

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12. The Great Revelation

Air date: 1970-12-15 · 30 min

Mark finally convinces Granny he's all human, then sets about resigning his Navy commission to pursue oceanography research. Mr. Drysdale creates a diversion to keep Jed from funding Mark's new ambitions.

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13. The Grunion Invasion

Air date: 1971-01-05 · 30 min

When the Clampetts learn that the grunion are due on the California coast, and having no idea who or what grunion are, head down to the beach to defend it from invasion.

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14. The Girls from Grun

Air date: 1971-01-12 · 30 min

Mr. Drysdale's latest ploy, involving duping the Clampetts into believing that the annual running of the grunion fish is an invasion by the people of Grun, backfires when Miss Hathaway organizes the female bank employees in protest.

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15. The Grun Incident

Air date: 1971-01-19 · 30 min

The women employees at the bank rebel against Mr. Drysdale's unfair work practices and he locks them in his office. The Clampetts are caught in the middle where Jed tries to hear both sides but Granny takes action.

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16. Women's Lib

Air date: 1971-01-26 · 30 min

Miss Jane and the bank's secretarial staff foment a revolution against Mr. Drysdale's repression that spills over into the Clampett's family life.

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17. The Teahouse of Jed Clampett

Air date: 1971-02-02 · 30 min

Jed and Jethro get help from a karate expert's geisha girls to run the mansion, while Granny, Elly, and the bank's secretaries all move into Miss Jane's small studio apartment as a headquarters for their cause.

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18. The Palace of Clampett San

Air date: 1971-02-09 · 30 min

Miss Jane and the women continue their crusade against male chauvinism, but they must overcome centuries of Japanese culture, Mr. Drysdale, and Jethro's giant "intellect".

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19. Lib and Let Lib

Air date: 1971-02-16 · 30 min

Life gets back to "normal" with the Clampetts, but Jethro, Mr. Drysdale, and Banzai have adjustments to make.

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20. Elly, the Working Girl

Air date: 1971-02-23 · 30 min

Elly May decides to actually start working at the bank and to move in with Jane Hathaway to her apartment. While Drysdale tries to persuade Phinney the landlord to sabotage them

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21. Elly, the Secretary

Air date: 1971-03-02 · 30 min

Jethro's childhood sweetheart Louellen comes to visit the Clampetts, who believe that she wants to marry Jethro. Jethro panics and runs away because he thinks that marrying a hillbilly girl like Louellen would damage his image as a sophisticated international playboy. Elly May starts her new job as a secretary for Mr. Drysdale, who is nice to Miss Hathaway only when Elly May is around.

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22. Love Finds Jane Hathaway

Air date: 1971-03-09 · 30 min

Dick Bremerkamp, a penniless actor, learns the Clampetts are millionaires and courts Elly.

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23. The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty

Air date: 1971-03-16 · 30 min

Unemployed actor Dick Bremerkamp expands his repertoire of guises as he works his way into the Clampett fortune.

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24. Jethro Returns

Air date: 1971-03-23 · 30 min

The final show of the series. Elly May's intended husband may win out in marrying her for her money. Hathaway tries to expose his plan to Drysdale, Granny and Jed. Jethro may wed as well but may or may not return to California.

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