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66-815: Sunset Las Palmas Studios is one of the three production facilities which make up the " Sunset Studios " sound-stage conglomerate owned by Hudson Pacific Properties . The other two are the Sunset Bronson Studios and the Sunset Gower Studios . In 1919 John Jasper, a former associate of Charlie Chaplin , built exterior sets, three production stages, and several bungalows on a 16.5-acre site in Hollywood; he named it Hollywood Studios Inc. The first stages resembled hot houses with steel frames, cloth walls, glass roofs, and clerestory windows. Outdoor sets included an "Americana" residential street,

132-450: A brain surgeon, a fry cook, a millwright, a street car conductor, a spy, a telephone lineman, a soda jerk , a chauffeur, a USAF general, a sculptor, a restaurant owner, a psychiatrist, a bookkeeper for Milburn Drysdale's bank, a talent agent for "cousin" Bessie and "Cousin Roy" (see below), and a Hollywood producer. More often than not, his goal is merely to meet pretty girls. Miss Hathaway has

198-466: A country music star, Jethro refuses to be his agent when Roy becomes a success. Jethro does not appear in the third- or second-to-last episodes, but Baer remains billed in the title credits. Baer is the only surviving main cast member. Mr. Milburn Drysdale (portrayed by Raymond Bailey in 247 episodes) is the Clampetts' banker, confidant, and next-door neighbor. He is obsessed with money and to keep

264-498: A crush on Jethro for most of the series' run. In 1999, TV Guide ranked Jane Hathaway number 38 on its list titled "50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time". The show's theme song , "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Foggy Mountain Boys , led by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs . The song is sung by Jerry Scoggins (backed by Flatt and Scruggs) over

330-497: A crush on him, but he is oblivious to this. Of all the Clampett clan, he is the most eager to embrace city life. Jethro has a huge appetite — in one episode, he eats a jetliner's entire supply of steaks, in another he tries to set himself up as a Hollywood agent for cousin "Bessie" the chimpanzee – with a fee of 10,000 bananas for Bessie and 1,000 for him. When "Cousin Roy" ( Roy Clark ) comes from "the hills" to Beverly Hills to become

396-413: A few solo recordings following the show's success, including Ryan's 1966 novelty single, "Granny's Miniskirt". The series generally features no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally play on the program. Pop singer Pat Boone appears in one episode as himself, under the premise that he hails from the same area of

462-450: A joint venture with CBS called CBS/Fox Video , released select episodes of Hillbillies on videocassette. After Viacom merged with CBS in 1999, Paramount Home Entertainment (the video division of Paramount Pictures, which was acquired by Viacom in 1994) took over the video rights. In 2006, Paramount announced plans to release the copyrighted episodes in boxed sets through CBS DVD later that year. The show's second season (consisting of

528-423: A massive New York street, and an elegant Spanish villa. Among the first tenants was comedian Harold Lloyd who produced some of his most successful films on the lot. The lot changed ownership and name several times during its early years continuing to evolve and grow. In 1926, Metropolitan Studios began construction of one of the industry's first sound stages. A few years later, Howard Hughes moved production to

594-461: A multimillion-dollar investment, the lot's control rooms, camera packages, and infrastructure were upgraded to HDTV . It was done to support television clients such as Disney Channel , which produced a number of original series under the It's a Laugh Productions banner for Disney Channel and Disney XD on the lot. Three cyc stages were added, one dedicated to green screen production. A virtual set stage

660-588: A rabbit, although the first episode shows the oil being discovered by a surveyor for the OK Oil Company. The company pays Jed many millions of dollars for the right to drill on his land. Jed's cousin Pearl Bodine prods him to move to California now that he is wealthy and pressures him into taking her son Jethro along. The family moves into a mansion in upscale Beverly Hills, California, next door to Jed's banker, Milburn Drysdale, and his wife, Margaret, who

726-510: A reportedly large cash payment settlement to employee Hamilton Morgen after Morgen sued the network. Morgen claimed CBS appropriated his submitted ideas and script for a show called Country Cousins to form The Beverly Hillbillies . The Beverly Hillbillies is still televised daily around the world in syndication. In the United States, the show is broadcast currently on MeTV , Circle , Classic Reruns TV , GAC Family and Laff and

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792-451: A revival of the lot's fortunes and attracted a new generation of feature film and commercial filmmakers. The Singers also returned television production to the lot by adding control rooms and the infrastructure required for multi-camera video production. The lot again was the home to some of the country's most popular shows including Jeopardy! (seasons 2–10), Star Search , Soul Train , The Man Show , and Pee-wee's Playhouse . In

858-636: A stage on the lot to film Frances , starring Jessica Lange. Cost overruns on One From the Heart combined with its poor box-office performance caused Coppola to fall into financial difficulties and the lot was sold again, this time to Canadian real estate developers, the Singer Family . In 1984, The Jacksons used this lot to rehearse for the Victory Tour . The Singers initiated a comprehensive modernization and refurbishing effort that sparked

924-530: Is Drysdale's loyal, well-educated, efficient secretary at the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills. She is genuinely fond of the family and tries to shield them from her boss's greed. Miss Hathaway frequently has to "rescue" Drysdale from his schemes, receiving little or no thanks for her efforts. The Clampetts consider her family; even Granny, the one most averse to living in California, likes her. Jane has

990-538: Is Jed's mother-in-law, so is often called "Granny Clampett" in spite of her last name and despite the fact that in the pilot episode Milburn Drysdale refers to her as Jed's mother. She is a descendant of the Moses clan, who feuded with another family, the Bodkins, and drove them out of Napoleon, Tennessee. In Season 9, Episode 23, Granny states that she is "from Limestone, Tennessee ". Granny has an abrasive personality and

1056-679: Is a real estate investment trust with 15.8 million square feet of office buildings, 1.5 million square feet of sound stages , and undeveloped rights for 3 million square feet of additional commercial property. Its properties are on the West Coast of the United States and Vancouver . It is organized in Maryland and headquartered in Los Angeles . It is the largest independent operator of sound stages in Los Angeles. The company

1122-483: Is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen , Irene Ryan , Donna Douglas , and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri who move to posh Beverly Hills, California after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by Paul Henning . It

1188-446: Is appalled by the hillbilly Clampetts. The Clampetts bring an unsophisticated, simple, moral lifestyle to the wealthy and sometimes superficial community. Double entendres and cultural misconceptions are the core of the sitcom's humor. Plots often involve Drysdale's outlandish efforts to keep the Clampetts' money in his bank and his wife's efforts to rid the neighborhood of "those hillbillies". The family's periodic attempts to return to

1254-796: Is distributed by CBS Media Ventures , the syndication arm of CBS Television Studios and the CBS network. It was previously distributed by CBS Enterprises, Viacom Enterprises , Paramount Domestic Television , and CBS Paramount Domestic Television (all through corporate changes involving TV distribution rights to the early CBS library). The repeats of the show that debuted on CBS Daytime on September 5–9, 1966, as "Mornin' Beverly Hillbillies" through September 10, 1971, and on September 13–17, 1971, as "The Beverly Hillbillies" lasted up to winter 1971–72. It aired at 11:00–11:30 a.m. Eastern/10:00-10:30 a.m. Central through September 3, 1971, then moved to 10:30–11:00 a.m. Eastern/9:30–10:00 a.m. Central for

1320-518: Is founded is an encouragement to ignorance... But it is funny. What can I do?" Regardless of the poor reviews, the show shot to the top of the Nielsen ratings shortly after its premiere and stayed there for several seasons. During its first two seasons, it was the number-one program in the U.S; during its second season, it earned some of the highest ratings ever recorded for a half-hour sitcom. The season-two episode "The Giant Jackrabbit" also became

1386-435: Is ignorant about nearly every aspect of modern California life. In one episode, he attends a local secretarial school and is so disruptive that he is given a diploma at the end of the day to keep him from returning. In real life, Max Baer Jr. has a bachelor's degree in business administration , minoring in philosophy, from Santa Clara University . Many story lines involve Jethro's endless career search. He considers becoming

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1452-456: Is naive about the world outside the rural area where he lived but has a great deal of wisdom and common sense. His forebears are revealed in series 1, episode 25, to have come to America before the Mayflower arrived. However, he later denies this to avoid offending Mrs. Drysdale. He is the widower of Granny's daughter, Rose Ellen (Buddy Ebsen was only 5 years younger than Irene Ryan). He is

1518-406: Is quick to anger but is often overruled by Jed. She is a devout Confederate and fancies herself a Baptist Christian (" dunked , not sprinkled "). A self-styled "M.D." ("mountain doctor"), Granny uses her " white lightning " brew as a form of anesthesia when performing painful treatments such as leech bleeding or tooth pulling. She often refers to the concoction as " rheumatize medicine ". Like

1584-533: The Marx Brothers ’ A Night in Casablanca (1946). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ; Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy ; Fred Astaire , Cary Grant , Glenn Ford , Fredric March , and Erich von Stroheim were among the stars who worked on the lot in the pre- World War II years. James Cagney made several films on the lot while his brother William was a part owner. With the advent of television production on

1650-404: The energy crisis . Since Granny had gone on to "her re-ward", it was up to Granny's centenarian "Maw" ( Imogene Coca ) to divulge the secret brew's ingredients. Subplots included Jethro playing an egocentric, starlet-starved Hollywood producer, Jane and her boss ( Werner Klemperer ) having a romance, and Elly May owning a large petting zoo. The four main characters finally got together by the end of

1716-684: The 100 most-watched television episodes in American history. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. It remains in syndicated reruns, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film adaptation by 20th Century Fox . The series starts with Jed Clampett, a poor, widowed hillbilly who lives with his daughter and mother-in-law near an oil-rich swamp in Silver Dollar City in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. The opening sequence shows Jed discovering oil while shooting at

1782-562: The 1950s, General Service was the home of George Burns 's McCadden Corporation ( The Burns and Allen Show , The Bob Cummings Show , Panic , and The People's Choice ); Ozzie Nelson 's Stage Five Productions ( The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ) and Jack Chertok Productions ( Private Secretary ). It later hosted a number of classic CBS comedies including Petticoat Junction , Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies . The Lone Ranger , Perry Mason , Mr. Ed , The Addams Family and Get Smart were also produced on

1848-430: The 1981 reunion TV movie, Elly May is the head of a zoo. Jethro (portrayed by Max Baer Jr. in 272 episodes) is the dim-witted son of Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine (in a customary practice, he addresses Jed – his once-removed elder cousin – as "Uncle Jed", just as his second cousin, Elly May, addresses Jethro's mother as "Aunt Pearl"). Pearl's mother and Jed's father were siblings. Jethro drives

1914-446: The Clampett family to their new home in California and stays on with them to further his education. In the first season, he is in the fifth grade, having spent three years in the fourth grade and two years in the first grade. The others boast of Jethro's "sixth-grade education". Jethro often speaks enthusiastically of his abilities in "cipherin'" (1 and 1 is 2, 2 and 2 is 4), and "gazintas" (4 gazinta 8 2 times, 3 gazinta 12 4 times), and he

1980-399: The Clampetts' $ 96,000,000 (in 1969; equivalent to $ 797,618,875 in 2023) in his Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills, Mr. Drysdale will go to great lengths to cater to their wishes. He often forces others, especially his long-suffering secretary, to help fulfill their outlandish requests. He is a descendant of the Bodkins family from Tennessee. It is revealed in the first season that Granny's clan,

2046-402: The Moses family, feuded with the Bodkins family and drove them from Napoleon, Tennessee. A recurring comedic scene shows Drysdale angrily answering his phone only to find Jed on the other end of the line, at which point Drysdale's demeanor instantly changes to one of good humor and accommodation. Jane Hathaway (portrayed by Nancy Kulp in 246 episodes), whom the Clampetts address as "Miss Jane",

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2112-518: The cast. To this end, the show sometimes included extra verses of the theme song about Winston cigarettes and Kellogg's cereals. Perry Botkin composed many songs for The Beverly Hillbillies . Botkin's upbeat tune from Murder by Contract , played during scenes of sunny LA, signaled scenes at the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills. The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album, which featured original song numbers in character. Additionally, Ebsen, Ryan, and Douglas each made

2178-454: The complete first season on DVD. The fifth season was released on October 2, 2018. A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968. The Deadly Hillbillies, an interactive murder mystery, was written by John R. Logue using the core cast of characters as inspiration. This Gypsy Productions Murder Mystery Parody features characters such as Jed Clumpett, Daisy May Mostes, and Jane Hatchaway. Dell Comics adapted

2244-438: The country as the Clampetts, although Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida . The 1989 film UHF featured a "Weird Al" Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies* ", combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and English rock band Dire Straits ' 1985 hit song " Money for Nothing ". The Beverly Hillbillies received generally poor reviews from contemporary critics. The New York Times called

2310-411: The end of each episode. The alternate version is also the version seen on Amazon Prime Video. With the exception of the public domain episodes, the copyrights to the series were renewed by Orion Television. However, any new compilation of Hillbillies material will be copyrighted by either MPI Media Group or CBS, depending on the content of the material used. For many years, 20th Century Fox , through

2376-399: The family dog, Duke (an old Bloodhound ), a number of pets live on the Clampett estate thanks to Elly May's love of animals. She is a terrible cook where family members and anyone they know cringe whenever she takes over the kitchen. Elly May is easily in her 20s, but Granny usually promotes her age as "14" since an unmarried mountain woman as old as Elly May is considered an old maid . In

2442-408: The field interviewer. This special was ranked as the fourth-most watched television program of the week — a major surprise given the mediocre rating for the 1981 television film. It was a rare tribute from the "Tiffany network", which owed much of its success in the 1960s to the series, but has often seemed embarrassed by it in hindsight, often downplaying the show in retrospective television specials on

2508-537: The hills where he purchased some land and spends some of his days whittling. Nancy Kulp had died in 1991 and was little referred to beyond the multitude of film clips that dotted the special. When asked if bears no grudge against Drysdale, Jed states "I never bear no grudge against any man. The way I see it, I lost some money, but Mr. Drysdale lost his freedom. I don't think I'm bad off at all". Jed then tells his interviewer that he goes into town to ring up Elly May and that Jethro brings his children around often. He then takes

2574-519: The largest publicly traded owner-operator of office space in Silicon Valley . In 2017 the company bought Sunset Las Palmas Studios . In March 2019, in a joint venture with funds managed by The Blackstone Group, the company acquired Bentall Centre, Vancouver . In June 2020, funds managed by The Blackstone Group acquired a 49% stake in several properties owned by the company. The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies

2640-445: The last season on CBS Daytime. Fifty-five episodes of the series are in the public domain (all 36 season-one episodes and 19 season-two episodes), because Orion Television , successor to Filmways, neglected to renew their copyrights. As a result, these episodes have been released on home video and DVD on many low-budget labels and shown on low-power television stations and low-budget networks in 16-mm prints. In many video prints of

2706-499: The lot changed dramatically. In 1951, the lot made history when Stage 2 became home to I Love Lucy , the first prime-time comedy shot on film and produced before a live audience originating from the West Coast. From 1951 to 1953, it was the home of Desilu Productions , owned by Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz . The television version of actress Eve Arden 's radio series Our Miss Brooks produced its first season on

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2772-591: The lot used and shot the World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930), known for its innovative use of sound and for the screen debut of Jean Harlow . Dozens of films were produced on the lot during the 1930s and 1940s including the Mae West vehicles Klondike Annie and Go West, Young Man (both 1936); the 21-picture Hopalong Cassidy series, the Bing Crosby classic Pennies from Heaven (1936), and

2838-472: The lot. George Burns maintained his office on the lot until his death. In 1980, director Francis Ford Coppola purchased the lot, naming it Zoetrope Studios ; he intended to use it to produce a slate of films. Among them was the ambitious movie musical One from the Heart . For the film, Coppola transformed the entire lot into a giant set that included a replica of part of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport . During this time Mel Brooks 's Brooksfilms also rented

2904-503: The man interviewing with him to meet some friends unaware that he struck another area of oil. The scene closes with Jed dancing to the theme song with Jerry Scoggins while Earl Scruggs and Roy Clark (who is substituting for the late Lester Flatt) playing the music. The special was released on VHS tape by CBS/Fox Video in 1995 and as a bonus feature on the Official Third Season DVD Set in 2009. In 1974, CBS made

2970-424: The most-watched telecast up to the time of its airing and remains the most-watched half-hour episode of a sitcom , as well. The series enjoyed excellent ratings throughout its run, although it had fallen out of the top 20 most-watched shows during its final season. In 1997, the season-three episode "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" was ranked number 62 on " TV Guide ' s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time ". The show

3036-434: The mountains are often the result of Granny feeling slighted by the "city folk". Three of the main characters – Jed, Granny and Elly May – appear in all 274 episodes. Jethro (272 episodes) is not in the last two episodes of the series, having gone into hiding to avoid an anticipated marriage proposal. Good-natured patriarch Jed Clampett (portrayed by Buddy Ebsen ) has little formal education and

3102-513: The network's history and rarely inviting cast members to participate in such all-star broadcasts. The Legend of The Beverly Hillbillies special ignored several plot twists of the television film, notably that Jethro was now not a film director but a leading Los Angeles physician. Critter-loving Elly May was still in California with her animals. Jed was back home in the Hills where he declined interviews until now. He also mentioned how he got richer in

3168-502: The only child of Jed and Rose Ellen Clampett, is a mountain beauty with the body of a pin-up girl and the soul of a tomboy . In a very early episode, Jed tells Elly May that she is the spitting image of her mother. She can throw a fastball and " wrassle " most men to a fall, and she can be tender with her friends, animals, and family. She says once that animals can be better companions than people, but as she grows older, she allows that "fellas kin be more fun than critters." In addition to

3234-514: The opening and end credits of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme (with Flatt singing) for Columbia Records ; released as a single, it reached number 44 on Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and number one on the Billboard Hot Country chart (the lone country chart-topper for the duo). As was customary in the early 1960s, the show's advertising sponsors were woven into bumpers involving

3300-418: The original, uncut versions of the first season's episodes, complete with their original theme music and opening sponsor plugs. Volume 1 has, among its bonus features, the alternate, unaired version of the pilot film, The Hillbillies Of Beverly Hills (the version of the episode that sold the series to CBS), and the "cast commercials" (cast members pitching the products of the show's sponsors) originally shown at

3366-490: The other Clampetts, she is known to take things literally, having thought Mrs. Drysdale had turned herself into a bird using black magic ( astrology ) and mistook an escaped kangaroo for a giant jackrabbit (but failed to convince anyone of its existence). Paul Henning discarded the idea of making Granny Jed's mother which would have changed the show's dynamics by making Granny the matriarch and Jed her subordinate. Elly May (portrayed by Donna Douglas in all 274 episodes),

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3432-499: The public domain episodes from that season) was released on DVD in Region 1 on October 7, 2008, as "...The Official Second Season". The third season was released on February 17, 2009. Both seasons are available to be purchased together from major online retailers. On October 1, 2013, season four was released on DVD as a Walmart exclusive. It was released as a full retail release on April 15, 2014. On April 26, 2016, CBS/Paramount released

3498-409: The public domain episodes, the original theme music has been replaced by generic music due to copyright issues. Before his death, Paul Henning, whose estate now holds the original film elements to the public domain episodes, authorized MPI Home Video to release the best of the first two seasons on DVD, the first "ultimate collection" of which was released in the fall of 2005. These collections include

3564-461: The role that both started and stymied his career, so the character of Jethro Bodine was given to another actor, Ray Young. The film's plot had Jed back in his old homestead in Bugtussle, having divided his massive fortune among Elly May and Jethro, both of whom stayed on the West Coast. Jane Hathaway had become a Department of Energy agent and was seeking Granny's "White Lightnin'" recipe to combat

3630-487: The series into a comic book series in 1962. The art work was provided by Henry Scarpelli . The comic ran for 18 issues, ending in August 1967. In 1993, a film version of The Beverly Hillbillies was released starring Jim Varney as Jed Clampett and featuring Buddy Ebsen in a cameo as Barnaby Jones , the lead character in his long-running post- Hillbillies television series. Based on The Beverly Hillbillies movie,

3696-474: The show "strained and unfunny"; Variety called it "painful to sit through". Film professor Janet Staiger writes that "the problem for these reviewers was that the show confronted the cultural elite's notions of quality entertainment." The show did receive a somewhat favorable review from noted critic Gilbert Seldes in the December 15, 1962 TV Guide : "The whole notion on which The Beverly Hillbillies

3762-460: The son of Luke Clampett and his wife and has a sister called Myrtle. In episode 13, it is revealed that Jed's grandfather was 98 when he married Jed's grandmother, who was 18. In an early episode, Jed tells Elly May that she is the spitting image of her mother. He is usually the straight man to Granny and Jethro's antics. His catchphrase is, "Welllllll, doggies!" Daisy May Moses (portrayed by Irene Ryan in all 274 episodes), called "Granny" by all,

3828-494: The stage adjacent to I Love Lucy . Both stages were known as the Desilu Playhouse seeing that a common entrance had been created at the rear of each sound stage. After the second season of I Love Lucy , Desilu moved to what is now Red Studios Hollywood . Our Miss Brooks and other Desilu produced and filmed series moved with them. The floodgates soon opened and the lot became the center of television's Golden Age. In

3894-528: The story. According to viewer consensus, though filmed a mere decade after the final episode of the series, the movie lacked the series' original spirit on many fronts, among them being the deaths of Ryan and Bailey and Baer's absence, leaving only three of the six original cast members to reprise their respective roles. Further subtracting from the familiarity was that the legendary Clampett mansion (the Sumner Spaulding -designed Chartwell Mansion ) –

3960-495: Was also built. In May 2017, a Los Angeles–based real estate company, Hudson Pacific Properties Inc., purchased Hollywood Center Studios from the Singer family for $ 200 million and then immediately renamed the property as the "Sunset Las Palmas Studios." 34°05′23″N 118°20′05″W  /  34.089777°N 118.334722°W  / 34.089777; -118.334722 Hudson Pacific Properties Hudson Pacific Properties

4026-508: Was canceled in the spring of 1971 after 274 episodes. The CBS network, prompted by pressure from advertisers seeking a more sophisticated urban audience, decided to refocus its schedule on new urban-themed shows and, to make room for them, the two remaining series of CBS's rural-themed comedies were cancelled. This action came to be known as "the Rural Purge ". Pat Buttram , who played Mr. Haney on Green Acres , famously remarked, "It

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4092-495: Was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: Petticoat Junction and its spin-off Green Acres , which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city model of The Beverly Hillbillies . The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, ranking as the No.1 series of the year during its first two seasons, with 16 episodes that still remain among

4158-556: Was founded as Hudson Capital by Victor J. Coleman. In 2007, Hudson Capital purchased Sunset Gower Studios and in 2008 purchased Sunset Bronson Studios . Hudson Capital was reformed as Hudson Pacific Properties in 2009 and on June 29, 2010, the company became a public company via an initial public offering . In December 2014, the company acquired 26 properties in Northern California from The Blackstone Group 's EQ Office for $ 3.5 billion. This made Hudson Pacific

4224-508: Was previously on TBS Superstation , Nick at Nite , TV Land , Hallmark Channel , and Superstation WGN . A limited number of episodes from the earlier portions of the series run have turned up in the public domain and as such are seen occasionally on many smaller networks such as Retro TV and MyFamily TV . MeTV airs The Beverly Hillbillies Saturday mornings at 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., on Sundays at 2 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. and weeknights at 9 p.m. (all Eastern/Pacific Time) The show

4290-477: Was the year CBS cancelled everything with a tree – including Lassie." In 1981, Return of the Beverly Hillbillies television film, written and produced by series creator Henning, was aired on the CBS network. Irene Ryan had died in 1973, and Raymond Bailey had died in 1980. The script acknowledged Granny's passing, but featured Imogene Coca as Granny's mother. Max Baer decided against reprising

4356-626: Was unavailable for a location shoot as the owners' lease was too expensive. Henning himself admitted sheer embarrassment when the finished product aired, blaming his inability to rewrite the script due to the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike . In 1993, Ebsen, Douglas, and Baer reunited onscreen for the only time in the CBS-TV retrospective television special, The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies hosted by Mac Davis and written by Al Bendix, Tino Insana , and Mike Rowe while Dakin Matthews served as

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