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Season 1

Episode 1: The Clampetts Strike Oil

26 Sep. 1962

Jed Clampett is told by a representative of an oil company that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil.

Episode 2: Getting Settled

3 Oct. 1962

The Clampetts begin to settle in their new home in Beverly Hills, California.

Episode 3: Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin

10 Oct. 1962

While Granny boils pool water for washing (due to the “lack of a pump”) and Elly May gets a feminine make-over by Miss Hathaway, cousin Pearl is back at the cabin making eyes with the visiting oil man while he gives her a ride to the nearest phone.

Episode 4: The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale

17 Oct. 1962

Mr. Drysdale panics when Mrs. Drysdale comes back from Boston early, because she’ll meet the Clampetts. He sets Miss Hathaway on a plan to get them to go to Palm Springs. Meanwhile, Grannie and Jed come to think Mrs. Drysdale is a drunk and make plans to cure her.

Episode 5: Jed Buys Stock

24 Oct. 1962

Grannie prepares her special mash to help cure Mrs. Drysdale of her drinking problem while Jed does as Mr. Drysdale suggests and buys stock: cows, goats, pigs, and chickens! Meanwhile, Mrs. Drysdale recovers from the shock of her first meeting with the Clampetts and is convinced she’s imagining things.

Episode 6: Trick or Treat
31 Oct. 1962

Granny wants to go home because folks is so unfriendly no one has come to call.

Episode 7: The Servants

7 Nov. 1962

Ellie May starts wearing dresses but takes it as an insult when someone says she looks like a city girl.

Episode 8: Jethro Goes to School

14 Nov. 1962

Jed enrolls Jethro at an exclusive Beverly Hills elementary school.

Episode 9: Elly's First Date

21 Nov. 1962

Mr. Drysdale convinces his self-absorbed stepson Sonny to date Elly May to Mrs. Drysdale’s consternation, while Granny and Jed make preparations for Thanksgiving.

Episode 10: Pygmalion and Elly

28 Nov. 1962

Sonny Drysdale decides he needs to be Pygmalion to Elly’s Galatea and remake her from a hillbilly into a woman of society, while Granny uses love charms to heat up their relationship.

Episode 11: Elly Races Jethrine

5 Dec. 1962

When Sonny Drysdale promises to give Elly May a ring, Granny thinks he’s going to propose and becomes a matchmaker. Cousin Pearl can’t stand the idea that Elly May will get married before Jethrine, so she sets to matchmaking Jethrine with Jasper Depew.

Episode 12: The Great Feud

12 Dec. 1962

Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales since Sonny courted Elly May and then stood her up when granny suggested marriage.

Episode 13: Home for Christmas

19 Dec. 1962

Jed, Ellie May, Jethro and Granny take their first plane flight back home for Christmas to visit cousin Pearl, who is busy cooking up a feast to win Mr. Brewster’s unwilling heart.

Episode 14: No Place Like Home

26 Dec. 1962

Back home for Christmas, Elly May bonds with her old animal friends, while Pearl plays the piano for the “new” movie in town (the silent version of Ben Hur) to impress Mr. Brewster.

Episode 15: Jed Rescues Pearl

2 Jan. 1963

Since Mr. Brewster doesn’t want to get married, but since the whole county knows that Cousin Pearl had her hat set for him, Jed comes up with a plan for her to save face by having Mr. Brewster proposed in public and then have her turn him down. Jed didn’t count on Mr. Brewster’s background in the theater and him making a huge production out of it.

Episode 16: Back to Californy

9 Jan. 1963

The Clampetts pack up to return to Beverly Hills, so Jethrine tries to pack Jazzbo Depew. Elly says goodbye to her animals. Back in Beverly Hills, Miss Hathaway dresses the vamp to meet Jethro at the airport, and once home the feuding starts between Grannie and Pearl over who’s running Grannie’s kitchen.

Episode 17: Jed's Dilemma

16 Jan. 1963

Grannie and Cousin Pearl are at each other’s throats over who’s going to take care of cooking and the house, so Jed has to find ways to keep them apart.

Episode 18: Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage

23 Jan. 1963

Mrs Drysdale leaves for a health farm saying Mr. Drysdale is “going to have a new wife,” while Mr. Drysdale tells Cousin Pearl he’d like her to keep his house. However, the Clampett’s think he’s wanting to marry Pearl, so Jed comes up with a plan to “save” the Drysdale’s marriage.

Episode 19: Elly's Animals

30 Jan. 1963

When Pearl starts selling music lessons, Mrs. Drysdale complains about the noise to the police. Mrs. Drysdale also calls the dog catcher on Duke.

Episode 20: Jed Throws a Wingding

6 Feb. 1963

Flatt and Scruggs and their wives come to visit their old sweetheart, but Pearl thinks they’re there to propose. Jed throws a wingding for them and the duo play music for the Clampetts.

Episode 21: Jed Plays Solomon

13 Feb. 1963

Granny can’t stand Pearl’s yodeling so she reports her to the police.

Episode 22: Duke Steals a Wife

20 Feb. 1963

Jed and Duke his dog are both down without a woman in their lives, until they see and pursue a French woman and her poodle that she brought to breed with Mrs. Drysdales dog. Meanwhile Mrs. Drysdale has arranged a “marriage” between the dogs, complete with a decorated bedroom.

Episode 23: Jed Buys the Freeway

27 Feb. 1963

Henry Jones shows up at the Clampett’s, pretends to be an old friend and tries to sell the family the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Park, and the freeway.

Episode 24: Jed Becomes a Banker

6 Mar. 1963

Drysdale hires Jed to be a banker when he needs a crack shot to help beat a rival banker in a skeet shooting competition, but his partner needs to be an employee.

Episode 25: The Family Tree

13 Mar. 1963

Mrs. Drysdale wants to get rid of the Clampetts before the arrival of Mrs. Smith-Standish, the head of a ‘first family’ historical society. But Mrs. Smith-Standish goes to the Clampetts’ first and becomes enchanted with their antiques and way of life, even to roping the horrified Mrs. Drysdale into helping do the chores the old-fashioned way.

Episode 26: Jed Cuts the Family Tree

20 Mar. 1963

Mrs. Drysdale continues to be forced into doing “practices from the past” by Mrs. Smith-Standish, who discovers that Jed’s family is possibly the first to come to the country. If so they’d be famous worldwide, but does Jed want that?

Episode 27: Granny's Spring Tonic

27 Mar. 1963

Miss Hathaway’s brilliant-but-frumpy bank protegee Gloria is really a sultry gold-digger with eyes for Jed’s $34 million, and Jed’s just had his annual dose of Granny’s spring tonic.

Episode 28: Jed Pays His Income Tax

3 Apr. 1963

When an IRS agent gets chased away by Granny, Mr. Drysdale tells him the story of how the Clampetts came to be rich and move to Beverly Hills.

Episode 29: The Clampetts and the Dodgers

10 Apr. 1963

Jed and Jethro go golfing with Leo Durocher, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who wants to recruit Jethro as a pitcher when he sees how well he can throw.

Episode 30: Duke Becomes a Father

17 Apr. 1963

Mlle. Denise comes back for the birth of her dog’s puppies, and to see Jed. They do some “courtin’ and sparkin'” Mrs. Drysdale isn’t nearly so happy when she finds the puppies share more in common with Duke the bloodhound than Claude the poodle.

Episode 31: The Clampetts Entertain

24 Apr. 1963

Jed arranges a party to get Grannie out of her doldrums and invites the Drysdales. But when Mr. Drysdale’s boss comes and wants to meet them for dinner, he wonders if he’s going to be sent to an Alaskan bank when his boss finds out he’s been lying about Jed and his family being sophisticated.

Episode 32: The Clampetts in Court

1 May 1963

When a couple who ran into the Clampett’s car discover that they’re rich, they fake injuries and sue the Clampetts.

Episode 33: The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed

8 May 1963

Jethro needs a health certificate to graduate from the fifth grade, so he goes to the only doctor the Clampetts know about – Mrs. Drysdale’s psychiatrist. He gets nowhere with Jethro, so Pearl comes and she thinks he is testing her virtue when he tries to lay her on his couch.

Episode 34: The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted

15 May 1963

Jethro finally gets his bill of health from Dr. Twombly so he can graduate the fifth grade, but Twombly really wants to talk to Grannie again. Drysdale brings him to the Clampetts’ just as Grannie showed Pearl how to use a love potion, so everyone thinks Twombly’s interest in Grannie is love.

Episode 35: Elly Becomes a Secretary

22 May 1963

When Miss Hathaway gets sick and Mr. Drysdale has to speak at a conference, Jed helps out by running the bank and having Elly be his secretary, while Jethro finds a speech that Drysdale accidentally uses instead of his own. All the while a new teller sucks-up to the men and flirts with the women.

Episode 36: Jethro's Friend

29 May 1963

Jethro brings home a friend, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, who is coddled by a chauffeur who treats him as frail. The Clampetts know better, and show him a good time, friendship and family.

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