A backstory presentation of how a dirt poor mountain family acquired millions in oil and moved to Beverly Hills, California.A backstory presentation of how a dirt poor mountain family acquired millions in oil and moved to Beverly Hills, California.A backstory presentation of how a dirt poor mountain family acquired millions in oil and moved to Beverly Hills, California.
- Jeff Taylor
- (as Bob Osborne)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe release date of Wednesday, September 26, 1962, was on actress Donna Douglas's 30th birthday.
- GoofsAt 3:34, when Granny comes back into the cabin, she is wearing glasses. At 3:50 when she approaches Jed and Elly, her glasses have mysteriously vanished.
- Quotes
Jed Clampett: What do you think, Pearl? You think I oughta move?
Cousin Pearl Bodine: Jed, how can ya even ask? Look around you. Ya eight miles from your nearest neighbor. You're overrun with skunks, possums, coyotes, bobcats... You use kerosene lamps for light. You cook on a wood stove, summer and winter. You're drinkin' homemade moonshine, washin' with homemade lye soap, and your bathroom is fifty feet from the house -- and you ask should you move?
Jed Clampett: [ponders all this] Yeah, I reckon you're right. Man'd be a dang fool to leave all this.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits continue the action from the end of the episode, showing the Clampetts continuing to run through the streets of Beverly Hills.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Pays His Income Tax (1963)
- SoundtracksThe Ballad of Jed Clampett
Written by Paul Henning
Performed by Flatt & Scruggs
Courtesy of Columbia Records
In this pilot, there is plenty of music--though none of it is the familiar music later used in the show. It's filled with flashback scenes and tells the story of how oil executives discovered oil on the Clampett property and how the family then came to move to California. Oddly, once the credits are complete at the end, there is several more minutes of the show.
Apart from the distracting audience (or perhaps it was a laugh track), the pilot was clever and entertaining. Well worth seeing...particularly if you love the show.
- planktonrules
- Jun 2, 2018
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- Runtime58 minutes
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