It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family from Silver Dollar City in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land.
The Beverly Hillbillies came from Missouri
In the pilot episode, the narrator at one point says, "Let's take them back to their home in the Ozarks and see how this whole thing got started." Series creator Paul Henning was, in fact, from Missouri in real life.
Yeah, I'm guessing that you've picked up on the fact that I'm talking about the famed television series The Beverly Hillbillies, but did you know that the series idea was based off an actual family who lived in Beverly Hills? They didn't live in the house that you saw in the series, but they did live in a huge mansion.
He was 95 and lived in Palos Verdes, Calif. The lanky, 6-foot-3-inch Mr. Ebsen was the canny Jed Clampett, the patriarch of "The Beverly Hillbillies," a popular CBS situation comedy about an Ozark farm family transplanted to a California mansion by sudden oil wealth.
Critter-loving Elly May was still in California with her animals, but Jed was back home in the Hills, having lost his fortune, stolen by the now-imprisoned banker Drysdale.
The Kirkeby Mansion is still currently standing at 750 Bel Air Road in Bel-Air in almost the exact same condition (the exterior anyway) it was in the 1960s when The Beverly Hillbillies was filmed. It is, sadly, no longer visible from the street.
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. 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.
The Chartwell Mansion is a Chateauesque mansion in Bel-Air, California. Built in 1933, it is best known for its role as the Clampett family home in the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. It was the most expensive home for sale in the United States in 2018.
The seven-time Emmy-nominated series was a huge hit and made stars of Buddy Ebsen (who played Jed Clampett), Donna Douglas (Elly May Clampett), Irene Ryan (Granny), and Max Baer Jr. (Jethro). Today, Baer is the only cast member still alive.
In the Beverly Hillbillies episode Trick or Treat When the Clampetts visit their neighbors, Jed rings the doorbell. However, in the previous and next episodes, the Clampetts have no idea what a doorbell is as they are confused with the "music" ringing through their house.
Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr.
(born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, producer, comedian, and director widely known for his role as Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted relative of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on The Beverly Hillbillies. Max Baer Jr. Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr.
The Ralph Foster Museum's best known exhibit is a cut-down 1921 Oldsmobile Model 46 Roadster, the truck used in the original Beverly Hillbillies TV series. It was a Bicentennial gift to the museum by the show's producer, Paul Henning, who grew up nearby.
Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died but is referred to in the episode "Duke Steals A Wife" as Rose Ellen. He is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister named Myrtle.
In the 1990 made-for-television film Return to Green Acres, actor Frank Cady in character as Sam Drucker states that the Hooterville ZIP Code is 40516½; the real-life ZIP codes 40516 and 40517 are used by the city of Lexington, Kentucky.
The Beverly Hillbillies was filmed at Kirkeby mansion in Bel Air. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkeby rented their beautiful home to the series for $500 a day.
Noting that the sitcom was "unblushingly loaded with corny humor and preposterous situations," Lowry proceeded to guffaw that this could be the very formula that helped The Beverly Hillbillies become "the most popular television program in the nation."
One of the Clamplett clan that seemed to really embrace the Beverly Hills lifestyle was Jed Clampett's Bloodhound, Duke.
Estate Featured 18 Bedrooms, Tunnel from Home to Pool
CNN reported that the Beverly Hillbillies mansion featured 18 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms. There was a ballroom.
It took more than two years, but Jed Clampett's house finally has a new owner. The house that was featured as the setting for The Beverly Hillbillies has sold for roughly $150 million, making it the most expensive home sale in California history.
They bought the home in 1986 for $13.5 million. His estimated wealth in 2016 was $2.6 billion, and his death in May of this year has prompted the sale.
The Clampetts Strike Oil is the first episode of the first season of the Beverly Hillbillies. It is followed by the episode Getting Settled. In this episode, Jed Clampett sold his swamp to an oil company, gets paid 25 million dollars for it, and heads off to Beverly Hills.
The Clampetts head to England to visit the castle Jed inherited. Misunderstandings abound, from Jethro mistaking San Francisco for London, to the impounding of Granny's medical supplies, to the real intentions of the elderly chemist.
Originally filmed in black and white for the first three seasons (1962-1965), the first color-filmed episode ("Admiral Jed Clampett") was aired on September 15, 1965, and all subsequent episodes from 1965 to 1971 were filmed in color.