Sitcom about a hillbilly family living in Southern California. Jed Clampett strikes oil while hunting on his land. He then moves with his family to Beverly Hills, California, with the resultant wealth. In the UK it used to air early on Saturday evenings.
Tags:USTVsitcom Added: 25th July 2007 Views: 724 Rating: Posted By:Bamber
People forget how enormously popular this show was. The four highest-rated 30-minute sitcom episodes in American TV history were all 1964 Beverly Hillbillies episodes. Some 50 million people used to watch this every week.
Greatest TV show ever. I wrote a paper in college about it. It was more than a TV show, it was a work of art. It was symbolic of the cultural shift from a rural to an urban society in the 20th century. One of my favorite aspects of the show was how the city folks thought the hillbillies were so dumb, but the only really stupid one was Jethro, the educated one.
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