📺 Beverly Hillbillies TV series review: Series two, episodes 23-36 (1964)
Starring Buddy Ebsen (as Jed Clampett), Irene Ryan (as granny), Donna Douglas (as Elly May Clampett) and Max Baer Jr (as Jethro Bodine).
A Bride For Jed
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, playing themselves, are back in Beverly Hills with their wives.
Along with Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway, they get together to hold auditions to find Jed a wife, although Jed is totally unaware of what’s going on.
The episode ends with the cast – including Flatt and Scruggs – singing Mail Order Bride.
The Critter Doctor
Duke isn’t feeling too good, so Elly May calls the vet (critter doctor). Jed and granny plot together to find Elly a husband (the vet is the target) but in the meantime a younger man (the critter doctor is much older) who is a door-to-door salesman turns up.
It all gets very confusing, as Jed and granny think the younger man is the vet.
Anyway, in the end, Elly and the salesman, together with granny and the critter doctor, go out on a double-date.
Granny Versus The Weather Bureau
The US Weather Bureau predicts dry weather but granny says it’s going to rain – based on observing Elly’s bobcat and her own beetle that she keeps in a box.
After disagreeing with the main man at the Weather Bureau over the phone, Mr. Drysdale brings him to meet the Clampetts.
After a presentation where he proves to granny that it’s not going to rain, highlighting all the expensive and sophisticated equipment that they have… The heavens open…
Another Neighbor
Granny makes a tonic for all the neighbours and the Countess loves it, so much so in fact, that she can’t get enough of it.
Mrs. Drysdale gets in trouble with the Countess over her attitude to the Clampetts. It costs her a place at the party, where the hillbillies are the guests of honour.
The Bank Raising
When Mr. Drysdale announces he is building another bank, the Clampetts feel that because he’s a neighbour, it’s their duty to help him.
They change into their working clothes and make their way to the building site, complete with tools, to help construct the building.
The Great Crawdad Hunt
When the Clampetts receive a huge parcel of food from Pearl, two of Mr. Drysdale’s associates think they are secret military developments, that go under the code name of Crawdad.
They believe the Clampetts are scientific geniuses who are inventing top technologies for the government.
The Dress Shop
Mr. Drysdale purchases a top quality – and very expensive – dress shop for the Clampetts as an investment. When they turn up unannounced, the lady who runs it thinks they’re beggars.
They think she’s very poor and the models are hungry and underfed, so they buy them some food and organise a dress sale show.
When they sell everything for $50, they are thrilled to have helped the poor people out.
The House Of Granny
After buying the top of the range boutique, The House Of Renée, the Clampetts take over the running of the shop themselves.
They change it to The House Of Granny and it becomes a country store but no customers visit. In the end they give it away to Maurice, who uses to be the doorman.
The Continental Touch
They can’t get Elly May to cook, so the family sends her to The House Of Maurice, so that he can teach her elegance and etiquette.
They dress her up really well, so much so in fact that Mrs. Drysdale thinks that she’s European royalty when she visits the boutique.
She’s so taken in that she wants the princess (as she thinks) to attend a party in her honour. She agrees to Mr. Drysdale’s proposition that the princess can bring her family and that she’ll drop her vendetta against the Clampetts.
At that, Elly May reveals her identity, the hillbillies walk in and Mrs. Drysdale faints.
Jed, Incorporated
Mr. Drysdale sets up a business for the Clampetts, so that they have tax advantages. The family takes up positions in the business, although none of them know what a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer do.
When Mr. Drysdale tells them that by creating wealth they put money in the hands of people, they decide to speed things up by throwing thousands of dollars out of the window to people in the street below.
Granny Learns To Drive
Granny is brought home by a cab driver but none of them understand what a taxi is. When he mentions a fare of 6.30, they think that he wants to take Granny to a fair at half past six.
When they find out what he means Granny sees him off with a shotgun, disgusted that he takes money off widows.
She then decides to drive herself, with lessons from Jethro. It doesn’t go very well, of course, and the episode ends with the chimpanzee driving the truck. Just another day with the Clampetts.
Cabin In Beverly Hills
Granny is homesick and so, in order to keep her in Beverly Hills, Mr. Drysdale transports the old cabin and puts it in the Clampetts’ garden.
When a leftie activist sociology student turns up, making door-to-door calls for her assignment, she jumps to the wrong conclusion.
She thinks the Drysdales keep the Clampetts as slaves. It’s very funny how the episode develops.
Jed Foils A Home Wrecker
When Mrs. Drysdale hires a demolition firm to demolish the Clampetts’ cabin, Mr. Drysdale moves in because they can’t touch it if it’s occupied.
The Clampetts think that the home wrecker is someone who has taken up with Mrs. Drysdale and is trying to break up the marriage. As always, they get the wrong end of the stick.
Jethro’s Graduation
On the day of Jethro’s graduation from sixth grade, the school does everything it can to make sure he doesn’t attend. There is a rich potential investor and they don’t want him to be put off.
In the end, Skipper the chimpanzee, steps in for Jethro and the investor is so impressed that the school has educated him, that he doubles his gift.
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