The Beverly Hillbillies - Season 3
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/17/2009 Run time: 868
minutes Rating: Nr
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No. 1 in the ratings its first two seasons, The Beverly Hillbillies
fell out of the Top Ten in season three, which is curious because
this is arguably its best season yet, with several memorable story
arcs, beginning with Jed's foray into the movie business as head of
Mammoth Pictures. The season opener, "Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul,"
contains an interesting early instance of crossover marketing as the
Clampetts watch scenes from an upcoming Rock Hudson and Doris Day
comedy, Send Me No Flowers. This third season introduces two popular
recurring characters: Movie star Dash Riprock (Larry Pennell), who
takes a shine to Elly May (Donna Douglass), and beatnik Sheldon Epps
(Alan Reed, Jr.), who comes to dig "Big Daddy Jed and his far-out
family." The Clampetts may be considered the strangest family of
millionaires ever to migrate to Beverly Hills, but they are never
objects of ridicule. Jed (Buddy Ebsen) is a fount of mountain wisdom
and common sense. Excitable Granny (Emmy-nominee Irene Ryan) holds
strong to her mountain roots (although she strums a little rock and
roll autoharp in "Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs," and goes beatnik in
"Cool School is Out"). Young 'uns Elly May and bumpkin cousin Jethro
(Max Baer, Jr.) are more receptive to assimilation. This is the
season in which Jethro, under the influence of James Bond, decides
he wants to become a "double naught spy." As with The Official
Second Season set, you have the option to watch each episode with
the original sponsor openings and tags. This set also contains the
corny but fun1993 reunion special, "The Legend of the Beverly
Hillbillies," a where-are-they-now retrospective featuring Ebsen,
Baer, and Douglass, as well as guest stars Reba McIntyre, Roy Clark,
Ray Charles, Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as their Green Acres
characters, and, of all people, G. Gordon Liddy. Scorned by critics,
The Beverly Hillbillies gets the last laugh. To paraphrase Granny:
There are three things in life that improve with age: Corn squeezins,
possum stew, and The Beverly Hillbillies. --Donald Liebenson
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom that was one of the
most successful comedies in the history of American television. It
ranked among the top 12 most watched series on television for seven
of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the #1 series of the year with
a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television
episodes of alltime. The series was about a hillbilly family
transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their
land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September
26, 1962 – September 7, 1971 and comprises 274 episodes—106 in
black-and-white (1962–1965) and 168 in color (1965–1971). The show
starred Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett, Irene Ryan as Daisy May
"Granny" Moses, Donna Douglas as Elly May Clampett and Max Baer, Jr.
as Jethro Bodine.
