Clampett Oil courted disaster when an oil tanker spilled 20,000 barrels of crude in the Gulf of Alaska last June: “I’m mad as a mule chewing on bumblebees,” owner Jed said in a press ...
The sitcom revolved around Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen, whose Tin Man character from "The Wizard of Oz" was once seen as gross), the folksy, kind-hearted patriarch of his small family. He strikes it ...
W hen The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, few could have predicted just how popular it would become. The sitcom followed the Clampetts, a poor but good-hearted rural family ...
Indeed, Ebsen - who began his career as a dancer in a 1928 Ziegfeld production; moved to movies, including "Captain January" with Shirley Temple and "Davy Crockett''; then hit his pinnacle as Jed ...
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood to which they still cannot quite adjust.