Jed Clampett's cousin Pearl convinces him to move his entire family to Beverly Hills after he strikes oil and hits it rich. She agrees to let them use her car, but only on the condition that they will look after her son, Jethro. But when they get to Beverly Hills, big city life proves to be more than they ever expected.
Miss Hathaway accidentally believes that the Clampetts are a group of incompetent backwoods hillbillies instead of the millionaires that they really are.
While at their brand new mansion, the Clampetts start to notice that all of the fancy amenities just can't match up to life in the country.
The Clampetts believe that Mrs. Drysdale has a serious drinking problem after the way that Mr. Drysdale describes her to them and they try to help her.
Jed invests in some cows, pigs, chickens, and other animals after Mr. Drysdale suggests that they invest some of their money in stock.
The Clampetts get a big surprise when they go out to meet their new neighbors in Beverly Hills, not realizing that it's Halloween.
Mr. Drysdale makes an attempt to teach the Clampetts how to be rich by lending them the use of his servants.
Jed sends Jethro to an exclusive private boy's school, shocking the headmistress when she realizes he has been entered into the fifth grade.
There is nothing but confusion when Mr. Drysdale tries to set up Elly May and his son, Sonny. Elly Mae, just learning the finer points of dating, mistakes Sonny's advances and believes he is attacking her.
Granny pushes Elly Mae back into the dating field with Sonny, despite Jed's displeasure. When Sonny tries wooing Elly Mae but it once again ends in disaster. Feeling like a failure, Granny makes Elly Mae a spell that will charm Sonny into coming back. The spell seems to work and Sonny tries to change her into s society woman, but instead he comes running out looking like a hillbilly.
Granny tries to get Elly Mae and Sonny married before Pearl can get Jethrine married. The race begins as Granny tries to get Sonny to propose, while Pearl picks Jasper Depew as Jethrine's beau.
The Clampett's begin a feud with the Drysdale's when Sonny decides he doesn't want to marry Elly Mae.
Missing the feel of Christmas back in the hills, the Clampett's head back home to spend the holidays with Pearl and Jethrine. While there, they scheme to get Mr. Brewster to propose to Pearl.
The Clampetts try to help Pearl catch Mr. Brewster's eye before they head back home to "Californy." She takes Mr. Brewster to a showing of Ben Hur at the local theater in hopes of romancing him.
Jed sets up a plan with Mr. Brewster to have him propose to Pearl, stating that she will say no to him if done in front of a crowd. But things go haywire when Pearl double crosses him and accepts.
The Clampett's head back home to "Californy" along with cousin Pearl and Jethrine in tow. But when they return, Granny and Pearl begin competing over doing the chores and even sabotage each other's meal they created.
Granny and Pearl are still at odds when Pearl suggests that Granny is too old to be working around the house and should be resting her tired bones. Jed tries to lighten things up by taking the girls out for a sightseeing tour around "Californy." But when they return, things start up again when Pearl grills up a dinner while Granny cooks another in the kitchen.
Jed and Granny mistakenly believe that the Drysdale's are having marriage problems. While Mrs. Drysdale is away as, is their housekeeper, Miss Jane suggests that Mr. Drysdale hire Pearl as his housekeeper. This would help the Clampett's out by getting Pearl and Granny apart. But things get confused when Pearl misunderstands his call, believing he is proposing to her by asking her to be "the head housekeeper."
Mrs. Drysdale has a problem with Pearl's yodeling lessons she is giving when it causes Duke, the family dog, to run into their yard and begin howling. After a call to the dog catcher and the police, Duke is taken away, but the lessons continue when the policeman enjoys the sound of Pearl's voice. When Elly Mae returns home with Duke and a few more dogs, the noise level really skyrockets when the yodeling/howling begins again.
Pearl receives a letter from a pair of former beau's, Lester and Earl, who both want to invite her to an engagement. Jed believes they are asking to marry her, but they are already married to two gorgeous women. Their wives believe that their men are interested in Pearl and want a glimpse of the competition, but mistake Elly Mae for Pearl.
Granny and Pearl are at each other's throats again as Granny keeps letting in Elly Mae's dogs when Pearl gives her yodeling lessons. Having been discovered, Granny calls the police to file a noise complaint, but when the police arrive they find Granny's still, in which she believes Pearl was involved with.
Mrs. Drysdale has set up a wedding between her dog and Mlle. Denise's dog Colette. But when Mlle. Denise arrives at the Clampett mansion by mistake, Duke and Colette run off together. Jed cleans himself up for a bit of courting with Mlle. Denise too. As Duke howls during the night, Colette runs off with him, leaving Claude at the alter.
Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane come to the Clampett's rescue when a confidence man, H.H.H. Jones, sells Jed a bunch of Hollywood monuments, such as the Hollywood Bowl.
Mr. Drysdale makes Jed a Vice President of the bank so he will be eligible to be his partner at a skeet shooting competition. When his competition finds out about Drysdale's ringer, Hacker is allowed to choose his partner from anyone in the bank. He in turn chooses the cleaning lady...Granny.
Mrs. Drysdale is expecting Priscilla Ralph Alden Smith Standish, an expert on antiques, to arrive and appraise the items in her home. Ms. Standish is sent to the Clampett's by mistake and is intrigued by the finds within their home. When Mrs. Drysdale asks where Ms. Standish is, Pearl reveals that she is tied up in a trunk at the Clampett's, mistakingly thinking that she being held captive.
Ms. Standish is investigating the Clampett family history, believing that they may have preceded the arrival of the Mayflower. Her findings show that if Jed's Great Great Grandfather is Ezekiel Clampett, that they will have come from a famous family.
A gold digger secretary has her eyes set on Jed's money as she glamorizes herself to bring a set of papers to the Clampett home to be signed.
Granny and Jed are distrustful of an IRS man that Mr.Drysdale sends over to collect their taxes due. They believe he is a revenuer and refuse to allow him on their land.
Jed and Jethro meet up with Mr. Drysdale and Dodger manager Leo Durocher, to play a round of golf. Jed's impression of the game is that they will be hunting these golfs, a hard to catch, underground dwelling critter. When Leo sees Jethro handle a baseball, he immediately signs him to a baseball contract to play for the Dodgers.
Mlle. Denise is arriving from France with Colette's newborn puppies in tow. Duke heads to the Drysdale's when they arrive to see Colette, and as Mrs. Drysdale takes a look at the newborn pups, she realizes that Duke is the father and not her Claude. Meanwhile, Jed takes out Mlle. Denise for a date with Miss Jane as their translator and Jethro as her date.
Mr. Drysdale hopes to hide the Clampett's from a visiting Mr. Van Ransohoff, the bank chairman of the board. He is afraid that the COB will fire him if he sees what kind of clients that Mr. Drysdale has enlisted for the bank. A date on a yacht is canceled as Miss Jane and Mr. Van Ransohoff accept a dinner invitation at the Clampetts.
A day at the bank ends with a lawsuit for the Clampetts when a car rams into them in front of the building. Once the Johnson's discover they are loaded, they decide to sue them. While in court the Johnson's feign an injury and claim the Clampett's were drunk when they hit each other. Jed, unaware that the Johnson's are talking about him refuses to leave the stand until his story can be heard.
When Jethro comes home from school stating he needs to see a doctor who can fill out a Certificate Of Health for the schools records, he inadvertently uses Mrs. Drysdale's doctor, a psychiatrist. Jethro describes his family to Dr. Twombly, who then wants to meet the family for himself.
Dr. Twombly is fascinated by the story Jethro has told describing Granny and wishes to meet with her. Pearl has wishes of meeting the doctor herself and Granny helps her out by creating a love charm. But when Dr. Twombly comes looking for Granny, she believes she has made a mistake with her charm.
While a number of workers at the bank come down with an illness at the same time, the Clampett's decide to give the bank a helping hand. Jed takes over as president with Elly Mae as his secretary. A man named Mr. Wilson stops by to get a loan to open a chicken ranch. Jed was more than happy to help out, which earns the bank the title of the friendliest bank in Beverly Hills.
Jethro's friend from school, Armstrong Dueser McHugh III, comes for a visit. Armstrong is a pampered child who isn't allowed to do anything on his own. While at the Clampett's he gets a taste of what life is like and refuses to go back home to his sheltered life.
In order to appease Granny, Jed fakes an illness so that she can resume the "medical" practice for which she was famous back in the Ozarks.
Jane Hathaway is surprised to learn that the Clampetts expect Beverly Hills to celebrate Possum Day (a backwoods tradition), and to have a Possum Day Parade.
Granny decides she want to plant her own food garden and plans to dig up the front yard of their Beverly Hills mansion
Ellie starts a new trend in fashion after she enrolls in a finishing school for snooty rich girls.
The Fenwicks visit the Clampett mansion, sporting their new Hillbillly look.
Jethro is ready to go a courtin' so Jed sends him out to find true love and tells him he will know it when he hears music playing. Jethro in return brings home a topless dancer with a transitor radio in her bra.
Lovesick Jethro decides to get married to stripper Chickadee Laverne.
The Clampetts receive word that their multi-million dollar bank account is overdrawn to the sum of $34.70.
After meeting up with small-time actor Jake Clampett (no relation), the hillbilly Clampetts end up going Hollywood in a big way.
The Clampetts befriend their Thanksgiving dinner, a hand shaking turkey called Herman.
Mrs. Drysdale and the Clampetts schedule garden parties at the same time.
Elly is out of control so Jed decides that the solution is to find her a step-mother.
The Clampetts try to get more cultured by participating in some of the more refined customs of Beverly Hills.
Banker Drysdale sends the Clampetts numerous expensive gifts for Christmas which end up befuddling them.
Granny's TV western hero "Quirt Manly" falls "short" of her expectations, but wins a spot in Elly's heart.
Granny mistakes a kangaroo for a giant jackrabbit.
Slimy Lafe Crick pays the Clampetts a visit from the Ozarks hoping to marry his daughter off to Jethro.
That low down good for nothin' "Lafe Crick" returns to Beverly Hills to try and steal Jed's money.
Ellie Mae is a contestant in the Miss Beverly Hills beauty contest.
Shiftless Lafe Crick shows up on the Clampett's doorstep once again. This time he's trying to make peace with Granny by giving her a paw paw tree.
Lafe Crick tries again to get his hands on the Clampett fortune by having is no-talent assclown son, Dub, woo Ellie Mae.
The Clampetts take themselves a most unusual fishing trip--at Marineland amusement park.
Ellie Mae takes one of her sick critters to a handsome veterinarian.
Jane Hathaway tries her hand at matchmaking for Jed with disastrous results.
Granny decides to take on the Los Angeles Weather Bureau with her old-fashioned methods of weather prognostication.
Granny gives out samples of her potent spring tonic to several of her Beverly Hills neighbors.
The Clampetts mistake the opening of a new bank for an old-fashioned barn raising.
Jed is followed by those wanting to discover the secrets of his financial successes.
The Clampetts purchase the most exclusive dress shop in Beverly Hills.
After purchasing an exclusive dress shop in Beverly Hills, Granny re-designs the place to suit her own tastes.
A dolled up Ellie Mae is mistaken for a European princess by the snooty Mrs. Drysdale.
Drysdale incorporates Jed for tax purposes.
Heaven help the streets of Beverly Hills when Granny decides that she must learn how to drive a motor vehicle.
To cure Granny's homesickness, Drysdale has a cabin built for her on the grounds of the Clampett estate.
Mrs. Drysdale wants to tear down Granny's newly built cabin which she considers an eyesore.
The big day has finally arrived. Jethro Bodine will be graduating from the sixth grade.
Unwittingly Jed turns into a befuddled movie mogul after Drysdale, his banker, acquires the control of Mammoth Pictures Corp. (Part 1 of 4)
The Clampetts are overjoyed to come across a rustic village on the back lot of the Mammoth Pictures studio and decide to live there. (Part 2 of 4)
The Clampetts are invited to play some roles in an epic motion picture being made at their new studio. (Part 3 of 4)
Drysdale's plans to destroy Mammoth Studios are thwarted by the Clamplets and an unlikely ally, movie critic Hedda Hopper (playing herself). (Part 4 of 4)
Granny grows mad with professional jealousy as Jeff is granted an honorary "doctor" diploma from a local college.
Snobbish Mrs. Drysdale concocts a plan to get rid of the rude Clampetts off her distinguished neighborhood.
Jethro returns to Marineland hoping to be accepted as a US Navy marine.
A rock 'n' roll idol pays a visit to his old friends, The Clampetts, and receives some unpleasant surprises.
Granny decides it's time for Jed to meet a worthy woman so she summons a potential wife for him.
Mrs. Drysdale looks for money support for a ballet and has no other choice but turning to Jeff.
The Clampetts rent a room to a British butler. The butler turns out to be Drysdales' manservant.
Butler Pinckney's job of culturing the hillbillies becomes an uphill battle.
After learning Mrs. Drysdale's health is frail, the Clampetts resolve to visit her at the hospital.
The Clampetts consider they can heal Mrs. Drysdale better than the hospital doctors so they proceed to take her to their mansion.
A movie actress makes Jethro fall head over heels for her.
A leading actor, Dash Riprock, confuses Drysdale's secretary for the real actress, Elly May.
The Clampetts are baffled about Jane Hathaway's charm over men, when poor Ellie May loses her second boyfriend, Dash, who has fallen the for the plain secretary.
A reckless artist stays at the Clampetts' mansion after he crashes his car when he sees Elly May in bathing suit.
A dashing playboy courts granny. The man has been hired by Mr. Drysdale.
Granny gets addicted to gambling when she attempts to save Jed from falling into it.
Jethro's illusion of becoming a brain surgeon is put aside for his aspiration to be a spy.
Drysdale is shocked to learn his favorite clients' fortune has been grabbed by a rival banker out of his bank.
Drysdale is confronted by Granny who's willing to see her share of the Clampetts' fortune.
Mr. Brewster plans to honeymoon with his new bride in a fancy hotel, but to his surprise ends up in the Clampet's little old cabin.
Two visiting friends enlighten Granny as she feels a little homesick.
Jed sees a chance to wed the returning Countess Maria who comes to visit after firing her chauffeur.
A hippie and his gang ask Jed for some money assistance when their hangout is in peril.
Granny becomes a beatnik when invents a new hippie dance.
Jed is lure with a top position at a bank in order to convince him of changing his bank.
The Clampetts come to the assistance of a bookkeeper who was fired at the bank to be replaced with a computer.
Grany feels disappointed when Beau, a likely groom for Elly May, jilts her. So she schemes to change the young man's mind.
The Clampetts want to treat well oil tycoon Brewster and his refined wife after the hillbillies ascertain Brewster's intention to build his new house.
Fed up with Beverly Hills lifestyle, Granny forsakes her family and decides to return to her beloved hills but a detour leads her to Las Vegas.
When one of Mrs. Drysdale's plans to get rid of The Clampetts misfires, the hillbillies display their artistic skills in painting and sculpture.
Drysdale tries to get Jed to buy a yacht and join his yacht club. After a few false starts, Jed collects an admiral's costume the clan heads to the waterfront, where Jed boards a Navy vessel, thinking it a yacht available for purchase. The Navy men confuse Jed with an admiral and try to impress him.
Granny believes Mrs. Drysdale has turned herself into a bird, and sets about undoing the "evil magic."
After concluding an oil deal with Jed and O.K. Oil, a sheik trys to give Jed four dancing girls - and tries to take Elly as one of his wives. That ends badly for him.
Jethro, still trying to become a spy, opens a spy office in Drysdale's bank. Trouble is, it's the office two bank robbers need to use to enter the vault covertly! They send Jethro on various wild goose chases by pretending to be spies themselves.
The Clampetts may return home to celebrate possum day. Drysdale doesn't want that to happen, so he explains that there will be a possum day in Beverly Hills, and then he has to make it happen.
Drysdale continues trying to find a city that will have a Possum Day Parade. Granny intends to be Possum Queen, and believes Mrs. Drysdale is her competition. Drysdale fosters this belief with fake radio ads. Finally Drysdale must bite the bullet and explain to the Clampetts that he could not find a town to host Possum Day.
Jethro dates the Drysdales' new maid Linda, but is she interested in him, or his new color television set?
Convinced Elly will die an old maid if she doesn't take a hand in things, Granny attempts to find Elly a man. And she does - Miss Hathaway's man. When the Clampetts learn that they struggle to get rid of him.
A new neighbor moves in, and then visits the Clampetts. She's the first nice rich person they've met in Beverly Hills - but she isn't rich. She's actually a maid who works FOR the new neighbor. But Drysdale tries to set her up with Jed and Granny liquors her up with rheumatism medicine.
Drysdale wants the business of Lucas Sebastian, a billionaire, so he organizes a financial syndicate. Jed can't get to the meeting because Jethro's new invention makes his car quit, so he goes to see Sebastian at a health club and completely misinterprets what he sees there.
Jed and Granny realize Elly and Jethro need to meet people there own age, so they throw a party that nearly gets out of control.
Mrs. Drysdale's father Lowell Farquhar comes to visit her, and decides he wants to meet Jed. Using tricks, he tries to beat Jed at various games, but is constantly surprised at the hillbilly's skill and luck.
Mrs. Drysdale's father, Lowell Farquhar, tries to find someone to go t o Las Vegas with him. He finally sets his sights on Granny, which irritates his son-in-law but makes Jed happy - because Granny thinks Farquhar has proposed marriage!
Jethro has settled on another career: five-star general. To that end, he tries to get into West Point, but Drysdale persuades him to go to Haven Hurst military academy instead. Trouble is, that school is for much younger children...
Granny can't persuade Dr. Clyburn to offer his patients her "cold cure" so she sets herself up in business for "doctorin'."
Tracy Richards wants to purchase and renovate the Clampett estate. Unfortunately, it's not for sale. She tries to buy her way into the hearts of the Clampetts to get what she wants; Drysdale does a balancing act to get her business while keeping Jed's business.
Granny needs to get around, and can't drive. Driving lessons turn out poorly, so she decides what she needs is a horse. But Mr. Drysdale misunderstands what kind of horse she wants, and she ends up with Ladybelle, a race horse.
Granny hitches her thoroughbred racehorse Ladybelle to a buggy. Then she decides to purchase a horse and buggy for Mrs. Drysdale so they can race. What she doesn't know about is the promise Mrs. Drysdale extracted from her husband...
Upon learning that a cat burglar is working Beverly Hills, Elly fears he will steal her cats and kittens, so she fills the mansion with traps to prevent it. But then she shows a nice detective all of her precautions - only he's not so nice, and not really a detective...
Granny sees an ostrich, and believes it is a chicken that drank some of her special growth formula, created for her tomatoes. She now faces the task of shrinking the monster back down to its proper size...
Drysdale's son Sonny returns home, and both Granny and his father hatch plans to marry him to Elly.
The Clampetts offer the Brewsters advice about childbirth, unaware that the Brewsters plan to adopt their baby. Jethro has a project of his own - he wants to open a Kitty Kat Klub.
Jed decides Jethro needs a job, so he sends him down to Drysdale's bank. There Jethro meets a magician named Marvo the Magnificent, and decides that his new job will be magician. He has about as much luck with it as he has with most of his ideas.
Granny decides to clean the mansion, and drives Jed nuts. He has Jethro and Elly convince her she's too old to do that kind of heavy work, and it works - too well: Granny becomes convinced she'll be sent to an old folks home.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs return, bringing Gladys Flatt with them. She hopes for a singing career. Drysdale dresses down Jane for joyriding because she was singing along with Flatt and Scruggs while driving them to see the Clampetts, so she quits.
Jethro's newest idea - becoming an astronaut - works out about as well as all his others. So he teams up with Jane Hathaway, who quit her bank job, and they decide to become folk singers.
Ulla Bergstrom is an actress studying the backwoods lifestyle of the Clampetts to prepare for a movie role. They mistake her for a sharecropper's daughter and feel sorry for her.
Jethro hires himself to Mr. Drysdale. While cleaning out the garage, he discovers a magazine that explains how he should be living his life - as an international swinger! He gets himself a bachelor pad and heads to the Kit Kat Klub to get himself some girls...
Miss Jane's birdwatching friend Caspar Biddle comes to town, just as Granny and Jed embark on another campaign to find a man for Elly. Drysdale tries to get Dash Riprock to ask her out, but meanwhile she's drawn to Professor Biddle.
Jethro gets a job as Dash Riprock's double, without really understanding what a double actually does. He soon finds out, though, getting hurt several times! He does find a girlfriend, Debbie, but her motives aren't on the up and up, and eventually Jethro realizes he's discovered another bad career choice.
Granny has made some of her tonic. She tries to get a dose into Dash Riprock so he'll propose to Elly, but Jane has a different plan: get a dose into Caspar Biddle, her birdwatching friend. Expectedly, it goes wrong for both Granny and Jane.
Jed tries to get girls off Jethro's mind by sending him to college, but Jethro's poor education makes it hard to find a college that will take him. Finally, Jethro finds a school - a secretarial school. And if he graduates, Drysdale will have to give him a job at the bank...
Granny wants to get a party telephone line installed inside the Clampett mansion. Chaos ensues.
Granny enters Elly Mae in a soup making contest in hopes of finding her a husband.
Jethro goes to actor Dash Riprock and asks him for advice about women.
Two schemers set out to bilk the Clampetts by taking compromising photographs of Jed.
Colonel Foxhall and his co-hort, Emmaline Fetty, return. This time they try to blackmail banker Drysdale.
When Elly Mae and Jethro decide they want a gorilla to help with their household chores, Drysdale hires an actor to dress in a gorilla costume.
Herby the gorilla (actually an actor dressed in a costume) returns after the Clampetts begin missing him.
Granny and Drysdale talk Jed into running for Beverly Hills Smog Commissioner.
The Clampetts decide to help out a couple of dance instructors who are down on their luck.
Looking for something to do, Jed joins the board of directors of the oil company that discovered the black gold on his land.
When rival banker Cushing begins dating Granny in hopes of getting her money for his bank, Drysdale gets his father-in-law to woo her as well.
The Clampetts set out to help silent movie queen Gloria Swanson after they mistakenly believe that she's fallen on hard times financially.
Jethro joins the male equivalent of a female birdwatching society in order to get a date.
Jed and Granny get hired to appear in a television commercial for a brand of soap.
In the spirit of Christmas, the Clampetts decide to do something nice for Mrs. Drysdale.
As part of a new advertising gimmick, Drysdale hires actors to dress up as Martians but the Clampetts believe they are the real thing.
The Clampetts are paid a visit by the mayor of their hometown of Bug Tussle but it turns out that he has an ulterior motive for his trip.
Granny decides to retire from her homespun practice of "medicine" and wants either Jethro or Elly Mae to takeover for her.
Deciding that their fortune has become a burden, Jed gives it all to three needy college girls.
The Clampetts get involved in a land boundary dispute with a Native American tribe back home in the hills and Granny mistakenly believes they are preparing to attack.
The Clampetts try their hands at computer dating.
Granny and Jed throw Elly Mae a coming out party but Mrs. Drysdale schemes to sabotage it.
In his latest career move, Jethro decides to try his hand at becoming a bullfighter.
Mrs. Drysdale hires two gypsies to scare the Clampetts out of Beverly Hills.
An exiled monarch, who is now penniless, begins dating Elly Mae.
The Clampetts mistake a hippopotamus for a giant hog and Granny tries to buy it from Drysdale so she can cook it for vittles.
Once again, Granny is selling her spring tonic and once again she gets into trouble because of it.
Flatt and Scruggs visit the Clampetts again this time for a screen test for Gladys Flatt.
Drysdale hires Elly Mae and Jethro to watch after his nasty nephew who immediately begins snookering the Clampetts.
After things begin disappearing from the Drysdale home, Granny finds herself as the prime suspect.
Jethro believes that Jed has inherited a castle in England and they pack up and jet over the pond to the motherland in order to take up residence.
As the Clampetts arrive in London, Granny loses her medicines to customs she had brought over and tries to purchase some more at a pharmacy. The pharmacist believes Granny is following a recipe for a potion the witches created from Macbeth.
Having finally arrived at the Clampetts new castle, Granny mistakes a dog for their cousin Marcus and Jethro begins on a quest as a knight in shining armor searching for a damsel in distress.
The Clampetts head back home to Beverly Hills after they discover they may have started the war of the roses. Having felt that his rightful birthright has been stolen from him, Jethro decides to live his life as Robin Hood had, and makes Griffith Park his Sherwood Forest.
Granny, Jed and Mr. Drysdale search for Jethro and Elly May who are continuing with the quest to live as Robin Hood. Their band of merry men has grown with the addition of the hippies in the park, who seem interested in smoking some crawdads.
When Jethro receives a draft notice in the mail, he takes the greeting too far and purchases some uniforms and a tank, which he drives around Griffith Park. While Mr.Drysdale is forced to wear a uniform, a policeman believes he was responsible for his capture during the war.
Granny returns home and finds out that Jethro is going for his Army physical. She puts cork in his ears and splints his leg so he will fail the exam. Although a General feels Jethro is patriotic for wanting to join in his condition, the Army doctor believes he is faking so can dodge the draft.
Mr. Drysdale sets Elly May up on a date with Mr. Universe, Troy Apollo. Jed and Granny believe his swollen muscles are from a disease and plan to cure him.
A mistake has Jed offering to buy up a cemetery for Granny to plant crops on. The owners of the land believe that Jed is a killer, planning on using the land to bury the Green's, Granny and Mrs. Drsydale.
A socialite from the hills back home is coming for a visit with intentions of marrying Jed. When Jed finds out her plan he arranges for Adeline to meet Mrs. Drysdale, who is more than happy to when she finds out that she is a socialite.
Granny's new batch of moonshine has her believing she is seeing monsters in the pool, which is really Jethro practicing to be a frogman. Jed convinces Mr. Drysdale to help Jethro change his mind and gets him interested in comic books. But this only spurns his interest in building a rocket ship and heading off to find some Moon Maidens.
Jethro heads off to join the Army reserves and walks into the middle of a Civil War reenactment. Jethro believes the war has started up again and runs home to tell the family, and Granny takes up arms in hopes of the South winning this time.
Granny takes over the war for the Confederates when she, Jethro and Elly May prepare for Civil War II. Mr. Drysdale, believing they understand it is only a movie, joins in as a Confederate to get in good with the Clampetts...until real bullets are fired.
Granny has captured a man she believes is General Grant and is holding him captive. Meanwhile, she is upset at Mr. Drysdale and Captain Blake for running from the battle. While Granny takes a liking to Gen. Grant, he in turn has eyes for Elly May. Jethro has made it to the reserves to attend his physical.
When a TV producer comes to the Clampett's home to do a screen test for a new show starring Dash Riprock, Jethro believes they are looking for him. Little did they know that Mr. Drysdale has suggested that Elly May's pet chimp, Bessie, would be a good fit for the part.
When Mrs. Drysdale purchases an abstract statue for an art contest, the Clampetts believe they can help her win by entering some real art. So, after covering her statue with mud, Jed and Jethro purchase a Sam Rembrandt painting while Granny enlists the help of her artistic cousin to create a new statue.
When Elly May reveals that she doesn't want to marry Dash Riprock and would find herself a farmer, Granny tries to get him interested in Miss Jane. But he isn't interested in this plan until Elly May insists that he gives up the Hollywood life for a cabin on a farm.
Miss Jane is afraid that Granny is too old to be cleaning the mansion on her own and asks Mrs. Drysdale for help finding a housekeeper. She arranges to give the Clampetts, Mrs. Meek, their mean spirited housekeeper. Granny accepts the offer but soon finds out she has no plans of cleaning up the place.
Jed believes it is time Jethro learns about the world of business and Jethro agrees to open his own restaurant, The Happy Gizzard. Mr. Drysdale sees this as a potential financial loss and rents them a run down building on restaurant row for $35 a month.
Jethro gets an idea for boosting business at The Happy Gizzard, by having the waitresses go topless as others in the area seem to be doing. No sure about what that means, Jethro mentions his idea to Mr. Drysdale, blowing his new million dollar account. Mr. Drysdale pleads to keep the new account, who insists on seeing this new restaurant. Mr. Drysdale believes he has lost the account for good until he discovers that Mr. Vanderpont was originally from the hills.
Granny's longing for the snows of a mountain Winter brings fear to Mr. Drysdale, who will do anything he can to keep the Clampetts from moving away, even if that means discovering a way to make it snow in Beverly Hills.
A grumpy Granny leads the Clampetts to add an addition to their estate, a cabin. But Mrs. Drysdale feels the shack is an eyesore and wants it removed. Granny is fit to be tied, and needs an outlet to release her tension. While watching wrestling on TV, Granny starts believing the story lines and goes to the arena to help Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm in beating up the Boston Strong Girl.
Now that Granny has won the wrestling championship belt from the Boston Strong Girl, she faces a new challenge when she hears the parents of the Boston Strong Girl want to meet with the family of Rebecca of Donnybrook Farm.
Granny asks Jethro to propose to Miss Jane after she hears that she had never had a man ask for her hand in marriage before. Jethro proposes with an expectation that she will reject him, but to his surprise she accepts. A night of sleep makes Miss Jane see the error of her ways and decides to let him down gently. But Mr. Drysdale fears that this will upset the Clampetts and he will lose their account at the bank.
After Miss Jane takes Jethro to a concert, he decides he wants to learn to play the violin as a means to meet girls. Mr. Drysdale hires Sebastian Stromboli as his instructor, but Jed and Granny fire him when they disagree on the music he is teaching Jethro and hire Fiddlin’ Sam as his replacement.
Granny mistakes a soap opera as reality when she urges Rex Goodbody, a character in a soap opera, to let her treat his condition she heard about from the TV. When Goodbody learns that Granny is rich, he hopes to marry her and get his hands on her fortune.
Granny is fed up with the amount of dogs Elly May has collected and tells Jed to get rid of them or she will leave.
A couple of coincidences has Granny believing that she can predict the future, and will do all she can to make sure the predictions come true.
Mr. Drysdale wants to make a commercial for the bank featuring the Clampetts as a poor family who had made a fortune.
Cousin Roy from back home comes for a visit and brings along his mother's health tonic, much to the dismay of Granny. Jethro and Granny get arrested when they try to make sure that the medicine doesn't work for Roy's customers.
Mr. Drysdale tells the Clampetts they now have eighty million in his bank, and lays it on about his role in increasing their wealth - so much that Jed decides the burden is too much for him. So the Clampetts decide they must find another home for their money, and they do: England! Now Mr. Drysdale has to think quickly to keep their money in his bank. But that scheme backfires, and the Clampetts wind up with the deed to Canada... or so they believe.
The Clampetts head for England, and Drysdale goes along wit them (to make sure they don't do anything foolish). If he thought the plane ride over was rough... When Granny misunderstands the actions of a neighbor, it just might mean war!
Jethro challenges the Clampetts' new English neighbor, Colonel Dumbarton, who promptly accepts, re-igniting the War of the Roses! Meanwhile, Drysdale arranges for Queen Elizabeth I to visit the castle and accept the deed to Canada. Jethro and the Colonel agree to end their feud with a joust...
Jethro spots Colonel Dumbarton's niece, Sandy, through a telescope, but by the time the Granny and Jed get their, she as moved and they see her brother, who is wearing a kilt. So they mistake him for the girl Jethro saw.
Drysdale, trying to get the Clampetts to return home, cooks up a scheme when he overhears the Castle Clampett servants discussing a ghost. He makes up a tale designed to scare Granny. After Jethro holds a seance at which the ghost "appears" the Clampetts agree to leave, but not before Drysdale gets a scare of his own.
Just home from England, Granny and her potions get called to Hooterville. But she has no idea where Hooterville is! Worse, Jethro makes himself sick accidentally eating food meant for Elly's critters.
With Granny in Hooterville, the rest of the Clampetts aren't eating very well, so Jethro takes a suggestion from Jane and hires a beautiful Italian cook! When Granny returns, she doesn't know what to make of this situation.
Granny has decided that she doesn't like having another cook in her kitchen - she doesn't like it at all! Jed knows Maria has to go, but Jethro is in love with her. Eventually Jane arranges a "cook off" between the two women, who wind up learning from each other.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs return (playing themselves). This time, they're shooting commercials for the film Bonnie and Clyde, which interests Jed. The Clampetts borrow the costumes to scare Drysdale, who then decides to shoot a crime-themed commercial for his bank that backfires...
The Clampetts head to Hooterville for Thanksgiving, meeting the various folks who dwell there, as well as Oliver and Lisa Douglas (from Green Acres) for Thanksgiving dinner.
After the Clampetts return from Hooterville and Drysdale learns about the boy Elly met there, he hires Dash Riprock to play Homer Noodleman, a country boy, and court Elly. It works, for awhile, until an angry Miss Jane exposes the scheme.
Jethro, embarrassed by his old truck, buys a couple of new cars to try out a new image. But Jed tells him to fix up the old truck, instead. He ends up basically building a new truck, leaving the old parts behind, which Granny has mechanics rebuild into the old truck. To decide which truck to keep, they race.
Sam Drucker sends Granny a letter, but she never gets it - one of Elly's critters eats it! Granny, Jed and Elly decide to spend Christmas in Hooterville.
Jed, Granny and Elly go to Hooterville for Christmas, and take Miss Jane along. On Christmas Day, she calls Drysdale to wish him a Merry Christmas, and reveals that Jed gave Sam Drucker a bank! Drucker, fearing the loss of an important account, sets out for Hooterville in Jethro's truck...
Drysdale gets himself in trouble trying to get to Hooterville: through strange circumstances he gets himself arrested for vagrancy and making moonshine in a little town called Ripley. And his employees aren't too eager to get him sprung, either...
Drysdale spent too many cold nights en route to Ripley and back, and comes down with the flu. Granny leaves him some of her patented tonic, but Elly's bear gets into the brew instead.
Jethro takes on yet another career - talent agent. He rents space on the fifth floor of the bank building, but when his own cousin Roy comes to town, he won't take him on as a client, causing Roy to become unhappy and abandon his plans to make a record. Fortunately, Elly convinces Roy to stay.
Roy starts to make his album, with the Clampett Clan supporting him, except for Jethro. Finally, faced with eviction, Jethro takes on his cousin and remakes his image. Roy makes the album but then rejects Jethro's advice, angering Jethro, who again rejects him. Then Roy's album hits big, and it's Jethro's turn to pursue his cousin...
Drysdale evicts Jethro's talent agency, but still wants the rent, so he rents the office to J.C. Enterprises - Jed's company that, among other services, provides Granny's "doctorin'" Drysdale knows they need business, so he sends bank employees up to see them.
The Clampetts continue to run "J.C. Enteprises" out of the fifth floor of Mr. Drysdale's bank building, eventually attracting the attention of a building inspector and forcing Drysdale into some execute some fancy verbal footwork in order to stay out of government hot water.
Desperate to get the Clampetts and J.C. Enterprises out of his bank, Drysdale hires a man to scare them out. But the scheme backfires.
Drysdale still has to put up with the Clampetts on the fifth floor of his building, and the matter isn't helped by the fact that his employees are using their services - and one of them is a gold digger with her sights set on Jed.
Sam Drucker wins a trip to Hollywood, so he comes to visit the Clampett Clan. Granny thinks he's come to propose and hatches a scheme to make him jealous. Jethro doesn't want Granny to move to Hooterville, so he runs interference.
Jethro's newest career choice: Indian guru. He thinks this one will help him date women. But the guru he finds to teach him the ropes is a fake - who manages to rope in Granny! Drysdale has to figure out how to keep Granny from moving to India with her new mentor.
Granny sees Mr. and Mrs Drysdale out jogging and completely misinterprets what she hears, becoming convinced that Mrs. Drysdale is beating her husband.
Granny prepares collard greens and fatback pork. The Drysdales are trying to sell their house, and Mrs. Drysdale tells prospective buyer Pat Boone that the odor is orchid fertilizer - but being a country boy, he knows better and goes to investigate.
Granny has had enough of the good life and wants to move back home in the hills. The deal is sealed when she learns that the daughter of Elverna Bradshaw from back home is set to be wed, and Granny wants to get Elly May married first. As they get set to go back home, Jethro decides he wants to remain in Beverly Hills and attend college.
The Clampetts are headed home at the right time since the Silver Dollar Fair is in full swing, where Elly May can meet a young man to marry. Meanwhile, back in Beverly Hills, Jethro is delving deep into the college atmosphere by protesting everything he comes across, including hippies. His protest has sent the hippies to the bank where Mr. Drysdale poses as one himself to help keep his bank safe from the hippies.
As the Clampetts head into the Silver Dollar City Fair, Granny has only one thing on her mind....getting Elly May a husband. While Elly May has her fun with the games, Granny points her out to the fairgoers to draw attention towards her. Back in Beverly Hills, Mr. Drysdale has put himself in charge of overseeing the mansion, Elly's pets and Jethro, so that his biggest account will be safe.
Elly May's chances of finding a husband is hampered when she enters the cake baking contest at the fair. Meanwhile back at Beverly Hills, Jethro grows weary of living alone in the mansion and heads to the hills to attend the fair with the family. Miss Jane tells him to make sure Elly May does not get married since she has found her the perfect man back in Beverly Hills.
Now that Elly May has agreed to marry Mathew Templeton back in the Ozarks, Mr. Drysdale rushes to stop the wedding before he loses the biggest account in his bank. While in the hills, Mr. Drysdale buys up the bank of Bugtussle to keep the Clampetts account.
Elly May and Granny discover that not only is Mathew, Elly's fiance, married but is also a preacher and believed Granny had wanted him to preform the ceremony. While at the Silver Dollar City Fair the meet a con-man named Shifty Shafer, who convinces the Clampetts to follow him to New York City and purchase Central Park from him.
Shifty Shafer, known as Honest John by the Clampetts, attempts to sell the family portions of New York City while showing them the sights. Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane rush to aid the Clampetts before Honest John dupes them out of their fortune.
Now that Shifty Shafer/Honest John has been kicked out of New York City, the Clampetts decide to take up residence on their new property in Central Park, by building themselves a cabin. Meanwhile, Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane have finally catch up with the Clampetts and try convincing them to return to Beverly Hills.
The Clampetts have returned to Beverly Hills and Granny begins her search for a man for Elly May again. When Elly sees a veterinarian see likes, Granny wants to help her out but is having trouble seeing without her glasses. Jethro makes a supreme sacrifice by charming Miss Jane away from the vet so that Elly could meet him, but a huge meal has put him asleep leaving Miss Jane with Jed.
Mr. Drysdale wants to get his hands on Shorty Kellem's money when he comes to Beverly Hills for a visit. Mr. Drysdale mistakes a conversation he overheard, believing Shorty has more money than Jed and will do whatever he can to woo him into his bank.
Shorty is living the high life now that Mr. Drysdale believes he has 200 million dollars, including dating four secretaries at once. But once Mr. Drysdale discovers that his fortune his in hundreds and not millions, his interest wanes.
Granny wants to get rid of Shorty and send him back home, believing he is a bad influence on the family. When he withdraws all his money from the bank, Mr. Drysdale fears it is because the women had dunked him in the pool and Jed may be next to remove his money from the bank.
The Drysdale's nephew, Lance Bradford has returned as a hero and is to be made a Vice President of the bank. But when Jethro mistakes the welcoming ceremony as being for himself after having saved a dog, he bumps his car into the stage and knocks him unconscious, When Lance awakens, he sees Elly May and falls in love with her, much to the horror of Mrs. Drysdale.
Lance Bradford may have been a hero in the Air Force, but in the field of banking he has much to learn. Mr. Drysdale earges Lance to get new accounts. Jethro says he will open a new account, depositing his whole allowance if he will teach him how to get girls.
The Clampetts head to Hooterville to visit Bobbie Jo and Steve's new baby. While there, Steve tells Jed that the town needs a crop dusting plane. Jed makes a call to Mr. Drysdale to inform him that he needs to purchase a plane, which he mistakes as a jet. Jed informs him that he has made a deal with Howard Hewes to buy the town a plane, which Mr. Drysdale believes is the famous eccentric billionaire.
As Jed and Howard Hewes finalize plans for getting the new airport set up, Mr. Drysdale decides to come down and meet Mr. Hewes in person. He is elated to meet the billionaire until he sees his signature and realizes that this is a different Howard Hughes.
Jed finds out that Shorty had never left Beverly Hills and is living in their cellar. When a friend from back home, Shad Heller arrives they decide that Shorty should marry Elverna Bradshaw from back home.
Jed has Mr. Drysdale arrange a bachelor party for Shorty, creating an old fashioned Oriental slave auction with Shorty acting as a sheik with a harem.
Shorty and Elverna's wedding day has arrived and he is in a panic. He will do anything to escape being married, including making Elverna believe he is a gambler since her family has had a past with gambling. Meanwhile back at the bank, Mr. Drysdale is in hot water over a bonus he hasn't paid his secretary, and her brothers have come to collect.
Shorty is still trying to prevent being a married man by sowing his wild oats at the bank with the secretaries. Miss Jane and Jed hope to make him remain interested in Elverna by pasting her face on a picture of a beauty pageant winner. That would have worked until he saw her in her bathing suit.
Shorty can no longer be trusted and the Clampetts have built a cage to hold me until the ceremony. With Jethro as the guard, Shorty makes his escape and is found back at the bank with Gloria. When it is discovered that a judge can marry the couple, Jed rushes Elverna to the bank to finally complete the wedding.
The Clampetts scheme to give Gloria a glimpse of what her new life will be like now that she has married Shorty. Jed tells Granny to fix up the cabin for her while Shorty is put back in his cage. After a day of farm work, Shorty gets a look at his new bride, complete with ratted hair and a dirty face.
While the Clampetts join Granny in the cabin, Shorty uses the mansion as a hotel for women, inviting all the secretaries from the bank to spend the day. When Jethro hears about Shorty's idea, he sneaks out to join him.
While the hotel for women is in full swing, Jean's brothers want Mr. Drysdale to explain why their sister is not at work and is living in the mansion. Mr. Drysdale tells them that he is running the hotel as a charity, to keep Jean's brothers from beating on him. But when they get there they find her at work in the garden.
Honest John returns with the prodding of his wife, to con the Clampetts out of their fortune. His scheme this time is to tell Jed he needs funding for his drilling of the San Bernardino Mountains to clean up the smog from the air. Jed tells Mr. Drysdale he need some money for a drilling project, which makes him believe he has found more oil.
Mr. Drysdale gets involved in the scheme of removing the smog of California when he fears that Jed is being duped. Honest John and his wife, Flo work together, as she disguises herself as Shifty's Spanish speaking mother. They are close to getting away with the money when Flo is knocked unconscious. Granny gives her a dose of tonic to revive her, which makes Flo tell the truth.
Jethro considers he must do something to eradicate smog from L.A. and comes up with a new car. Drysdale concocts a scheme to convince Jed of returning his money. He uses a comedian to impersonate President Nixon.
Believing that the President will accept their donation to fight smog, the Clampetts head straight to Washington, only to be arrested before they can meet the President.
The poor Clampetts are thrown into a psychiatric ward after being labeled as paranoiacs. Still they persist on their idea of meeting the President.
Granny distrusts Mark Templeton, Elly's latest suitor. She considers the man something of a freak: half-man, half-frog.
Poor Granny is befuddled when a potion to cure Mark apparently backfires and the Navy frogman is turned into a frog.
Granny convinces Jane Hathaway to kiss Elly's suitor to grant a perfect transformation from frog to man.
When Granny learns that Elly's suitor is teaching him to be a frogwoman, she runs as hell to help the poor girl shun her fate.
Jed wants to become a frogman as well so he starts taking lessons. Granny, still confused about all this stuff, believes he's also got under a spell.
Drysdale attempts to win the Clampetts' favor through Mark but the navy officer suggests the banker to donate a sum on behalf of the oceanography. Drysdale gets angry and throws Mark out of his office.
Disgruntled with Elly May and Mark's love affair, Granny summons Shorty Kellems, an old suitor of Elly May's. But her plan stumbles upon some snags.
Granny's boundless imagination leads her to imagine the poor Shorty has transformed into a seal.
Drysdale's scheme to discredit Mark have the Clampetts quite convinced they're at war.
The Clampetts head to beach in order to face the onslaught of warring aliens. Surfers become the victims of this misunderstanding.
Drysdale persuades the hillbillies to remain waging the war against the Grunions.On the other hand, at his bank the secretaries rally to protest their situation.
Drysdale's secretaries form a group known as GRUN to express publicly their demand for better work conditions. The Clampetts join them in their efforts.
Jed and Jethro suffer the consequences of women's lib when Grammy and Elly May support a women's group.
Granny and Elly May ally with other women's lib supporters to resist against a Karate expert and his minions, Jed and Jethro.
Female Clampetts part company with Jed and Jethro leaving them on their own in the mansion.
Granny and Elly May return home only after being assured their rights will be respected.
Elly begins working at Drysdale's bank and becomes close friends with Ms. Hathaway. Eventually Elly May moves into Ms. Hathaway's flat.
Jethro steals away as his former ugly girlfriend announces she's coming to visit the Clampetts.
An unemployed actor sees a chance to marry a millionaire when he learns about Elly May's background. The actor woos Jane Hathaway to reach the hillbilly girl.
A fortune hunter charms everyone at the Clampett household and sets his sights into marrying Elly May.
Elly May's cheating suitor is unmasked and his plans revealed. Jethro comes out of his hideout when the wedding plans are announced.