The Beverly Hillbillies. Premiering on Sept. 26, 1962, the series followed Buddy Ebsen's Jed Clampett, who, after discovering ...

Take a successful television series — it really doesn't matter the decade or whether you're talking about a comedy or drama — and you'll find an ensemble of actors who, as far as the television ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But what happened off-camera was just as fun, whether it was cast parties in costume, surprise visitors on set or moments of quiet ...

Buddy Ebsen was a father to six daughters and one son ...

Buddy Ebsen had a brush with death before he found fame as a hillbilly in Beverly Hills. The actor, who would have turned 115 on April 2, was originally cast at the Tin Woodman in 1939’s "The Wizard ...

Who doesn’t love a good rags-to-riches story? In 1962, CBS struck gold with The Beverly Hillbillies cast in a sitcom about a backwoods family who packed up and moved from the Ozarks to California ...

Kulp and Ebsen didn’t have a particularly warm relationship on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies. Years after the series ended, Ebsen kept their The Beverly Hillbillies feud going by agreeing to ...

Donna Douglas, who played hillbilly bombshell Elly May Clampett on the baby-boomer-beloved 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, has died. She was 81. Her family confirmed the death Friday at her home ...

When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...