‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ premiered on CBS in the fall of 1962, chronicling the misadventures of the Clampetts, a family from the Ozark mountains of Missouri who become suddenly wealthy when they strike oil on their property and move to Southern California. The series starred Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett, Donna Douglas as his daughter Elly May, and Irene Ryan as ‘Granny’ Daisy Mae. The show’s opening sequence showed the Clampetts arriving in Beverly Hills in their overloaded truck, with
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