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 ...

Take any successful television series—regardless of decade, genre or format—and you'll almost always find a cast of actors who become so associated with their roles that, to the audience, they are ...

The Beverly Hillbillies helped elevate actor Max Baer, Jr.’s net worth, but that’s not the only way he’s made millions. Baer proved his abilities in business even after The Beverly Hillbillies went ...

FARMVILLE — It’s been more than half a century since folks could “come and listen to a story about a man named Jed” — except in reruns. Television audiences said goodbye to Jed and all his kin back in ...

When CBS President Les Moonves began looking for someone to make the trip from the rural South to upscale Los Angeles for a reality-based remake of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” he wasn’t expecting Dee ...

Reelz announced Sunday that it has ordered the new reality series "Hollywood Hillbillies," and renewed its first reality series, "Beverly Hills Pawn" for a second season. Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard ...

Donna Douglas, the Pride native who rose to television fame as the critter-loving, effervescent Elly May Clampett in the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. Charlene Smith, who was ...

Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett on the CBS sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” died Friday, NBC affiliate WAFB reports. She was 81. TMZ reports that Douglas died at her home in Louisiana, ...

Buddy Ebsen, the hoofer-turned-actor who danced with Shirley Temple in the movies but achieved his greatest success on television as the folksy Clampett family patriarch on “The Beverly Hillbillies” ...