Season 9 • Episode 24
LatestFortune hunter Dick Bremerkamp schemes to marry Elly May.
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Acting
Irene Ryan's Granny—comedic timing from another dimension
Writing
Paul Henning's wordplay sharper than it had any right to be
Production
That mansion exterior became iconic 1960s visual shorthand
Creator
Paul Henning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The mansion exterior was actually the Kirkeby Estate in Bel Air—real oil money built it, which is almost too perfect.
The show invented 'hillbilly' as televisual comfort food while quietly mocking both coastal elites AND its own protagonists—1960s centrism in sitcom form.
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