The link below is to Amazons The Beverly Hillbillies first seasonbr and every click helps this page and every purchase you make after clickingbr the purchase helps this chammel open so please visit Amazon with the br link belowbr br br br br br The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom television seriesbr broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast br featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr.br as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozarks region br of Arkansas[1] who move to posh Beverly Hills, California after br striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways br and was created by writer Paul Henning. It was followed by two br other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: Petticoat br Junction and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-tobr -riches, country-to-city model of The Beverly Hillbillies.br br The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watchedbr programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twicebr ranking as the number one series of the year, with 16 episodesbr that remain among the 100 most-watched television episodes in history.br It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. The series br remains in syndicated reruns, and its ongoing popularity spawnedbr a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox.