In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

I kinda liked that." In 1972, approximately one year after The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled (due to the great "country purge" by CBS), the network cast Ebsen in the lead in a new detective series.

Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood to which they still cannot quite adjust.

Huffman, when initially proposing the idea, called the story a “fish out of water” scenario, where the Ozark hillbillies have ...