The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies
Created by	Paul Henning
Starring	Buddy Ebsen Irene Ryan Donna Douglas Max Baer Jr. Raymond Bailey Nancy Kulp
Opening theme	"The Ballad of Jed Clampett" played by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, sung by Jerry Scoggins
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	274 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Al Simon Martin Ransohoff
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Filmways CBS Television Network
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 26, 1962 (1962-09-26) – March 23, 1971 (1971-03-23)
Related
Petticoat Junction Green Acres
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The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. It had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri who move to posh Beverly Hills, California after striking oil on their land.^[1] The show was produced by Filmways and was created by Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: Petticoat Junction and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city model of The Beverly Hillbillies.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, ranking as the No.1 series of the year during its first two seasons, with 16 episodes that still remain among the 100 most-watched television episodes in American history.^[2] It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. It remains in syndicated reruns, and its ongoing popularity spawned a 1993 film adaptation by 20th Century Fox.^[3]