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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Beverly Hillbillies' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Beverly Hillbillies':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)





December 25, 1968: Christmas In Hooterville
Season 7, episode 14
W: Paul Henning, Buddy Atkinson   D: Ralph Levy

With Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Mike Minor (Steve Elliott), Linda Henning (Betty Jo Bradley Elliott), Lori Saunders (Bobbie Jo Bradley), Percy Helton (Homer Cratchit), Frank Cady (Sam Drucker), Edgar Buchanan (Uncle Joe Carson), Meredith MacRae (Billie Jo Bradley), Tom Lester (Eb Dawson).
In this repeat from Christmas of 1968, cast regulars from Petticoat Junction are guests as Granny pushes her campaign to snag Hooterville storekeeper Sam Drucker at a Christmas dinner at the Shady Rest Hotel.





September 24, 1969: Back To The Hills
Season 8, episode 1
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Rob Reiner (Mitch).
Granny urges Jed to move the family back to the hills to find a husband for Elly May.

October 1, 1969: The Hills Of Home
Season 8, episode 2
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Rob Reiner (Mitch), Walter Woolf King (Parnell), Lloyd Heller (Shad), Wini Wesson (Miss Walsh).
The Clampetts arrive in the mountain town of Silver Dollar City, where Granny starts a feud with Elverna Bradshaw. Filmed in part on location in Missouri.

October 8, 1969: Silver Dollar City Fair
Season 8, episode 3
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Jerry Brutsche (Telegrapher), Lloyd Heller (Shad), Chick Allen (Himself), Wini Wesson (Miss Walsh).
Granny angers Jed by hawking Elly May and her beauty to the crowd at a backwoods fair. He complains that she's just trying to get Elly married before Elverna Bradshaw's daughter.

October 22, 1969: Wedding Plans
Season 8, episode 5
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Jerry Brutsche (Holloway), Roger Torrey (Matthew Templeton).
The Clampetts rehearse for Elly May's wedding while Granny's rival, Elverna, is upset because her daughter hasn't got a man yet.

October 29, 1969: Jed Buys Central Park
Season 8, episode 6
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Roger Torrey (Matthew Templeton), Patricia Winters (Stewardess).
As the Clampetts prepare for Elly May's wedding, con man Shifty Shafer happens on the scene and leanrs how much the Hillbillies are worth.

November 5, 1969: The Clampetts In New York
Season 8, episode 7
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), John Cliff (Policeman), Norman Grabowski (Mugger #1), Bucklind Beery (Mugger #2), Dick Wesson (Cab Driver), Peggy Russell (Old Woman).
Con man Shifty Shafer discovers a "gold mine" in the Clampetts and sells them Central Park, plus other choice New York locales.

November 12, 1969: Manhattan Hillbillies
Season 8, episode 8
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Sammy Davis Jr. (Sergeant Patrick Muldoon), Norman Grabowski (Mugger #1), Bucklind Beery (Mugger #2), Leonard Bremen (Cab driver), Sean McClory (Officer Tim O'Sullivan).
Sammy Davis Jr. encounters the Hillbillies in New York's Central Park, where they have built a log cabin and hold a fish fry after the park is "sold" to them by a confidence man.

November 19, 1969: Home Again
Season 8, episode 9
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Brian West (Dr. Bob Graham), John Scott Lindsey (Jimmy), Judith McConnell (secretary).
The Clampetts have mixed emotions when they meet the young veterinarian who has been caring for Elly May's "critters".

November 26, 1969: Shorty Kellems Moves West
Season 8, episode 10
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Judy Jordan (Miss Switzer), Ruth Ko (Belly dancer #2), Judith McConnell (Miss Leeds), Gloria Hill (Tall woman), Lisa Britton (Belly dancer #1), Ila Britton (Third Dancing Girl).
Shorty sells his property in Silver Dollar City and comes West to visit Jed and Granny.

December 3, 1969: Midnight Shorty
Season 8, episode 11
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Judy Jordan (Miss Switzer), Ruth Ko (Dealer), Bettina Brenna (Miss Buckles), Judith McConnell (Miss Leeds).
Drysdale, trying to get Shorty to deposit money in his bank, surrounds the visiting mountaineer with girls and games.

December 17, 1969: The Hero
Season 8, episode 13
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Ruth Ko (Girl #2), Soupy Sales (Lance Bradford), Danielle Mardi (Girl #1), Gloria Hill (Girl #3), Carolyn Williamson (Girl #4).
An Air Force hero bumbles into the lives of the Hillbillies.

December 24, 1969: Our Hero The Banker
Season 8, episode 14
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Judy Jordan (Miss Switzer), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Soupy Sales (Lance Bradford), Devon Blaine (Miss Butterfield), Mady Maguire (Miss Graham).
Mrs. Drysdale makes her husband turn over his bank office to her nephew Lance, and move into the washroom.

December 31, 1969: Buzz Bodine, Boy General
Season 8, episode 15
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Mike Minor (Steve Elliott), Linda Henning (Betty Jo Bradley Elliott), Guy Raymond (Howard Hewes).
The Clampetts visit the folks at Petticoat Junction and Jethro, wearing a rented Air Force general's uniform, runs into trouble when he tries to take flying lessons from Steve.

January 7, 1970: The Clampett-Hewes Empire
Season 8, episode 16
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Mike Minor (Steve Elliott), Linda Henning (Betty Jo Bradley Elliott), Guy Raymond (Howard Hewes), Winnie Collins (Mrs. Hewes).
Jed joins a Hooterville farmer in providing a new plane and hangar for Steve's flying service. Banker Drysdale assumes that Jed has merged with billionaire Howard Hughes.

January 14, 1970: What Happened To Shorty?
Season 8, episode 17
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles), Shad Heller (Shad).
Mayor Heller of Silver Dollar City comes for a visit and he and the Clampetts find Shorty hiding in the cellar. He's afraid Granny will marry him.

January 21, 1970: Marry Me, Shorty
Season 8, episode 18
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Ruth Ko (Exotic Dancer), Susan Harris (Harem Girl), Shad Heller (Shad).
Drysdale throws Shorty a pre-marital bachelor party, and the attraction is a flock of pretty bank secretaries as "slave girls". Granny and Elverna hear about it and disguise themselves as harem girls to attend the party.

January 28, 1970: Shorty Spits The Hook
Season 8, episode 19
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Shad Heller (Shad), Cookie Gilchrist (Cookie), Earl Faison (Earl).
Jed has his hands full keeping Shorty from running out on his wedding to Elverna. Meanwhile Drysdale has his hands full too, with the burly brothers of one of his bank's secretaries.

February 4, 1970: Three-Day Reprieve
Season 8, episode 20
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Jean Bell (Sugar), Shad Heller (Shad), Mary Alice Artes (Faith), Vikki Bandlow (Grace), Elena Luck (Joy).
Shorty, still trying to escape marriage to Elverna, barricades hmself in the secretarial pool of Drysdale's bank and then doesn't want to come out.

February 11, 1970: The Wedding
Season 8, episode 21
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles), Vincent Perry (Judge Marshall), Kim Brewer (Hope).
The Clampetts decide to keep Shorty locked in a bear cage to prevent him from escaping marriage to Elverna.

February 18, 1970: Annul That Marriage
Season 8, episode 22
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Elvia Allman (Elverna Bradshaw), Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles).
Shorty is married by mistake to Drysdale's beautiful secretary, and the banker and the Clampetts try for an annulment by showing her that life back on Shorty's farm would be too rugged for a city girl.

February 25, 1970: Hotel For Women
Season 8, episode 23
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Bettina Brenna (Gloria Buckles), Jean Bell (Jean).
The Clampetts get homesick for the hills and move into a log cabin in the back yard. Meanwhile, Shorty turns the mansion into a hotel for girls.

March 4, 1970: Simon Legree Drysdale
Season 8, episode 24
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Jean Bell (Jean), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Dana Bartlette (Joy Devine), Cookie Gilchrest (Cookie), Earl Faison (Earl), Barney Elmore (Chauffeur).
Banker Drysdale gives his secretary the day off so her brothers can visit the mansion where she's staying and prove to themselves she's having the time of her life.

March 11, 1970: Honest John Returns
Season 8, episode 25
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer).
Con man Shifty Shafer returns to Beverly Hills determined to go straight, but his wife persuades him to try another confidence game on the Clampetts.

March 18, 1970: Honesty Is The Best Policy
Season 8, episode 26
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Dave Willock (Fred Hutchins).
Con man Shifty Shafer dresses his wife in a black lace mantilla to pose as his "Spanish" mother in a scheme to defraud the Clampetts.





September 15, 1970: The Pollution Solution
Season 9, episode 1
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Rich Little, Bill Beckett (Milkman), Keith Rogers (Stewardess).
Series returns for its ninth season. Banker Drysdale frantically schemes to prevent the Clampetts from donating their money to the government to solve the problem of pollution.

September 22, 1970: The Clampetts In Washington
Season 9, episode 2
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Keith Rogers (Stewardess), Richard Erdman (Guard), Al Lanti (Cab Driver).
Con man Shifty Shafer informs the Clampetts that the President doesn't even own the White House he's living in. However, Shifty will sell it to the Clampetts -- for a measly million -- so they can present it to the chief executive as a good will gift.

September 29, 1970: Jed Buys The Capitol
Season 9, episode 3
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Phil Silvers (Honest John/Shifty Shafer), Kathleen Freeman (Flo Shafer), Cliff Norton (Waiter).
Con man Shifty Shafer continues to plague the Clampetts in Washington, D.C. Shifty brings his wife Flo into the action in a scheme to sell the Hillbillies a few things -- like the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and the Pentagon.

October 6, 1970: Mark Templeton Arrives
Season 9, episode 4
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Sherry Miles (Darlene Mattingly).
Granny's all set to ring wedding bells for Elly May and a visiting Navy officer -- until she discovers his underwater preoccupation.

October 20, 1970: Don't Marry A Frogman
Season 9, episode 5
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton).
Granny's belief that Elly May's boyfriend, Navy frogman Mark Templeton, is turning into a real frog leads her to mix up a magic potion to keep him human.

October 27, 1970: Doctor, Cure My Frog
Season 9, episode 6
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Richard Deacon (Dr. Klingner).
Granny consults a psychiatrist to give modern medicine a chance to keep Navy frogman Mark Templeton from turning into a real frog.

November 10, 1970: Do You Elly Take This Frog?
Season 9, episode 7
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Richard Deacon (Dr. Klingner), Vincent Perry (Judge Marshall).
Granny's misconception that Mark Templeton, Elly May's boyfriend, is part frog, unsettles Granny's sleep and induces a horrific nightmare.

November 17, 1970: The Frog Family
Season 9, episode 8
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Richard Deacon (Dr. Klingner).
Granny is convinced that her whole family is going to the frogs when Jed and Jethro decide to join Elly May and Mark Templeton in the sport of scuba diving.

November 24, 1970: Farm In The Ocean
Season 9, episode 9
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Richard Deacon (Dr. Klingner), Warrene Ott (Sharon Klingner).
The saga of the frogs continues and Granny shows up in a psychiatrist's office with four of the little creatures, claiming they're Jeb, Elly May, Jethro and Mark Templeton.

December 1, 1970: Shorty To The Rescue
Season 9, episode 10
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton).
Escalation of Granny's frog fixation: she's sending for reinforcements to help fight the frog.

December 8, 1970: Welcome To The Family
Season 9, episode 11
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Lori Saunders (Betty Gordon).
Granny, still trying to scuttle Elly Mae's romance with Mark Templeton, thinks of a sure-fire way -- serving Mark some of her granddaughter's cooking.

December 15, 1970: The Great Revelation
Season 9, episode 12
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Roger Torrey (Mark Templeton), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson).
Granny is finally convinced that Elly May's boyfriend is a human being.

January 5, 1971: The Grunion Invasion
Season 9, episode 13
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Jerry Brutsche (Surfer), Sue Bernard (Girl).
The Clampetts man the battlements against an expected "alien" invasion -- by grunion.

January 12, 1971: The Girls From Grun
Season 9, episode 14
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Jerry Brutsche (Surfer), David Moses (Mmedic), Sue Bernard (Girl), Jane Axell (Secretary).
Banker Drysdale, still trying to trick the Clampetts into leaving their millions in his hands, plays on their sympathies by feigning combat wounds received fighting "hostile" grunion.

January 19, 1971: The Grun Incident
Season 9, episode 15
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Jane Axell (Ulla), Foster Brooks (Man), Francisco Ortega (Guard), Momo Yashima (Girl #1), Roberta Carol (Girl #2).
After his secretaries demonstrate for better working conditions, Drysdale locks them all in the bank and leaves -- to get the help of the Clampetts.

January 26, 1971: Women's Lib
Season 9, episode 16
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Momo Yashima (Susie), Shuji Nozawa (Banzai Sakito), Francisco Ortega (Guard).
Drysdale hires a karate expert to get his striking employees back in line -- but doesn't count on Granny.

February 2, 1971: The Teahouse Of Jed Clampett
Season 9, episode 17
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Charles Lane (Foster Phinney), Lori Saunders (Betty Gordon), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Shuji Nozawa (Banzai Sakito), Momo Yashima (Japanese Girl #1), Sumi Haru (Japanese Girl #2), Kazuka Sakura (Japanese Girl #3), Miko Mayama (Japanese Girl #4).
While Granny and Elly May pursue the course of women's liberation, Banzai the karate champ moves the women of his household into the Clampett mansion to do the chores.

February 9, 1971: The Palace Of Clampett San
Season 9, episode 18
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Charles Lane (Foster Phinney), Lori Saunders (Betty Gordon), Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Miko Mayama (Miko), Momo Yashima (Susie), Sumi Haru (Japanese Girl #1), Kazuka Sakura (Japanese Girl #2).
Granny and Jane Hathaway disguise themselves as Japanese serving girls and raid the Clampett mansion in the name of women's liberation.

February 16, 1971: Lib And Let Lib
Season 9, episode 19
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Miko Mayama (Miko), Shuji Nozawa (Banzai Sakito).
Jethro strikes out again in his effort to achieve the status of "honored being" when Miko sends him packing.

February 23, 1971: Elly, The Working Girl
Season 9, episode 20
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Danielle Mardi (Helen Thompson), Charles Lane (Foster Phinney).
Drysdale's beleaguered bank secretaries invite Elly May to join their ranks, knowing their boss will not risk antagonizing a Clampett.

March 2, 1971: Elly, The Secretary
Season 9, episode 21
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Hannah Aden (Louellen).
One of Jethro's childhood sweethearts comes to town for a visit and Jethro fears she has marriage on her mind.

March 9, 1971: Love Finds Jane Hathaway
Season 9, episode 22
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Charles Lane (Foster Phinney), Mike Minor (Dick Bremerkamp).
An impoverished actor makes a romantic play for Jane Hathaway as a route to roommate Elly May -- and the Clampett millions.

March 16, 1971: The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty Crockett
Season 9, episode 23
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Charles Lane (Foster Phinney), Mike Minor (Dick Bremerkamp).
A fortune-hunting actor devises another scheme to charm Elly May, this time in the guise of a kinsman of the legendary Davy Crockett.

March 23, 1971: Jethro Returns
Season 9, episode 24
W: Paul Henning, Dick Wesson   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Mike Minor (Dick Bremerkamp), Curt Massey (Officer Massey).
Fortune-hunting Dick Bremerkamp makes Granny believe he's related to Davy Crockett, tells Drysdale he's J. Paul Getty's nephew, persuades Jane Hathaway to accept him as a birdwatcher and tries to elope with Elly May -- but is at last exposed. (Last show of the series.)


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