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The Best Episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 1 - Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
    8.1/10(113 votes)

    #1 - Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul

    S3:E1

    Drysdale buys a movie studio, Mammoth Pictures, for Jed, and the Clampetts decide to go check out their new property. At first they can’t get in, but they finally succeed. They meet Lawrence Chaplin, the head of Mammoth Pictures, who refers to Jed as a Zucker and a Roach, and Jed admires him for saying it to his face.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  2. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 2 - Clampett City
    7.8/10(106 votes)

    #2 - Clampett City

    S3:E2

    Because Mammoth Pictures is losing money, Drysdale decides to tear down the studio and turn it into Clampett City. The Clampetts are excited about getting a town and streets named after them, and when they go to explore their town, they come to a Western set, which they fall in love with.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  3. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 3 - Clampett City General Store
    7.9/10(114 votes)

    #3 - Clampett City General Store

    S3:E3

    The Clampetts move into the Western street on their movie studio, but Drysdale tries to stop them. He gets the Clampetts a role in a new picture about Cleopatra and Nero, with Jethro as Caesar, Elly as a martyr who gets thrown to the lions and Granny as Cleopatra. However, Elly makes friends with the lion and Granny gets Nero drunk on elderberry wine.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  4. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 4 - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
    8.2/10(115 votes)

    #4 - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

    S3:E4

    Mammoth Pictures is in danger of getting torn down, but Hedda Hopper wants to save it. She shows Jed the legacy of the stars of the studio, who stuck their hand prints in cement for the Walk of Fame. Misunderstanding this, Jed works to fill the prints in with wet cement.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  5. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 5 - Doctor Jed Clampett
    8.7/10(108 votes)

    #5 - Doctor Jed Clampett

    S3:E5

    Jed gets an honorary doctorate when he donates money to a college, and the family thinks he is now a legit doctor. However, Granny isn’t pleased with hearing that Jed is now a real college doctor because she didn’t go to college. Granny does her best to get a degree herself, but doesn’t find much success.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  6. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 6 - Jed the Heartbreaker
    8.2/10(90 votes)

    #6 - Jed the Heartbreaker

    S3:E6

    Mrs. Drysdale is tired of the Clampetts, especially Granny, who keeps scraping with her. When Miss Jane tells her of a beautiful movie starlet who threw herself at Jed and how Jed stopped going to his movie studio when he found out she was married, she plans a scheme herself. Mrs. Drysdale decides to throw herself at Jed to get him and his family to move away from Beverly Hills.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  7. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 7 - Back to Marineland
    8.2/10(93 votes)

    #7 - Back to Marineland

    S3:E7

    Jethro wants to serve his country as a 007 spy. When he is dissuaded from this, he has to decide what branch of the military to join. Granny gets him to join the Marines because she still wants to catch the whale she saw a year ago.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  8. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 8 - Teenage Idol
    8.2/10(108 votes)

    #8 - Teenage Idol

    S3:E8

    Rock 'n' roll idol Johnny Poke visits the Clampetts while in town to play the Hollywood Bowl. Granny's not too happy about it; she's worried Jethro will pick up his bad habits. Granny loses her temper and thinks she turned Jethro into a puppy when she says he needs to be taught a lesson.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  9. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 9 - The Widow Poke Arrives
    8.4/10(92 votes)

    #9 - The Widow Poke Arrives

    S3:E9

    Granny flies widow Emma Poke out to Beverly Hills to match-make with Jed. She figures she can trick Jed into marriage, though Jed finds out what is going on. However, Jed doesn’t want to marry her, and it turns out that Emma doesn’t want to marry him.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  10. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 10 - The Ballet
    7.9/10(94 votes)

    #10 - The Ballet

    S3:E10

    Mrs. Drysdale gets Jed to back the Beverly Hills Ballet Company, and Jed figures that ballet is the perfect way to keep Granny, who is tired of getting “butler sassed,” among other things, in Beverly Hills. Jed gets her interested in the dance just as Mrs. Drysdale gets the money she needs to save the ballet company.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  11. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 11 - The Boarder
    8.6/10(103 votes)

    #11 - The Boarder

    S3:E11

    Granny decides to start her own boarding house. The Clampetts put out signs welcoming any incoming boarders and advertising what they offer. When the Drysdale's new butler, Arthur Pinckney, arrives in town he thinks the signs are meant as a welcome for him so he goes to the Clampetts' mansion.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  12. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 12 - The Boarder Stays
    8.7/10(104 votes)

    #12 - The Boarder Stays

    S3:E12

    Pinckney, the Drysdale's new butler, finds no success in his attempts at molding the Clampetts into high society people. He runs out, planning to return to England. Meanwhile, the Clampetts, who think Pinckney is their boarder, are mad that he ran out on them. They decide to keep the boarding house open, but change a few things—pay up front.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  13. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 13 - Start the New Year Right
    8.6/10(103 votes)

    #13 - Start the New Year Right

    S3:E13

    When the Clampetts learn that Mrs. Drysdale is in the hospital, they decide to visit her to make sure she is doing well. Little do they know, she is there to spite her husband, and won’t leave until the Clampetts have moved away from Beverly Hills. At the hospital, the Clampetts try to make her room more cheerful while she is sleeping, even moving the bed so it faces the window.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  14. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 14 - Clampett General Hospital
    8.3/10(98 votes)

    #14 - Clampett General Hospital

    S3:E14

    Mrs. Drysdale wakes up to find she is no longer in the hospital but in her one hell—the Clampett mansion. After hearing she’s missing, her husband wants to sue the hospital. But when Jed and Jethro visit to return the mattress Mrs. Drysdale was on when they brought her home, the mystery of what happened is solved.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  15. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 15 - The Movie Starlet
    7.8/10(91 votes)

    #15 - The Movie Starlet

    S3:E15

    Jethro falls for a movie starlet, Kitty Devine, who is not interested in him. But when she discovers that his uncle owns the studio and could get her better roles than beach babes in surfer movies, she takes interest. While at the mansion, Kitty does her best to get Jed to notice her and tries to convince him she is capable of roles that could make her a star.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  16. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 16 - Elly in the Movies
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    #16 - Elly in the Movies

    S3:E16

    Elly gets a job at Jed’s movie studio, though Granny and Jane are against it. Both are worried about Elly getting involved in the Hollywood scene. At the studio, Elly meets actor Dash Riprock. He goes for her straight off, unaware that this is the girl he will be starring with, having been told he’ll be opposite the studio owner’s daughter, Miss Clampett.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  17. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 17 - Dash Riprock, You Cad
    8.3/10(113 votes)

    #17 - Dash Riprock, You Cad

    S3:E17

    Elly is disappointed about losing Dash to Miss Jane, so Jed and Drysdale try to fix everything. And Granny is trying to figure out why Dash is going for the plain Miss Jane instead of her gorgeous granddaughter. Another actor, Biff Steel, is set up for Elly, but, once again, he sees Miss Jane and figures she is Miss Clampett.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  18. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 18 - Clampett A-Go-Go
    8.1/10(105 votes)

    #18 - Clampett A-Go-Go

    S3:E18

    After seeing Elly May in a bathing suit, hippie Sheldon Epps crashes his car. When the Clampetts see this, they take him inside their house in case he is injured. He is healthy, but sticks around for Elly, driving Dash Riprock off.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Eric Freiwald, Robert Schaefer

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  19. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 19 - Granny's Romance
    8.4/10(99 votes)

    #19 - Granny's Romance

    S3:E19

    Drysdale sets Granny up with an older man on the Board of Directors, a playboy who dates young, attractive women. Mr. Cavanaugh meets Granny and is not pleased with what he sees. And Cavanaugh’s original date for the night, who is described as his "dear, sweet old aunt" is set up with Jed. Of course, this “Aunt Phyllis” is no older woman; she's a young, glamorous girl.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  20. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 20 - Jed's Temptation
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    #20 - Jed's Temptation

    S3:E20

    It is the day after Jed spent the night dancing with Phyllis, and he is stiff from all the dancing. Granny is throwing her “I told you sos” at him. And when Phyllis invites him to the horse races, he accepts. When Drysdale and Jane learn of the type of woman she is, they warn Granny and drive her down to the racetrack to stop them. Meanwhile, at the racetrack, Jed and Phyllis are finding great success, because Jed can tell which horse will win.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  21. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 21 - Double Naught Jethro
    8.5/10(135 votes)

    #21 - Double Naught Jethro

    S3:E21

    Inspired by the movie Goldfinger,Jethro wants to be a spy.He tries to spy on Drysdale's rival banker John Cushing and his new secretary.In the meantime,Mr.Drysdale hires Elly May as a secretary-long enough for her to win the Queen of the Banker's Ball beauty contest.Jethro rigged up the truck as a,""spy-car,""and even got a hat made of solid iron.He tried to carry a secret-radio in his shoe-but it kept playing when he stepped on it.He also had an ejector-seat,which Granny made the mistake of getting on.She ended up in the trees.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  22. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 22 - Clampett's Millions
    8.3/10(94 votes)

    #22 - Clampett's Millions

    S3:E22

    Jethro is still working on being a 007 spy, though it is annoying Granny. And Elly has been crowned Queen of the Bankers Ball. Mr. Cushing is not happy about this though, as he wanted his contestant to win. Because Jethro is having more fun at Cushing’s bank, he tries to get Jed to transfer his money to the Merchant’s Bank. And Cushing sees this opportunity and tries to get that gorgeous Clampett account.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  23. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 23 - Drysdale's Dog Days
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    #23 - Drysdale's Dog Days

    S3:E23

    Granny demands to see her money in cash, and Drysdale tries to talk her out of it. He fails and upsets the Clampetts by accidentally throwing magazines at them, which were really aimed at his wife and her dog. He tries to make things better by showing Granny what a million dollars looks like to turn her off from the idea, but ends up throwing more stuff at her.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  24. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 24 - Brewster's Honeymoon
    8.1/10(100 votes)

    #24 - Brewster's Honeymoon

    S3:E24

    The Clampett money keeps rolling in as more oil is discovered on their land. And Mr. Brewster is coming out to marry his fiancée, Edythe. Granny is planning to go back home to the hills, but Jed decides to put up the cabin.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  25. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 25 - Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs
    8.2/10(98 votes)

    #25 - Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs

    S3:E25

    Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs visit the Clampetts and solve the problems they are having at the mansion. They cure Jethro’s hunger by making him biscuits and red-eye gravy, and the duo cures Granny’s homesickness by letting her perform on stage with them.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul" is the best rated episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 113 votes. Directed by Joseph Depew and written by Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle, it aired on 9/23/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Clampett City".