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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 5 - Doctor Jed Clampett
    8.7/10(113 votes)

    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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  2. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 12 - The Boarder Stays
    8.7/10(112 votes)

    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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  3. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 13 - Start the New Year Right
    8.6/10(115 votes)

    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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  4. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 11 - The Boarder
    8.5/10(109 votes)

    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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  5. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 19 - Granny's Romance
    8.5/10(106 votes)

    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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  6. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 21 - Double Naught Jethro
    8.5/10(147 votes)

    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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  7. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 30 - The Clampetts vs. Automation
    8.5/10(116 votes)

    S3:E30

    Leroy Lester, a longtime employee of the Commerce Bank is being forcibly retired to make way for a new computer system. A chance meeting with the Clampetts gives him an idea about dealing with Mr. Drysdale. Leroy goes back to the bank, where Mr. Drysdale's computer has now died. Mr. Drysdale offers Leroy his job back, but Leroy informs Mr. Drysdale that he will be taking an extended vacation and staying with his new friends, the Clampetts.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  8. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 31 - Luke's Boy
    8.5/10(102 votes)

    S3:E31

    Luke Short's son Beau comes from back home.Granny wants him to marry Elly May,but Elly wants none of it.At first Miss Hathaway dresses her as a Hollywood siren to scare him-but he quits being scared after Elly gives him a strong kiss.Then she dresses like a dirty scrubwoman to discourage him-but Beau is glad that she can look like she does chores,too.Then Miss Hathaway convinces Beau that he should be a man of the world-and Jethro tries to show Beau how to be a playboy.it turns out that the reason Beau had come to California was to enlist in the army.

    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(102 votes)

    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 20 - Jed's Temptation
    8.4/10(106 votes)

    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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  11. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 26 - Jed and the Countess
    8.4/10(109 votes)

    S3:E26

    It is time for spring tonic, and the Countess Maria returns to meet with her good friends the Clampetts, as well as get some tonic. And after the Clampetts learn Maria is single again, having lost her husband at a party, Granny sees this as the time for Jed to make his move on the Countess.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  12. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 32 - The Brewsters Return
    8.4/10(101 votes)

    S3:E32

    The Brewsters come to Beverly Hills to build their new home on a vacant lot they purchased, and they request the Clampetts don't learn of this. But the Clampetts are planning to move back home to the Hills. When they tell Drysdale, he reveals the secret. Drysdale tells Brewster what he has done, but explains it was to save the Clampett oil account, and because of this, he has to visit the Clampetts.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  13. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 34 - The Art Center
    8.4/10(94 votes)

    S3:E34

    Mrs. Drysdale has a new plan to get rid of the Clampetts and add culture to Beverly Hills. She gets the Clampetts to donate their home as an art gallery. Of course, they misunderstand this and think they have to provide the art. They go on and sculpt and paint up a storm for this new art center and end up filling their mansion with their homemade creations. Note: This episode is the final one to be filmed in black-and-white.

    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(107 votes)

    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 17 - Dash Riprock, You Cad
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    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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  16. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 22 - Clampett's Millions
    8.3/10(100 votes)

    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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  17. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 27 - Big Daddy, Jed
    8.3/10(126 votes)

    S3:E27

    Beatnik Sheldon Epps returns with his other beatnik pals from the Parthanon West Coffee House.Jethro is taught how to be a beatnik-and Elly may joins up with them too.Mr.Drysdale sees that the Clampetts are friends of the beatniks!

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Robert Schaefer, Eric Freiwald

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  18. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 1 - Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
    8.2/10(125 votes)

    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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  19. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 4 - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
    8.2/10(118 votes)

    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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  20. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 6 - Jed the Heartbreaker
    8.2/10(96 votes)

    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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  21. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 7 - Back to Marineland
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    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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  22. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 8 - Teenage Idol
    8.2/10(114 votes)

    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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  23. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 25 - Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    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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  24. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 29 - The Big Bank Battle
    8.2/10(91 votes)

    S3:E29

    Drysdale tries to get the Clampetts interested in a hobby to occupy their time and to stop Jed from traveling around the neighborhood with a fix-it wagon. He shows Jed all types of hobbies, like collecting stamps and building a boat in a bottle. Jethro gets a hobby with these offers—getting the boat out of the bottle!

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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  25. The Beverly Hillbillies Season 3 Episode 33 - Jed, the Bachelor
    8.2/10(94 votes)

    S3:E33

    Granny is tired of Beverly Hills and heads home for the Hills. But she never makes it back home and ends up in Las Vegas. And Jethro is having no luck being an international playboy and ends up getting arrested. Granny comes back that night, but with a story to tell about Vegas the next day.

    Director:Joseph Depew
    Writers:Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Doctor Jed Clampett" is the best rated episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" season 3. It scored 8.7/10 based on 113 votes. Directed by Joseph Depew and written by Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle, it aired on 10/21/1964. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Boarder Stays".