8.0/10105 votes#1 - Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.6/1099 votes#2 - Clampett City
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.7/10105 votes#3 - Clampett City General Store
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.1/10109 votes#4 - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.6/1097 votes#5 - Doctor Jed Clampett
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.0/1084 votes#6 - Jed the Heartbreaker
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.0/1085 votes#7 - Back to Marineland
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.0/1098 votes#8 - Teenage Idol
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.3/1084 votes#9 - The Widow Poke Arrives
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.7/1084 votes#10 - The Ballet
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.5/1094 votes#11 - The Boarder
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.6/1093 votes#12 - The Boarder Stays
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.4/1093 votes#13 - Start the New Year Right
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1964
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.1/1090 votes#14 - Clampett General Hospital
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.7/1086 votes#15 - The Movie Starlet
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.7/1086 votes#16 - Elly in the Movies
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.2/10107 votes#17 - Dash Riprock, You Cad
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.9/1097 votes#18 - Clampett A-Go-Go
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1965
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
Writer: Robert Schaefer, Eric Freiwald
8.3/1094 votes#19 - Granny's Romance
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.2/1092 votes#20 - Jed's Temptation
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.4/10124 votes#21 - Double Naught Jethro
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.1/1086 votes#22 - Clampett's Millions
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.7/1083 votes#23 - Drysdale's Dog Days
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
7.8/1091 votes#24 - Brewster's Honeymoon
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/1965
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
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.0/1089 votes#25 - Flatt, Clampett, and Scruggs
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/31/1965
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
Writer: 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 8/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by Joseph Depew and written by Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle, it aired on 9/23/1964. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Clampett City".