8.3/10102 votes#1 - Admiral Jed Clampett
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1965
Mr Drysdale wants Jed to buy a yacht & join the Yacht club. Jethro sees Mr Drysdale's captains hat & goes out to find a something similar for Jed. He returns with an Admirals uniform.! The clampetts agree to meet Mr Drysdale & Miss Jane at the Dock but get lost & end up at a navy base. They see a Navy vessel & think it's a yacht. When Jed walks up the Gangway in his admirals uniform the sailors think it's a surprise inspection. After a 'test drive' Jed decides to pass on buying the 'boat'. Note: This is the first episode filmed and aired in color.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.4/1085 votes#2 - That Old Black Magic
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1965
Granny thinks Mrs Drysdale's astrology is Black Magic, Mrs Drysdale's horoscope says to make friends with the neighbours. Granny chases her away, but later goes to apologise & is shocked to find a Minah bird in the Drysdales house.! Granny thinks Mrs Drysdale's turned herself into a crow.!
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: Ronny Pearlman
7.5/1088 votes#3 - The Sheik
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1965
After entering an oil deal with Jed and O.K. Oil, the Sheik befriends the Clampetts, giving Jed four of his dancing girls for wives and tries to get the beautiful Elly May as one of his wives. Jed tries to give the girls back, while Jethro tries to enjoy some of the Sheik's life, mainly the company of his beautiful dancing girls, after selling his cousin.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.4/1096 votes#4 - The Private Eye
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1965
Jethro is a 'double nought' spy waiting for a call from 'M' so he can go on an adventure. Mr Drysdale gives him an office in the bank & Elly May is his secretary. After a visit from two other 'agents' Jethro thinks he's on his way. However the two 'agents' know Jethro's office is above the Bank's Vault & want to break in to it until the double nought spy foils their plan.!
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle
8.2/10100 votes#5 - Possum Day
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1965
Granny thinks Mrs.Drysdale is running against her for Possum Queen.Granny and the family put on a rip-snotin' campaign to elect Granny Possum Queen.Mr.Drysdale,in the meantime,is trying to get any city he can to hold a Possum Day parade.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1088 votes
#6 - The Possum Parade
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1965
Granny is wondering why her opponent Mrs Drysdale hasn't started her campaign for Possum Queen yet. When Mr Drysdale learns this he immediately starts campaigning for his wife without his wifes knowledge. Granny gets all fired up & the insults are hurled back and forth,When Mrs Drysdale finds out what's going on she goes home to her bed & stays there. Granny thinks she has been too mean to Mrs Drysdale so she pulls out of the race for Possum Queen.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1091 votes
#7 - The Clampetts Play the Rams
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1965
Drysdale's maid is spending too much time with Jethro.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1083 votes
#8 - The Courtship of Elly
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1965
Elly May again becomes the target of one of Granny's matchmaking schemes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1085 votes
#9 - A Real Nice Neighbor
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1965
The Clampetts think the house keeper from next door is their new neighbour.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1086 votes
#10 - The Poor Farmer
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1965
Drysdale organizes a financial syndicate.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1096 votes
#11 - Hoe Down a-Go-Go
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1965
Jethro has girl trouble—he can't get one! Jed and Granny decide throw a wing-ding where he and Elly Mae can meet nice young folks. The bank's Ms. Hathaway and Mr. Drysdale help in arranging the musical talent. They mention the Beatles, Byrds, Herman's Hermits, Freddie and the Dreamers and the Animals! There's a very funny extended discussion about the Beatles where Mr. Drysdale schemes a way to get them as depositors for his bank! Jethro and Ms. Hathaway go the Whisky-A-Go-Go and find the Enemys (featuring a very young Cory Wells—later of The Dog Night.) wailing on ""Mojo Woman"" and ""Oh Pretty Woman,"" and ""Turkey In The Straw."" The Enemys sound like the Yardbirds! Lengthy extended scenes featuring the Enemys and wild teens dancing the jerk, frug and boogaloo! Jethro ends up wearing a Beatle wig! There's also a groovy ""beat music"" square dance! Must see rock n roll TV!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1092 votes
#12 - Mrs. Drysdale's Father
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1965
Mrs Drysdale's father arrives & is a little short of cash. After hearing that Jed next-door is a millionaire he invites himself over for a game of poker. Mrs Drysdale's Father is winning until Granny sits in on the game & then she ends up with all the winnings. Mrs Drysdale's father then shoots some pool with Jed but he loses again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1086 votes
#13 - Mr. Farquhar Stays On
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1965
Mrs. Drysdale's father, an aristocratic Bostonian, is coming to visit, and she's afraid that one glimpse of the unrefined Clampetts will send him back to Boston.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1083 votes
#14 - Military School
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1965
Jethro enters military school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1079 votes
#15 - The Common Cold
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1965
Granny has a cure for the common cold & opens up an office in Mr Drysdale's Building.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10101 votes
#16 - The Richest Woman
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1966
The world's richest woman has her eye on the Clampett estate.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1085 votes
#17 - The Trotting Horse
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1966
Granny asks Jethro to give her driving lessons. After the first lesson he quits & Mr Drysdale talks Jed into buying a trotter. The Clampetts just want the horse to take Granny to town when she wants to go,instead of waiting for Jethro to drive her. When a man arrives with the horse, he has the racing buggy with him. The Clampetts think it's a normal buggy without any sides or roof.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1080 votes
#18 - The Buggy
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1966
The Clampetts buy a horse for Mrs Drysdale named Lightning. Jed wants Mr Drysdale to ask his wife if she'll compete with Granny in a buggy race.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1079 votes
#19 - The Cat Burglar
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1966
Elly-May is worried because she heard there was a Cat-Burglar on the loose. So she gathered up all her cats & took them inside the house. Later the Cat Burglar posing as a detective arrives at the Clampett's place pretending to secure it against burglars,but is really ""casing the joint."" Elly May sets some traps & catches the cat burglars assistant & Jethro catches Miss Jane. (Much to her delight !)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1083 votes
#20 - The Big Chicken
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1966
Granny thinks an ostrich in their yard is a big chicken & tries to catch it for supper.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1084 votes
#21 - Sonny Drysdale Returns
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1966
Perpetual student Sonny Drysdale returns home.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1079 votes
#22 - Brewster's Baby
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1966
Granny and Elly head for the Ozarks to help deliver a friend's baby.
Director: Joseph Depew
Writer: Paul Henning
- 8.1/1093 votes
#23 - The Great Jethro
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1966
Jethro decides to be a magician after seeing Marvo the Magnificent.Marvo puts on a magic show for the Clampetts-and later sells Jethro his entire warehouse of equipment(which had been just sitting there for years).Jethro tries to put on a similar magic show-and he doesn't succeed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1073 votes
#24 - The Old Folks Home
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1966
A spring-fever epidemic hits the Clampett home.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1093 votes
#25 - Flatt and Scruggs Return
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1966
Musicians Flatt and Scruggs pay a visit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at...
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Admiral Jed Clampett" is the best rated episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies" season 4. It scored 8.3/10 based on 102 votes. Directed by Joseph Depew and written by Paul Henning, Mark Tuttle, it aired on 9/15/1965. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "That Old Black Magic".