When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

Take a successful television series — it really doesn't matter the decade or whether you're talking about a comedy or drama — and you'll find an ensemble of actors who, as far as the television ...

When TV series creator Paul Henning was driving cross-country in 1959, he stopped to see Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, and the visit sparked an idea that would eventually become The Beverly Hillbillies ...

Kulp and Ebsen didn’t have a particularly warm relationship on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies. Years after the series ended, Ebsen kept their The Beverly Hillbillies feud going by agreeing to ...

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