Families with a penchant for good old-fashioned country-fried laughter made the Clampett clan of "The Beverly Hillbillies" part of their viewing throughout the 1960s until the infamous rural purge ...

Max Baer, Jr. portrayed Jethro, whose Uncle Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) struck gold (“Texas tea”), and was fortunate enough to have “loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly . . . H ...