Overview of 'The Beverly Hillbillies' Season 5

Episode 1 - The Party Line

Release Date: 1966-09-14

Granny returns from visiting Pearl & brings Pearls old telephone with her. She wants Jethro to install a party line so she can listen to other folks conversations. However things don't go as Granny planned.

Episode 2 - The Soup Contest

Release Date: 1966-09-21

Granny enters a Soup Contest using Elly's name and wins. Granny wants exposure for Elly so she can get married. Jed's against Granny's idea because he says it's dishonest. Granny gets rid of him & Invites the men from the ad agency & soup company around so she can sign the papers. The men want to wait for Jed to come home.Then Miss Hathaway & Mr Drysdale arrive & Miss Hathaway dresses in Jed's clothes & signs the Papers as J.D. Clampett. In the end Granny makes the commercial saying she made the soup,but still manages to get some exposure for Elly on the T.V.

Episode 3 - Jethro Takes Love Lessons

Release Date: 1966-09-28

Jethro is trying to impress a girl & asks Dash Riprock for Love lessons. He asks Susie for a date but she's not interested until she learns that it's a double date & Dash Riprock is the other fella. Dash,Elly, Susie and Jethro go to a Drive In movie (Swamp Monster & Brutorus ""double feature"") Later Jethro & Susie go back to Dash's ""pad"" but things don't go Jethro's way & then Miss Jane arrives to make matters worse.

Episode 4 - The Badger Game

Release Date: 1966-10-05

Emmaline Fetty arrives at the Clampett's claiming to be from back home. In reality she is trying to blackmail Jed with some incriminating photos she took with a ""cuckoo clock camera"". Her associate Colonel Foxhall shows Mr Drysdale the photos & tries to extort money out of Him.

Episode 5 - The Badgers Return

Release Date: 1966-10-12

Jethro thinks Duke is calling His name, when it's really Emmaline hiding in the bushes. She wants Jethro to sneak her into the house so she can borrow one of Elly's dresses & change her appearance. She then goes to the Bank to see Mr Drysdale & tries the same incriminating photo ""con job"" on Him. Meanwhile a Detective has caught up to Col.Foxhall & takes him to the Clampett's to get their statement. Jed saves Mr Drysdale when He learns of the scheme & Granny gives Emmaline a ""paddled behind.""

Episode 6 - The Gorilla

Release Date: 1966-10-19

Elly wants a Gorilla, Jethro wants it to do all his chores. Jed asks Mr Drysdale if he can send one over. Mr Drysdale hires a man in a Gorilla suit & asks him if he can scare the Clampetts enough that they'll forget the Gorilla Idea. When He arrives things don't go as planned & Granny climbs into the cage to make the Gorilla behave. Elly names him ""Herby"" & Jethro puts him to work. After chopping wood & various other chores Granny wants Herby to do the ironing. When Mr Drysdale arrives Herby (Mr Kelly) takes off the suit & leaves & Mr Drysdale puts it on & drives back to the bank. The Clampetts then go to the Zoo & bring back a real Gorilla.

Episode 7 - Come Back, Little Herbie

Release Date: 1966-10-26

Mr Kelly (Herby) wants his money from Mr Drysdale. Mr Drysdale wants Herby to go back to the Clampetts to replace the real Gorilla. The Clampetts still think Herby's real & offer to buy him from Mr Kelly. Mr Drysdale arrives & has to wear the suit so Jed can meet Mr Kelly & offer him the money. When Mr Kelly gets the money he runs & Mr Drysdale chases after him.

Episode 8 - Jed in Politics

Release Date: 1966-11-02

Granny's mixing up a batch of her soap,Mrs Drysdale complains to the smog commisioner. The smog commish. arrives & Granny chases him off with a shotgun. The commish.is up for re-election,so Mr Drysdale suggests Jed run for Smog Commisioner. Jethro invents a filter for car smog.(only problem is it's too big.!)

Episode 9 - Clampett Cha Cha Cha

Release Date: 1966-11-09

Granny wins five free dance lessons from Marvin & Marita dance school & can't wait to start. The dance instructors arrive at the Clampett's & Granny starts dancing with Marvin. Later Granny wants the young uns to learn to dance & Jed learns Marvin & Marita have no students so He tries to find some for them.

Episode 10 - Jed Joins the Board

Release Date: 1966-11-16

Jed gets a job as a garbage man & Mr Drysdale is shocked, so he gets him a position as director on the board of O.K. Oil Company. The Clampetts turn the company plane into a cheap airline & sell tickets to anywhere for the same low price.

Episode 11 - Granny Lives It Up

Release Date: 1966-11-23

Mr Drysdale's competitor John Cushing woo's Granny so she'll put her money in his bank. When Mr Drysdale hears of this he asks his father in law Mr Farquar to woo Granny to keep the money in his bank. Meanwhile Granny is running between the two when they come to call & is exhausted before to long.

Episode 12 - The Gloria Swanson Story

Release Date: 1966-11-30

The Clampett's are shocked to hear Gloria Swanson's house is to be demolished to make way for a golf course. They offer to make a silent movie with her as the star to raise some money. The Movie ""Passions Plaything"" has it's world premiere at the Bijou theatre in Bugtussle.

Episode 13 - The Woodchucks

Release Date: 1966-12-07

Jethro wants to mail himself to Paris to meet girls. Miss Jane arrives with Biddle Bird Watchers. Jethro likes Athena & wants to join, Miss Jane says only girls can join. Mr Drysdale suggests Jethro join the Junior Woodchucks & the two groups can have a combined outing. While trying to earn a merit badge Jethro's ants escape from the ant farm & everyone jumps into the cement pond to avoid them.!

Episode 14 - Foggy Mountain Soap

Release Date: 1966-12-14

Lester & Earl return with the news they are making a commercial for Foggy Mountain Soap. Jed & Granny are invited by the owner to star in the commercial. Jethro wants to direct it.

Episode 15 - The Christmas Present

Release Date: 1966-12-21

It's Christmas & Granny has no Christmas spirit. Jed, Jethro & Elly remember the good ol' days back home & decide to help the people of Beverly Hills. Jethro gets a job as Santa in a dept.store, Elly is his elf. Jed is working at the sporting goods counter & Granny is working in women's lingerie. Earlier Mr Drysdale asked Jethro to take some old clothes away & he thought the Drysdale's were short on cash so they had to sell some of their clothes. When Mrs Drysdale visited the Dept.store Granny slipped some nightgowns into her bag without her knowledge & as Mrs Drysdale left the store,the store detective arrested her. When Mrs Drydsale returned from the police station the Clampetts had bought back her bag of old clothes as a Christmas present.

Episode 16 - The Flying Saucer

Release Date: 1966-12-28

Granny discovers Martians next door at the Drysdale mansion.

Episode 17 - The Mayor of Bug Tussle

Release Date: 1967-01-04

The Mayor of Bugtussle arrives & the Clampett's roll out the red carpet to welcome him. The Mayor tells Mr Drysdale he needs money for the city funds & wanted to ask Jed but couldn't. Mr Drysdale asks how much he needs & the Mayor says $100,000 should cover it. Mr Drysdale refuses & The Mayor goes back to Jed. He wanted to ask Jed but Jethro interupted & Jed tells Granny He thinks the Mayor wants to ask her to marry. Later Mr Drysdale arrives with the cheque & the Mayor leaves in a hurry.

Episode 18 - Granny Retires

Release Date: 1967-01-11

Granny wants to retire from Doctorin' & go home to the Hills. She wants to pass on her knowledge to Jethro & Elly but they aren't really interested. Mr Drysdale convinces Dr Clyburn to ask Granny for advice so she'll stay in Beverly Hills.

Episode 19 - The Clampett Curse

Release Date: 1967-01-18

The Clampett's give all their money to N.E.E.D.Y. & move out of the mansion. On their way out of Los Angeles they run out of gas near a national park & with no money decide to stay in the park & maybe chop down a few trees & raise a few crops. When Jed goes looking for the owner of the land he meets the ranger who tells them to leave, so they walk back to the Mansion & the girls from N.E.E.D.Y. give back the money.

Episode 20 - The Indians Are Coming

Release Date: 1967-02-01

An Indian reservation borders the O.K. oil fields land back in the Hills & the chief wants to discuss the boundary with Jed. Granny thinks the Indians are on the warpath & when she hears they're comin' to Beverly Hills she gets out her gun. Mr Drysdale hires actors to pretend they're indians & attack the mansion. Granny holds them off until she runs out of ammo'. Meanwhile the Chief meets with Jed & they sort out the problem. John Wayne has a brief cameo at the end of this episode.

Episode 21 - The Marriage Machine

Release Date: 1967-02-08

Granny tries to match-make Jed after he told her not to. She sends his vital statistics to Jethro's computer dating service & waits for the results. Miss Peabody was selected as Jed's match, but when she arrived Granny thought she was Jethro's match & thought she was a bit old for the boy. Miss Jane tried her hand with the computer matching service & when her details were fed into the machine, It blew a fuse & blacked out all of Beverly Hills.!!

Episode 22 - Elly Comes Out

Release Date: 1967-02-15

Granny wants a coming out party for Elly and tells Society Sandy it will be the social event of the year. Mrs. Drysdale wants to make it a social flop. Mr. Drysdale is afraid the Clampett's will be ridiculed and move back to the hills. Miss Jane comes to the rescue saying it's a ""Fancy Dress"" coming out party and, in the end, the event is a big success.

Episode 23 - The Matador

Release Date: 1967-02-22

Jethro wants to be a bullfighter & asks Jed to buy him a bull. When it arrives,it's the wrong kind of bull & Elly quickly adopts it as a pet. The movie studio is making a movie about bullfighting starring the famous Matador ""El Magnifico"" Elly gets a date with ""El Magnifico"".

Episode 24 - The Gypsy's Warning

Release Date: 1967-03-01

Mrs Drysdale hires 2 Gypsy's to go to the Clampett house & tell them it's cursed & maybe they'll go back home to the hills. Granny is convinced & wants to go home straight away. When Mr Drysdale hears of this He & Miss Jane dress as Gypsy's & convince them to stay.

Episode 25 - His Royal Highness

Release Date: 1967-03-08

Mrs Drysdale invites a King to come & stay at her place. She doesn't know He's broke & when Mr Drysdale introduces him to the Clampett's He wants to marry Elly for Her money. When Elly says no, He runs off after Mrs Drysdales Neice.

Episode 26 - Super Hawg

Release Date: 1967-03-15

Granny sees a hippo next door at the Drysdale's & thinks it's the biggest hog she's ever seen. Mr Drysdale foreclosed on a zoo & is using the hippo for advertising purposes by writing ads on it's side. Granny wants Jed to buy the 'hog' & butcher it for her. Elly sees the 'hog' & tells them it's a hippo, but they don't listen to her. Against Miss Janes protests, Mr Drysdale uses a baby elephant to advertise as well & when they find there way into the Clampett's cement pond Elly adopts them & washs off the painted advertising.

Episode 27 - The Doctors

Release Date: 1967-03-22

Granny mixes up a batch of her 'spring tonic' & takes it to the bank. Jed swaps it for root beer. Dr Clyburn wants to charge Granny with dispensing without a licence. Mr Drysdale begs him not to & asks him to invite Granny to his surgery to see how modern medicine is performed. Against his better Judgement he agrees & invites Granny to his office. Granny thinks it's a date & Dr. Clyburn is interested in her. It's his day off but he's showing her all the modern devices, Granny wonders why he has no patients. Later Granny goes on TV advertising his services to get him some patients.

Episode 28 - Delovely and Scruggs

Release Date: 1967-03-29

Lester, Gladys & Earl arrive for Gladys' screen test. Lester wants Jethro to direct so she won't get the job.! They need three days to develop the film, so Jed has them move into the cabin out back. Gladys has Lester working from dawn 'til dusk doing chores. At the end of the 3 days Gladys gets the job but decides to go home to Tennesee.

Episode 29 - The Little Monster

Release Date: 1967-04-12

Mr Drysdales' nephew Milby is just like his Uncle,he arrives for a visit & is quite a handfull. When he learns that the Clampetts are millionaires he wants them to baby sit him. Milby buys all the Clampett's art work & vases for $200 off Jethro. Jethro thinks he's made a profit off Milby. When Mr Drysdale arrives & sees Milby with all the Clampett's things on the driveway he punishes him by taking his money-belt.

Episode 30 - The Dahlia Feud

Release Date: 1967-04-19

Elly makes a sponge cake with real sponges.! Mrs Drysdale wants a dahlia bed. Mrs Drysdale hires Mr Ted to plant her dahlias. Elly's chimp steals the stakes for the plants, When Mrs Drysdale sees Granny with the wooden stake she thinks Granny stole the wood. They struggle with the wood by the 'pond' & Granny falls in. Mr Ted arrives to start preparing the dahlia beds & Granny peeks through the fence & sees what she thinks are graves with each of their names on it. Miss Jane catches Elly's chimp red-handed & explains to Mrs Drysdale that the chimp was responsible for the missing wood. Granny's fears aren't realised when told the 'graves' are actually dahlia beds, each one named after the Clampetts.