Product Details

• Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr., Raymond Bailey
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 10, 2007
• Run Time: 1015 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NVIGDY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,019 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Jed Clampett is a simple backwoods man who strikes it rich, when an oil gusher springs up on his land, making him a millionaire overnight. Listening to his relatives, Jed decides to give his family a fresh start in Beverly Hills, where all the rich people live. Taking his daughter Elly May, nephew Jethro Bodine and his mother-in-law Granny with him, Jed meets with and moves in next door to Mr. Drysdale, the president of the Commerce Bank, where Jed keeps his money and Mr. Drysdale will do anything to keep it there. Watch the misadventures of this backwoods family trying to live in the big city but sticking to their rural ways!

Episodes Included:

Clampetts Strike Oil, The

Getting Settled

Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin

Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale, The

Servants, The

Jethro Goes to School

Pygmalion and Elly

Elly Races Jethrine

Great Feud, The

Home for Christmas

No Place Like Home

Jed Rescues Pearl

Back to Californy

Jed's Dilemma

Jed Saves The Drysdales' Marriage

Elly's Animals

Jed Throws a Wing Ding

Jed Plays Solomon

Jed Buys the Freeway

Jed Becomes a Banker

Family Tree, The

Jed Cuts the Family Tree

Granny's Spring Tonic

Clampetts and The Dodgers, The

Clampetts in Court, The

Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed

Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted

Hair Raising Holiday

Granny's Garden

Elly Starts to School

Jethro's First Love

Chickadee Returns

Clampetts are Overdrawn, The

Clampetts Go Hollywood, The

Elly Needs a Maw

Christmas at The Clampetts

A Man for Elly

Giant Jackrabbit, The

Lafe Lingers On

Race for Queen, The

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Hillbillies Collection, November 18, 2007

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Alpha Control - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of the Beverly Hillbillies (DVD)

I liked this collection because it strikes a balance between content, quality and price when compared to all the other Beverly Hillbillies DVD collections out there.

The video/audio quality if fair to good. Some eps are better than others but all are quite watchable. The opening/closing theme music, missing on most bootlegs, are present here. There are 40 black and white episodes from the first two seasons on four discs, all contained in one compact case.

There are no extras but you get nearly all the episodes in the Ultimate Collections (Vols 1 and 2), plus the seasons one and two Christmas episodes. Diehard fans will no doubt buy the Ultimate Collections and the separate Christmas DVDs (for several times the price of this one set) in order to get the extras, a couple more episodes, and only slightly better video/audio quality.

As a more casual fan of this show, I was more than happy with this budget collection. Here are the episodes included:

DISC ONE
1.1 09/26/62 The Clampetts Strike Oil
1.2 10/03/62 Getting Settled
1.3 10/10/62 Meanwhile, Back at the Cabin
1.4 10/17/62 The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale
1.7 11/07/62 The Servants
1.8 11/14/62 Jethro Goes to School
1.10 11/28/62 Pygmalion and Elly
1.11 12/05/62 Elly Races Jethrine
1.12 12/12/62 The Great Feud
1.13 12/19/62 Home for Christmas

DISC TWO
1.14 12/26/62 No Place Like Home
1.15 01/02/63 Jed Rescues Pearl
1.16 01/09/63 Back to Californy
1.17 01/16/63 Jed's Dilemma
1.18 01/23/63 Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage
1.19 01/30/63 Elly's Animals
1.20 02/06/63 Jed Throws a Wingding
1.21 02/13/63 Jed Plays Solomon
1.23 02/27/63 Jed Buys the Freeway
1.24 03/06/63 Jed Becomes a Banker

DISC THREE
1.25 03/13/63 The Family Tree
1.26 03/20/63 Jed Cuts the Family Tree
1.27 03/27/63 Granny's Spring Tonic
1.29 04/10/63 The Clampetts and the Dodgers
1.32 05/01/63 The Clampetts in Court
1.33 05/08/63 The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed
1.34 05/15/63 The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted
2.2 10/02/63 Hair-Raising Holiday
2.3 10/09/63 Granny's Garden
2.4 10/16/63 Elly Starts to School

DISC FOUR
2.6 10/30/63 Jethro's First Love
2.7 11/06/63 Chickadee Returns
2.8 11/13/63 The Clampetts Are Overdrawn
2.9 11/20/63 The Clampetts Go Hollywood
2.12 12/11/63 Elly Needs a Maw
2.14 12/25/63 Christmas at the Clampetts
2.15 01/01/64 A Man for Elly
2.16 01/08/64 The Giant Jackrabbit
2.18 01/22/64 Lafe Lingers On
2.19 02/05/64 The Race for Queen

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Put in a Disc and Start Enjoying the Show, or...., December 29, 2007

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j. (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of the Beverly Hillbillies (DVD)

.... Commence Feudin'. This collection of black and white episodes is from the early days when Jed first strikes oil. The shows are entertaining to young and old alike. Slapstick comedy for the youngsters and funny one liners that are great from Jed and the rest of the cast.

All of the actors are entertaining in their own way, with well blended humor as the down home Hillbillies bring logic to the city folk of California. Who could ever forget Granny!

The transfer to DVD is mostly good (a few fair), with some occasional blips from the day and a few episodes with the audio to picture slightly off, but is not bothersome.

I picked this up on a discount site for one third less the price, during a semi annual promotion. 2/20/08 - I just saw this for five bucks at a local Walmart.....

Enjoy, j.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Set For The Price - With The Original Theme Music (Mostly)!!!, September 4, 2008

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Paul Rudoff "SpookCentral.tk" (SpookCentral.tk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of the Beverly Hillbillies (DVD)

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After getting burned on so many budget DVD releases of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Andy Griffith Show, and Petticoat Junction due to the replacement music, I really lucked out when I picked this up yesterday at Walmart for 5.00.

The quality could be better - I noticed some compression artifacts on the side of the mansion when I quickly checked out the first few episodes - but for the price, number of episodes, and MOST IMPORTANTLY the original theme music, it's WELL worth it! Of course, a die-hard fan should buy the two "Ultimate Collection" volumes and "The Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction Ultimate Christmas Collection" disc, in order to get all of the public domain episodes and a TON of extras - albeit for about fifty bucks in total; but for the casual fan, this set is the best single item you can purchase.

This set includes 40 black & white episodes on 4 discs, and they're all in chronological airdate order (for the full list, see AlphaControl's review of this item). As I stated in my review title, the original theme music is used in ALMOST all episodes. Only two episodes don't use the original music:

* "No Place Like Home" uses replacement music and the titles are in progress, starting at "The Beverly Hillbillies" title screen and leaving out the "shooting at food" scenes beforehand. Since replacement music is used, I have no problem with cutting the full opening sequence.

* "Elly Needs a Maw" doesn't have any beginning titles at all. However, it's missing on another disc I have, so maybe all copies of this episode leave out the beginning title sequence - though they could have tacked one on from another episode.

I should also note that the theme song starts a few seconds late in the episode "Christmas at the Clampetts", though at least it's the original music!

I don't know if I got a bum copy, but the "Pygmalion and Elly" episode on Disc 1 won't play. When I try to view it, my player stops. If this defect exists in all copies, then technically there are only 39 episodes on the disc, and this episode should be added to the list of missing episodes below.

I tried the DVD in four different players, and the episode didn't play in any of them. Mill Creek was kind enough to send me a replacement set and that one also had the same problem. This is the only Mill Creek DVD I have that I've had a problem with - and I have about a dozen of their sets.

From what I've read, all 36 season one episodes and the first 19 season two episodes are in the public domain, which means that only 15 public domain episodes are missing from this set. Although it would be better if this were a six disc set and included those remaining episodes, all things considered, that's a fairly small number of episodes to be missing. For the record, these are the missing 15 episodes (excluding the two that need original music and/or beginning titles, and the one that wouldn't play on any of my DVD players):

1.05 10/24/1962 Jed Buys Stock
1.06 10/31/1962 Trick or Treat
1.09 11/21/1962 Elly's First Date
1.22 02/20/1963 Duke Steals a Wife
1.28 04/03/1963 Jed Pays His Income Tax
1.30 04/17/1963 Duke Becomes a Father
1.31 04/24/1963 The Clampetts Entertain
1.35 05/22/1963 Elly Becomes a Secretary
1.36 05/29/1963 Jethro's Friend
2.01 09/25/1963 Jed Gets the Misery
2.05 10/23/1963 The Clampett Look
2.10 11/27/1963 Turkey Day
2.11 12/04/1963 The Garden Party
2.13 12/18/1963 The Clampetts Get Culture
2.17 01/15/1964 The Girl from Home