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The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Third Season

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For years I have been making do with various collections of episodes, with only a poor instrumental theme bearing little resemblance to the original theme song. Now at last this wonderful show is being released in full season sets with the original opening and closing theme songs. Some reviewers have applauded the presence of the original sponsor messages on these discs. Personally, I don't like them, but the great thing is that you have the choice of playing the episodes with or without the advertising. Some of the difference may be that as Americans, the other reviewers remember the shows that way, with some nostalgia. For me, living in a country where cigarette advertising on television has never been legal, my fond memories are of the version without the ads.

This is a great set of my favourite season of a fantastic show, complete with all the original music , photo gallery and an excellent special feature, "The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies". Every episode is packed with laughs; the Hillbillies are still as funny and as wonderful as I remember them from my childhood.

Contents are:

Disc 1
Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul
Clampett City
Clampett City General Store
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Dr. Jed Clampett
Back to Marineland
Jed, the Heartbreaker

Disc 2
Teenage Idol
The Widow Poke Arrives
The Ballet
The Boarder
The Boarder Stays
Start the New Year Right
Clampett General Hospital

Disc 3
The Movie Starlet
Elly in the Movies
Dash Riprock, You Cad
Clampett A-Go-Go
Granny's Romance
Jed's Temptation
Double-Nought Jethro

Disc 4
Clampett's Millions
Drysdale's Dog Days
Brewster's Honeymoon
Flatt, Clampett and Scruggs
Jed and the Countess
Big Daddy, Jed
Cool School is Out

Disc 5
The Big Bank Battle
The Clampetts vs. Automation
The Brewsters Return
Luke's Boy
Jed, the Bachelor
The Art Center

The Legend of the Beverly Hillbilles
Photo Gallery

is beverly Hillbillies still coming oout on dvd, iam waiting for more seasons to come out. It's been over a year since season 3 came out and i want to know when the rest of the seasons are coming out. I really enjoy that show and i know other fans are also waiting for them to come out too , I hope there is enough people out there asking for this series and i hope the company keeps bringing them out on dvd's. So get moving and keep us fans happy by bringing out the rest of this great classic tv show. i got the first three seasons on dvd and when is the 4th season coming out, how much longer do we have to wait for the 4th season to come out. I hope they keep coming out because i really enjoy the ones i've already got on dvd. It was February 17, 2009 that season 3 came out, it's been over a year since it came out so don't tell me the rest aren't coming out soon. I' m sure there are other fans out there waiting for season 4 so don't take another year or two to bring it out.

I forgot how innocent was our humor 40+ years ago.
It is still funny, and as clever as ever.
Yes, it has "stereo-typical things, but we didn't place such guarded care over good clean,honest and silly fun.
We all need to go back to where our words and actions were just "sticks and stones," and trust more in each other.
Wouldn't we be a lot better off if we did?!

If Paramount is not going to continue with this wonderful show, hopefully
SHOUT FACTORY will pick up the ball just like they have just done with Leave it
to Beaver and All in the Family. Seasons four thru nine are the in color seasons and they are anxiously awaited by many of us.

I've bought both the 2nd and 3rd Season sets and am VERY pleased. Any news on when the rest of the series will be avialable? You can't get entertainment like this on TV anymore - not even close. As long as these old comedies are sold, I'll keep on buying them.

At least until Jethro decides on his life's calling!!!

I love many of the old television shows that were on. They were suggestive but proper, not like television today. The Beverly Hillbillies is a classic show on how to maintain culture even among the non-cultured. Jed and his family create some of the most spectacular circumstances just out of plain ol' simplicity. And it's this simple humor that makes the Hillbillies a timeless classic. I hope the other seasons are released soon.

What can you say its The Beverly Hillbillies!! Just love them. Want a laugh sit down and watch a few episodes. Great great show!! A show you can sit down and watch with your kids. Unlike other shows on tv now days. A wonderful way to sit down and enjoy your day. Sound and picture is great too.

One of the best comidies of all time.
An excellent tv show that is timeless.
Far above the glop that infests tv these days.
Paul Henning, the creator of the Beverly Hillbillies was a comic genius. The writing was always good, the acting was always good.
The writers, actors, and producers always gave this show everything they had. The main reasons it was so good, lasted so long
and was rated so highly. And why it`s still popular today nearly 50 years later.

If you like the Beverly Hillbillies, you'll like this set. The quality, video and audio, is very good. Keeping the original music is also a definate plus in my book. I especially like the inclusion of the original sponsor ads and cast member spots, it just takes me back to when the series first aired. The only way I can think of that this set could be any better, is if it were to include "bloopers" or off set interviews with the cast and crew or some filmography of the show in general. I'm hoping that additional seasons will be released to the public, as if they as good as this one, I'll be in line for any and all of them.

The Beverly Hillbillies Official Third Season DVD is yet another wonderful offering by Paramount and it's sister company CBS DVD. It has all thirty four episodes of this third season of this funny and terrific show that ran on the CBS TV network from 1962-1971. It also features a documentary called The Legend of the Beverly Hillbillies that was released onto home video originally distributed by CBS Fox Home Video, who originally held the video rights to the TV show, as they released select choice episodes onto VHS until CBS and Viacom alongside Paramount took over the video rights from them.

Likewise with Official Second Season, we are treated with the entire third season. The episodes are digitally remastered from original negatives for superb and superior quality. The original theme song, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, is also included with all the episodes and we also have the original sponsorships and cast commercials that were originally with the series during the episodes initial network run. Likewise, you do have the option of watching the episodes with or without the sponsorships and cast commercials, but I prefer to watch the episodes with both the sponsorships and cast commercials for nostalgic and historical purposes as these spots are definitely a part of history.

Likewise, Paramount and it's sister company CBS DVD do another wonderful job here on these episodes. The digital remastering makes the episodes of this wonderful show look fresh, clean and new as the day that they were originally shown on the CBS TV network. They also again make mincemeat of all those public domain DVD sets that were released as the DVD boom was taking off.

Likewise, this is another one of the best sets of this classic TV show that has been released on DVD with Official Second Season, MPI's Ultimate Collections Volumes 1 & 2 and it's companion MPI's Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction Christmas Collection alongside this.

If anyone from Paramount and it's sister company CBS DVD is reading this, why not release the entire Beverly Hillbillies series on DVD? That way, we fans and admirers of this series can really be overjoyed. This is only a suggestion, but again, I still think that the entire series should be released officially on DVD. That would be "IT".

Overall, this is another one of the finest collections of The Beverly Hillbillies that nobody who loves this show should be without. This also should be in every fans DVD library.