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 any successful television series—regardless of decade, genre or format—and you'll almost always find a cast of actors who become so associated with their roles that, to the audience, they are ...

The new big-movie version of TV’s rustic ’60s super-hit “The Beverly Hillbillies” is monstrously over-whimsical. It’s a gigantic, fatuous whoopie-cushion of a movie-big, smiley and flabbergastingly ...

BURBANK, Calif. — Paul Henning, 93, the television writer and producer who created “The Beverly Hillbillies,” which became one of the biggest hits of the 1960s and spawned the popular rural-comedy ...

FARMVILLE — It’s been more than half a century since folks could “come and listen to a story about a man named Jed” — except in reruns. Television audiences said goodbye to Jed and all his kin back in ...

Reelz announced Sunday that it has ordered the new reality series "Hollywood Hillbillies," and renewed its first reality series, "Beverly Hills Pawn" for a second season. Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard ...

Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett on the CBS sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” died Friday, NBC affiliate WAFB reports. She was 81. TMZ reports that Douglas died at her home in Louisiana, ...

NEW YORK — Donna Douglas, who played the buxom tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. Her niece says Douglas died Thursday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ...