When did the Clampetts strike oil?

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons from September 26, 1962, to March 23, 1971. It was the first in the "fish out of water" genre of television shows. The series starts as Jed Clampett, an impoverished mountaineer, is living alongside an oil-contaminated swamp with his daughter and mother-in-law. A surveyor for the OK Oil Company realizes the size of the oil field, and the company pays him a fortune for the right to drill on his land. Patriarch Jed's cousin Pearl prods him to move to California after being told his modest property could yield $25 million. His family moves into a mansion in the wealthy Beverly Hills, California, next door to his banker Milburn Drysdale...

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chris j rillo

How do you know that they struck oil in 1962 as opposed to 1960. The sitcom never directly states when they moved to Beverly Hills. I answered 1960 because I knew the sitcom first aired in 1962.

Ellen Wolf

This show is almost as old as I am. I think it's sill is one of the funniest shows ever!

Gery Tillmanns

Great show. I wish more sitcoms would come around.

lankford smock

Wait a minute!! According to the song: And then one day he was shootin at some food, And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.

Dinah Lattin Garrison

Loved this show… very funny.. got it right but new in the 60

ccoe

lankford smock, that's right. it makes sense that he may have told others and the word got out to the oil man....don't ya think?

Donna Joy McLean Cleveland

chris j rillo, It is a sitcom. Not real. It started in 62 -- that is when the story began. People get so furious when they don't get "correct"? Its funny. It was Buddy Ebson. No real oil or Clampetts. Just another way to say when did show start. This is a game.

lugene hughes

Laurie Bowman, as far as Roseann with with the National Anthem, she told everyone she couldn't sing so she thought they meant for her to be funny when they insisted. Roll it back lady. Things aren't good and lovely in most people’s lives. Crawl back under you little white rock.