When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, ...

Buddy Ebsen, that is, star — along with Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr., and co. — of The Beverly Hillbillies. The ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

I kinda liked that." In 1972, approximately one year after The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled (due to the great "country purge" by CBS), the network cast Ebsen in the lead in a new detective series.