The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Beverly Hillbillies Season 8.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
The Pollution Solution
Sep 15, 1970 · 25 min
Jed plans to hand his millions over to the President.
The Clampetts in Washington
Sep 22, 1970 · 25 min
A con man (Phil Silvers) tries to sell Washington, D.C., to Jed.
Jed Buys the Capitol
Sep 29, 1970 · 25 min
Shifty Shafer cons Jed into buying the U.S. Capitol.
Mark Templeton Arrives
Oct 6, 1970 · 25 min
One Granny plus one Navy frogman equals a running gag: Granny thinks Elly's new beau is a frog.
Don't Marry a Frogman
Oct 13, 1970 · 25 min
Granny's trying to cure her frog fixation with a potent elixir.
Doctor, Cure My Frog
Oct 27, 1970 · 25 min
Granny believes that Elly's beau is a web-footed freak.
Do You Elly Take This Frog?
Nov 10, 1970 · 25 min
A dream sends Granny to a psychiatrist (Richard Deacon).
Shorty to the Rescue
Dec 1, 1970 · 25 min
Escalation of Granny's frog fixation: she's sending for reinforcements to help fight the frog.
Welcome to the Family
Dec 8, 1970 · 25 min
Can Elly find happiness married to a frog? Granny's still fighting the match.
The Grunion Invasion
Jan 5, 1971 · 25 min
When The Clampetts learn that the grunion are due on the California coast, and having no idea who or what the grunion are, head down to the beach to defend it from invasion.
The Girls from Grun
Jan 12, 1971 · 25 min
A task force of Clampetts awaits an invasion of the U.S. by fish.
The Teahouse of Jed Clampett
Feb 2, 1971 · 25 min
How to thwart a women's lib strike: hire geisha girls.
The Palace of Clampett San
Feb 9, 1971 · 25 min
Granny and Elly seek happiness as liberated women.
Elly, the Working Girl
Feb 23, 1971 · 25 min
Elly joins the women's lib battle against Drysdale.
Elly, the Secretary
Mar 2, 1971 · 25 min
Jethro's bachelorhood seems headed for extinction.
Love Finds Jane Hathaway
Mar 9, 1971 · 25 min
An unemployed actor is making a big play for Jane.
The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty Crockett
Mar 16, 1971 · 25 min
An actor plans to capture the Clampett millions by passing himself off as kin to Davy Crockett.
Jethro Returns
Mar 23, 1971 · 25 min
Fortune hunter Dick Bremerkamp schemes to marry Elly May.