Episode
The Beverly Hillbillies: The Doctors
Overview
Granny mixes up a batch of her 'spring tonic' & takes it to the bank. Jed swaps it for root beer. Dr Clyburn wants to charge Granny with dispensing without a licence. Mr Drysdale begs him not to & asks him to invite Granny to his surgery to see how modern medicine is performed. Against his better Judgement he agrees & invites Granny to his office. Granny thinks it's a date & Dr. Clyburn is interested in her. It's his day off but he's showing her all the modern devices, Granny wonders why he has no patients. Later Granny goes on TV advertising his services to get him some patients.
Details
- Series
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 1967-03-22
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Doctors is Episode 27 in Season 5 of The Beverly Hillbillies. It aired on 1967-03-22. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 26: Super Hawg
Granny sees a hippo next door at the Drysdale's & thinks it's the biggest hog she's ever seen. Mr Drysdale foreclosed on a zoo & is using the hippo for advertising purposes by writing ads on it's side. Granny wants Jed to buy the 'hog' & butcher it for her. Elly sees the 'hog' & tells them it's a hippo, but they don't listen to her.
Against Miss Janes protests, Mr Drysdale uses a baby elephant to advertise as well & when they find there way into the Clampett's cement pond Elly adopts them & washs off the painted advertising.
Episode 28: Delovely and Scruggs
Lester, Gladys & Earl arrive for Gladys' screen test. Lester wants Jethro to direct so she won't get the job.! They need three days to develop the film, so Jed has them move into the cabin out back. Gladys has Lester working from dawn 'til dusk doing chores. At the end of the 3 days Gladys gets the job but decides to go home to Tennesee.
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Episode 25: His Royal Highness
Mrs Drysdale invites a King to come & stay at her place. She doesn't know He's broke & when Mr Drysdale introduces him to the Clampett's He wants to marry Elly for Her money. When Elly says no, He runs off after Mrs Drysdales Neice.
Episode 29: The Little Monster
Mr Drysdales' nephew Milby is just like his Uncle,he arrives for a visit & is quite a handfull. When he learns that the Clampetts are millionaires he wants them to baby sit him. Milby buys all the Clampett's art work & vases for $200 off Jethro. Jethro thinks he's made a profit off Milby. When Mr Drysdale arrives & sees Milby with all the Clampett's things on the driveway he punishes him by taking his money-belt.
Episode 24: The Gypsy's Warning
Mrs Drysdale hires 2 Gypsy's to go to the Clampett house & tell them it's cursed & maybe they'll go back home to the hills. Granny is convinced & wants to go home straight away. When Mr Drysdale hears of this He & Miss Jane dress as Gypsy's & convince them to stay.
Episode 30: The Dahlia Feud
Elly makes a sponge cake with real sponges.! Mrs Drysdale wants a dahlia bed. Mrs Drysdale hires Mr Ted to plant her dahlias. Elly's chimp steals the stakes for the plants, When Mrs Drysdale sees Granny with the wooden stake she thinks Granny stole the wood. They struggle with the wood by the 'pond' & Granny falls in. Mr Ted arrives to start preparing the dahlia beds & Granny peeks through the fence & sees what she thinks are graves with each of their names on it.
Miss Jane catches Elly's chimp red-handed & explains to Mrs Drysdale that the chimp was responsible for the missing wood. Granny's fears aren't realised when told the 'graves' are actually dahlia beds, each one named after the Clampetts.
Episode 23: The Matador
Jethro wants to be a bullfighter & asks Jed to buy him a bull. When it arrives,it's the wrong kind of bull & Elly quickly adopts it as a pet. The movie studio is making a movie about bullfighting starring the famous Matador ""El Magnifico"" Elly gets a date with ""El Magnifico"".
Episode 22: Elly Comes Out
Granny wants a coming out party for Elly and tells Society Sandy it will be the social event of the year. Mrs. Drysdale wants to make it a social flop. Mr. Drysdale is afraid the Clampett's will be ridiculed and move back to the hills. Miss Jane comes to the rescue saying it's a "Fancy Dress" coming out party and, in the end, the event is a big success.
Episode 21: The Marriage Machine
Granny tries to match-make Jed after he told her not to. She sends his vital statistics to Jethro's computer dating service & waits for the results. Miss Peabody was selected as Jed's match, but when she arrived Granny thought she was Jethro's match & thought she was a bit old for the boy. Miss Jane tried her hand with the computer matching service & when her details were fed into the machine, It blew a fuse & blacked out all of Beverly Hills.!!
Episode 20: The Indians Are Coming
An Indian reservation borders the O.K. oil fields land back in the Hills & the chief wants to discuss the boundary with Jed. Granny thinks the Indians are on the warpath & when she hears they're comin' to Beverly Hills she gets out her gun.
Mr Drysdale hires actors to pretend they're indians & attack the mansion. Granny holds them off until she runs out of ammo'. Meanwhile the Chief meets with Jed & they sort out the problem.
John Wayne has a brief cameo at the end of this episode.
Episode 19: The Clampett Curse
The Clampett's give all their money to N.E.E.D.Y. & move out of the mansion. On their way out of Los Angeles they run out of gas near a national park & with no money decide to stay in the park & maybe chop down a few trees & raise a few crops. When Jed goes looking for the owner of the land he meets the ranger who tells them to leave, so they walk back to the Mansion & the girls from N.E.E.D.Y. give back the money.
Episode 18: Granny Retires
Granny wants to retire from Doctorin' & go home to the Hills. She wants to pass on her knowledge to Jethro & Elly but they aren't really interested. Mr Drysdale convinces Dr Clyburn to ask Granny for advice so she'll stay in Beverly Hills.