Episode
The Beverly Hillbillies: Cimarron Drip
Overview
Dash Riprock's new TV show ""Batchelor Sherriff Knows Best"" needs a new co-star. Jethro hopes he'll get the part. Mr Chapman the studio manager & Von Schlepper the director want Elly's chimp 'Cousin Bessie' to play the part. So Jethro becomes her agent.
Details
- Series
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1967-12-13
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Cimarron Drip is Episode 15 in Season 6 of The Beverly Hillbillies. It aired on 1967-12-13. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 14: Jethro in the Reserve
Granny wants an apology from General Grant for attacking the Culpepper plantation. Colonel Blake wants Jethro for the army reserve but he has to take a written test first. After Jethro takes the oath, he sees General Grant & Colonel Blake talking. He hears General Grant say he's going to attack the plantation again. Jethro tells Granny & she goes & shoots him off his horse again.!!
Episode 16: Corn Pone Picassos
Mrs Drysdale has purchased 'Ecstasy' a $2500 art sculpture. It was delivered to the Clampett's mansion by mistake. Mrs Drysdale runs over & tells the delivery man he's made a mistake & to take it next door. The Clampetts think 'Ecstasy' is a pile of junk & Granny says she could paint a picture that would win 1st prize in any art show. When Granny finished her painting, Bessie painted over it. Jed & Jethro went to the art gallery where they met A.Allen Allen. He thought they were gardeners come to work at his home, so he sent them to mow the lawns & trim the hedges. Later they returned & saw a painting like Bessie's in the gallery & bought a Rembrandt for the Mansion. Granny & Elly fixed up 'Ecstasy' with mud to make it look like a statue. When A.Allen Allen arrived he saw Bessie's painting & paid top dollar for it.
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Episode 13: The South Rises Again
Granny is preparing for the battle of the Culpepper plantation. General Grant arrives with a hangover. Mr Drysdale dresses as a southern General & Miss Jane is his private. When the Clampetts arrive the battle has started already. as General Grant comes riding down the hill on his horse, Granny takes aim & shoots him off its back. He gets up & she shoots him off again.! He manages to make it to the porch & Granny can't forget her doctorin' so she gives him first aid from her jug.
(The Clampett's are still unaware that this is a civil war movie and not the real General Grant.)
Episode 17: The Clampetts Play Cupid
Dash wants to marry Elly, Elly doesn't want to marry Dash. Granny and Elly want Dash to turn his attention to Miss Jane. Granny invites Dash for dinner & Elly dresses real ordinary.They hope Miss Jane will be dressed nicer than Elly so Dash will ignore Elly, But Miss Jane arrives dressed even plainer. Elly borrows a wig & looks unatractive & Dash is ""turned off"". So Dash & Miss Jane go to a premiere together.
Episode 12: The Reserve Program
Jethro joins the army reserve & Granny makes him wear her Grandpappy's uniform. When he arrives the sergeant thinks he's an extra in a civil war movie. The Colonel tells him to come back on Monday. Jethro overhears the Colonel talking to an actor dressed as General Grant. He thinks the Yankee's are fixin'to fight with the south again. Jethro tells Granny the news & Granny dresses as a southern belle to spy on Gen.Grant & get information on when the attack will be. Granny learns that Grant is going to attack the Culpepper plantation & hurries off to warn them.
Episode 18: The Housekeeper
Jed feels guilty about Granny having to clean the mansion all by herself. He tells Mr Drysdale, who says he'll find him a housekeeper so Granny can rest. Jed told him he would have a hard time convincing Granny to let someone else do her chores. Mr Drysdale told him he'd convince her. Mr Drysdale found a 'cheap' housekeeper named Mrs Meek. when he managed to convince Granny to give her a try Mrs Meek turned into the ""housekeeper from hell."" Eventually Miss Jane found Mrs Meek a job as a prison guard & Granny was happy to go back to her chores.
Episode 11: Jethro's Military Career
Granny is mixing up a batch of her moonshine & Jethro is trying out his frogman outfit in the cement pond. When Granny walks by the pond she thinks Jethro is a sea monster. Later Jethro sets of a charge in the pond & blows himself out of the water.
Mr Drysdale gives Jethro some 'Money Man' comics & Jethro wants to meet the Moon maidens. Jed tells Mr Drysdale about the problem with Jethro & He suggests the Army Reserve. Jethro decides he wants to meet the moon maidens & fixes a rocket to his back & using granny's moonshine for fuel launches himself into the air. He lands in the ocean & is rescued by the coast guard.
Episode 19: The Diner
Jed wants Jethro to open up a business. Jethro decides he wants to be a fry cook & open up a restaurant. Jed tells Mr Drysdale about Jethro's plan to be a fry cook and Mr Drysdale finds a run down old diner that he rents for $35 a week. Jethro fixes up the place & names it the Happy Gizzard. When Jethro's first customer comes in (a young woman)She leaves after Jethro couldn't cook her a hamburger. Granny arrives to save the day & agrees to cook for Jethro.
Episode 10: The Social Climbers
Granny gets a letter from Adeline Ashley who wants to visit. When Mrs Drysdale learns of this she wants Adeline to visit her so she can make the social pages. When Adeline arrives early, Granny tries to matchmake Adeline with Jed. Mrs Drysdale tries repeatedly to meet Adeline & finaly does after she falls into the cement pond.
Episode 20: Topless Anyone?
The Happy Gizzard isn't doing so well. Jethro realises what's missing, 'topless' waitresses .! He hires Elly as his waitress & tells her to take off her hat because this place is topless.! Mr Drysdale is sweet talking a prospective new depositor, Mr & Mrs Vanderpont. Unfortunately for Mr Drysdale Jethro ruins his plans & the Vanderponts leave. Miss Jane tells the Clampetts what topless really means. The Vanderponts return & Jed gives them some of Granny's ""white lightnin'"". He then invites them to the Happy Gizzard & Mr Vanderpont likes it so much he buys it off them.
Episode 9: A Plot for Granny
Jed wants to find some land for Granny to raise some crops. Jethro tells him about some plots for sale at Happy Valley. Jed phones Happy Valley & a representative arrives thinking Jed wants to buy a cemetary plot. After Jed tells him he wants to buy a plot for Granny the rep. thinks Jed has killed Granny & has her in the backyard.
Episode 21: The Great Snow
Granny is homesick for snow, she wants to go home to Bugtussle. Mr Drysdale doesn't want them to leave, He turns up the air-conditioning in the mansion & borrows a snow machine from the movie studio to make it snow (plastic snow)at the Clampett's place. He pretends there's a raging snowstorm & tells the Clampetts not to go outside, Miss Jane & He will bring them food. After making there way through the 'Blizzard' Elly goes out the back door & finds a stuffed wolf she thinks is 'plum froze'. Jethro wants to have some snow ice cream & goes outside with a bowl & spoon. Jed realises what's going on when he goes outside & it's warm. Mr Drysdale confesses and when Granny offers him some snow ice cream they leave in a hurry.