Episode
The Beverly Hillbillies: Something for the Queen
Overview
The Clampetts are flying to London to give the Queen the deed to Canada. Jethro smuggles Elly's buzzard on board in a bag & tells Mr Drysdale who wants to look at it. In the toilet Mr Drysdale opens the bag to have a look & the buzzard almost escapes. Mr Drysdale returns to his seat next to Jethro with feathers in his hair & flapping his arms like a bird. Granny sees this and thinks He has Goose Fever. When the Clampetts are driving through town,people are pointing at them. Granny says news has spread how they chickened out of the war of the roses last time they were in England. When they arrive at the castle Colonel Dumbarton next door fires off his sunset canon & lowers the Union Jack flag. Granny thinks he's startin'the war of the roses all over again.!
Details
- Series
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1968-10-02
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Something for the Queen is Episode 2 in Season 7 of The Beverly Hillbillies. It aired on 1968-10-02. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 1: A Bundle for Britain
Mr Drysdale congratulates the Clampetts for reaching the sum of $80,000,000 in his bank. Jethro tells Jed he heard on the radio that the Queen Elizabeth was sold to Philadelphia. Jed rings Faversham in London & he confirms this. Says they sold both Queens to the U.S. (However he meant the Ocean Liners,Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth.Not the people.) Jed thinks that the Queen must be having money trouble & wants to help. He wants to withdraw his money & give it to the Queen. He's sure Mr Drysdale won't mind,it must be a worry for him looking after all that money. When Mr Drysdale hears about this he hires an actor to play the Queen's Minister of Finance to accept the money & give it back to Mr Drysdale. But things don't go the way Mr Drysdale planned, When the actor found out Jed was rich,he sold him Canada & gave him the deed to take to the Queen herself.
Episode 3: War of the Roses
Jethro challengers next door to the war of the roses, Colonel Dumbarton accepts & they commence to joust. Jed wants to go to see the Queen & give her the deed to Canada. Mr Drysdale convinces him to stay & says he'll bring the Queen to Him. Mr Drysdale dresses Miss Jane as Queen Elizabeth the 1st & accepts the deed. Jethro is Knighted as well.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Coming Through the Rye
Jethro spies Col.Dumbarton's neice through his telescope.When he tells Jed to look through it Jed sees her brother & thinks it's her 'cause he (she) is wearing a dress.(scottish kilt) Jethro is in love,he wants to marry her. Granny doesn't want Jethro to marry a big ugly girl like that & eventually gets her wish.
Episode 5: Ghost of Clampett Castle
Mr Drysdale wants to go home,but the Clampetts aren't ready to go yet. Faversham tells him about the Ghost of Clampett castle. Mr Drysdale thinks this will scare the Clampetts & they'll want to go home. Mr Drysdale tells them the story & Jethro wants to hold a seance to contact the ghost. Mr Drysdale dresses as a ghost & almost has them packing their bags until Granny shoots the 'ghost'with her shotgun & he goes howling down the hall. On the trip home Mr Drysdale has to stand all the way 'cause he can't sit down.!
Episode 6: Granny Goes to Hooterville
Petticoat Junction citizens take Granny's potent potions.
Episode 7: The Italian Cook
While Granny's still in Hooterville, Jethro hires an Italian chef to do their cooking.
Granny's @ Drucker's telling him about how she used her tonic on Steve & Betty Jo's baby after discovering that Boy (the Petticoat Junction dog) was in the baby crib, wearing a baby bonnet as well. Thinking that her tonic turned the dog into their baby.
Granny sees the baby for the first time & thought it worked wonders!
Sam Drucker arrives @ the Shady Rest with a telegram for Granny. The message was from Jethro saying the family's starving & misses her. So after riding on a horse, driving a motorcycle, getting on an airplane, parachuting down to Beverly Hills, she finds the Italian cook feeding the Clampetts. Granny chases after Jethro over that phony telegram!
Episode 8: The Great Cook-Off
A temporary but tempting Italian cook stirs up a storm.
Episode 9: Bonnie, Flatt, and Scruggs
Musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs play themselves in a spoof of Bonnie and Clyde
Episode 10: The Thanksgiving Spirit
Thanksgiving with the folks from Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
Episode 11: The Courtship of Homer Noodleman
Drysdale casts Dash Riprock in a new role, that of Elly May's lover.
Episode 12: The Hot-Rod Truck
Jethro wants to junk his ""old wreck,"" and Granny thinks he means her.
Episode 13: The Week Before Christmas
The hustle and bustle increases as Christmas nears.