On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious ...

Clampett Oil courted disaster when an oil tanker spilled 20,000 barrels of crude in the Gulf of Alaska last June: “I’m mad as a mule chewing on bumblebees,” owner Jed said in a press ...

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

Indeed, Ebsen - who began his career as a dancer in a 1928 Ziegfeld production; moved to movies, including "Captain January" with Shirley Temple and "Davy Crockett''; then hit his pinnacle as Jed ...

Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood to which they still cannot quite adjust.