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The Beverly Hillbillies

Episode Number: 55    Season Num: 2    First Aired: March 1, 1967    Prod Code: 055
When the cast takes ill, the Douglases take to the stage in a charity production of The Beverly Hillbillies. After Eb "punches up" a script from the series, Hank Kimball plays Jed Clampett, Oliver appears as Jethro and Lisa portrays Granny with a combination Hungarian/southern accent.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Dick Chevillat, Jay Sommers
Director: Richard L. Bare
Star: Frank Cady (Sam Drucker),  Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball),  Tom Lester (Eb Dawson),  Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney),  Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas),  Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
Guest Star: Harry Antrim (Doc Wilson)

Notes

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The actress playing Miss Tillie Mumford was not credited in this episode. (edit)
Eb's remark about Paul Henning not caring about them 'changing the dialog of the script as long as he doesn't know about it'is an in-joke referring to Henning's well-known refusal to let actors or other writers change the authentic hillbilly words and phrases he used in his scripts for Beverly Hillbillies. (edit)
Paul Henning created The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres. Lisa, Oliver and Eb once appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies, even though they regarded it as a TV show. (edit)

Quotes

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(Oliver suggests Lisa play Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies)
Oliver: Mrs. Douglas would be perfect for the part. She played on the Hungarian stage and she wouldn't need any makeup.
Lisa: Oliver!! (edit)
(reading the "improved" script for The Beverly Hillbillies)
Eb (as Jethro): What is Granny going to make for supper tonight?
Lisa (as Elly May): Breast of polywog with possum soose and crawdad turnovers.
Eb: Goooooody!
Lisa: Why don't you set yourself down on your you all and I will go out to the see-mint pond and catch us a barracuda. (edit)
(reading the "improved" script for The Beverly Hillbillies)
Eb (as Jethro): Hello Elly May.
Lisa (as Elly May): Howdy Jethro, you all.
Eb: Do you know where Granny is at, Elly May?
Lisa: She all went down to the root cellar to get a parcel of turned-up greens. (edit)
Haney: (hands Oliver flowers to give to Eb) Now these are for the sick-ee.
Oliver: The sick-ee?
Haney: Yeah, that's the feller who's sick. I thought you understood that legal talk. (edit)
Lisa: (discussing The Beverly Hillbillies) I like that show, especially the man who plays the father: Buddy Epstein. (edit)

Trivia

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Mr. Haney shows up hawking "Haney Rents--brings a hospital into your home". His service includes a "hospital zone" sign, a tape of public address announcements recorded on the fifth floor of the Mayo Clinic, and an elderly nurse, Miss Tillie Mumford. (edit)
Lisa serves un-cooked spaghgetti for breakfast. Oliver tells her to boil water; she does, but cooks spaghetti without water in another pot. That's followed by a "seven layers cake": seven hotscakes with chocolate syrup between them, topped with shaving cream and a cherry. Later, while attempting pizza, she seen beating the dough with a hammer. (edit)

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