The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom (situation comedy) television series originally broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family from the Ozarks region who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by writer Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS: "Petticoat Junction", and its spin-off "Green Acres", which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city
The Kallikaks and Ron Kantor wrote the episodes. The title for the series comes from an early twentieth century sociological study whose author, Henry H. Goddard, coined the name "The Kallikak Family" as the title of his 1912 book about the study. Episode directors were Kantor, Bob LaHendro, and Dennis Steinmetz. Ross wrote the shows theme song, "Beat the System," which Roy Clark performed for the opening credits. Tom Wells wrote other music used in the show. Bonnie Ebsen was the daughter of Buddy Ebsen, who had starred from 1962 to 1971 in "The Beverly Hillbillies". "The Kallikaks" premiered on August 3,