Return of the Beverly Hillbillies Max Baer Jr. (the original Jethro) who declined to participate. The film was produced and written by original series creator Paul Henning and was intended as a pilot for a proposed revival of the series, but this never materialized. "Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" premiered as "The CBS Tuesday Night Movie" on October 6, 1981. Following the death of Granny, Jed Clampett returned to his roots to live in a backwoods cabin in the town of Bug Tussle rather than living alone at his Beverly Hills mansion after having voluntarily divided his massive fortune between daughter Elly May and nephew
The Ballad of Jed Clampett a peak of number one for three weeks and reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. During the original run of "The Beverly Hillbillies", special lyrics were written and inserted into the opening theme, advertising regular sponsors such as Kellogg's cereals and Winston cigarettes. "Weird Al" Yankovic merged the first two stanzas of the "Ballad" with the instrumentals to the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" in his 1989 single "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", which was written for his film "UHF." In the late 1970s, "Saturday Night Live" did a spoof on the "Beverly Hillbillies" in a sketch