The Beverly Hillbillies
Season 9
24 episodes
- S09E01
The Pollution Solution
The Clampetts are determined to help the nation solve the smog problem. When Jed offers to give his millions to President Nixon for the cause, Mr. Drysdale resorts to some outrageous schemes to keep the money in his bank.
- S09E02
The Clampetts in Washington
The Shafers meet the Clampetts in in Washington D.C. to "broker" more prime real estate.
- S09E03
Jed Buys the Capitol
After Honest John explains to Jed why they couldn't visit the White House, he sells them other Washington landmarks each conveniently only $1 million. Mr. Drysdale finds out and sends Miss Jane to bring the Clampetts home.
- S09E04
Mark Templeton Arrives
Rev. Matthew's lookalike brother Mark, a Naval officer, shows up to meet Elly May. The two head to the cement pond, but later when Granny sees Mark in his diving gear, she is convinced that the water turns him into a man-frog.
- S09E05
Don't Marry a Frogman
Elly continues dating Navy man Mark. Granny objects, convinced he is part frog. While Jed tries to keep Mark from eating his daughter's cooking, Granny works to find a cure for his amphibious ways.
- S09E06
Doctor, Cure My Frog
Granny is desperate to keep Mark from being a frog so he can eventually marry Elly. She heads to the bank, believing that if Miss Jane kisses the frog, it will become human again. Jane refers her to psychiatrist Dr. Klingner.
- S09E07
Do You Elly Take This Frog?
Granny goes to extreme measures to keep Elly from Mark, who she's convinced is turning the family into frogs. Mark tells Jed more about his naval duties, especially about harvesting food from the sea.
- S09E08
The Frog Family
Granny remains convinced that Mark is turning the rest of the Clampetts into frogs. She takes the amphibians to psychiatrist Dr. Klingner in the belief he is able to return them back into humans.
- S09E09
Farm in the Ocean
Mark shows Granny and the rest of the family a film about his navy job to help her understand his frogman activities. She remains unconvinced. Mr. Drysdale is alarmed that Jed wants to invest millions in underwater farms.
- S09E10
Shorty to the Rescue
Shorty returns and Granny convinces him to pretend to be Elly's boyfriend to drive Mark away. Mr. Drysdale tells Jed that the idea of him giving millions to the ocean project has made Miss Jane mentally unstable.
- S09E11
Welcome to the Family
Granny and Mr. Drysdale are desperate for different reasons. Granny hopes that if Mark tastes Elly's cooking, he will leave. Mr. Drysdale dresses as Napoleon Bonaparte to keep Jed from investing in Mark's ocean project.
- S09E12
The Great Revelation
Mark finally convinces Granny he's all human, then sets about resigning his Navy commission to pursue oceanography research. Mr. Drysdale creates a diversion to keep Jed from funding Mark's new ambitions.
- S09E13
The Grunion Invasion
When the Clampetts learn that the grunion are due on the California coast, and having no idea who or what grunion are, head down to the beach to defend it from invasion.
- S09E14
The Girls from Grun
Mr. Drysdale's latest ploy, involving duping the Clampetts into believing that the annual running of the grunion fish is an invasion by the people of Grun, backfires when Miss Hathaway organizes the female bank employees in protest.
- S09E15
The Grun Incident
The women employees at the bank rebel against Mr. Drysdale's unfair work practices and he locks them in his office. The Clampetts are caught in the middle where Jed tries to hear both sides but Granny takes action.
- S09E16
Women's Lib
Miss Jane and the bank's secretarial staff foment a revolution against Mr. Drysdale's repression that spills over into the Clampett's family life.
- S09E17
The Teahouse of Jed Clampett
Jed and Jethro get help from a karate expert's geisha girls to run the mansion, while Granny, Elly, and the bank's secretaries all move into Miss Jane's small studio apartment as a headquarters for their cause.
- S09E18
The Palace of Clampett San
Miss Jane and the women continue their crusade against male chauvinism, but they must overcome centuries of Japanese culture, Mr. Drysdale, and Jethro's giant "intellect".
- S09E19
Lib and Let Lib
Life gets back to "normal" with the Clampetts, but Jethro, Mr. Drysdale, and Banzai have adjustments to make.
- S09E20
Elly, the Working Girl
Elly May decides to actually start working at the bank and to move in with Jane Hathaway to her apartment. While Drysdale tries to persuade Phinney the landlord to sabotage them
- S09E21
Elly, the Secretary
Jethro's childhood sweetheart Louellen comes to visit the Clampetts, who believe that she wants to marry Jethro. Jethro panics and runs away because he thinks that marrying a hillbilly girl like Louellen would damage his image as a sophisticated international playboy. Elly May starts her new job as a secretary for Mr. Drysdale, who is nice to Miss Hathaway only when Elly May is around.
- S09E22
Love Finds Jane Hathaway
Dick Bremerkamp, a penniless actor, learns the Clampetts are millionaires and courts Elly.
- S09E23
The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty
Unemployed actor Dick Bremerkamp expands his repertoire of guises as he works his way into the Clampett fortune.
- S09E24
Jethro Returns
The final show of the series. Elly May's intended husband may win out in marrying her for her money. Hathaway tries to expose his plan to Drysdale, Granny and Jed. Jethro may wed as well but may or may not return to California.
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