They started season four on MeTV this week, so we are now into the color episodes. It's interesting how they reshot the intro so it would be in color.

In the old intro, when Jed rushes into the house and grabs Granny, there was always the impression he was excited about his oil find. But what was actually happening in that black and white clip was Jed was worried because Jethro was cutting down a tree outside, and he was afraid it would fall on the cabin. Jed and Granny run to a window.

In the color version, Jed and Granny run out the door, so I guess it's supposed to imply that they are excited about the oil find. Which doesn't quite go with the actual events in the beginning of the series, because Jed didn't realize that the oil had value.

I also notice Elly doesn't seem quite as animated in the color version.

Wow I never really paid attention! Some of the original scenes were from s1e1 “The Clampetts Strike Oil.” I never thought the scene was re-shot, but I guess so, as in 1962 nobody was thinking about color. And, computer colorization was wayyyy into the future.

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They started season four on MeTV this week, so we are now into the color episodes. It's interesting how they reshot the intro so it would be in color.

In the old intro, when Jed rushes into the house and grabs Granny, there was always the impression he was excited about his oil find. But what was actually happening in that black and white clip was Jed was worried because Jethro was cutting down a tree outside, and he was afraid it would fall on the cabin. Jed and Granny run to a window.

In the color version, Jed and Granny run out the door, so I guess it's supposed to imply that they are excited about the oil find. Which doesn't quite go with the actual events in the beginning of the series, because Jed didn't realize that the oil had value.

I also notice Elly doesn't seem quite as animated in the color version.


Yes! I've always noticed it was a totally reshot intro... They updated the Clampetts to match their look in the color version.... i.e. In the color intro, when Granny is in her rocking chair on top of the truck she is wearing her hat, whereas in the black and white intro she is not, there is a deer in front of the cabin as the pull away in the black and white into, but it's gone in the color one, etc... and the cabin looks different, the furnishings, etc....

As far as Jed being excited about the oil, true he didn't know what it was, but he just knew there was black liquid shooting out of the ground, that enough would excite him and wanna tell Granny, "Hey!!! Look at this!" That's how I took it anyway.


I have a funny story about the reshot intro, as a kid I watched the color episodes first, I'm thinking, so when I saw the black and white opening for the first time I noticed when Jed runs in to tell Granny, that Granny is standing further back ~away from the camera~ than she is in the color episodes, and it looked to me like Jed ran toward where Granny SHOULD have been standing ~in the color episodes~ but sees she's not there, then SPINS AROUND to see her further back on the other side of the counter... At that time I just thought Granny had changed her position and confused Jed lol

As far as Jed being excited about the oil, true he didn't know what it was, but he just knew there was black liquid shooting out of the ground, that enough would excite him and wanna tell Granny, "Hey!!! Look at this!" That's how I took it anyway.
That makes sense from watching the intro, and was similar to my impression. Actually, I always thought Jed was running into the cabin to grab Granny because they were leaving for California.

But if you watch the original episodes, Jed knows that Mr. Brewster wants to buy his slough, but he's confused as to why, because it won't be any good for farming, because it's full of oil. He also tells cousin Pearl that he paid him in some new sort of dollars - "million" dollars.

Good point on the deer being gone, I had forgotten about the deer.

That makes sense from watching the intro, and was similar to my impression. Actually, I always thought Jed was running into the cabin to grab Granny because they were leaving for California.

But if you watch the original episodes, Jed knows that Mr. Brewster wants to buy his slough, but he's confused as to why, because it won't be any good for farming, because it's full of oil. He also tells cousin Pearl that he paid him in some new sort of dollars - "million" dollars.

Good point on the deer being gone, I had forgotten about the deer.

The pilot episode is strange to me... You may remember I used to post about the Mandela Effect here quite a bit, where large groups of people share a common misremembering. Many people remember the pilot episode of Beverly Hillbillies being very different.... My grandparents were some of them!

My grandparents PLUS a woman I used to know say they remembered the pilot episode actually SHOWING Jed strike the oil, like we see in the opening. But in the actual episode, the swamp is full of oil, I don't even get the impression that Jed SHOT the oil out of the ground! And it seems ALL the references to Jed "SHOOTING the oil" out of the ground are gone in the actual episodes, I thought I remembered Jed telling the story of how he shot at an animal and missed and the oil came gushing up, but I can't find where he talks about it at all.

Also the woman I talked to said she remembered Jed and Jethro TYING Granny in her rocking chair and she was putting up a fight.... but that scene doesn't exist, as she seems totally CONTENT sitting there, which I thought was strange. But what's even MORE strange is that scene DOES exist in the 1993 movie, Granny is tied in her chair and his putting up a fight.... and the woman told me her memory of that a few years before the movie even came out!

I started watching on METV, Then somehow my dvd recorded the show on FETV and occasionally LAFF network so I have bounced around. In a later seasons ?8/9 Mr Drysdale and Miss Jane are seen driving in opening credits. I do think the show as of season 6 or so is not so hot. Poor Max Baer in his Jethro ambitions. I was hoping Jethro was to enter the service for it would have given him some direction and to give Max something a little brainier acting to do. . Think the show was filmed and I guess took place in the 1960's and many males enter the service.

I thought I remembered Jed telling the story of how he shot at an animal and missed and the oil came gushing up, but I can't find where he talks about it at all.
Yeah, I think the whole shooting the oil out of the ground is an invention of the theme song, and that's about it.

Regarding the Mandela Effect, I have several false memories of the Beatles that are extremely vivid to me. Like I remember seeing a clip of John and Paul singing "Cry Baby Cry" on some show like David Frost, but that doesn't seem to have ever happened. I have a few others as well. The only thing I can think of is maybe it was a dream I had (unless it was an alternative universe, of course).

By the way, the first color episode was the one where Jed goes to look at a yacht dressed as an admiral, and he accidentally gets on a Navy destroyer instead, and the crew thinks he's a real admiral. I thought that was one of the better episodes since it's such a great premise for a situation.

In a later seasons ?8/9 Mr Drysdale and Miss Jane are seen driving in opening credits. .
I'm only up to season four on MeTV right now, but I'm sure I've seen them all before, when I was much younger. Now that you mention it, I do remember a version of the opening theme where they insert a shot of Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane driving. Good for them, after that many seasons, they finally made the opening credits lol.

Yeah, I think the whole shooting the oil out of the ground is an invention of the theme song, and that's about it.

Regarding the Mandela Effect, I have several false memories of the Beatles that are extremely vivid to me. Like I remember seeing a clip of John and Paul singing "Cry Baby Cry" on some show like David Frost, but that doesn't seem to have ever happened. I have a few others as well. The only thing I can think of is maybe it was a dream I had (unless it was an alternative universe, of course).

By the way, the first color episode was the one where Jed goes to look at a yacht dressed as an admiral, and he accidentally gets on a Navy destroyer instead, and the crew thinks he's a real admiral. I thought that was one of the better episodes since it's such a great premise for a situation.


I have a lot of wrong memories as well. For e.g. I seem to recall in the earliest black and white episodes of the B.Hillbillies, like maybe for the 2nd or 3rd episodes, the opening being a little different, I seem to remember the Clampetts driving down a country, rural type road and Jethro is munching on a chicken leg as he drives. Instead of them driving down the Beverly Hills Blvd. as they actually are in the shows openings. I so vividly see that in my mind, I remember thinking to myself as I watched, "Man this MUST be an EARLY episode!"

And I'm surprised the yacht episode didn't spawn a 3-4 episode saga actually lol

And I'm surprised the yacht episode didn't spawn a 3-4 episode saga actually lol
I think they save those multi-episode sagas for characters and storylines that are annoying. I'm half kidding.

Nope, I don't have any memory of the rural road opening with the chicken leg lol.

I have a lot of wrong memories as well. For e.g. I seem to recall in the earliest black and white episodes of the B.Hillbillies, like maybe for the 2nd or 3rd episodes, the opening being a little different, I seem to remember the Clampetts driving down a country, rural type road and Jethro is munching on a chicken leg as he drives. Instead of them driving down the Beverly Hills Blvd. as they actually are in the shows openings. I so vividly see that in my mind, I remember thinking to myself as I watched, "Man this MUST be an EARLY episode!"

Unrelated to the chicken thing, the early original network openings go longer, with their drive proceeding on, and Jed pointing out a Winston cigarette billboard.

They are on some Paul Henning DVDs, probably on MPI, that came out many years ago. IIRC he was somehow able to use the original music, which is one hangup with doing public domain DVDs.

Unrelated to the chicken thing, the early original network openings go longer, with their drive proceeding on, and Jed pointing out a Winston cigarette billboard.


That was included in the Hulu airings back when they had it. In some of the other episodes it was Kellogg's or "Kellogg's of Battle Creek" as the singer called it.

Another subtle change I notice from earlier to later episodes is that Miss Jane always seemed to like Jethro. In the early episodes, Jethro seems to reciprocate some interest, but later on he doesn't seem interested in her at all, and seems more oblivious to her come ons. He's become more interested in the more youthful Hollywood types.

Another subtle change I notice from earlier to later episodes is that Miss Jane always seemed to like Jethro. In the early episodes, Jethro seems to reciprocate some interest, but later on he doesn't seem interested in her at all, and seems more oblivious to her come ons. He's become more interested in the more youthful Hollywood types.

Jethro was simple but loveable in the early b&w episodes... He was simple but was not a total idiot. He did have SOME sense and occasionally figured things about before the other members of the family did.... like about the telephone, he knew Pearl didn't have a phone so there would be no need to try and call her, whereas the others seemed to think they could just MAGICALLY call her even though she had no phone lol And he DID know what a phone was and the rest of the family did not.... So, Jethro did seem to have some knowledge from his "schooling" at that point.

In the later episodes he become totally unlikeable lol

Jethro was simple but loveable in the early b&w episodes... He was simple but was not a total idiot. He did have SOME sense and occasionally figured things about before the other members of the family did.... like about the telephone, he knew Pearl didn't have a phone so there would be no need to try and call her, whereas the others seemed to think they could just MAGICALLY call her even though she had no phone lol And he DID know what a phone was and the rest of the family did not.... So, Jethro did seem to have some knowledge from his "schooling" at that point.
Agreed, that matches my observation. As you say, he started out with SOME sense, but later on they made him so stupid that he basically just became a cartoon character. Which is a shame, because it was totally unnecessary, and only hurt the series IMO.

My favorite Jethro joke was when some investor friends of Mr. Drysdale thought Jed was a financial wizard, and the whole family was geniuses. They had seen a paper on the kitchen table that Jethro was "ciphering" on, and one of them talked about how advanced he was. He said he had invented some sort of new math, "two plus two equals five to him".

Oddly to me, Jethro even pronounced “Schuyler” correctly (like “skyler”). A missed chance at humor….

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Agreed, that matches my observation. As you say, he started out with SOME sense, but later on they made him so stupid that he basically just became a cartoon character. Which is a shame, because it was totally unnecessary, and only hurt the series IMO.

My favorite Jethro joke was when some investor friends of Mr. Drysdale thought Jed was a financial wizard, and the whole family was geniuses. They had seen a paper on the kitchen table that Jethro was "ciphering" on, and one of them talked about how advanced he was. He said he had invented some sort of new math, "two plus two equals five to him".



Lol :lol:

Yes! And the dynamic between Jed and Jethro changed... In the early episodes, Jed seemed to really admire Jethro and look up to him as "educated"... But in the later episodes it seemed like Jed knew he was an idiot and more less felt sorry for him.. Sometimes Jed would just nod and go along with whatever silly thing he was saying, knowing it was non-sense lol

My favorite Jethro joke was when some investor friends of Mr. Drysdale thought Jed was a financial wizard, and the whole family was geniuses. They had seen a paper on the kitchen table that Jethro was "ciphering" on, and one of them talked about how advanced he was. He said he had invented some sort of new math, "two plus two equals five to him".

"The Great Crawdad Hunt." Terrific script.

Another thing I've noticed with the color episodes:
The walls of Mr. Drysdale's and Miss Jane's office in the bank are painted green. And one of the rooms that they usually show in Mr. Drysdale's house is also painted green. I'm wondering if this was done to symbolize his obsession with money?

I think they've also shown the Drysdale bedroom, but I don't know if that was in a color episode, or if the walls were green.

I'm also a little disappointed that they no longer play the old Commerce Bank theme that they used in early episodes. I wonder why they got rid of it, I kind of liked it?

Another thing I've noticed with the color episodes:
The walls of Mr. Drysdale's and Miss Jane's office in the bank are painted green. And one of the rooms that they usually show in Mr. Drysdale's house is also painted green. I'm wondering if this was done to symbolize his obsession with money?

I think they've also shown the Drysdale bedroom, but I don't know if that was in a color episode, or if the walls were green.

I'm also a little disappointed that they no longer play the old Commerce Bank theme that they used in early episodes. I wonder why they got rid of it, I kind of liked it?

I also think what I call the Elly May and the Critters theme was lost after the black and white years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n7dtAosWqM

And all the front views of the mansion other than the soundstage front close up went away in the color years.

Another thing I've noticed with the color episodes:
The walls of Mr. Drysdale's and Miss Jane's office in the bank are painted green. And one of the rooms that they usually show in Mr. Drysdale's house is also painted green. I'm wondering if this was done to symbolize his obsession with money?

I think they've also shown the Drysdale bedroom, but I don't know if that was in a color episode, or if the walls were green.

I'm also a little disappointed that they no longer play the old Commerce Bank theme that they used in early episodes. I wonder why they got rid of it, I kind of liked it?


Hmmm it could be! I think green is a standard color for many offices... I have a vanity mirror with lights and you can the change color of the lights to replicate how you might look in different locations and in different lighting there is "daytime", "home", "office", and "evening"... And the "office" color is a light green.

And they did away with all the customized theme music in the color years I think... Miss Jane's, and Elly's also

And they did away with all the customized theme music in the color years I think... Miss Jane's, and Elly's also

Yes, Elly May, Miss Jane, Commerce Bank. Music licensing fees are probably expensive, and going color costs more. Bean counter probably said, we have to cut somewhere.

I also think what I call the Elly May and the Critters theme was lost after the black and white years.
Wow, I didn't notice that they stopped playing the Elly May theme, I'll have to keep my ear out for that. That would be a damn shame if true, that's a nice piece of music. I know it lasted a lot longer than the Commerce Bank theme.


And all the front views of the mansion other than the soundstage front close up went away in the color years.
I haven't watched these shows in many, many years. In the early shows I was actually a little shocked to see the front views of the mansion that they showed, because I didn't think they had showed them. I had heard the owners of the mansion didn't want a bunch of tourists coming around and were reluctant to give out clues as to where the mansion was in real life.

I would assume it to be a case of Perry Botkin vs Curt Massey (music for later episodes). I am sure both PB & CM were quite protective of their creations.

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Wow, I didn't notice that they stopped playing the Elly May theme, I'll have to keep my ear out for that. That would be a damn shame if true, that's a nice piece of music. I know it lasted a lot longer than the Commerce Bank theme.

It may not have stopped for the color seasons, but I'm pretty sure it didn't last for the whole series. Yes, it's a nice composition.

I haven't watched these shows in many, many years. In the early shows I was actually a little shocked to see the front views of the mansion that they showed, because I didn't think they had showed them. I had heard the owners of the mansion didn't want a bunch of tourists coming around and were reluctant to give out clues as to where the mansion was in real life.

Yes, I read this was the reason they stopped. And it might have stopped before the fourth season. It's easy to tell; I think the end credits use a long shot at the beginning, then dissolve to the Clampetts coming out the door for the waving. Then, at some point they just used the shot at the door.

Yes, Elly May, Miss Jane, Commerce Bank. Music licensing fees are probably expensive, and going color costs more. Bean counter probably said, we have to cut somewhere.


I may be wrong but I think the customized theme music was stopped after season 1, I don't even remember it being there in the later black and white episodes

I may be wrong but I think the customized theme music was stopped after season 1, I don't even remember it being there in the later black and white episodes
That's a damn shame if true, I thought those individualized themes really added something to the show. When I hear the more generic background music put in, honestly it irritates me because I know they could do better. I still think the Elly May music hung on longer than the others though.

So I'm up to season seven now (watching on MetV), and I notice we're into our third version of the intro. It's the same as the old one, except they've added Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway, driving in her red convertible at the end of the intro. Up until now, they've put their names on the end credits, so it's nice to see them get a move up.

Only two more seasons after this one. While the concept is starting to wear thin, the show is still funny, and I get laughs out of almost every episode. I think the writing's pretty solid during this time, although the show is still goofy.

Hmmm it could be! I think green is a standard color for many offices... I have a vanity mirror with lights and you can the change color of the lights to replicate how you might look in different locations and in different lighting there is "daytime", "home", "office", and "evening"... And the "office" color is a light green.

And they did away with all the customized theme music in the color years I think... Miss Jane's, and Elly's also

There was a similar discussion related to the green color seemingly being overused in The Andy Griffith Show forum. The key thing to remember is just because the show was in color doesn't mean people were watching in color, the fact of the matter was they weren't. This is what I wrote in the Griffith show forum:

"The overwhelming majority of homes in 1965 were watching in black and white. In 1965 there were 57.5 million households in the United States, only 2.8 million had color TV's. Color was growing in leaps and bounds make no mistake about it, the 2.8 figure was January 65, by October the figure would reach 4.6 million".

The green color looks like a shade of gray on a black and white television which makes for a good contrast.

There was a similar discussion related to the green color seemingly being overused in The Andy Griffith Show forum. The key thing to remember is just because the show was in color doesn't mean people were watching in color, the fact of the matter was they weren't. This is what I wrote in the Griffith show forum:

"The overwhelming majority of homes in 1965 were watching in black and white. In 1965 there were 57.5 million households in the United States, only 2.8 million had color TV's. Color was growing in leaps and bounds make no mistake about it, the 2.8 figure was January 65, by October the figure would reach 4.6 million".

The green color looks like a shade of gray on a black and white television which makes for a good contrast.


Those are good points... I always wondered what it would be like to watch a color episode of The Andy Griffith Show in black and white... lol I'm thinking pretty trippy because the color era was sooo different, you'd have the look of a black and white episode but a totally different feel lol

There was at least one report of a station airing episodes from the color seasons of TAGS in black & white -- presumably, the thinking was more viewers would be interesting in watching if under the belief they were eps from the b & w era...!

Some of the old color prints were so faded you could mistake them for black and white.

Another thing that could happen in the days of showing film prints, is that a station could kill the color burst, which would show in black and white. The reverse could happen, too.

Or they could be purposely doing it.

They ran an old black and white Thanksgiving episode on Thursday, so I got another look at the old black and white intro. Granny looks much more irritated in these, IMO. While Elly is more animated. In fact, Elly reaches over to point something out to Granny, but Granny just shakes her off and continues to look irritated. My guess is that was all improvised, and Irene Ryan wasn't expecting Donna Douglas to interact with her. She looks a little thrown off, IMO.

They ran an old black and white Thanksgiving episode on Thursday, so I got another look at the old black and white intro. Granny looks much more irritated in these, IMO. While Elly is more animated. In fact, Elly reaches over to point something out to Granny, but Granny just shakes her off and continues to look irritated. My guess is that was all improvised, and Irene Ryan wasn't expecting Donna Douglas to interact with her. She looks a little thrown off, IMO.


I dunno if I've told this story before, but when I was little watching the show, I think I saw the color episodes first before they went back to black and white.... In the color episodes when Jed runs in to tell Granny about the oil, he runs right to her and they both run out.... but in the black and white episodes, Granny is standing much further back away from the camera and it looks like Jed runs to the place Granny is standing in the color episodes *which for me at that time would have been her ORIGINAL place* then he sees she's not there, then he SPINS AROUND to see her further back ... I was thinking, "Did Granny change her position and Jed wasn't expecting it and it took him a while to figure it out?" lol

Another funny story is, when my grandparents would take me out to eat, my grandpa would put cream in his coffee making it "muddy" looking, and my grandmother took hers black.... Her coffee reminded me how the oil Jed strikes looks in the color episodes while my grandpa's looked more like the oil in the black and white episodes lol

I dunno if I've told this story before, but when I was little watching the show, I think I saw the color episodes first before they went back to black and white.... In the color episodes when Jed runs in to tell Granny about the oil, he runs right to her and they both run out.... but in the black and white episodes, Granny is standing much further back away from the camera and it looks like Jed runs to the place Granny is standing in the color episodes *which for me at that time would have been her ORIGINAL place* then he sees she's not there, then he SPINS AROUND to see her further back ... I was thinking, "Did Granny change her position and Jed wasn't expecting it and it took him a while to figure it out?" lol
That's a funny story, interesting how our perceptions can be formed, especially when we're little.

As for the oil, I had a friend who always used to call coffee "mud". As in, I think I'll have a cup of mud. And I had another friend who misheard the lyrics of the theme song, and always thought it was "and then one day Jed was shooting at some fool". Which I never quite understood, since food rhymes better with crude.

Was that coffee anything like the way Lisa Douglas on Green Acres made it, coming out like syrup? ��

Edit: I assume that that B&W Thanksgiving episode was where there were two “actors” playing Native Americans, qnd Granny thought a war was going on. One of the actors was bopped on the head, and when he came to, he said “Oy vey!” which the Clampetts thought was Indian talk. Great episode with a wonderful ending.

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Was that coffee anything like the way Lisa Douglas on Green Acres made it, coming out like syrup? ��

Edit: I assume that that B&W Thanksgiving episode was where there were two “actors” playing Native Americans
No, nothing like Lisa's coffee. But there has been a couple of scenes of Elly May's coffee, and it comes out like syrup too. Maybe they share the same recipe?

Also, it wasn't that Thanksgiving episode. It was season one episode nine, "Elly''s First Date". The main plot was that Mr. Drysdale was trying to get his son Sonny to date Elly May. The only real Thanksgiving reference was that the Clampett's had the Drysdales over for Thanksgiving dinner at the end.

No, nothing like Lisa's coffee. But there has been a couple of scenes of Elly May's coffee, and it comes out like syrup too. Maybe they share the same recipe?

Also, it wasn't that Thanksgiving episode. It was season one episode nine, "Elly''s First Date". The main plot was that Mr. Drysdale was trying to get his son Sonny to date Elly May. The only real Thanksgiving reference was that the Clampett's had the Drysdales over for Thanksgiving dinner at the end.

I always wondered what you would have to do to make coffee be syrupy like that? Put in too much coffee? Or does that even happen in real life? Was that just something for the shows?

And I THINK I've told this before but, another funny memory I have about the opening, is I thought the opening in some of the VERY EARLY season 1 episodes showed different scenes of the Clampetts driving down the road. I have such a vivid memory of one opening they are driving down the road and it's like a little country rural road, not down the Beverly Hills freeway that we always see, and Jethro is eating on a chicken leg as he drives. Apparently that doesn't exist, but I remember it so well, and I even remember thinking, "Man this must be a VERY EARLY episode, the intro is even different!"

I have a memory of a bumper in the color years of Granny in the kitchen and she holds up an iron skillet that says we will be right back. I was told this was made for the syndicated episodes that were shown on CBS in the mornings in the early to mid 70's. I would love to see that bumper again.

I have a memory of a bumper in the color years of Granny in the kitchen and she holds up an iron skillet that says we will be right back. I was told this was made for the syndicated episodes that were shown on CBS in the mornings in the early to mid 70's. I would love to see that bumper again.

I don’t remember that, but yeah that’d be cool to watch. I assume it was done after 1971 when BH was cancelled. She died a year later.

I was in school, and BH reruns on CBS were in the morning. However I was able to see Gomer Pyle reruns in afternoons. A similar bumper had some “frantic” stop-action animation (a series of stills run together) of Sgt. Carter barking at Pyle with a talk-balloon reading “Stay Tuned for Part 2.”

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I always wondered what you would have to do to make coffee be syrupy like that? Put in too much coffee? Or does that even happen in real life? Was that just something for the shows?
Lol, I've wondered that myself. I've always thought that you would have to seriously overcook it for it to end up that way, and maybe you put the coffee grounds directly in the water? I'm not sure. This would have been a good question for Mythbusters.

I think we've discussed false memories before, so thanks for the story about the openings that you don't remember that don't exist (probably). I do think the "We'll be right back" skillet that Wilbo mentioned sounds familiar though.

Lol, I've wondered that myself. I've always thought that you would have to seriously overcook it for it to end up that way, and maybe you put the coffee grounds directly in the water? I'm not sure. This would have been a good question for Mythbusters.

I wonder what it was, for real. Maybe chocolate syrup.

I wonder what it was, for real. Maybe chocolate syrup.

I was wondering too, it looked like chocolate syrup, it aways looked kinda good lol

I've started watching season nine on MeTV. I see there's another change in the opening theme segment. They skip the whole part with Jed shooting at the oil and grabbing Granny and the family and leaving the hills. They cut right to them driving down the street in Beverly Hiils. And they skip the singing altogether and get right to the instrumental.

In the episodes where Phil Silvers guest stars, they show some brief video of him first, as the announcer says "Stay tuned tonight as Phil Silvers guest stars on The Beverly Hillbillies" or something like that. I know Silvers is a big star, but they really play him up big. At the end credits, they have his name as big as any I've seen lol. Maybe he just had a great agent.

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I am assuming that METV will go back to the 1st season once the last season is completed? I hope they leave it on at 9pm. It has taken right at a year to go through the entire series.

That was included in the Hulu airings back when they had it. In some of the other episodes it was Kellogg's or "Kellogg's of Battle Creek" as the singer called it.
I watched an older episode on Freevee today, and it included the Kellogg's billboard. Both the drive and the song went on a bit longer.

The DVD I have, has both the Kellogg's and Winston Cigarettes openings. When Jed is pointing it's at the billboard for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It sems like the Winston Cigarettes are on the side of a semi. It's been a while since I have seen them.

The DVD I have, has both the Kellogg's and Winston Cigarettes openings. When Jed is pointing it's at the billboard for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It sems like the Winston Cigarettes are on the side of a semi. It's been a while since I have seen them.

Those extended sponsor openings are on the DVDs that were taken from the Paul Henning estate masters. They are complete and came out on MPI years ago.

He owned the complete episodes as shown on CBS. Although the episodes themselves (season 1 and part of season 2) went into public domain, they are basically worthless since most of the original music, including the theme music, is copyrighted. I could only find Volume 1 so I don't know how many DVDs MPI put out, but I know the one I have, Volume 1, has only black and white episodes on it.

Those extended sponsor openings are on the DVDs that were taken from the Paul Henning estate masters. They are complete and came out on MPI years ago.

He owned the complete episodes as shown on CBS. Although the episodes themselves (season 1 and part of season 2) went into public domain, they are basically worthless since most of the original music, including the theme music, is copyrighted. I could only find Volume 1 so I don't know how many DVDs MPI put out, but I know the one I have, Volume 1, has only black and white episodes on it.

I will have to check but I think I have season's 1 & 2. Did not realize they were from Paul Henning's estate. I love those openings. Throughout the series, Jethro would occasionally have a "Jethro bowl" of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

The DVD I have, has both the Kellogg's and Winston Cigarettes openings. When Jed is pointing it's at the billboard for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It sems like the Winston Cigarettes are on the side of a semi. It's been a while since I have seen them.

I'd love to see those, I never noticed them in the many times I've seen those episodes.

It's just on the DVD set for the 1st two seasons. You can find the opening on Youtube. Kellogg's Best To You.

I'd love to see those, I never noticed them in the many times I've seen those episodes.

Here's a link to a YouTube reaction video for Episode 2, showing the Winston semi at the opening and Jed smoking a Winston cigarette at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N5npZpkdno