What state do the Beverly Hillbillies come from?

What state do they come from it is urgent that I find this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[callmetootie]

They came from someplace called Cactus Creek I think.

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Andrew Carden

[Sean Snow]

Texas*? Oklahoma?

*It says Texas T in the theme song

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Janet(talking about buying Roper's car): Chrissy, it's the answer to ourprayers.
Chrissy:That's not true. Nobody prayed.
Janet:Okay, then let's start. Please, God, make Chrissy change her mind.
Jack: Or better yet give her one!

[ShermanW]

Probably Missouri. The show's creator, Paul Henning, is from Missouri, and the show makes many references to real Missouri Ozark towns, like Joplin, Silver Dollar City, and even the now-famous Branson. (Keep in mind, a few episodes were filmed in Silver Dollar City in 1969.) The pilot episode makes a reference to Eureka Springs, a real town in Northern Arkansas, so the Clampetts are definitely from the Ozarks. But given Henning's Missouri background, and the numerous Missouri towns mentioned, I'd say it's the Show Me State.

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[tdr]

It seems they can be thought of as being from the Ozarks or from southern Appalachia. Eureka Springs (AR) is mentioned in the first season as where Jed and Pearl saw the "moving pictures" when they were young. And they did do those shows from Silver Dollar City (MO) near where their old friends still live.

On the other hand, they were supposed to have known Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs as some of their old hill neighbors. Flatt was from Tennessee, and Scruggs was from North Carolina. And I seem to recall they refer to the Smokies of western Carolina and eastern Tennessee, from where the Foggy Mountain Boys got their start. And Tennessee is often alluded to, but I can't remember hearing the name Arkansas ever said in any ep. I'm not even sure if they identified Silver Dollar City as being in Missouri.

All this is quite silly, of course, to figure out something 'logical' from such a farce of a show. But one more point... the Ozarks are fairly close to known oil reserves in northern Oklahoma, and I don't recall hearing of much oil discovered in southern Appalachia.

[TV Guy]

They never said what state it is, but I'm sure Paul Henning had his home state, Missouri, in mind when he created the show. They never said what state Hooterville, the setting for "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres", was in, either, and it was established that the Clampetts were from the same area originally.

I believe the answer is Tennessee. In the episode, 'Rasslin Clampets, Granny says, after seeing a character pretending to be from Tennessee lose a match, "nobody does that to a fellow Tennseesean."

[jed1]

it was west virginia

[jed1]

LUBDUB, It was from west virginia!!!

The theme song suggests that they're
from West Virginia:

"Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed.."

As any WV resident can tell you, Mountaineers
are from West Virgina....after all, our state
motto is "Montani Semper Liberi", which
translates to "Mountaineers are always free"...

Let's go, Mountaineers !!!!
http://www.wvu.edu/~sports/

[hiram]

Daisy "Granny" Moses was originally from Tennessee but ended up living with the Clampett clan some unknown time after her daughter married Jed, who lived just outside Bug Tussle, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains near the Arkansas border. Granny is their only connection to people and places Appalachian. The Clampetts never lived anywhere near Tennessee, West Virginia, New Jersey, or any other ridiculous guess on this board.

Jed's first cousin, Pearl, married Fred Bodine and settled on the Arkansas side of the "hills", where they raised their children Jethro and Jethrine. (Jethro attended school in Oxford, Arkansas.)

The show contains repeated and consistent references to Granny's loyalty to her home state of Tennessee, the fact that the Clampetts are from the Ozarks, that the nearest non-fictional towns are ones in Missouri, and most importantly, that they are from the "Midwest"; that narrows it down to Missouri, since Arkansas is considered a Southern state.

I hope that makes everything clear as moonshine.

I live in Harrison, Arkansas. As some of you might know, home to now defunct Dogpatch,USA. Harrison is between Eureka Springs and Branson. It is quiet possible that the Hillbillies could have been from around here.

[Bedsheets2]

FYI Texas T...means OIL

[tdr]

TV Land is showing some of the first season eps from the BH's this week, and I happened to catch it when Jed made some reference to 'Hooterville,' a town near 'back home.' This, of course, was before Petticoat Junction premeired the next season as a rather loose spin-off from the BH's where Cousin Pearl, the only kin of the Clampetts with any knowledge of the outside world, was renamed and placed in the role of the widowed mother of 3 daughters.

Perhaps both these series ideas were conceived about the same time, with Paul Henning having in mind his own home region of southern Missouri. I have read there actually was a familiar situation there of a widowed mother with 3 beautiful daughters who lived between 2 towns, and the young men from both those towns often made excuses to come to the bed & breakfast type inn the family kept. I don't remember where I read that, so maybe it's just silly gossip.

Anyway, in that same ep Jed also said that Granny is "from my wife's family from Tennessee," apparently implying he himself is not a Tennessean. So in this way it all seems to fit in... The Clampetts are from the Ozarks near the Arkansas/Missouri border, and some of their old neighbors still remember them when they go back to Silver Dollar City. Somehwere not too far away is Hooterville. Bea Benederet, after she began playing Kate Bradley, did not appear again as Pearl, although Pearl was occasionally alluded to. It's also interesting that in the PJ eps after she was gone was when the BH's started making those 'crossover' eps in which the PJ characters appeared.

I can think of a few situations which are not consistent with this scenario, but it is probably the best explanantion for the setting of the Henning comedies.

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Originally posted by lubdub:
What state do they come from it is urgent that I find this out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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