Season 3 - Episode Guide

Mr. Drysdale buys Mammoth Pictures, a movie studio. Jed, Granny, Elly and Jethro try to "help" the studio, which is losing money, by working at the studio.

Mr. Drysdale tells the Clampetts that he is building a city on the location where Jed's movie studio is located. The Clampetts mistake a western prop town for the city.

The Clampetts decide to run the store on the empty studio Western set but can't understand why they don't have any customers.

The Clampetts are still at the studio hoping their "city" prospers. Mr. Drysdale is still trying to tear the studio down for his building project. A famous Hollywood columnist enlists Jed's help to save the studio.

Jed gets an honorary doctorate when he donates money to the college that Mr. Drysdale attended. Now the family thinks he can now practice medicine, which doesn't sit well with Granny.

Mrs. Drysdale thinks she can get the hillbillies to move out by throwing herself at Jed. Meanwhile Granny is itching to fight her because she fell into the cement pond when Jed had to stop a fight between them earlier.

Jethro decides to enlist in one of the armed forces but he isn't sure which one. The Clampetts go to Marineland thinking that's where he would go to join the Marines.

An old friend from back in the hills is now an Elvis like singing idol. The Clampetts misunderstand the situation and decide to help Johnny get on his feet.

Johnny Poke's mother arrives from the Ozarks and Granny's matchmaking begins. Jed and Emma Poke come up with a plan to discourage her.

Mrs. Drysdale needs Jed to donate $190,000 to save the Beverly Hills Ballet but he has his hands full trying to keep Granny from heading back to the hills pushing all her stuff in a wheelbarrow.

Mr. Drysdale talks the butler into staying on, posing as a boarder, so that he can teach the Clampetts how to be more civilized.

The Clampetts still don't realize that Mr. Pinckney is their butler instead of their boarder. When he tries to leave them Granny thinks he trying to skip without paying his rent.

Hospitalized for nerves from dealing with the hillbillies Mrs. Drysdale threatens Mr. Drysdale to stay there until he gets rid of them and even sending for a specialist. Unfortunately the Clampet clan is on their way to visit her.

Mrs. Drysdale wakes up to find she is no longer in the hospital. The Clampetts, unhappy with what they feel as the hospital's poor level of care, break her out and set her up in their mansion.

A young actress becomes interested in Jethro when she finds out Jed owns a movie studio.

Elly May goes to Jed's studio to be in a movie and meet a potential husband.

Ellie May loses another suitor to Miss Jane in another case of mistaken identity.

After the Clampetts accidentally run into a beatnik he's moves into the Clampett mansion, but neither he nor they know what to make of each other.

As a favor to Jed Mr. Drysdale arranges for a playboy bank director (who normally only dates women half his age) to come court Granny, while Jed goes out with a beautiful woman who dates rich older men.

Granny wants Jed to find a wife and asks for Mr. Drysdale's help. He introduces Jed to Phyllis but learns too late she a gold digger and becomes alarmed when they head to the track. But it's Granny they need to worry about.

Jethro decides to become a "double naught" spy and converts the family's truck into his idea of a Bondmobile. But he becomes the unwitting pawn in another banker's scheme.

Mr. Drysdale's biggest rival John Cushing succeeds in getting the Clampetts to transfer all of their money to his bank.

Mrs. Drydale's poodle Claude is to enter a dog show but gets sick right before. Granny offers to doctor the dog but Ellie Mae is concerned he doesn't know any tricks so she decides to help out with one of her own pets.

To cure Granny of her homesick blues Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs come to visit.

Granny is determined to go back home even if she has to walk back all by herself. When she reaches Las Vegas she has second thoughts. Jethro gets arrested by an undercover cop.

Mrs. Drysdale thinks she has a new way of getting rid of the Clampetts: talk Jed into donating their mansion to the city for an art museum. They agree, on the assumption that they are supposed to provide the artworks and not move out.