I kinda liked that." In 1972, approximately one year after The Beverly Hillbillies was canceled (due to the great "country purge" by CBS), the network cast Ebsen in the lead in a new detective series.

When “The Beverly Hillbillies” made its debut on CBS in ... It came time to select the cast, and Henning had the perfect Granny picked out. Bea Benaderet was a star of radio and TV with ...

Huffman, when initially proposing the idea, called the story a “fish out of water” scenario, where the Ozark hillbillies have ...