When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

When The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, few could have predicted just how popular it would become. The sitcom followed the Clampetts, a poor but good-hearted rural family who struck it rich ...

Take any successful television series-regardless of decade, genre or format-and you'll almost always find a cast of actors who become so associated with their roles that, to the audience, they are ...