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 ...

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 ...