The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasosn.
Mammoth Studios is the generic name used for fictional movie studios in movies , television , books and comic books . The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS for nine seasons , from September 26 , 1962 , to March 23 , 1971 . The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top 20 most-watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons , twice ranking as the number one series of the year , with a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television episodes in history .