There are millions of rerun-addicted hard-core Clampettologists out there who won’t take kindly to much big-screen Hillbilly revisionism, people who think Donna Douglas still looks damn good in pigtails, who worship Max Baer Jr. 1 practically from the moment it premiered in September, 1962, dominated the Nielsens for nearly 10 years and still pops up on cable at least four times a day. It’s especially tricky when you’re dealing with something as ingrained in American pop consciousness as “The Beverly Hillbillies.” (Go ahead, admit it, you not only know the words to the theme song, you’ve sung them out loud in your car.) This is a show that was No. Even so, this seems like potentially dangerous stuff, messing with people’s TV memories.
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