The sitcom revolved around Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen, whose Tin Man character from "The Wizard of Oz" was once seen as gross), the folksy, kind-hearted patriarch of his small family. He strikes it ...

Clampett Oil courted disaster when an oil tanker spilled 20,000 barrels of crude in the Gulf of Alaska last June: “I’m mad as a mule chewing on bumblebees,” owner Jed said in a press ...