Wow. It’s been a long time since I saw “The Beverley Hillbillies”, but I thought I’d seen more or less all of them as a kid in reruns in the afternoons. This is TV.com’s summary of episode 174(!) from season 6, called “Greetings From the President” which aired on 11 October 1967, which I surely don’t remember.
Just as the Clampetts are preparing to go home to the hills, Jethro receives a draft notice from the President. The women go ahead without them, and Jethro gets a few uniforms from the movie studio, one of a Prussian Field Marshall and one for General Patton. Jethro buys a tank and hopes for a crew, employing Drysdale as it in a Prussian Field Marshall uniform. While in Griffith Park, the park ranger reports what he saw, and two cops come down to investigate. During target practice, one of the cops, Charley, questions Drysdale, realizing he was the man who was the reason he was captured during WWII. An upset Jethro arrives at the mansion, and Jed asks if he will take him to the Sheriffs office because Drysdale needs bail money and money to repay Charley, or else he may get shot.
Bring on the funny! The day after it aired, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said Congressional proposals to exit Vietnam would “subject this country to mortal danger.”