06/27/2024
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🚨EDIT: Randy Baker would like everyone to know, that it was only 4 episodes that were filmed at SDC. Not 5 like Silver Dollar City’s official website says. We are sincerely sorry, and will try to do better. 🙄🤣 he hoped his message to us “was a learning lesson” & that “people believe myths rather than verifying for factualness” - yeah, we are pretty 💩when it comes to research 🙄
1969 - 5 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies are filmed at Silver Dollar City. Creator of the show, Paul Henning came up with the idea of the show based on his experiences camping in the Ozarks near Branson as a kid.
More on Paul from Wikipedia: “In 1962, Henning created the CBS series, The Beverly Hillbillies. He wrote or co-wrote well over 200 of the series' 274 episodes, including every episode of seasons one, two, three, eight, and nine. (During seasons 4 through 7, he was still a frequent contributor, but wrote more frequently for Petticoat Junction.) Henning also wrote the music and lyrics for the popular theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett".
The Beverly Hillbillies was one of the highest-rated series of all time, and became a feature film about three decades later. After the major success of Hillbillies, CBS gave Henning another half-hour time slot on its schedule. In 1963, Petticoat Junction debuted on CBS and was a great success as well. This series had a starring role for Henning's daughter, Linda Kaye Henning, simply billed as Linda Kaye. In 1965, this was followed by Green Acres, of which Henning was only the casting director and executive producer.
All three programs were popular, achieving major ratings success during most of their runs. “
As you probably know, the overlook and nature trails above the Butterfly Palace (Ruth & Paul Henning Conservation Area) are named after him and his wife who donated and sold the land on which it sits. The Herschend’s donated another 200 acres to it in 1981.