Saturday Evening Post – 2/2/1963 – The Beverly Hillbillies

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This is the February 2, 1963 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It features a photograph of the primary characters of TV’s Beverly Hillbillies on its cover. The TV show is also the subject of the primary cover article. Other cover articles include the Cuban prisoner deal, Cardinal Wyszynski and Catholicism versus communism in Poland and a new novel by Philip Wylie. There are other articles and features, color and black & white illustrations and photos, and vintage advertisements
The magazine contains 72 pages and measures approximately 10.5 x 13.5 inches.
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor, backwoods family from the Ozarks, who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. The show was produced by Filmways and was created by Paul Henning. It was followed by two other Henning-inspired "country cousin" series on CBS – Petticoat Junction and its spin-off Green Acres, which reversed the rags-to-riches, country-to-city model of The Beverly Hillbillies.
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 16 episodes that still remain among the 100 most-watched television episodes in American history. It accumulated seven Emmy nominations during its run. The series remains in syndicated reruns.