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 ...

It’s been more than half a century since folks could “come and listen to a story about a man named Jed” — except in reruns.

On the Hillbillies, he played former Tennessee country mountain-folk-turned-wealthy Beverly Hills resident Jed Clampett. On Barnaby Jones, he was one of TV's most senior, slyest, health-conscious ...