Paul HenningFilmography

Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Producer, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Ten years after the cancellation of the cornpone comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies, the property was revived -- mercifully briefly -- in the form of a two-hour movie. Originally titled Solving the Energy Crisis, The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies found Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas and Nancy Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 09

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: The opening story arc of The Beverly Hillbillies' ninth and final season finds the Clampett family briefly leaving Beverly Hills for a location-filmed jaunt to Washington D.C, there to help the president fight the scourge of air pollution. Upon arriving in the nation's capital, hillbilly Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 08

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Still riding high in the ratings after seven years on the air, The Beverly Hillbillies launches its eighth season on CBS. The festivities commence with the series' highly publicized return to its "roots": that is, the cast briefly leaves its Beverly Hills environs for an extended visit to mountain Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 07

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Though it hardly seemed possible to those grouchy TV critics who had long ago dismissed The Beverly Hillbillies as a one-joke pony, the series was still coming up with infinite variations on that one joke (millionaire mountaineers transplanted to Beverly Hills) as it entered its seventh season on Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Those acerbic TV critics who'd predicted back in 1962 that the phenomenally successful The Beverly Hillbillies would wear out its welcome after three seasons must have been writhing in agony as the series entered its sixth year on the air in the fall of 1967. Although it had dropped from its Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Season five of The Beverly Hillbillies finds the sturdy Clampett clan -- Jed (Buddy Ebsen), Elly May (Donna Douglas), Jethro (Max Baer Jr.), and Granny (Irene Ryan) -- still retaining their mountain-grown values and essential decency despite Jed's millionaire status and the family's luxurious Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Santa Claus Special

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Latter-day Scrooge Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) shows up in Hooterville at Christmastime with a noticeable lack of good cheer. Bedloe plans to foil a plan formulated by Kate (Bea Benaderet) to use the Hooterville Cannonball to distribute presents and transports Christmas carolers throughout the Read More

Green Acres [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eva Gabor, Eddie Albert, Pat Buttram, Tom Lester, Alvy Moore

Synopsis: The third of producer Paul Henning's enormously successful "rustic" comedies of the 1960s, Green Acres made its CBS bow on September 15, 1965. Reversing the situation established on Henning's The Beverly Hillbillies, in which a group of yokels was transplanted to luxurious Beverly Hills, Green Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: After 106 black-and-white episodes, The Beverly Hillbillies switched to color for the start of its fourth season in the fall of 1965. Evidently the transition to color was heartily approved of by the series' fans: having finished season three at 12th place in the ratings, The Beverly Hillbillies Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Giant Jackrabbit

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Clampetts call the Beverly Caterers to help them prepare a tasty meal, consisting mainly of jackrabbit stew. Meanwhile, Mr. Drysdale receives a kangaroo as a practical joke from an Australian banker. Anyone who's ever seen one of the Warner Bros. "Hippity Hopper" cartoons will be able to guess Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: Having emerged as America's highest-rated sitcom of all time during its second season on CBS, The Beverly Hillbillies was a "shoe-in" for a third-season renewal, remaining in its familiar Wednesday night slot for another year beginning in the fall of 1964. Season four gets off to a rousing start Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Ladybugs

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is one of the first sitcom episodes to acknowledge the phenomenon known as Beatlemania. Hoping to cash in on the popularity of the Fab Four, Uncle Joe organizes a female rock group called the Ladybugs, consisting of his three nieces and Sheriff Ragdale's daughter Sally (played by Sheila Read More

Petticoat Junction: Spur Line to Shady Rest

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first episode of Petticoat Junction (NOT the pilot film, since no pilot was ever made!) finds C & F.W Railroad president Norman Curtis (Roy Roberts) dispatching his vice-president Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) to the tiny community of Hooterville, there to find out why one of the railroad's Read More

Bedtime Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones, Dody Goodman, Aram Stephan

Synopsis: An exercise in "black humor" bordering on the tasteless, Bedtime Story stars Marlon Brando and David Niven as a pair of womanizing confidence tricksters, operating up and down the Riviera. Pooling their talents, Brando and Niven pull off several scams, many of these requiring Brando to pose as a Read More

Petticoat Junction: Cannonball Christmas

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Every Christmas, the Hooterville Cannonball goes on a caroling tour throughout the community. All this may come to a screeching halt this year, thanks to the machinations of Scroogelike railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane), who has cracked down on unauthorized stopovers. This Read More

Petticoat Junction: Uncle Joe's Replacement

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Herbie Bates (Don Washbrook), head clerk at Sam Drucker's general store and erstwhile beau of Billie Jo Bradley (Linda Kaye), is offered a second source of income when Billie Jo's mom Kate (Bea Benadaret) appoints him assistant manager of the Shady Rest Hotel. Unfortunately, Uncle Joe (Edgar Read More

Petticoat Junction: Quick, Hide the Railroad

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, C&F.W. railroad troubleshooter Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) is determined to put the ancient Hooterville Cannonball out of business, despite the fervent appeals (mostly in song) by the three daughters of Kate Bradley (Bea Benadaret), owner of the Shady Rest Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Raymond Bailey

Synopsis: America's top-rated TV series The Beverly Hillbillies retained its Number One status as it entered its second season on CBS in the fall of 1963. By this time, newly-rich mountaineer Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) and his family have become accustomed to their swank new Beverly Hills surroundings, but Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Hillbillies of Beverly Hills

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally telecast on September 26, 1962, "Hillbillies of Beverly Hills" was of course the pilot episode of the immensely popular sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. As everyone in the universe must know by now, it all begins when Ozark mountaineer Jed Clampett accidentally strikes oil on his Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Jr., Bea Benaderet

Synopsis: The first season of The Beverly Hillbillies can be regarded as a "shakedown" cruise, with the newly-rich Clampett family making first contact with the wealthy upper crust of Beverly Hills, CA, adapting to their strange but luxurious surroundings with a combination of farcical ignorance and Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Crime-free Mayberry

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dick Elliott

Synopsis: The citizens of Mayberry are duly impressed when an FBI man and a press photographer arrive in town to celebrate Sheriff Andy for making Mayberry the most crime-free city in the county. Andy is likewise impressed-until he notices that the FBI agent allows himself to be photographed. Sure enough Read More

Lover Come Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but Read More

Love That Bob: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Still on NBC after moving from CBS a year earlier, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fifth and final season in first-run prime time. Bob Cummings returns in his signature role as professional photographer and self-styled ladies' man Bob Collins, with Ann B. Davis as Bob's Read More

Love That Bob: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from its familiar Thursday night time slot to a Tuesday evening berth, and leaving CBS to return to NBC in the bargain, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its fourth season. Even after all these years, Bob Collins (Bob Cummings), the series' cheerfully lascivious Read More

Love That Bob: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Happy-go-lucky photographer Bob Collins (Bob Cummings) continues to ardently pursue his lovely models -- and for that matter, any other lovely lady who tickles his fancy -- as Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) enters its third season. Also still on hand are future Brady Bunch Read More

Love That Bob: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: Moving from NBC to CBS for its second season, Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show) also moved to a more advantageous time slot, Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Here it would remain for the next two years -- never a huge ratings hit, but always consistently popular with its target audience Read More

Love That Bob: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Cummings, Rosemary de Camp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman

Synopsis: "Hold it! I think you're gonna like this picture!" With this jaunty assurance, Bob Cummings calmly snuggled into the late-Sunday-night NBC time slot previously occupied by The Hunter for the first season of the breezy sitcom Love That Bob (originally The Bob Cummings Show). Little time is wasted Read More

Reubens

Crew: Commentary, Screenwriter