Editing The Beverly Hillbillies (section)

==Home media and legal status==
[[File:Silvers hillbillies 1970.JPG|right|thumb|Buddy Ebsen and [[Phil Silvers]]]]
Fifty-five episodes of the series are in the [[public domain]] (all 36 season-one episodes and 19 season-two episodes), because [[Orion Television]], successor to Filmways, neglected to renew their copyrights. As a result, these episodes have been released on home video and DVD on many low-budget labels and shown on low-power television stations and low-budget networks in {{nowrap|16-mm}} prints. In many video prints of the public domain episodes, the original theme music has been replaced by generic music due to copyright issues.

Before his death, Paul Henning, whose estate now holds the original film elements to the public domain episodes, authorized [[MPI Home Video]] to release the best of the first two seasons on DVD, the first "ultimate collection" of which was released in the fall of 2005. These collections include the original, uncut versions of the first season's episodes, complete with their original theme music and opening sponsor plugs. Volume 1 has, among its bonus features, the alternate, unaired version of the pilot film, ''The Hillbillies Of Beverly Hills'' (the version of the episode that sold the series to CBS), and the "cast commercials" (cast members pitching the products of the show's sponsors) originally shown at the end of each episode. The alternate version is also the version seen on Amazon Prime Video.

With the exception of the public domain episodes, the copyrights to the series were renewed by Orion Television. However, any new compilation of ''Hillbillies'' material will be copyrighted by either MPI Media Group or CBS, depending on the content of the material used.

For many years, [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment|20th Century Fox]], through a joint venture with CBS called [[CBS/Fox Video]], released select episodes of ''Hillbillies'' on videocassette. After [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]] merged with CBS in 1999, [[Paramount home entertainment|Paramount Home Entertainment]] (the video division of Paramount Pictures, which was acquired by Viacom in 1994) took over the video rights.

In 2006, Paramount announced plans to release the copyrighted episodes in boxed sets through [[CBS Home Entertainment|CBS DVD]] later that year. The show's second season (consisting of the public domain episodes from that season) was released on DVD in Region 1 on October 7, 2008, as "...The Official Second Season". The third season was released on February 17, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-3/10886 |title=The Beverly Hillbillies DVD news: Announcement for The Beverly Hillbillies&nbsp;– The Official 3rd Season |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|access-date=March 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330195332/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-3/10886 |archive-date=March 30, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Both seasons are available to be purchased together from major online retailers. On October 1, 2013, season four was released on DVD as a Walmart exclusive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-4/19313|title=The Beverly Hillbillies DVD news: Release Date for The Beverly Hillbillies—The Official 4th Season |publisher=TV Shows On DVD |access-date=April 20, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926224222/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-4/19313|archive-date=September 26, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> It was released as a full retail release on April 15, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-4/19345|title=The Beverly Hillbillies DVD news: Announcement for The Beverly Hillbillies—The Official 4th Season |publisher=TV Shows On DVD |access-date=April 20, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926223212/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-4/19345|archive-date=September 26, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On April 26, 2016, CBS/Paramount released the complete first season on DVD.<ref>[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-1/21977 'The Official 1st Season' DVDs from CBS/Paramount]; {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210024333/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Beverly-Hillbillies-Season-1/21977 |date=February 10, 2016 }}</ref> The fifth season was released on October 2, 2018.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07FDVCM94/tvshowsondvd0d-20 |title=The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season |publisher=Amazon|date=October 2, 2018 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" 
|-
! scope="col" | DVD title
! scope="col" | No. of<br />episodes
! scope="col" | Region 1<br />release date
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (Ultimate Collection)
| 26
| September 27, 2005
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (Ultimate Collection Volume 2)
| 27
| February 28, 2006
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (The Official First Season)
| 36
| April 26, 2016
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (The Official Second Season)
| 36
| October 7, 2008
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (The Official Third Season)
| 34
| February 17, 2009
|-
| scope="row" | ''Return of the Beverly Hillbillies'' (TV Movie)
| —
| March 12, 2013
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (The Official Fourth Season)
| 32
| April 15, 2014
|-
| scope="row" | ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (The Official Fifth Season)
| 30
| October 2, 2018
|}