Following the death of
Granny,
Jed Clampett returned to his roots to live in a backwoods cabin in the town of Bug Tussle rather than living alone at his
Beverly Hills mansion after having voluntarily divided his massive fortune between daughter
Elly May and nephew
Jethro Bodine, both of whom have remained on the West Coast (Jethro is now a successful Hollywood producer running his own
film studio and Elly May has opened a zoo for her beloved critters).
Jane Hathaway is now a Washington bureaucrat working for the United States Department of Energy. Her former boss, Milburn Drysdale, has passed away. It is 1981 and the
Reagan administration is desperate to solve the
energy crisis: they dispatch Jane and her obnoxious and stuffy boss C.D. Medford to search for the secret formula of Granny's powerful home-brewed "
white lightning" which they are convinced could be the miracle cure for America's gas crisis. Since Granny died some time ago, Jane and C.D. arrive at Jed's old cabin, hoping to score just a few drops of Granny's medicine. Unfortunately, what little survives is ruined by C.D., and so Jed suggests that they contact either one of the "youngins" in California to see if they have any of Granny's medicine left because someone who sure isn't going to tell them is Granny's 100-year-old "Maw", who now runs an "old ladies" home in Bug Tussle and still holds the moonshine recipe. ==Cast==