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"The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979): :  -- The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County.

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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 full episode list
Release Date:
26 January 1979 (USA) more
Plot:
The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County. full summary
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
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(22 articles)
Hazzard Star Schneider Makes Memorabilia Movie
 (From WENN. 27 August 2009, 1:06 AM, PDT)

Schneider Blasts TV Bosses For Unpaid Royalties
 (From WENN. 14 May 2009, 9:15 AM, PDT)

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That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.... more (56 total)

Cast

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Denver Pyle ... Uncle Jesse (146 episodes, 1979-1985)
Sorrell Booke ... Boss Hogg (146 episodes, 1979-1985)

Catherine Bach ... Daisy Duke (145 episodes, 1979-1985)
Ben Jones ... Cooter (142 episodes, 1979-1985)

James Best ... Sheriff Rosco Coltrane (141 episodes, 1979-1985)
Waylon Jennings ... The Balladeer / ... (130 episodes, 1979-1985)
Tom Wopat ... Luke Duke (128 episodes, 1979-1985)

John Schneider ... Bo Duke (128 episodes, 1979-1985)

Sonny Shroyer ... Enos (98 episodes, 1979-1985)
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60 min (145 episodes) | Argentina:60 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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On the CMT "Inside the Dukes" special, Catherine Bach said she offered to walk out along with Tom Wopat and John Schneider, but they convinced her to stay. The reasoning was that if she left, then there would be no show to come back to. more
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Factual errors: The show's crew was not immune to the common misspelling of Rosco as "Roscoe". In the pilot, for example, a large banner celebrating "Sheriff Roscoe" had to be shot with balloons in front of the incorrect "e". In the third season, the door to Rosco's office can be seen with both spellings, depending on the episode. "Rosco" is correct. more
Quotes:
The Balladeer: [opening song] Just the good ole' boys / Never meanin' no harm / Beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born / Straightenin' the curves / Flattenin' the hills / Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will / Makin' their way the only way they know how / That's just a little bit more than the law will allow / Just the good ole' boys / Wouldn't change if they could / Fightin' the system like a true-modern day Robin Hood.
Bo & Luke: [shout] Yee-haw!
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Spoofed in The Damn! Show (2005) (V) more
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Good Ol' Boys more

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That's just a little bit more than the law will allow...., 24 November 2000
Author: richardmaitla82 from London

'Just some good ol boys, never meanin' no harm - they been in trouble with the law since the day they wuz born...' So began the classiest of all hicksville county roadchase shows, where each week those loveable two modern day Robin Hoods, Beaureguard "Bo" Duke [John Schneider] & Lucas K. "Luke" Duke [Tom Wopat] would pit themselves against some ner do wells, probably from Chickasaw county, and inadvertently manage to rub Sherriff Roscoe P Coltrane [James Best] up the wrong way to boot. Cue slo-mo shots of an airborne General Lee [1969 Dodge Charger]flying down leaf littered byways with Roscoe's cruiser once again in hot pursuit.

This was a fantastic early Saturday evening kid's classic, mainly because of the shows hugely appealing basic premise -Bo & Luke are on probation for running moonshine, and they have the fastest motor in the county. So they're basically outlaws with hearts of gold who never really do anything particularly anti-social, they're just fighting the system that's run by corrupt town official Jefferson Davis Hogg, AKA "Boss Hogg" [Sorrell Booke]. He's fat, he's greedy and he wears a ridiculous white suit. And to make matters worse he's always trying to aquire the deeds to the Duke's farm, managed by his long time rival Uncle Jesse [Denver Pyle]with the help of Daisy Duke [Catherine Bach]. Show me a ten year old boy who, in 1981, didn't have a major Daisy Duke fixation - I mean, her legs were insured for two million dollars. Crikey.

So our renegade heroes would have at least a couple of car chases each week, they'd hang out with Cooter in the garage, take the p**s out of the educationally sub-normal deputy Cletus, stop some really bad guys from doing something dastardly and probably blow up a barn or something with a stick of dynamite fired from a bow and arrow. And that's just before lunch.

It all went pretty badly wrong in about '83 when the the boys were replaced by some pseudo Duke-lite wannabes named Coy and Vance. Their names alone speak volumes. This kind of signalled the beginning of the end, and I'm not sure the show ever quite recovered. Still, it's better not to dwell on this shamefully duff period in the show's history, instead it's better to fondly remember the Dukes in all their glory - flagrantly disregarding the law, and only ever climbing into and out of the General Lee via the windows, as the doors were soldered shut. Yee-haww.

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