The Dukes of Hazzard is an American comedy-action comedy series aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985. The show aired a total of 147 episodes covering seven seasons. The series is inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, also made by Gy Waldron and has many identical or similar names and concept characters.
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Plot summary
The Dukes of Hazzard has an ensemble player, who also follows the adventures of "The Duke Boys," Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) cousins ​​(including Coy and Vance Duke for most of the season 5), who lives on a family farm in the fictitious area of ​​Hazzard County, Georgia, with their attractive female cousin, Daisy (Catherine Bach) and their wise Uncle Jesse (Pyle). The Duke boys are racing in the 1969 Dodge Charger modified car, dubbed (The) General Lee , avoiding crooked and corrupt regional command, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane which is clumsy and corrupt. (James Best) along with his deputy (s), and is always trying to get caught in the midst of various adventures and incidents that often occur in the area. Bo and Luke had previously been sentenced to trial for illegal transport of liquor; Uncle Jesse they pleaded with the US Government to refrain from liquor distillation in exchange for Bo and Luke's freedom. As a result, Bo and Luke are on probation and are not allowed to carry firearms - instead, they often use a compound arc, sometimes with arrows that lead to dynamite - or leave Hazzard County unless they get a trial permit from the probation officer, the Boss Hogg, though the exact details of their trial period vary from one episode to another. Sometimes it is implied that they will be jailed for crossing borders; on another occasion, it appears that they can leave Hazzard, as long as they return within a certain time limit. Some other technicalities of their probationary period also come into play at various times.
The corrupt district commissioner Jefferson Davis (J.D.) "Boss" Hogg, who runs or has fingers in almost everything in Hazzard County, is always angry with Dukes, especially Bo and Luke, for always thwarting his crooked plans. He is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so the plot has a chance to succeed. Many episodes revolve around Hogg attempting to engage in illegal schemes, sometimes with the help of rented criminals. Some of them are fast-paced schemes, although many others affect the financial security of Duke farming, which Hogg has long desired for various reasons. At other times, Hogg hires criminals from out of town to do his dirty work for him, and often tries to frame Bo and Luke for various crimes as part of this plot. Bo and Luke always seem to stumble on Hogg's latest scheme, sometimes by curiosity, and often with luck alone, and get rid of it from business. Though Dukes often come to save him (see below), Hogg forever seems to have irrational dislikes towards the clan, especially Bo and Luke, often accusing them of spying, robbing or planning to rob him, and other pernicious acts, because he believes them generally out to catch it.
The role of Boss Hogg is played by Sorrell Booke, who often appears on radio, stage, and film before her role in The Dukes of Hazzard. Boss Hogg is one of only two characters appearing in every episode of the TV series, the other being Uncle Jesse Duke. His name is Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederation of States.
Other main characters of the event include local mechanic Cooter Davenport (Ben Jones), who in the early episodes is described as a wild rebellious, unshaven, often breaking or treading on the edge of the law, before settling to become Duke's best friend's family (he is often referred to as "honorer Duke") and has a local garage; and Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer), a naive but innocent young deputy who, despite his friendship with Dukes (and his crush on Daisy), is reluctantly forced to take part in the crooked scheme of Hogg and Rosco. In the third and fourth season, when Enos went for his own show, he was replaced by Deputy Cletus Hogg (Rick Hurst), the Bos's cousin, who was slightly more ingenious than Enos but still a rather reluctant player in the Hogg plot.
Due to their basically good nature, Dukes often end up helping Boss Hogg out of trouble, albeit reluctantly. More than once Hogg is targeted by his former colleagues who want to get revenge or have doubled it after a scheme unravels in one way or another. Sheriff Coltrane also finds himself targeted in some cases. On such occasions, Bo and Luke usually have to rescue their opponent as the inevitable precursor to defeat the bad guys; in another example, Dukes joins Hogg and Coltrane to deal with larger threats to Hazzard or one of their respective sides. These examples become more frequent when the show takes place, and the seasons then look at a number of stories where Dukes and Hogg (and Coltrane) are temporarily working together.
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Production
The series was developed from the movie 1975 Moonrunners . Created by Gy Waldron in collaboration with former Jerry Rushing, the film shares many identical names and concepts and is very similar to the next TV series. Although basically this is a comedy, the original movie is much more rugged and edgier than the family-friendly TV series that will evolve from it.
In 1977, Waldron was approached by Warner Bros.. with the idea of ​​developing Moonrunners into a television series. Waldron reprocessed various elements of Moonrunners, and from that it was made what would become The Dukes of Hazzard . Production began in October 1978 with the original intention of only nine episodes produced as a mid-season filler. The first five episodes were filmed in Covington and Conyers, Georgia and beyond, including several locations working in nearby Atlanta. After completing production on the fifth episode, "High Octane", the cast and crew break for Christmas break, hoping to return within a few weeks to complete a series of episodes that were ordered. Meanwhile, executives at Warner Bros were impressed by a rough preview cut of the completed episode and saw the potential for developing the event into a fully-fledged series; part of this plan is to move production from Georgia to Warner Bros. in Burbank, California, primarily to simplify production as well as to develop larger workshops to serve the large number of cars required for this series.
Rushed to emerge as a shady car dealership used Ace Parker in the third episode produced, "Repo Men" (the fourth will be broadcast). Rushing believes this is the beginning of a recurring role, in return he will give creative ideas from his experience: many characters Dukes (and thus Moonrunners ) and the situation comes from experience Rushing as a young man, and many Bo Duke's characters he declares will be based on him. However, "Repo Men" will turn out to be the only character appearance in the entire show, leading to legal disputes in subsequent years on the right to character and concept between Rushing and Warner Bros., even though he remains in good shape. with players and crew and in recent years has made appearances in several fan conventions.
At the end of the first season (half), the family-friendly tone of The Dukes of Hazzard is mostly in place. When the show returned for the second season of autumn 1979 (the first full season), with little changes, the show quickly found its footing as a family-friendly comedy series. In the third season, starting in the fall of 1980, the template is ready for what will be broadly linked with the show.
The original episode was to include a model barber after Floyd Lawson on The Andy Griffith Show as an ordinary character, but was knocked out when the final draft of the pilot script was written and before the show was cast.
When John Schneider auditioned for Bo Duke's role, he came into the audition with a dilapidated pickup truck, sporting a beard for a week, dressed in overalls and a white T-shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the collar of an arm, and brought a can of beer, trying to see his share. At the audition, Schneider drank a beer and said he was from Snellville. The producers bought his acting "Good Ol 'Boy" and Schneider was hired on the spot.
Repeating character
Famous guest appearance
As long as the television network goes, The Dukes of Hazzard has a consistent mix of newcomers and established stars that make guest appearances.
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NASCAR racer Terry Labonte made a short and unsupervised appearance as a crew in the Undercover Dukes Part 1. The racing cars provided for both part 1 and part 2 of Undercover Dukes were supplied by Labonte racing owner Billy Hagan. However, the emblems of the car sponsors (at that time Labonte sponsored by Budweiser) were covered to avoid royalty payments.
Celebrity speed trap
During the second season of the event, the show's authors began to flirt with the idea of ​​combining "celebrity speed traps" into several episodes, as a means of displaying the country's top stars on the day performing their hits. In the first few examples, the "Speed ​​Trap" is displayed at the beginning of the story, but for the most part, it is displayed in the last few minutes of an episode, often used when the main story runs too short to fill. episode time.
The "celebrity trap speed" feature is basically the same: Realizing that a big country star is passing through the area, Boss Hogg will instruct Rosco to lower the speed limit on a particular road to an unreasonable level (using an invertible sign, with a speed limit on one side and the other, much lower, behind), so the targeted singer will cross the posted limit. Singers will be asked to give free performances at the Pork Sarang in exchange for their forgiveness forgiven; performers will then perform one of the most popular hits or other popular country music standards, while Duke, Boss, Rosco, Enos, Cletus, Cooter, and other customers shout and scream in enjoying the show. More often than not, players will give sarcastic farewell shots to Boss and Rosco.
The singers featured in the "speed trap" segment are:
Sebutan Terhormat : Mickey Gilley, Loretta Lynn
The appearance of Gilley and Lynn is not solely for the celebrity speed trap. After a concert at Hazzard, Gilley was arrested while away and forced to perform a second show to cancel his quote. Lynn is kidnapped by criminals who want to get into the music business. Loretta Lynn was the first country music guest star on the show in 1979 and has an entire show entitled "Discover Loretta Lynn."
Notes: Janie Fricke is the only country guest guest who does not perform songs, the pace of celebrity traps or vice versa. He plays a robber's accomplice in an episode that hides money on the dashboard of the car that will become General Lee.
Casting Coy & amp; Vance
The Dukes of Hazzard is consistently among the top-rated television series (at one point, second only to Dallas , immediately following the show on CBS 'Friday night). With that success comes great profits in trading, with a variety of licensed Dukes of Hazzard toys and products. However, during the fourth season of the event, the Tom Wopat and John Schneider star series became increasingly concerned about contract disputes over their salaries and merchandising royalties to them due to the high sales of Dukes products. Not paid what they have to and this becomes very frustrating for the duo. As a result, in the spring of 1982, because filming will begin in the fifth season, Wopat and Schneider did not report to the scene to protest the issue. Catherine Bach also considered leaving because of the same worries, but Wopat and Schneider convinced her to stay, insisting that if she left then there might not be a show to return, and the problem solving was up to them.
Production was pushed back by a couple of weeks as a substitute looked quite similar then, hastily hired: Byron Cherry as Coy Duke and Christopher Mayer as Vance Duke. Bo and Luke are said to have gone to the race on the NASCAR circuit; how they managed to do this, given the terms of their probation, was never explained. Cherry and Mayer were originally contracted on only ten episodes as stand-ins, still in the hope that a settlement could be achieved with Wopat and Schneider (in total, they made 19 episodes including 1 with Bo and Luke). Several manuscripts for Coy and Vance were originally written for Bo and Luke but by their names were literally crossed out and Coy and Vance wrote.
The new Dukes - Uncle Jesse's previously unnamed nephew, who was said to have left the farm in 1976, before the show began - was unpopular with most viewers, and the rankings dropped instantly. Most of the criticism is that Coy and Vance are nothing but clones directly from Bo and Luke, with Coy instead of "carbon" directly for Bo and Vance for Luke, with little variation in the characters. This is something even shown by Gy Waldron's creator wrong, and that he insists, unsuccessfully, that the audience will not receive a direct character clone and the two substitutes must be taken in a different direction to the character, but defeated by the manufacturer. Waldron also commented that if Bach were also running, the show would most likely be canceled. It was reported that before filming, Cherry and Mayer were given Bo and Luke episodes to watch, to learn and learn to imitate them, although Cherry said in an interview that he did not remember this ever happened.
Hit hard by a significant drop in rank, Warner Bros. renegotiated with Wopat and Schneider, and finally the settlement was reached, and the original Duke boy returned to the series in early 1983, four episodes from the end of the fifth season. Initially, part of a press release announcing the return of Wopat and Schneider indicated that Cherry and Mayer would remain part of the cast (though perhaps in a reduced role), but quickly realized that "four Duke boys" would not work in context of the series, and due to the great unpopularity associated with their time on the show, they were quickly written out of the same episode where Bo and Luke returned.
The return of Bo and Luke
Although Coy and Vance were never popular with the majority, some viewers were disappointed with their departure episode, "Welcome Back, Bo 'N' Luke", most of which were standard episodes, with the return of Bo and Luke and the departure of Coy and Vance to the beginning (Bo and Luke returns from their NASCAR tour as Coy and Vance leave Hazzard to care for sick relatives). Even some viewers commented that they were disappointed with this, and that they wanted to see both sets of Duke boy teams to handle a very cowardly plot by Boss Hogg before Coy and Vance's departure, but apparently, Coy and Vance had little dialogue and disappeared first ad break, never to be seen again.
While the return of Bo and Luke was greeted by a vibrant and ordinary audience, and as a result the ratings recovered slightly, the show never really regained its previous popularity. One of Wopat and Schneider's disputes even before they left was what they perceived as weaker and more complicated episode scripts and plots. With the return of Wopat and Schneider, the producers agreed to try a wider scope of the story. However, although it continued for another two seasons, the show never fully returned to its former glory. Many casting members denounced the effects of a new miniature car being included to illustrate the increasingly unusual of General Lee and the action of a patrol car (which had previously been done with a real car by a stunt driver). The miniature effect of the car is intended as a measure of budget savings (to save the cost of repairing or replacing damaged vehicles) and to help compete visually with KITT from the NBC series Knight Rider. In February 1985, The Dukes of Hazzard ended its operations after seven seasons.
Vehicles
General Lee (Dodge Charger)
General Lee is based on the 1969 Dodge Charger owned by Bo and Luke (the series used mostly 1969 Chargers at the beginning; later, they also modified the 1968 Chargers to look like 1969 by installing the 1969 taillamps model, taillamp panel, and grille). It's orange with Confederate battle flag painted on the roof, the words "GENERAL LEE" on every door, and number "01" on each door. In the original five episodes of Georgian film, the Confederate flag along with the checkered racing flag in alternate patterns can be seen behind the rear window; this is removed when it is perceived that these additional details are not adequately displayed on the screen to ensure very tight time constraints in preparing and repairing each car instance. His name refers to American Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The television show is based on the film Moonrunners, in turn based on an actual moonshine runner who used Chrysler 1958 named Traveler, after General Lee's horse (with a slight spelling change). Traveler was originally meant to be the name of Duke's stock car boy too, until the manufacturer agreed that General Lee had more punches for it.
Since it was built as a race car, the door was welded. Through the history of the show, an estimated 309 Chargers were used; 17 is still known to exist in various states of improvement. The replica is owned by John Schneider, known as "Bo General Lee." In 2008, Schneider sold "Bo's General Lee" at the Barrett-Jackson car auction for $ 230,000. The eBay auctions that earned $ 9.9 million for the car were never completed, with bidders claiming their account was hacked. The underside of the hood has the players' signatures from the 1997 TV movie. Schneider has also restored more than 20 other General Lee to date. In 2008, the replica of General Lee took a high bid of $ 450,000 at Barrett-Jackson car auction, showing significant interest in the car as a cultural icon. In 2012, "General Lee 1", the first car used in the filming of the series, was purchased at auction by golfer Bubba Watson for $ 110,000. The car had been destroyed after being vandalized during the opening of a famous jumping leap, and was later found in a junkyard by the president of North American Lee's fan club. By 2015, following a wave of sentiment towards confederate symbolism amid shootings in Charleston, SC, (related to photographs where the assailant had posed with Confederate flags), Bubba Watson announced that he would remove the Confederate Flag from General Lee 1's roof and write with the US National Flag.
The show also uses 1968 Chargers (which share the same metal sheet) by turning the grille and rear light panel into 1969 style, and removing rounded edge marking lights. This charger made many record-breaking jumps throughout the show, almost all of which resulted in a totally destroyed car. The 1970 Chargers were modified by removing the chrome bumper and changing the rear lights.
Duke's children added custom air horns to General Lee who played the first twelve notes of the song Dixie . The Dixie horn was initially unplanned, until the local Georgia hot rod driver flashed past and honked his car Dixie. The producers immediately rushed after he asked where he bought the horn. Warner Bros. bought some Chargers for stunts, as they generally destroy at least one or two cars per episode. At the end of the sixth season of the event, Chargers are becoming increasingly difficult to find, and more expensive. In addition, the Knight Rider television series began to rival General Stunt Lee. Thus, producers use a 1: 8 scale miniature, filmed by Jack Sessums crew, or recycled stock recycling record - the latter is a practice that has been around since the second season, and has improved over the pass season.
Some motifs of the 01 and Confederate flags are initially hand painted, but when production is accelerated, it is replaced with vinyl stickers for quick application (and removal), as needed.
During the first five episodes of the event filmed in Georgia, the cars involved with the filming were given to the crew at H & amp; H near the set. In this shop, men work day and night to set up damaged cars for the next day while still running their body shop during the day. Time is of the essence, and the people who work in this shop work hard to prepare the cars for the show.
The third episode of "Mary Kaye's Baby" is the only one where General Lee does not appear. Instead, the Dukes drove a 1975 Plymouth Ford borrowed from Cooter which was then destroyed by Luke by firing an arrow into the car, whose trunk was leaking from the liquor stored behind.
CB boy Duke handles (together) "Lost Sheep". Initially when the show was conceived, their grip was to be "General Lee" to match their vehicle, but this was only ever used on screen at one time, in the second episode, "Daisy's Song", when Cooter called Bo and Luke. over CB with this handle, even though they actually drove Plymouth Daisy's Roadrunner (see below) at the time. Because it is clear that the handle of "General Lee" will be inappropriate when the Duke's children are in another vehicle, the handle of "Lost Sheep" is made (with Uncle Jesse being "Shepherd" and Daisy "Bo Peep").
The police car Hazzard (AMC Matador, Dodge Polara, Dodge Monaco, Plymouth Fury)
The 1975 AMC Matador was one of the many Hazzard County police cars used on the series, especially in the first season; they have a light bar and a working radio. A 1972 Dodge Polara and Dodge Monaco 1974 were used during the pilot episode "One Armed Bandits", this was also seen in the event title sequence. From the second season, Dodge Monaco 1977 was mostly used. From the middle of the fourth season, a 1978-like Plymouth Fury was used instead. The Matadors and Furies are former Los Angeles Police Department vehicles, while Monacos is a former California Patrol Highway unit.
Plymouth Road Runner
A Plymouth Road Runner 1974 (yellow with a black line) is Daisy Duke's car in the first five episodes of the first season. For the last episode of the first season, the painted 1971 model is the same as a suitable "Road Runner" line. In the second season Bo and Luke sent him off a cliff in "The Runaway." Another similar 1971 Plymouth car model appeared in the background of several more episodes with the Jeep CJ-7 until it finally fell altogether.
Jeep CJ-7
Dixie is the name given to Daisy Duke's white 1980 Jeep CJ-7 "Golden Eagle" which has the golden eagle emblem on the hood and the name "Dixie" on its side. Like any other vehicle on the show, there is actually more than one Jeep used throughout the series. Sometimes it will have an automatic transmission, and other times it will be manual. Roll design of the cage also varies throughout the season. When the Jeep was introduced at the end of the second season of "The Runaway", it looked to have a slightly different door and paint job, but, the one-appearance bar on the next produced episode, "Arrest Jesse Duke" (actually broadcast before "The Runaway" continuity), after which the doors are moved and the paint job is made completely white, with "Dixie" painted on the side of the hood. The Jeep is leased to an event producer by American Motors Corporation in exchange for a brief mention in the closing credits of the event.
Ford F-100 pickup truck
Uncle Jesse's truck is a white Ford pickup truck, most often the sixth generation (1973-1977) F100 Styleside. However, in the earliest episode it had a Flareside bed, and varied between F100 and F250 models throughout the event. Bo, Luke and Daisy are also often driving Jesse's truck.
Cadillac Coupe de Ville
The convertible White Cadillac De Ville of 1970 was used as a Boss Hogg car, especially with large bull horns as a hood ornament. In the early seasons, Hogg was almost always driven by a driver, who was usually anonymous and had little or no dialogue, but was identified on an occasion called "Alex"; and played by several unidentified actors, including stuntman Gary Baxley. The driver often wore red checkered shirts and Stetson's brown or black hats, but would sometimes become an older man, sometimes dressed in a more typical driver's suit.
Hogg was first seen driving for himself in the second season opener of "Days of Shine and Roses", in which he and Jesse challenged each other for one last moonshine race. From the fourth season onwards, except for some brief appearance of the driver (during the fourth season), Hogg drove alone in his Cadillac (or sometimes driven by Rosco and, late in the series, by Uncle Jesse) and often challenged others with begging his driving skills from his days as a runner-ridge. Unlike other vehicles in the series, Boss Hogg's Cadillac is usually treated with children's gloves. The car is almost always visible with the top of its convertible, with the top only seen in two episodes, the "Daisy Song" (the driver is called "Eddie" in this episode), the second being produced and broadcast, and briefly in the second episode of the season "Witness for Persecution ", when Cooter returned it to the Courthouse after the repair.
Ford Custom 500
The custom Ford 500 500 green and faded 1971 sedan named Black Tilly was used by Uncle Jesse to make moonshine run.
Theme song
The theme song "The Good Ol 'Boys" is written and featured by Waylon Jennings. He is also "The Balladeer" (as credited), and serves as the event's narrator. However, versions released as singles are not the same versions used in the opening credits of the event; a single version has a long chorus and instrumental repetition, using a different instrumental mix that emphasizes the bass, and replaces the last verse with inside jokes about how the TV show producer "keeps showing (Jennings) hands and not his face on TV."
In 1980, the song reached # 1 on the American Country chart and reached # 21 on Hot 100's Billboard.
Broadcast history
- The series was originally aired in America by CBS on Friday night, 9:00 pm. and then at 8:00, before Dallas .
- Until TNN (The Nashville Network) was purchased by Viacom, he aired the rerun of The Dukes of Hazzard . A few months after the creation of "The National Network" (shortly before its change to "Spike TV"), the program did not exist on many televisions for some time. Viacom CMT's state-themed music cable network (former sister network to TNN) aired shows from 2005 to 2007 at 8:00 pm. and 9:00 pm Eastern time every working day. CMT began broadcasting the series at the end of February 2005. It was also aired Monday-Thursday on ABC Family.
- The series was broadcast by BBC1 in the United Kingdom, debuting on Saturday 3 March 1979 at 09:00 (only a few months after it started in the US). Popular with all ages (and due to some of the more mature elements of the very early episodes disappearing from the series), it quickly moved from post-watershed to a more family-friendly Monday slot at 7:20 pm. Immediately a big hit, it moves from Monday night to prime time Saturday night (times vary, but usually around 5:25 pm), where he stayed for several years. Then when the rankings began to decline (partly due to changes to Coy and Vance, and partly related to competition from ITV, with new hit shows like The A-Team ), it moved back to Monday, making return strange for short runs on Saturday. The end of the episode also shows up occasionally on Sunday afternoons, and the last remaining season episode aired on a weekday morning during school holidays in the late 1980s.
- In 1992, the British satellite channel, Sky1, purchased the program package, which owns the rights to the first 60 episodes produced (running up to "The Fugitive"), featuring the series on Saturday afternoon at 4 pm. They then show the episodes they have again, including the task of showing it on weekdays at 3 pm. slot, runs for fifty minutes (including ads) with episodes heavily edited for time as a result, often leaving a gap in the plot. Despite a request from fans, they did not secure the rights for the next episode. The series is then run on Granada Plus and TNT satellite channels. UK Bravo satellite channel started showing reruns in August 2005.
- In Brazil, the series is named Os GatÃÆ'Âμes (The Big Hunks), which limits its popularity among male audiences.
- The series is also featured in the Netherlands by the Dutch broadcasting organization AVRO, with Dutch subtitles, instead of dubbed.
- Shown on the Nine Networks in Australia from September 1979 to the end of the series, and repeated throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. It quietly repeats on the Pay TV1 TV channel in the 2000s, but is now featured on the Nine Network, Go! Subchannel.
- The series is popular in Colombia, dubbed into Spanish. Some late night reruns continue to this day.
- In Italy, the series began airing in September 1981 on Canale 5, under the title Hazzard and quickly became very popular with viewers.
- CMT aired The Dukes Ride Again , a special marathon featuring episodes from the first two seasons, on the weekend of September 10, 2010 and has begun airing nighttime episodes at 7 pm and 11 pm in the East time starting September 13, 2010.
- This series airs weekdays on the New Zealand channel The Box. Previously aired on TVNZ for its original broadcast, which was repeated on Saturday afternoon in the early 1990s.
- CMT began reruning The High Definition "Dukes of Hazzard reruns, on January 5, 2014.
- TV Land began airing The Dukes of Hazzard on replays on June 10, 2015, but deleted it only three weeks later in response to a church shoot in Charleston and the subsequent debate on the modern look of the Confederate flag.
Syndication
Shortly before the series ended its initial process on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard went into off-network syndication. Although it has not been widely run like that back in 1980 and the years since then, reruns of the program continue to air in various parts of the United States.
Specifically, the television stations that broadcast the event in syndication include KCOP Los Angeles, WGN-TV Chicago, KBHK San Francisco, WKBD Detroit, WTAF/WTXF Philadelphia, KTXL Sacramento, WVTV Milwaukee, KMSP Minneapolis-Saint Paul, among others.
Nationally, the event also aired on ABC Family (2000-2001, 2004) and CMT (2005-2007, 2010-2012, 2014-15) and TV Land (2015); TV Land dropped the show after protests and controversy surrounding the Confederate flag display.
The Nashville Network buys Warner Bros.'s The Dukes of Hazzard. in 1997 at a price of more than $ 10 million; not only improves the network ranking, the show is also popular among younger viewers, TNN demographics have difficulty in drawing; The Dukes of Hazzard has been running well on the TNN or CMT's brother network ever since.
Nielsen ranking
List of episodes
The show lasts seven seasons and a total of 145 episodes. Many episodes follow a similar structure of "out-of-town criminals pulling robberies or committing crimes or scandals, Duke's boys are blamed, spending the rest of the hours cleaning up their names, General Lee flies and squad cars having an accident."
Spin-off
- A spin off named Enos that aired on CBS starring Sonny Shroyer and lasted 18 episodes before being canceled.
- The animated version of the show called The Dukes was aired in 1983 and produced by Hanna-Barbera. The first season falls under the Coy and Vance eras of live-action performances and thus they are adapted into animated forms. In the second season, Bo and Luke have returned, and they replaced Coy and Vance in cartoons.
- Several video games based on the event have been created:
- The Dukes of Hazzard for ColecoVision (1984) and ZX Spectrum (1985); also planned for Atari 2600
- The Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home (1999)
- The Dukes of Hazzard II: Daisy Dukes It Out (2000)
- The Dukes of Hazzard: The Return of General Lee (2004)
- In 2005, the Humana Festival from the New American Screening aired a long comedy drama "Hazzard County" by Allison Moore. The story centers on a widowed young mother and a visit she received from a major city television producer. Interspersed by the memories of Bo, Luke, and Daisy, this drama takes a deeper view of the southern "boys" culture and its population through the lens of the American mass media.
- In 2014, AutoTrader creates an ad where Bo and Luke shop for a new car when chased.
Movies
There are two reunion movies made for TV that aired on CBS, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)). Also made was The Dukes of Hazzard in 2005 and a live prequel to The Dukes of Hazzard video: The Beginning in 2007.
Home media
DVD
Warner Home Video has released all seven seasons The Dukes of Hazzard on DVDs in Region 1 and 2. Both TV movies following this series were released on DVD in Region 1 on June 10, 2008 and in Region 4 on June 4, 2014. In Territory 4, Warner only released the first six seasons on DVD and two TV movies. Complete & amp; 2 movie feature movie sets without rating released on DVD in Region 1 on November 14, 2017.
Streaming
TV series are also available for streaming and download through various services.
. Wopat guested as Kansas State Senator Jack Jennings, an old friend of Clark Kent's adoptive father, Jonathan Kent (played by Schneider). In the episode, Jennings drove the 1968 Dodge Charger - the same body style as The General Lee .Lizard Lick Towing features episodes with his repossession specialist Ronnie Shirley and Bobby Brantley picking up a replica of General Lee.
By 2015, after a new debate on Confederate battle symbolism (which is clearly displayed on the roof and the General Lee's panel behind the rear window in the first five episodes), reruns of the original series were withdrawn from circulation. Warner Bros, who owns the property, announces that they will no longer make merchandise with a flag, including miniatures from General Lee. Although this has caused people to make their own General Lees and sell it.
Attractions
Artefacts from the show are displayed in Luray, Virginia, Nashville, Tennessee and in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Cooter's place in Luray is supervised by Ben "Cooter" Jones of the series. The location of Gatlinburg has a souvenir shop, Dukes of Hazzard - indoor mini-golf and go-cart tracks, with a small display of costumes, collections and artefacts from the show.
Covington and Conyers, Georgia; in which five original episodes were produced, has become two of the main sights for Dukes of Hazzard fans.
Dixie Outfitters in Branson, Missouri on Highway 76 has police cars General Lee and Rosco signed by Daisy, Cooter, Cletus, and Enos.
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References
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Further reading
- Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: Confessions of "Crazy Cooter", by Ben "Cooter" Jones, 2008. Crown. ISBN: 0307395278
- The Dukes of Hazzard - The Unofficial Companion , by David Hofstede, preface by Catherine Bach. 1998. Renaissance Book. ISBNÃ, 1-58063-038-3
External links
- The Dukes of Hazzard the official Facebook page
- Duke Hazzard on IMDb
- The Dukes of Hazzard at CMT.com
- Who sang the theme song and also served as the narrator at The Dukes of Hazzard?
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