Dead and Alive......season 6
While Artie Bender was painting a nature landscape he witnessed two guys named Phil and Lenny rob a Tri-County Armored Car. Bo and Luke then just happen to come by and after Artie described the car to them they go after it. Then Sheriff Big Ed Little comes by and Artie tells him which way the robbers went. Since he didn't describe the car to Big Ed, he catches the Dukes and arrested them for the robbery. Artie went home and Boss and Rosco showed up to foreclose on his home. Artie offered to pay Boss in paintings and that prompted Boss to scheme up a plan to fake Artie's death and sell his paintings because paintings from a dead artist are worth a lot more. Artie went along with the plan in order to keep his house and agreed to hide out by Hazzard Pond. The problem for Bo and Luke was that the only witness that could verify their innocence was gone. (The armored car driver wasn't a witness because he never saw what hit him). While Artie's funeral is going on, Bo and Luke escaped from their Chickasaw cell and got away after a car chase. Boss put on an art show and brought in a big time buyer. Boss even staged 6 people to pretend they wanted to buy the paintings so the dealer would be more interested. It worked. The dealer bought them all. Boss told him he would find more for him to buy, laying around Artie's place. The 4 Dukes and Cooter met at Artie's house and concluded something fishy was going on. They found out that the death certificate was faked and then Phil and Lenny started chasing Bo and Luke. They called Ed to help, who called Enos. The three cars crashed into each other and the General got away. The Dukes figured out Phil and Lenny were the robbers and then figured out Artie was still alive when they saw the wet fresh paint on Boss's suit when a Bender painting contacted it, thanks to Rosco. They went to Hazzard Pond and found Artie but then Jesse and Daisy got caught by the robbers while witnessing them grab their stash of stolen money. The got tied up on Dixie but got loose right away when they left. The General, Big Ed, Boss and Rosco caught Phil and Lenny and threw them in jail after a chase. The art dealer met with Artie and told him he'd buy as many paintings as he could even though he was still alive. Artie then made the Dukes a beautiful family portrait.
-- Many of the paintings in this episode were made by James Best.
-- Rosco to Big Ed, "I have half a mind to write you a ticket." Big Ed to Rosco "Coltrane, you ain't even got a quarter of a mind."