RogerDuke

I'll take you up on that some day.

Hey Skipper, I see you were just checking out the Trouble in Conyers thread. Did you notice Conyers is mentioned in Sky Bandits? Also, Cooter mentions Conyers in the episode Uncle Boss.

Sky Bandits over Hazzard......season 7 An armored truck carrying 3 million dollars in cash from Hazzard to the Federal Reserve in Atlanta gets stuck and Bo and Luke help it out. Enos saw the truck drive away and spoke to the boys briefly before they left. Moments later, a lady named Kate, flying a helicopter, dropped bags of motor oil on the truck windshield and when the driver stopped her accomplices kidnapped him and hooked the truck up to the chopper and Kate flew off. She meets her partners, Taylor, Budge and Cleary at their hideout, Boss's old ice house. Boss is pretty worried because "for the first time ever" he didn't spend the money to have the cash insured. When Boss and Rosco go looking for the truck, Enos tells them he saw the Duke boys with the it earlier so they throw the Dukes in jail. When the 4 robbers stole another truck Boss and Rosco realized the Dukes were innocent but they didn't tell them. They purposely let them escape, knowing they had the skills to catch the crooks and prove their innocence. Hazzard folks heard about the robbery and started a run on the bank because they were worried about their life savings, including Miz Tisdale who needed her money for her sister, Beulah Mae's operation. The robbers struck for a third time and this time Daisy was there and got taken hostage and tied up with the 3 truck drivers. The boys found Dixie and figured out that a helicopter was involved. They borrowed ultralights from their friend Vern in Conyers and searched from above while Jesse, Cooter, Boss and Rosco stuffed themselves in Jesse's truck and looked too. The boys found the hideout and the other 4 joined them there. The 6 Hazzard guys overpowered the 4 crooks and freed Daisy and the 3 drivers.

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Amen to that Cousin Hobie. We sure are a big 'ole Hazzard family.

Sittin' Dukes......season 7 Two bad guys named Hixx and Benson broke out of the Chickasaw prison. Hixx has a pet cricket named Herman and Benson is always mean to Hixx and has a plan to get revenge on his superior in the US Marine Corps, a guy named Sergeant Luke Duke who once put him in the brig. The governor put Big Ed Little in charge of the hunt and gave him jurisdiction throughout the state, including Hazzard. In the morning the convicts came to the farm and held all 4 Dukes hostage. After the Dukes gave them food and civilian clothes Benson forced Luke to take him to town for guns and ammo. Enos stopped them at a roadblock and Benson said his name was Jack Parker. Later, Enos recognized him when Little brought pictures to Hazzard. Benson and Luke went back to the farm and Benson forced Daisy and Jesse to take a white delivery truck on the road as a decoy so the police helicopter and cars would go after them. The chopper shot the tires out and it crashed down a hill in a ball of flames but Jesse and Daisy got out first. The search then began for the General with the boys and bad guys in it. Rosco and Little put Jesse and Daisy in jail, accusing them of being the convicts' accomplices. The chopper found the General and Benson forced Luke to drive into a forest fire to evade it. Little then put Lulu and Cooter in jail for trying to break out Jesse and Daisy and then he put Boss and Rosco in jail for arguing about it. They weren't there long before Enos let them out. The General made it out of the fire and Benson wanted an unrecognizable vehicle so he carjacked a car. Hixx then turned on Benson and saved Luke's life. The two bad guys left in the carjacked car, with the General and helicopter in pursuit. Enos and the 6 freed prisoners joined in but before they could get there, Bo and Luke had the convicts captured after jumping the General on top of their moving car. -- The diet that Boss keeps cheating on is a big part of this episode. It includes the scene where he moves in fast motion to hide his food from Lulu. When she fed him a meal he said that it wasn't enough to fill a cavity in his tooth, let alone his stomach.

Hobie, Hoss and Spike are all correct. They could have done so much more with the cartoon series. I guess we should look at the bright side of it. At least they did 20 episodes. That's better than none. Back then, you knew a television show was in the big time whenever they made it into a cartoon. I had fun watching them again and I'm sorry my reviews are all over.......they will be a nice thing to have around here if anybody needed to look something up.

My wife just found out that the hospital where she works is going to quickly convert their intensive care unit to an all covid unit because they just can't handle all the cases anymore where they currently are. This means she is going to have to wear one of those space suits all day and most of her work days are 12 hour shifts. I keep encouraging her to check into retirement. She has 41 years there. She likes her job though.....but not lately as much as before covid.

My wife is pretty mad because Dish Network has a dispute with ABC and has dropped them, for the moment at least. She has loved General Hospital as long as I have loved Dukes. I bet all the satellite TV and cable companies will all go out of business because of the internet. Other things are fading away too because of the internet, like cab companies, libraries, banks, newspapers, movie theaters. If a solar storm ever takes out all our satellites, we'll go back to the Stone Age.

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A Hogg in Foggy Bog While the race was going on in the Phillipines, Jesse was back at the farm and found an old treasure map that once belonged to his great Unlcle Cyrus, who was the only outlaw Duke ever mentioned in either series. During the Civil War Cyrus stole 20 million dollars from an army payroll train and traveled to the Phillipines to bury it. Jesse got a ride to the Phillipines from his cousin Billy in an Air Force cargo plane. Billy did it because he appreciated the fact that Jesse was a war hero. Smokey the raccoon stowed away in the plane and joined in on the adventure. The other Dukes were sure surprised when their uncle popped up from nowhere in a remote rain forest village. The mayor helped the Dukes by helping them figure out the map and giving them a boat, but no villagers would go as guides because they were afraid of the bigfoot-like swamp monster. Boss and Rosco heard the conversation and followed them in a boat of their own and were frightened by the monster first. The Dukes then saw the beast but it took it's mask off and the man in the suit introduced himself as Dr. Richards, a biologist studying the rain forest, but he was really looking for the treasure. Boss stole the map but Jesse had it memorized anyways. Rosco and Flash dug up the treasure but Richards stole it. Boss and the Dukes got it back but it was worthless Confederate money. -- What a great plot for the last episode! Plus, I loved that Jesse got in on an adventure. -- In reality, a Confederate dollar is worth way more than a real dollar because of it's collectors value....a fact also missed on The Treasure of Soggy Marsh.

The Dukes in Hollywood A movie is being filmed in the desert of southern California and the Dukes get involved. The producer, Freddy Flenders, offered the Dukes $50,000 to be in the movie but he has conspired with Murray, the director, to steal the entire payroll. Flenders wants to scam Boss too so he offers to make him executive producer if he invests money and Boss falls for it. The star of the movie is a boy named Roddy who is putting the money he makes from acting into his college fund. The General makes a rocket assisted jump over a canyon and the filming was complete. All the actors and crew gathered to get paid but Flenders had left with all the money, even double crossing Murray. Since Boss was executive producer they demanded money from him. The local sheriff went to arrest Boss but the Dukes convinced him they could catch Flenders so they all went after him. After a long search at Mammoth Studies a chase began and they finally caught him at a Handprints of the Stars ceremony. -- The opening scene was much like the real Hollywood episode with the Dukes stopping a runaway vehicle. -- Freddy Flenders? Sounds a big like Freddy Fender who got caught in Rosco's celebrity speed trap -- The canyon jump was very similar to Evel Kneivel's Snake River Canyon jump, complete with rocket. -- A wax museum in this episode featured the King, Clark Gable. That was a thrill to me since I'm related to him and his mother is buried close to me. -- Phil Hartman was the voice of Freddy Flenders. There's no mistaking that distinctive voice.

The Canadien Caper The big race is now near Quebec Canada where it is a winter wonderland. The General Lee went off the road when avoiding hitting a girl named Suzette and her wolf-husky named Nikky (a male). Suzette left before even talking to the Dukes and went into the St. Blanc Wildlife Refuge. Meanwhile, Boss made a deal with Pierre and Louie Bouchard to buy a bunch of furs that they had illegally trapped. Suzette and Nikky were going through the wilderness letting as many wild animals out of the box traps as they could find. Later, back in town, the Dukes meet Suzette, Nikky and Suzette's father, who was the mechanic fixing the General's broken axle. Suzette then left to free more animals and the Dukes left on skis to find her because her father knew she was in danger. She found a barn with furs in it and witnessed Boss negotiating a deal to buy them. Boss went to town to get the money and Suzette and Nikky got caught and locked up. Nikky got out and found the Dukes and led them to Suzette. Boss and Rosco came back and stole the furs and then the Dukes got there and rescued Suzette. Suzette's father showed up with the repaired General Lee. The Bouchards got on snowmobiles and caught Boss and put him, Rosco and Flaah in cages and took the furs and Boss's car and they were later freed by the Dukes. The Dukes and the General Lee caught the poachers and called the Royal Mounties.

A Dickens of a Christmas Boss and Rosco are spending Christmas Eve at the Ye Olde Pigge Inn in some town in England (they never give the town name). Boss was planning on violating race rules and leave on Christmas morning to get an illegal head start on the Dukes. He fell asleep on a chair by the fireplace and was awoken by a visitor. It was Big Jake Marley, the first Boss of Hazzard County, the man who taught Boss everything he knows. Jake was in chains and warned Boss about the evils of greed and told him he would be visited by three ghosts. Boss went into the bedroom and encountered a man dressed like a farmer who was the ghost of Christmas past. He took him to his childhood where Boss saw his mother give him his first piggy bank. He then saw a scene of him losing his fiancee, Elsie McCoy because he loved money more. She ended up marrying Jesse Duke instead. A cowboy then came in. He was the ghost of Christmas present and showed him how poor Rosco and Flash were. He then showed the Dukes preparing a big Christmas basket for Boss despite how mean he was. Rosco and Flash came in and they all had fun together. Boss went back to bed and the ghost of Christmas future came in, a traditional looking white sheeted character who had long boney fingers. He showed Jesse plowing the back 40 with Maudeen but he was working for Boss now because he finally foreclosed on the Dukes. He then took Boss to the Boar's Nest where the other Dukes were working, including Luke who was driving the General Lee that was converted into a vehicle to haul garbage. Then the ghost showed him his gravestone and when he said he was "unloved and unremembered" Boss finally saw the light. On Christmas morning Boss and Rosco came into the Dukes room with gifts and a big meal.

blacksmith (I saw Grandpa Jones do a show at a county fair in the mid 70s)

I agree. Uncle Jesse is at the beginning and end of every episode and seeing him and the farm is always my favorite part of the cartoon. I always try to look at the bright side. International fans like Hoss probably like it, especially since Hazzard County in northern Georgia is so far from them. I mean, Hoss lived in England and now Ireland and he has 3 episodes for him 1) The Dukes of London 2) Boss O'Hogg and the Little People (Ireland) 3) A Dickens of a Christmas (I'll check tomorrow but I'm pretty sure that's in England.) It sure would have been nice if they would have done a Dukes in Erie though. They could have made it a Halloween episode and called it Eerie Dukes.

I wonder if they were trying to expand their audience on a global scale since it was already popular in America. It might have been a financial decision, considering the money they made in merchandise......I'm just speculating.

Danger on the Hazzard Express.....season 7 On the way home from a fishing trip, Bo, Luke and Daisy encounter a car rolling down the road without a driver. Three guys, named Burke, Carney and Perry are remotely operating it from atop Eagle Point. The car gets in a battle of chicken against the General Lee and loses. It goes off the road in a rollover crash. The Dukes got shot at trying to get close to it and report the incident to Boss and Rosco. Boss already knew about it though because the trio of bad guys called him. Boss was planning on using the remote controlled car to crash into a moving train and scoop up the two million dollars worth of gold, silver and platinum it would be hauling when it falls out after a derailment but now the car is unusable. When the Dukes went back to inspect the car it was gone. The bad guys took it and stripped the remote control equipment off. Later, they stole the General Lee and rigged it up to operate remotely. Jesse picked up the carless Dukes at Waylon Corners and then they split up to search for the General. Bo and Luke were driving Dixie when they found it and the General ran them off the road. Later, the boys snuck into Boss's office and figured out what was going on after finding a model railroad set up. They went to Eagle Point but got caught and tied up. The bad guys called Boss and told him they were going to kill the boys so Boss, Rosco and Jesse went to save them. The boys got loose and luckily Daisy was driving by in Jesse's truck to pick them up. The bad guys sent the General and it rammed the truck off the road and chased the (running on foot) Dukes. Bo and Luke made it back to Eagle Point and Bo grabbed the General while Luke fought the bad guys. Bo couldn't control it as it raced toward the train but Luke grabbed the controls and made an adjustment just before Bo disabled the controls.

Yes I did, especially since I was a big Dallas fan back then.

Every one of the episodes are in other countries as you can tell by many of the titles. I only have 4 of the 20 left. One of them is in Hollywood so I guess they're not all foreign countries. Next I'll have the Christmas episode.

It will be interesting to see how they give the vaccines and who will get them after health care workers and folks in nursing homes. Already folks in poor neighborhoods are complaining that folks in rich neighborhoods will get them first. I understand why they feel that way but my question would be....Why would it be fair that folks in poor neighborhoods get it first? They are no better than rich people. It should be decided on risk factor, not income. It's spreading like wildfire in the suburbs too.

Erie Pennsylvania didn't get much because they are on the lake and the water is still relatively warm but we got a foot of "lake effect snow" 15 miles away from it. It was super heavy and slippery but a third of it melted today.

grandma (Nobody makes them like she did )

Great observation. I agree.

TV shows here that have been live have been pretty strict about masks and distancing. Most shows like that are from Los Angeles or NYC where the rules are more strict. I still suspect that their rules are a little more relaxed than Europes but I'm just guessing.