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Boss Behind Bars....season 6 While Bo and Luke are laying out the Ridge Runner's Old Timer's Race, the Beaudry's (Pa, Milo and Sledge) come back from the hills of Tennessee and run the General Lee off the road. The Duke boys catch them and a little tussle breaks out but Pa Beaudry stops it and makes his boys apologize. He doesn't want any trouble since all he is interested in is stealing Boss's moonshine still because Milo blew up theirs. Boss and Jesse are favorites in the 4 car race and folks are betting heavily on it. One farmer even bet a pig. At the Boar's Nest before the race Boss sneaks out and looks under Jesse's hood to make sure he hasn't made any illegal engine alterations. Enos sees Boss and the 3 Beaudry's are hiding nearby and watch the 2 go back in the building. Pa Beaudry thought of a plan. He had Sledge slide under Jesse's car and remove a nut and cotter pin from the steering. In the middle of the race the steering went out and Jesse's car flipped on the roof but thankfully he was okay. After Boss won everybody went to the crash sight where Pa slipped the parts into Boss's pocket to set him up. After nut and pin slipped out onto the ground and Enos mentioned seeing Boss working on Jesse's car, Rosco arrested his little fat buddy and threw Boss Behind Bars. The Beaudry's then stole Boss's still and headed back to the hills but not before Bo and Luke saw what they were doing. Pa shot their radiator out while the General was flying in the air. Jesse hadn't been convinced that Boss was guilty and Bo and Luke found out that he was right and then Boss figured out that the Beaudry's framed him. Moments later, Boss breaks out of jail and steals a patrol car while still in his prisoner uniform. Rosco and Enos go after him. After locating the still Luke blows it up and then Jesse and Daisy show up. While Pa and Sledge showed to put out the still fire Daisy went over and distracted Milo while he was pumping water from the well. He admitted the crime of framing Boss and before you know it the 4 Dukes and 3 Beaudry's were in a big brawl. The Beaudry's then took off in their pick-up truck but the Dukes forced them into their own revenuer trap, a pit. Back in town Boss hugged Daisy and shook the other Duke's hands as Rosco was putting a no parking sign in place. Boss told him to ticket them. In other words, everything was back to normal. -- When in jail Boss declared "I was framed. Now I know how them Dukes feel." -- When Pa shot the radiator out it looked like he was duck hunting because the General was flying through the air. Waylon said "I don't care where you're from. That is a sight that you just don't see very often." -- Those Beaudrys are definitely my favorite bad guys.

I didn't know that Hoss...thanks....or maybe I did know that but I forgot....I'm in my 60s now!

Of course it doesn't make a person less of a fan if he or she likes those. I suppose the question could be reversed and asked "If someone DOESN'T enjoy them, are they less of a fan?" The answer to that would be the same. What makes you a fan is how much love you have for Dukes in your heart. This means that Skipper Duke is not just a fan, he's a Super Fan!

The Boar's Nest Bears.....season 6 Boss has a $10,000 bet, that started out as $5,000, with Boss AC Tate Jr of Chickasaw County. Every year the Hazzard County Pee Wee basketball team plays against the Chickasaw Chiefs Pee Wee team. Chickasaw is pretty good since they end up with more basketball scholarships of any county in the state. Hazzard's coach quit so Boss made Rosco coach but it wasn't going so well. Bo and Luke missed their probation meeting with Boss because of a flash flood and knew they would lose their drivers licenses and orange clunker car. They got the idea of coaching the Bears in exchange for getting a break and Boss agreed but only if they won. They also told Boss that they were bringing in a secret weapon, a 12 year old star named Rodney Moffet, who had just lost his father. Rodney and his mom live in rural Hazzard County but the recent flood had just washed out the bridge to their place and they need to go through Chickasaw County to get to the town of Hazzard. Bo and Luke had to evade Sheriff Big Ed Little to get to the Moffets and when they were there, Tate and his henchman named Ruel showed up but Rodney didn't want to play for either team. Later, Jesse showed up and convinced him to play for the Bears. Basketball camp was at the Duke farm and Boss, Rosco, Tate and Ruel watched from a distance with binoculars. Later that night, Tate and Ruel snuck into the barn where the team was sleeping and told Rodney his mom would lose their house if he played for Hazzard. The next day Bo and Luke convinced him they were lying so Tate went with plan B. They replaced Rodney's real birth certificate with a fake one at the Hazzard Courthouse, making it look like Rodney was 13, past the age of being qualified to play. Just before tip off, Tate demanded proof Rodney was only 12 and when they got the fake certificate he was declared not eligible and was pulled from starting. Bo and Daisy then hopped in the General Lee to get the real certificate in Capitol City while Boss stalled for time as much as he could. Once again Big Ed gave them problems and by the time they returned the Bears were losing 39-50. Rodney then got in and took over on offense and defense. He didn't make the winning shot but he did have the winning assist on a pass. The Bears won 52-50. Jesse announced to the crowd that Boss was donating $10,000 to the new youth sports center so he reluctantly gave away the wad of cash. -- Rodney Moffet was played by Jason Lively, who was in the first ever Dukes episode, One Armed Bandits. He was the kid spitting soda pop on the back window of the General Lee while sitting inside it, prompting Bo to say "I hate kids". The Boar's Nest Bears episode name was probably inspired by the popular movie Bad News Bears.

I still have a bunch of VHS tapes of Dukes. A friend of mine who lived in town and had cable TV recorded them for me. It was such a thrill to watch a Dukes show any time I wanted. I wore those tapes out....even though they still work. I'll never throw them away though because they have sentimental value....like all my Dukes stuff.

Good idea Hoss! 50 dollars for all 7 seasons of Dukes. Shucks, they're worth 50 million dollars so that sounds like a pretty good deal!

If I won 200 million dollars I would give it all to the Hazzard County Orphanage.

Brotherly Love.....season 6 A mysterious man in Hazzard is in hot pursuit of another mysterious man. The one being chased is professional boxer Killer Kane and the chaser is Charlie Burns. Charlie is a hit man working for Tex Tompkins. Tex wanted Kane to lose a fight intentionally but instead he knocked the guy out. Tex bet a ton of money on the other guy and now he wants revenge. Killer Kane's real name is Jud and he is Luke's biological brother. The 4 Dukes thought he died in a hospital fire when he was two weeks old but a nurse named Mrs. Nelson took him in and raised him. She never told him the truth until she was on her death bed. After getting away from Charlie, Jud goes to the Duke farm and after some introductions it is clear that he is really Luke's brother. They look alike, they have the same birth mark and coincidently they were both boxers in the military (Jud...Army and Luke...USMC). The Dukes boys and Jud tell Boss and Rosco about the danger but Boss wrongly thinks Jud is a criminal and before you can blink, Charlie is chasing the 3 Dukes in the General Lee and they get away. Jud decides to leave because he feels bad about putting the Dukes in danger while Tex and Charlie lock Boss and Rosco up in the jail. Tex and Charlie then start chasing Luke, thinking he is Jud since he is driving Jud's car. When they shoot the tire out, the car crashes in a fireball. They don't realize Luke jumped out and then conclude that Jud is dead. Luke ends up in the hospital and won't wake up and the bad guys overhear Enos telling Daisy at the Boar's Nest that it was Luke in the accident. They also figure out that Jud would be at the hospital visiting so they go there. While Bo is waking Luke up, Jud is outside getting fresh air and Tex and Charlie grab him at gunpoint. Bo jumped on their roof but couldn't hang on. Moments later, the General, Dixie and Jesse's truck go searching and are later joined by Boss, Rosco and Enos. Despite being dizzy and ordered to stay in bed, Luke convinces his ambulance driving buddy to join the search. Rosco, Boss and Enos crashed and then the ambulance forced the car with Tex, Charlie and Jud in it off the road. It ended up in a deep pond upside down where Bo had to pull off a difficult and impressive rescue to save the lives of the 3. The Dukes got a reward for catching the criminals and gave it to the orphanage. Jud headed off into the sunset to renew his boxing career.

Orange and black bug......Ladybug.

The offer still stands if you need me to come over and help you with technical repairs and updates. I just added a hacksaw, wire cutters and metric razor blade knife to my tool kit if you need me to bring that over to fix things.

Thank you so much for everything you do keeping the gears in motion here on the greatest website on the internet MM! You are loved and appreciated!

Too Many Roscos.....season 6 A million dollars from the Atlanta Federal Reserve is due to arrive in Hazzard in an armored truck. Two robbers named Arnie and Kelly have been filming Rosco. Their accomplice, a guy named Woody later studied the film to see how Rosco talks and acts. Woody had plastic surgery done to look exactly like Rosco so the trio could steal the million. Arnie and Kelly interrupted a chase when Rosco was after the Duke boys. After Rosco's car got bumped into Hazzard Lake they took him and held him hostage in their hideout. They introduced him to Woody and Rosco figured out that the 3 were planning on stealing the million. Everybody in town thought that Rosco had drowned. The bad guys find out that everybody in town thinks Rosco is dead so (thanks to Rosco's idea) come up with a plan to say that he hit his head on a rock. Woody then stumbles in to his own wake at Boss and Lulu's house and right away shows memory problems. He calls Flash a boy but Daisy corrects him. Flash doesn't like him because she can sense he is an imposter. As Woody continues to make mistakes he is able to blame it on his head injury. He quickly hides the fact that the hat didn't fit him when Bo returned it from Hazzard Lake. After everybody pressured him, Woody agreed to go to Capitol City to have his head examined but Kelly and Arnie stopped him when the boys were taking him there in the General. The boys found out what the plan was and found out Woody wasn't Rosco and the bad guys tied them up in their hideout. They quickly got loose and let the real Rosco out of the locked closet. The 3 bad guys arrived at the bank just before the armored car and snatched the million dollars and locked everyone in the armored car then drove off. Bo, Luke and Rosco showed up and explained to Boss that there was a fake Rosco but he didn't believe them. With Rosco still in the General, the Dukes took off after the robbers. With help from Daisy, Jesse, Boss and Enos, they caught them when their car also went into Hazzard Lake, prompting Waylon to say "Ya know, them fish in Hazzard Lake have all got battle fatigue." -- It was a bit strange to see James Best listed as a "guest star" on the closing credits. He also played Woody. He really loved the dual role. All actors love to show their versatility. -- You can't help but think of "Ghost of General Lee" when watching this episode. Bo and Luke went into the water in the General and everybody thought they had died.

I sure would love to have a part from one of the Generals that was on the show!

A Baby for the Dukes.....season 6 The episode starts out with a scene every Dukes fan would have loved to been in. The 4 Dukes are having a picnic out in the country. Bo and Luke are singing "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys." Daisy joined in and Jesse's muttered a few lyrics while he was eating chicken. Just as the boys changed the word "cowboys" to "Duke boys", one of those babies they were singing about got dropped off in the General Lee. The baby was named Jamie and the Mama was former Hazzard resident Mary Lou Tomkins. Mary Lou had just got away from two bad guys who had been chasing her, trying to get Jamie. Mary Lou left a note for the Dukes, asking them to take Jamie to their farm until she could get there. She also asked them to keep it a secret. After going back to the farm, Bo and Luke left but were quickly caught by the thugs and managed to get away. While that was going on, Boss was meeting with Rosco and Enos. A truck went by with 18 crashed (and then crushed) Hazzard police cars on it. Boss explained that the county was going broke because of them and gave them horses to ride instead. Emerson Craig then rode into town in his limo. He was a cotton tycoon from Savanah and was looking for Mary Lou and his grandson Jamie and he was offering a $25,000 reward for Jamie's return. He had Mary Lou declared an unfit mother simply because he never liked her since she was a poor country girl when his son Roger married her. Since Roger died, Craig wanted the baby for himself. Boss and Craig went to the Duke farm, where Craig went into one of several rants about how country people are dumb and dirty and his grandson wouldn't be brought up like that. Jesse tried to teach him better by explaining that "some of the richest people I've known in my life never had a dime." Later, the boys took Daisy and Jamie to the old sawmill to hide out. Mary Lou called and talked to Bo but Craig's thugs had the phone line tapped and went to Jensen's Hollow where Bo, Luke and Mary Lou met. They ended up chasing the General Lee but the Dukes and Mary Lou got away. At that point, Craig had insulted small towns and country folks so much that Boss, Rosco and Enos had also turned against him. Boss and Jesse found out that Judge Druton was fishing on Spruce Lake and picked him up. He owed Jesse a favor for getting him out of a bear trap long ago and the Dukes wanted him to sign an order contesting the declaration of Mary Lou being unfit. The thugs and Craig found Daisy and Jamie and one of them threw down a cigar that started a fire. Before you know it, Daisy was standing in a lake trying to save the baby. Luke hopped in a water truck and escorted the General Lee into the fire and saved them both. Emerson Craig was so happy that his grandson was saved he had a complete change of heart. He tore up the paper declaring Mary Lou unfit and apologized to everybody for his behavior. He donated money to the county and Rosco and Enos no longer had to chase cars while on horseback. -- Mary Lou Tomkins was played by James Best's daughter, Janeen Best. -- Boss mentioned Hogganomics, which meant cutting back on government spending. This was a reaction to US President Ronald Reagan's Reaganomics. -- Pretty funny scene when Boss and Rosco had to ride the same horse all the way from the Duke farm to town. Boss sat in front of Rosco but faced backwards so they hugged each other all the way home. -- When the 3 bad guys had Rosco in the car they were secretly following the Dukes and trying to lay low. After they made fun of country folks being dumb Rosco shot at a flying chicken hawk and claimed it had been killing a lot of chickens but he was trying to warn the Dukes.....not so dumb after all!

Thanks Spike. I do enjoy writing. I have had hundreds of letters to the editor published in 40 years, several of them in national publications. I have also had several quotes on CNN, back when they were still a centrist media organization. I wrote a romantic fiction book 25 years ago but never even tried to get it published. For the past 10 years I have been working on a Lord of the Rings style book. Creating is fun. A blank piece of paper has unlimited possibilities. I don't really have any training in writing though and I realize my stuff is often rough around the edges so if my book ever does get published it will require some heavy duty editing. It still needs another 10 years of work first.

Yep cousin. I also didn't like that all 3 younger Dukes left Jesse when he was that old. It was clear that the reunion shows were written by professional writers and not fans. I'm not assuming that all the writers of the first 7 years were fans but at least they stayed true to the show and the Duke family traditions.....sure maybe they stayed true because they were told to but at least they did it. I'll never watch a reunion show. I did when they came out but never again. I understand that some fans like them and that's okay. I respect the opinions of others, especially Dukes fans. You might say I'm a fan of every Dukes fan.

Oh yea, that's right! It was a train! I forgot. Thanks!

Another busy weekend with the grandkids. We won't get them the next 2 weekends so we made the most of it. Every year I set up a haunted trail in woods with a bunch of fun scares. It's always a good time. It sprinkled a bit but it wasn't too bad.

Didn't Uncle Jesse's model truck even do a jump?

Sorry Cousin but the reunion movies make me sad so I won't do those. You could do them though!

It's interesting how these episode reviews have evolved from season one. I wish I could start over again and be more consistent. After I'm done I might even do reviews of the cartoons....not sure yet.

Now that's some really interesting information. Thanks for posting it JRC99.

Lulu's Gone Away.....season 6 After Lulu's car broke down in the country, she was lucky that the Duke boys rescued her because 3 people were lurking nearby, waiting to kidnap her. Lulu insisted she drive the General Lee so the boys wouldn't get a ticket. Rosco started to chase the General after noticing his sister was driving. She jumped the General over a barn and Rosco jumped into it. It appeared to be a barn at least....there was a guy sleeping in a bed inside it and he ended up on Rosco's hood. Lulu drove to the Boar's Nest where she yelled at Boss pretty soundly, complaining that he breaks all his promises. She then wanted to go to a hotel but accepted the Dukes offer to stay at the farm. The two men and woman (Billy Ray, Eddie and Anna Lisa) still wanted to kidnap Lulu and succeed the next day when she was alone at the farm. She unintentionally recorded audio of the crime and the recorder wasn't noticed by the kidnappers. When the Dukes came home they assumed Lulu had returned to Boss but right after that, Boss got a call from the kidnappers, demanding he bring $100,000 in small bills to Sheep Hollow. Jesse then found the audio recording and the 3 younger Dukes talked to Boss in town about the problem but he said he didn't want help. Boss took the money to Sheep Hollow but Rosco showed up and ruined the exchange. The bad trio left with Lulu and the Dukes and Hazzard law then teamed up to look for her. Bo found the trailer but one of the bad guys knocked him out and sent the trailer down a hill but Luke saved him. The kidnappers then demanded $300,000 be brought to Bluebird Canyon but tricked Boss by picking it up in town and not letting Lulu go. Eventually Bo and Luke caught them at the Tri-County Amusement Park. Lulu sat on Anna Lisa while the boys went on long, separate foot chases through the park. They caught them both and Boss and Lulu were reunited. For a brief moment, one of the bad guys got loose from Luke and then Boss got up a head of stream and rammed him like a raging bull. Season 6 is off to a great start!

Daisy's Shotgun Wedding.....season 5 Pa, Milo and Sledge Beaudry come down from the Tennessee hills and into the Boar's Nest and make a moonshine deal in Boss's office and then go into the bar and start roughing up the customers. Milo then gets a little to physical with Daisy and of course Bo and Luke aren't going to take that and before you know it there is a barroom brawl so bad that it took gunfire by Rosco to stop it. Daisy didn't really want the boys to step in. Earlier in the day she had been complaining that they had been overprotective since they returned from the NASCAR circuit. The boys agree to back off from smothering Daisy but when she catches them looking out the window when Darcy Kincade was dropping her off at night after a date, that is the last straw and she moved into town with her friend Sally Jo. Boss blamed Bo and Luke for all the damages to the Boar's Nest and when he sent Rosco and Enos to the farm with the bill, the boys took off in ultralights, owned by their friends Vern and Skip, who just literally dropped in for a visit. When they come back, Luke has a rough landing and that meant that the ultralights would be staying around a short time for repairs. The Beaudry's go to Boss's house where the moonshine deal turns sour so the Beaudry's lock Boss and Rosco in the closet, take a wad of money, dognap Flash and take off in the sheriff's car. Daisy then decided to return to the farm but before she could get there the bad Beaudry boys kidnapped her and took her to their cabin in the Chatahoochee Hills. Boss and Rosco got out and grabbed a citizen's car and the Duke boys found out about Daisy so all 4 men headed to Tennessee but since the revenuers hadn't found the cabin in 20 years, the Hazzard posse had no luck either. Then Luke thought of the ultralights and they went back for them and got a bird's eye view of the hills, with Jesse trailing behind with his shotgun in the General Lee. Boss got caught in 3 revenuer traps and Rosco got caught in 2 so they weren't much help. A preacher arrived at the cabin for a shotgun wedding but while the ceremony was going on the ultralights swooped in and after a fight the General Lee Charger charged in. The Beaudry's ended up in jail. Rosco was reunited with Flash and the Dukes have a happy ending in the last episode of historic season five.

Good thing it was the only color Cooter had in the shop. I can't imagine the General Lee anything else.....the show would have still been just as good though.