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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.

I still remember watching it when it originally aired. My mouth looked like I had just bitten a lemon when Bo said that. It still sounds terrible! The Dukes of Hatchapee......blah!!!!!!

Farewell, Hazzard......season 5 While on their way into town to make the mortgage payment, the 4 Dukes are run off the road by a helicopter and the General's oil pan gets cracked. The chopper then flew to an abandon barn hideout, where the 2 guys in it called L.S. Pritchard and informed L.S. that the General Lee was disabled and also said that "the last 8 earth core tests were all positive." Back at the courthouse Boss was trying on different wigs and getting ready to be a rich jet setter and is excited that Dallas millionaire L.S. Pritchard has given him a check for a million dollars to buy up Hazzard farmland in the first step to develop New Hazzard-community of the future. He also gets excited when he learns the Dukes didn't make their mortgage payment on time and when they do show up he gives them 3 hours to clear out of the farm. On the way back the Dukes find the 2 guys near their chopper, blowing test holes in the ground. The bad guys hop in the chopper and make an aggressive move toward the Dukes, knocking Daisy down. Her head hits a rock but she recovers quickly. Back at the farm Luke calls the FAA but since the ID numbers on the chopper were fake he can't find out who owns it. Things get pretty emotional and the empty farmhouse looks so sad and Jesse decides it's time to move to Hatchapee where Ben Watley has offered them the use of an 80 acre farm and they would become sharecroppers. Bo isn't really excited about being called the Dukes of Hatchapee. When L.S. Pritchard arrives everyone is surprised that it is a woman. The L and S stand for Lisa Sue. Boss gives her the key to the city and has no idea what her plans really are. We soon learn that she is planning to strip mine the whole county because the chopper pilots discovered high density coal deposits that were close to the surface. She continues to buy up farm land for twice the usual price. After the Duke boys meet L.S. she is flirty with Luke so he makes a move on her while Bo finds a drill bit in the field where Daisy got hurt. Later Luke calls Dallas and figures out the plan to strip mine. The boys go to Hatchapee and tell Daisy and Jesse what is going on and Jesse gets into a fighting mood. Despite the efforts of the Hazzard law and L.S.'s men, Daisy and Jesse make it to the town meeting the next morning and tell the town folks what is going on. Away from town Luke and Bo trick L.S. out of her briefcase and get proof of what she is up to. The chopper chases them as they head to the Boar's Nest and the boys are forced to stage a crash. When the were laying on the ground pretending the be knocked out, the bad guys landed and the Dukes knocked them out. They made it to the meeting and exposed the plan. Boss was so mad at L.S. that he cancelled all the land deals and the Dukes moved back into their farm. -- The scene at the empty farm was a tough one. Jesse said that 5 generations of Dukes lived there and he was born there and his wife died there. It was fun to hear about the 3 Dukes being little kids when they arrived and cool to hear about the height notches on the wall. Later when the boys came back to use the phone that was pretty emotional too. -- A couple cool Waylon quotes "Them sissies need a chopper to fly" AND "You know, Hazzard is the only place that I know of that needs an air traffic controller for cars."

Hmmm, I'm not sure what it could be....maybe something that keeps the sun off your head?!

How about Monday? I have a lot going on until then. Actually you could start it anytime but I'm not sure how much time I'll have before Monday.

I can't remember anybody ever being in a wheelchair except maybe Boss and Rosco faking injuries. Wasn't Jesse in one before he jumped out of it at the end of the episode when they released him from the hospital? Memory's not as good as it used to be. And Hughie was too when he was faking impending doom.

Big Brothers, Duke.....season 5 Bo and Luke join the Big Brothers program and go to Capitol City to pick up Andy Slocum, who only joined BB because he was caught breaking into their building. Andy is big trouble. The first thing he does is steal the General Lee. The boys borrow a truck and chase him, with the Capitol City law right behind. After catching him, the Duke boys decide not to press charges and take him back to the farm. Bo is a bit pessimistic about reforming their little brother but Luke is determined to not give up on him. Meanwhile, Boss is upset. He hasn't scammed anybody in 2 weeks and his depression has made him lose his appetite and lose weight but that changes when he gets a call from a fellow who just robbed 2 guards who were carrying money out of the Capitol City bank and preparing to put it in their armored car. The robber is desperate to get rid of the dirty money and agrees with Boss to sell it for 10 cents on the dollar. Andy gets into Hazzard where he continues to do bad stuff while Bo continues his irritation and Luke continues to have hope. The robber takes the stolen money to Boss and Boss gets his appetite back because he is planning on making a quick profit by selling it to a money launderer named Barney at 25 cents on the dollar. After the robber leaves he gets caught by the FBI and Boss learns the FBI is coming to investigate so he hides the money in one of Jesse's old still sights. Andy starts to learn farmwork and starts to like it and it looks like he is becoming reformed. To show him he trusts him (and also to test him) Jesse lets Andy take his pick-up truck to town. On the way, Andy sees the baby goat that had come up missing at the Duke farm. The goat just happens to be by the bag of stolen money and Andy has a tough time deciding what to do with the money. He decides to do the right thing and when he calls the Dukes on the CB to tell them about it, Barney and Boss overhear and start chasing him in Barney's van. Boss doesn't want Barney shooting at Andy and when he objects, Barney kicks him out of the van and Enos picked him up later. After Barney catches Andy, he takes the money, holds Andy hostage and drives away. Luke pulled up to the moving van in the General and Bo climbed on the roof and went through the sunroof and stopped Barney at the same time the FBI and everybody else showed up. Andy received a 500 dollar reward from the armored car company and decided to donate it to the orphanage because "Maybe some kid will get as lucky as I did." -- Barney running around with Andy....it made me think of a show that was around before Dukes....LOL -- I love Luke's quote "Our Uncle Jesse brought us up by the Good Book with a little common sense thrown in on the side." -- This was interesting....to change to a different CB channel, when a Duke says "country music", that is code talk for turning it to channel 17.

Sad but true....everybody loves a good demolition derby.

LOL I'd pay to see that!