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Dukescam Scam.....season 4 On the way to pay the mortgage the 4 Dukes see Emery Potter driving out of town in a hurry. When they got to the bank Rosco was there cashing his check and the next thing you know, bank teller Laverne is screaming inside the vault after discovering it's been burglarized. The Dukes and Rosco catch up with Boss on the road and Rosco arrests him for the burglary and throws him in jail. Boss claims his innocence and blames Emery. Boss claims all his money is tied up in a land deal and Jesse agrees to risking the farm on the bail bond agreement. (Boss softened him up to fall for the scam by reminding him he bailed him out in 1938 and owes him a favor.) Later, Boss is seen leaving town with his bags packed so it's clear he's going to skip bail so the Dukes lose the farm. The Dukes went looking for his hideout but when they find him he gets away and next, they failed to find Emery. Judge Potts is forced to take the farm away from the Dukes since Boss didn't show up for the trial. Minutes later Boss comes back into town and takes Jesse into the vault to prove to him the bank was never burglarized to begin with. When the vault door gets shut everybody realizes Boss and Jesse only have an hour to live before they run out of air. Laverne tells the Dukes that Emery knows the combination so they go after him. After Boss says they only have 39 minutes to live Jesse claims that it is 41 and they laugh that Boss is trying to cheat someone even in his last hour of life. Emery arrives and passes out from stress when starting to open the door but thankfully Luke was paying attention when Emery was repeating the numbers on the way there. When the two old timers got out they agreed to trade the bail bond agreement for the tape that was recorded in the vault where Boss confessed. Jesse and Boss did the Ridge Runner spit handshake to seal the deal.

I finally did it. I went and joined Facebook so I could meet more Dukes fans. Who knows, maybe I can get a few of them to visit the HazzardNet......and maybe even stay longer than a visit.

All I know is that your boys are beating up my poor Pirates. I bet you're enjoying that! Sorry Garrett. I can't read my private messages for some reason. All I get is a blank white page.

Hughie Hogg Strikes Again.....season 4 While driving a motor home into Hazzard, Hughie Hogg, disguised as an old man, runs the Duke boys into a pond in the opening scene. He then shows up at Boss's office and promises to make up for past dirty deeds by showing Boss his plan to help him foreclose on Cooter's garage so he can build Hogg's Happy Hacienda Hoggominiums. Boss agrees and Hughie starts the plan right away by having Cooter thrown in jail for stealing his wallet....while still disguised as an old man. Bo and Luke start working in the garage to help a jailed Cooter make his mortgage payment and when Rosco and Cletus go to arrest them for consorting with a known criminal (Cooter) they get away and Rosco ends up in a pond. Jesse and Daisy then start working in the garage while Bo and Luke sneak into Boss's office and figure out what he's up to. Hughie and his two henchmen set up Jesse and Daisy to make it look like they are selling moonshine at the garage and Boss calls the department of ATF to get an agent from Capitol City to come to Hazzard to arrest Jesse. The Duke boys break into the motor home and finally figure out that it is Hughie, in various disguises, who is behind all this. Later, when Hughie and his men were going to the ATF agent to give him the fake evidence against Jesse, the Duke boys catch up to them and Luke throws a bee's nest into the motor home to flush them out. Bo and Luke then destroy the evidence and Boss kicked Hughie out of Hazzard again. Cooter made his mortgage payment and Buck Owens was forced to sing "Tiger by the Tail" after getting caught in the celebrity speedtrap. -- Miz Tisdale utters that line "That Jesse Duke just sets my motor at fast idle." -- Once again Rosco says "That would have killed ten ordinary men." -- In a nightime scene with Bo and Luke camping out you could see stars. I was wrong when I thought the only time we ever see stars in Hazzard was in the Strange Visitor episode. --When Rosco went into the pond after bragging to Cletus what a good driver he was Cletus said "Guess he meant diving lessons" -- When Hughie said he went to college and majored in criminal law Boss said "Oh, you were studying to be a lawyer?" Hughie responded "No, a criminal".

Planned on getting work done outside all day but it looks like we're in for an all day rain. Oh well, I have plenty to do inside too, including catch another DOH episode. Any of you folks have weekend plans?

ghost (like Charlie Brown with a dozen holes for eyes "I got a little carried away with the scissors")

I just got back from the dirt track. It was nice to see the local hot rods running around the oval on Friday night. It's the first time I've been to the races all summer. I'm off quarantine and the health department told me I have no restrictions. I went kayaking today too.

I'm optimistic too. I'm not a doctor but I've seen some on TV.

Cletus Falls in Love.....season 4 Cletus catches the Dukes after a hot pursuit and Daisy turns on the charm to keep him from writing a ticket that would cause Bo to lose his driver's license. After Cletus agrees, Daisy kisses him and tells him she loves him. She just meant "love" to be friendly but Cletus misinterpets it to mean she loves him romantically and starts to do things like giving her flowers. In the meantime, Boss finds out that the state probation supervisor from Capitol City wants to investigate him so he decides to arrest the Duke boys to impress him. He alters a check signed by Bo to make it look like $1,100 instead of $11. After being thrown in jail the Dukes escape and Boss fires Cletus because he was careless and let it happen. Boss replaced Cletus with an off-duty Big Ed Little. Ed catches the Duke boys when they are trying to get the altered check and it's back in jail they go.....until morning when Cooter used his wrecker to pull the barred window off. After being chased by Big Ed, the Dukes catch up with Boss and Rosco who were on their way to Capitol City with the altered check. Everybody stopped and Rosco looked in the back seat and saw that Flash has opened his lunchbox that had the check inside and Flash had eaten it. Daisy explained to Cletus that she didn't love him in the way he thought she did and he got his job back after the Dukes threatened to sue Boss for false arrest if he didnt rehire him. In the end, Cletus had a big smile on his face because he was heading out on a date with a new love interest, Laverne, who was seen earlier in the episode looking at him with adoring eyes.

Try sticking a Dukes episode in the hour before you go to bed. It will take your mind off the real world. Hazzard County is the only world that makes sense anymore.

Halloween

Goodbye, General Lee......season 4 Boss wants to win the first annual Drag 'n Fly Derby so he can use the victory to endorse his products so he buys a turbocharged car and hires two disbarred NASCAR drivers. While working under the General Lee, Luke gets knocked out by the drive shaft falling down and ends up unconscious in a hospital. While he is there Boss brings in a professor hypnotist who trains Luke to want to sell the General Lee next time it breaks down. That night Rosco sabotaged the General and Cletus caught the Duke boys when their engine failed them. Luke suggested selling it but Bo argued with him and later they almost got in a physical fight but Jesse stopped it. Bo lost an archery contest that determined if they should get rid of the General so they went to Hobie Harkins used car lot and traded it for a yellow car, similar to the one Daisy had that got run off a cliff. Luke then got the idea to paint the car like the General but that never happened. Boss bought the General from Hobie and told Rosco to push it off the cliff at Rainbow Canyon but Cooter saved it without Rosco knowing. At an old still sight Jesse snapped his fingers and that snapped Luke out of his hypnotic state and he didn't remember what had happened with the General. Boss sent his 2 drivers to the gravel put to blow up the General but Luke risked his life and stopped them. Bo and Luke hopped in the General and made it to the Derby by the 4:00 deadline and won. Rosco let it slip out that Boss had Luke hypnotized so that explained everything. -- After Rosco's car jump at the end he said "That would have killed 10 ordinary men." Back in the 80s I used that line every time I got hurt. -- Boss to Hobie on phone " Are you drunk?" Hobie's response "Well, of course." -- Once again Rosco thinks Boss is doing him a favor by adding a third 50% on to the other two....."50% of 50% OF 50%" -- I'm not real crazy about this episode. It's like "Dr Jekyll and Mr Duke." I just don't like seeing Luke being mean. -- Hey Hoss, Cooter had a sign painter stuck to his windshield. His name was Homer....no last name given.

quarters (what kind of coin did they put in the games over there Hoss?)

Did you think about making an offer that was so low that you could still afford to fix those things? Of course if you are getting financing the bank might not go for that idea. Keep at it. Good things come to those who wait.

Now we found out our niece has it too. We suspect a lot of family members did but they have all recovered from their cold-like symptoms so it looks like things are improving. My wife goes back to work tomorrow and I'm officially off quarantine tomorrow too but I'm still avoiding anybody else for another week just to be safe. Besides, I'm retired now and don't have to go anywhere. While things are improving for my family I feel the pain of other families that are just getting started. Keep us updated MM on your test.

Thanks Burl. It sure is nice to have a new person in Hazzard. Tell us more about your love of the show. Favorite character, episode, scene, season or anything like that. Been a fan long? Do you have any of the series DVDs? Met any of the stars? Are you a Mel Tillis fan?

That's awesome Hoss. Before we know it you're going to be driving around in a car with doors that are welded shut and throwing away your cell phone for a CB. Speaking of CBs, I fired up one of my old walkie talkies. It looks like the big walkie talkies you often saw on Dukes. Unfortunately there is nobody on anymore. I did hear some distant chatter on channel 19 and some on ch6. It's sad. CBs used to be so much fun. Neither of the folks on the distant chatter could hear me. I think it was that real far away stuff we used to call "skip" because somehow the signal was skipping off certain atmospheric conditions.

Trouble at Cooter's....season 4 Bo and Luke start the episode in the General Lee running down a dirt road singing "Take it Easy" but soon life isn't so easy. A thief named Russ Mitchell, driving a van with Mississippi plates and loaded with stolen fur coats, bumps into Cooter's truck and later, a mink coat falls out the back and is picked up by Bo and Luke on the road. The boys were going to give Rosco the coat but he comes to the farm with Cletus to arrest them. Russ takes the furs to Boss to sell and Boss stores them beside Cooter's garage in Rhuebottom's old hardware store that he foreclosed on to use as a "warehouse for stolen merchandise". Russ's girlfriend and accomplice Bonnie shows up and Russ schemes to steal the furs back from Boss and sell them to someone else. Boss is planning on selling them to Harvey Dunsmore from Atlanta and Harvey shows up and starts negotiating with Boss for the 20 coats, minus one. Bonnie befriends Cooter with a picnic lunch in order to distract him so Russ can bust through the wall in the garage to get into Rhuebottom's. Cotter is really falling for her and even gives her his sterling silver tire pressure gauge. Russ and Bonnie end up with the furs but the Dukes catch them but Bonnie pulls a gun on them and they tie up the Dukes and get away with the furs. The boys get lose and everybody takes off after the thieves and they eventually get them. Cooter is pretty mad and punches out Russ and confronts Bonnie. Boss had to give up the furs to the Atlanta police.

Sounds exciting. Are you going to go get a closer look today? Keep us updated.

rocks

We were coming home from the hospital in Erie last night (actually 4:00 in the morning). It's about a 40 minute drive. There's a classic country station (Willie 95.1) way south of Erie that doesn't come in there but as you drive south it starts to come in. I thought about it when I was 15 minutes from home so turned it on. The second I turned the radio on the next song was getting started....The theme to Dukes of Hazzard!.....I couldn't believe it. I listened to it and turned the radio off after it was over to keep it in my head. It was a much needed miracle since I needed a pick me up after a rough sleepless night.

Hang in there Spike. If you pop a Dukes episode in things are guaranteed to improve.

That's good news Hoss. They ran a few tests and couldn't find anything wrong with my wife. They also said it's not covid related. That seems like a pretty weird coincidence. Nothing like this has ever happened to her in her life and it just happens to occur as she is recovering from covid?! Sounds like too much of a coincidence but I suppose it is possible. She is home and has no more pain. Maybe our family doctor will have some ideas. She is calling him this afternoon.

We both had really great days today but at midnight my wife started having severe abdominal pains and we had to call an ambulance. That was her first ambulance ride in her life. I'm just sitting here waiting for a call. It could be gall bladder, blocked intestine, covid related or none of the above. I'm still under quarantine so I doubt they'll let me pick her up if they release her.

10 Million Dollar Sheriff......part 1 and 2.....season 4 Rosco's Great Uncle Hosiah left him 10 million dollars in his will, even though Rosco had never heard of him. Then one thing Rosco had always wanted is to put the Duke boys in jail for a long time, so for $100,000 he hires a "detective" named Jason Steele from Atlanta to set the Dukes up. Rosco also bought a Rolls Royce Sheriff car and a fancy rhinestone sheriff uniform and a rhinestone outfit for Flash. The first thing Steele did was try to lure the Dukes across the county line into the jurisdiction of Big Ed Little but that plan failed. Boss was so jealous of Rosco that he challenged him to a card game where they bet everything they owned. When Boss's attempt to cheat didn't work because Flash ate his Ace, Boss lost everything and was penniless and eventually accepted a deputy job. Steele's next plan was to plant a pistol in the General Lee but that didn't work either after Bo threw it in quicksand. Jesse went into the swamp looking for Steele but fell and hit his head and he ended up in a coma in the hospital. The doctor didn't know if he'd live or not and Boss and Rosco felt horrible about it. Rosco starts to have second thoughts but Steele threatens his life if he backs out of the deal telling him he'll give him the "deepest grave in the South". The boys finally meet Steele in town at high noon and Luke stops Bo from punching him because he knows Steele will have him arrested. Next, while in the Boar's Nest, Steele switches the General with a fake one and when the boys take it, has them arrested for grand theft auto. When the Dukes escape from jail Steele and his henchman catch them and throw them in their van, bound for jail in Atlanta. Then the lawyer who told Rosco about the 10 million shows up and tells Rosco about the decimal point problem....it's only 10 dollars. Since Rosco had changed his mind about the Duke boys he is happy and catches up with Steele to tell him he can't pay him. While that is going on Jesse woke up in the hospital when Daisy was there. Steele is pretty mad at Rosco and takes him hostage, wanting $100,000 ransom from Boss. But, it's Bo and Luke to the rescue, catching Steele and his henchman, who are arrested for kidnapping. The closing scene shows Jesse walking out of the hospital.