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I successfully completed watching Season 5 with no futher glitches on the new set. I then moved onto Season 6 and already I have had the picture pixellating quite badly on 2 episodes 'Twin Trouble' and 'Cooter's Girl'. Again errors these show up on all three of my players. I just hope I can get through the last 10 episodes with no further problems!

I have just bought Season 5 again, I got it for just under £7, and it thankfully it seems to play fine this time around! That means I can hopefully now get through Seasons 6 & 7 in the next few weeks! The first edition I received of Season 5 must have been a rogue duff pressing.

My Season 7 arrived yesterday and it is not those nasty "flipper" discs that have been used from Seasons 2-6! Maybe Warners had had enough of people returning the discs because they wouldn't play?

No, I waited until all the box sets were all around the £6-£7 mark and bought them all at once for about £40 for 6 sets. All were brand new and in pristine condition from reputable online companies. Prices for the first 6 Hazzard sets are around the £7 mark at quite a few companies. Even Season 7, which was only released last week, is available brand new for £8.99. As I said Seasons 1-2 & 4 were absolutely fine. Season 3 was bad but I got around that by using DVD Shrink on the episodes that froze and pixellated. Problem solved! Season 5 has been far worse and I really don't know what to do about that one. DVD Shrink doesn't work because the problem is so bad on episode 14. I suppose I could rebuy it in the hope that the new set doesn't contain all the glitches that my current set does. I bought these sets months ago so I can't return any of them.

After a major wobble on episode 8 and minor glitches on 3 others, episode 14 refuses to play without badly pixellating every 10 minutes or so. I have tried it on my two other machines and it happens there as well. I even tried to put it through DVD Shrink on my PC and it won't even go through that! So, it doesn't look as though I will be getting through Season 5!

No problems at all with Season 4 but I am on Episode 8 of Season 5 and the problems have started again. The screen freezes and pixellates. The discs are brand new and free from dirt. This is extremely annoying. I wonder how many more episodes of Season 5 I am going to have problems with?

Yes, my Season 3 was a nightmare! 4 episodes go belly up was bad news. I am about 8 episodes into Season 4 at present with no problems at all so far. It has been great to see all those old Dukes episodes once again. I liked the commentary tracks on the 3 or 4 episodes as well. It is great to see the 3 leads all get on so well over 20 years since the series ended. I have always loved the Dukes since I saw the first episode on BBC 1 back in 1979. My wife thinks I have lost the plot when I laugh at Roscoe & Boss.

I have had major problems with my Season 3 set, it won't play 4 episodes without freezing up; 'Enos Strate to the Top', 'Hazzardville Horror', 'Good Neighbours Duke' and 'Along Came a Duke'. I have tried them on my Panasonic, Pioneer and Sony players and all show faults. The discs are brand new so there is no dirt or scratches on them. I think there has to be a pressing fault and it certainly doesn't help having these damn double sided discs! Are these common in the USA and the rest of Europe? I had never seen them before on UK pressings. The only way around the problem was to put them through DVD Shrink and make back ups of the 4 episodes. Thankfully I only paid just over £6 ($12) for each of the first 6 seasons! Season 7 is not out in the UK until September. I hope none of the other seasons are going to be so problematic as No. 3.