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With Garrett out of town, I guess the preview's down to me, so here's the starting lineup for Sunday's Pure Michigan 400 from the Michigan International Speedway. 1 Joey Logano 2 Kurt Busch 3 Jimmie Johnson 4 Mark Martin 5 Jeff Burton 6 Juan Pablo Montoya 7 Dale Earnhardt Jr 8 Denny Hamlin 9 Brad Keselowski 10 Kyle Busch 11 Clint Bowyer 12 Matt Kenseth 13 Jeff Gordon 14 Aric Almirola 15 Kevin Harvick 16 Greg Biffle 17 Martin Truex Jr 18 Trevor Bayne 19 Carl Edwards 20 Paul Menard 21 Ryan Newman 22 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 23 David Gilliland 24 David Ragan 25 David Reutimann 26 Marcos Ambrose 27 Austin Dillon 28 Danica Patrick 29 Jamie McMurray 30 Bobby Labonte 31 Kasey Kahne 32 Scott Speed 33 Casey Mears 34 Timmy Hill 35 J.J. Yeley 36 David Stremme 37 Joe Nemechek 38 Travis Kvapil 39 Brendan Gaughan 40 Josh Wise 41 Johnny Sauter 42 Dave Blaney 43 Landon Cassill I missed the qualifying this week - personally, I think it would be easier if it was always the day before the race, and NASCAR.com didn't hide the schedule information until after it had taken place! When I dug a little deeper into the schedules I found that one page listed qualifying at 2:40 PM ET, and another at 3:40 PM ET - both pages are on NASCAR.com, so what chance do I have? You can read what happened here. There are some unusual paint schemes this weekend (I wouldn't recognize Jeff Gordon's car in white and blue) - you can see some of the others here. The page even includes a time-lapse video of Regan Smith's Nationwide car having its graphics applied. The race is tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00 PM ET on ESPN.

Thelma Claire (T.C.) Rogers was in 'People's Choice' in season 2. She won the post of Supervisory Administrator of Hazzard County (which included control of Bo and Luke's probation), and then disappeared!

I was hoping that recoloring the picture may help to identify the people in it, but I still don't recognize them. Here's part of an interview with John that I've just finished tweaking. I had to distort the image and play with the contrast to make it more readable. It comes from the TV Guide above that has the headline "Doctors on TV: How Good Is Their Advice?". I don't recognize this photoshoot from any of the previously posted images.

Finally, some promos. The first is obviously for 'The Great Santa Clause Chase', originally shown on December 19, 1980. The Dallas episode is 'Trouble at Ewing 23'. Here's one from the Coy and Vance era - it looks like 'Vance's Lady' from November 5, 1982. Roth has already posted a smaller version of this Alice promo, but I thought this larger one was worth posting too. Roth, I had a go at color-correcting one of the images you posted the other day.

Here's some more: And from the one above, some of the interview with Tom:

After finding the TV Guide cover the other night, I discovered there were more with Dukes covers (Roth has already posted one here). All images are originally from Ebay, but most have been resized, color-corrected, distorted or tweaked in some way. And of course, the stars were popular with the teen magazines in the '80s. I can't believe how many also featured Leif Garrett. I think he only had one hit in the UK ('I Was Made for Dancing'), but he was obviously more popular in the US.

I'm going to guess that it's Ma Harper. If I'm right, then I remember her stealing Cooter's race car, and Al Wyatt Jr being one of her sons, but I can't remember the actress's name or the episode (I'm thinking season 3 or 4). Hence the apology for picking the original picture. All the others look too similar .

I wondered why you hadn't made a guess. Fancy asking a question?

Looks like only it's Roger playing this one. Roger, you're correct, it's Lindsay Bloom aka. Myrtle/Maybelle/Mabel Tillingham. Apologies to Lindsay - I deliberately picked a slightly unflattering picture because I thought most of the others I came across would be too easy. Below is Lindsay's current profile picture from her Facebook page: Maybe I should've gone with the picture below from Mike Hammer when Lindsay was brunette: Picture from toutlecine.com. Original mystery picture from medicalmusical.com.

Someone asked, and was told "as for price, keep bidding". I think the sale was run through the Ebay account of Byron's agent, Mark Van Woert, who has posted on HNet before with the username markjvanwoert. In case you've missed his previous posts, he also represents Sonny Shroyer and Don Pedro Colley, as well as working as an actor/director/producer under the name Markus James.

Just to update y'all, the bidding only reached $30,850, which didn't mean the reserve.

brunet(te) Personally, being a gentleman, I prefer blondes .

Two things make me think that this wasn't for 'Carnival of Thrills'. Firstly, there's a reference to "J.R. Ruined?" which I'm guessing refers to Dallas, which used to follow Dukes on a Friday night in the US. 'Carnival of Thrills' was shown as a two-hour special on September 16, 1980, and there was no episode of Dallas shown that night (or even that month). Secondly, it says "New Time! Brand New!". According to 'The Dukes of Hazzard: The Unofficial Companion', the time slot changed midway through season 4. I can't find exactly when the time changed, but 'Dukescam Scam' is roughly midway and was shown on January 1, 1982, which seems like a good time for a new schedule. Having said that, while it fits with "Dukes Duped!", the description "Boss Hogg to wreck General Lee?" doesn't really fit that episode. Maybe it was 'Goodbye, General Lee', which aired on December 4, 1981. The Dallas episode that night was 'Five Dollars a Barrel'. IMDb.com gives the summary as "J.R. finds himself in financial hot water and must broker an extension of his loan. Cliff takes advantage of J.R.'s hot spot to get some concessions.", which could fit with the tagline above. Here's another Dukes related TV Guide listing that I found on Ebay: This one's obviously from during season 5 as Coy and Vance are in the picture. Other adverts in the same issue include new seasons/episodes of Cheers, Knight Rider, Matt Houston, and Tales of the Gold Monkey, amongst others.

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Coincidentally, the final season of CHiPs (season 6, 1982/83) had an episode called 'The Spaceman Made Me Do It' where a young girl claims to be getting messages from an alien spacecraft, and another called 'Day of the Robot' where a robot is leant to the CHP for evaluation. Maybe it's just a sign that they're running out of ideas. From 'Day of the Robot', here's the "Maximum Efficiency Robotization Vector Series 1" or MERV for short:

Mickey Mouse Like these? Halloween is celebrated here. There's normally some fancy dress parties and the like. We've even imported the door-to-door begging with menaces, or "trick or treat" as I believe you call it. In the UK it comes just before Guy Fawkes Night (November 5), so you normally get a week of fireworks.

She's got a lovely smile and a blonde 18-year-old daughter - what's not to like . The TV Guide they're holding is May 1-7 1982, but I'd agree with you that the image looks later than that. Here's the cover and an inside page that I've tweaked from images I found on Ebay. Notice that the jump image is from 'Granny Annie' - I just can't get away from that woman .

Hi Brenton, welcome to HNet. I've only just discovered this first post of yours - sometimes the first ones can get a bit lost by the time they're moderated. I hope that doesn't put you off posting some more of your drawings, because this one is very impressive. Keep up the good work .

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Congratulations on your post count, Roger. I'm sure that's really lucky (if 7 is your lucky number ). I'm going to sneak in another picture question. Here's a picture from 2011, showing a lady who appeared in more than one episode of Dukes - can you name her or her character?

I missed that comment about JG. The coverage of NASCAR is definitely different to F1, but they are quite different sports. They have less cars in F1, but more cameras, and some very slick editing at times. If you watch one of the F1 races on one of the older courses (contemporary with Watkins Glen where they used to race), maybe you'll see what I mean about the camera angles. You'll also notice an absence of features like "Crank it up" that the previous NASCAR broadcaster (was it FOX or TNT?) had each week. I also get frustrated by the frequency of commercial breaks. Today I nipped away from the screen when a commercial break started, and returned only a few minutes later, just in time for the next break. There can't have been more than two minutes of coverage between breaks! I wasn't suggesting that JG did anything illegal, and was sure I'd seen it before, but couldn't remember specific examples. It just looked dangerous to me with everything exposed - less crumple zone and nothing to contain a fire. BTW. the roof flaps may be on the roof, but the hood flaps are on the hood: "In the Gen-6 car, the roof flaps are much larger and the previous “cowl flaps†were moved onto the hood proper. The hood now extends up to the windshield and there is no cowl anymore." Full article here. Picture credit USA Today.

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These aren't exactly "behind the scenes" pictures, but they are quite rare. They're a couple of pictures of Lurene Tuttle (aka. Granny Annie) that I found in the USC Digital Library. On the right is Lurene's 18-year-old daughter, Barbara Ruick. Barbara was also an actress; she appeared in several movies and TV shows in the '50s and '60s including 'Carousel' in 1956. Barbara was married to composer John Williams until her premature death in 1974. The caption says: "Contract approval, 28 August 1951. Lurene Tuttle (mother); Barbara Ruick -- 18 years (actress)." Larger versions available at USC Digital Library. Here's another picture of Lurene from around the same time. I posted it recently in the trivia thread:

Well that was a more exiting race than two weeks ago, and better than Sonoma (IMHO). I wish there were a few more road courses like Watkins Glen on the calendar. I guess I've got to be happy with Ricky's 18th place after starting 33rd and spending most of the race around 30th. Do you think Tony Stewart would've done any better than Max Papis's 15th? Nothing personal, Garrett, but I'm surprised that Jeff Gordon's car was allowed back on track with the whole front bodywork missing. Surely the exposed engine and wheels, coupled with the lack of the hood flaps if the car spins, must raise some safety issues. At least he wasn't going to suffer from overheating or a blocked grille . I think ESPN need to watch a few F1 races before locating their camera positions for next year's race. On road courses like Watkins Glen you can get better shots of overtaking with cameras mounted higher up and looking down on the action. This isn't really an issue on ovals as they have the stands to work from.