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Thanks Mufn, that's a nice mellow track. Here's one with a similar-sounding title, but it's very different:
Streetband was an early outing for vocalist Paul Young. This novelty song was originally a B-side (remember them?
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Welcome to HNet Kelsey. I'd like to see a picture or two of your Mustang (the Ford, not the buckskin
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I realize that the previous post didn't mention Dukes much - well let me fix that. Below is a picture from 'High Flyin' Dukes' - an episode that makes good use of the landing strip at Indian Dunes.
The camera must have been in virtually the same spot as the one that took the picture below. It shows a more recent (2004) view across the area that was formally the eastern end of the runway. The hills is the background are identical. Click here to see the great site where I found the picture. It give a lot more history of the airport along with more pictures, both past and present. It also names a few other TV shows and movies that were filmed there.
Here's a picture from 'Comrade Duke' that shows the airport buildings. The Hazzard Airport building on the left and the gas pump were added for filming, but the other three are visible on the black and white map above.
This is all that can be seen of that same area today.
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If I sounded slightly unsure of the location of the "Lake Sherwood" sign identified in the previous post, after watching a few more episodes I'm now certain about it. I've also noticed that in 'Granny Annie' Rosco chases the General up the road opposite the sign.
The picture below acts as a great signpost to today's subject (you see what I did there?).
I've discussed this location briefly in another thread, but didn't include any pictures. This post is mainly concerned with the landing strip that was located at Indian Dunes. The map below shows how it looked in 1977 (the closest date to Dukes filming that I could find). The road across the top is Henry Mayo Drive (SR-126), and is quite close to both Castaic Junction and Six Flags Magic Mountain Amusement Park that I've covered in earlier posts. The airport was built by the Newhall Land & Farming Company sometime between 1964 and 1969.
Here's another view from around the same era, this time from the north and in color. I found it on a website about filming locations used in 'Escape From New York'. It details how the area behind the runway was also used for filming episodes of Airwolf, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider and MacGyver. The '70s TV show 'Black Sheep Squadron' used both the runway and the area behind. If you want to see more, click here (it's a 6.5Mb PDF file with loads of photos).
As well as the landing strip I've also found loads of references to (and fond memories of) the motocross racing that used to take place here. The picture above shows the Shadow Glen and International tracks along with a 1/2 mile oval and a small oval near the road. The motocross seems to have stopped sometime around 1985. Some of the runway was torn up soon after, although the eastern side survived, at least partially, into the early '90s. This article from the LA Times says that Indian Dunes ceased to be a filming location in late 1990, and returned to farm land. Like the Valencia Oaks Ranch, there have been plans to build on the site, but nothing is definite yet. Today there's not a lot left to suggest the area's history. The picture below shows how it looks currently (I've tried to cover the same area as the black & white map above for easy comparison). Explore for yourself on Google Maps.
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Hi Jen, welcome to HazzardNet.
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I thought "disk 7" was a typo until I checked - in region 2 (Europe, Middle East etc.) where I am only the first and last seasons were released on single-sided discs, all the rest were double-sided, and none exceeded five discs. I'm really not a fan of double-sided discs, but yet again we get a cheapened product
.I found a "like new" complete season 5 on Ebay for $5 + $2.47 postage. I don't know if you can get replacement discs individually, but $7.50 doesn't sound too much to pay:
Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Fifth Season (DVD, 2005, 8-Disc Set)
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I've put these cars together because they're very similar. Both are 1975/6 Dodge Coronets with two-tone white over brown paint, both have the squarer style lightbar, both have color-coded wheels and both use the Hazzard-style 6-pointed "County Sheriff" star. Now the differences:
The top one is the Sweetwater patrol car as seen in 'The Ghost of General Lee'. It has blue lenses on both sides of its lightbar and gray or black spotlights on the A-pillars. Under the star on the door is simply the word "Sheriff" - it doesn't mention Sweetwater anywhere. I wonder whether the "Sheriff" sign is one of the fender signs from a Hazzard car.
The lower one is the Choctaw car from 'Double Sting' as driven by Sheriff Ragsdale. It has the more usual red/blue lightbar and an aerial on the roof instead of the trunk. The words "Choctaw County Sheriff" appear under the star. I've deliberately made the background of this sign brighter because that's the way it appeared to me.
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If the Cubs get more wins than the Pirates this year can you delete Garrett for me? If not, I'll never hear the end of it.
I think a campaign is needed
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Welcome to HazzardNet RiotKid. Roger's right - people should be here of their own free will. You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!. Ah, HazzardNet, such a lovely place
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Welcome to HNet. It's a shame you don't have the old battery - it would've made things easier. I'd agree with Brian's advice, but if you have no luck at the jewelry store I found this site that offers two Unisonic compatible batteries for $3.99 each, although there's no guarantee either would fit your fiancé's watch (the site is slow to load for me). It may seem like overkill but these watches seem to be freely available on Ebay for between $10 and $30 - most are $15-$20 and some even come with new batteries. Click here to see what's currently available (NB. this is a link to a search, not a specific item, so results will change).
In case it jogs anyone's memory for the battery type, I've included a picture of the watch below. It seems to have been available with two different fascias (see inset), but was otherwise the same product. If we could get a part # I'm sure it won't be too hard to find a battery.
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Looks to me like someone on the crew, or perhaps a few of them, couldn't spell. I've heard there is another misspelling to be found, I believe in one armed bandits.
The well known one in 'One Armed Bandits' is the banner at the end where they spell Rosco as "Roscoe":
In the close-ups there is a balloon in the way so you can't see the mistake:
You may be right about bad spellers on the crew. If you check out The Patrol Cars in Pictures thread you'll see that US Marshal was often spelled "US Marshall". Also, in the Bad Spell of Jesse! thread you'll see that Jesse's name was spelled "Jessie" at least twice.
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'69 charger? Hoss the soundstage Lee was actually a '68 charger. You can see the point in the middle of the dash in some shots, indicating that it's a '68.
I didn't know that the soundstage car was a '68 - be fair, there aren't a lot of '68 styling cues in the image I had to work with
.Here's a couple from 'Daisy's Song'. In the first picture Bo is in the Road Runner while Luke is driving Ms. Mabel's RV. Two patrols are seen racing towards their location, yet when Bo crashes through this gate the patrol cars are visible in the background. One is moving slightly, the other is completely stationary. The front of the blue Chevy Chevette is just visible above the windshield of the Road Runner - it is also stationary. Immediately after this the patrol cars are hot on their heels.
Towards the end of the episode Ms. Mabel and her girls arrive in their RV to distract the music pirates. When the RV enters the field it has a large hand-made banner on the side.
When it comes to rest, and for the remainder of the scene, the banner has been changed. It still seems to have the same misspelled message ("WELCOME SINDICATE PIRATS TO HAZZARD COUNTY"), but the writing is different. In the version below the lettering is heavier and more rounded. It looks like this later scene was filmed with artificial lighting (see reflection to the right of the RV's door), and may even have been a different day.
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The movie that Waylon is referring to is "A Night to Remember" from 1934, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It's the famous "Walls of Jericho" scene where Gable's character, Peter, must stay the night in the same room as the woman, Ellen, who's traveling with him. He strings a clothesline across the room, hangs a blanket over it and tells her not to worry because, unlike Joshua, he doesn't have a trumpet. (Of course later he mentions he's working on bringing down the 'Walls of Jericho' after he falls in love with the girl, lol)
Excellent find, but the title of the movie is actually It Happened One Night ("A Night to Remember" was a 1958 movie about the Titanic disaster). The whole movie is on YouTube - the scene we're talking about starts at about 23:17.
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I'm watching 'Hazzard Connection' & I just noticed that just after Luke drove the slammer car off the back of the transporter (right near the end of the episode) that it shows a close up of Luke in The General then cuts back to the red slammer car.
Cheers Brad
Well spotted Brad. The 'slammer' car is a red '61 Mercury:
The car Luke is driving in the close-ups is clearly an orange '69 Charger (sounds familiar
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It sure does look like Bubba's going to enjoy owning and driving his own General. Congratulations to him for winning The Masters in a great play-off. With an extra $1,440,000 in the bank he can now afford to get gauges working
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I'll probably be around. What time did you have in mind?.
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I've been watching 'The Masters' golf tournament for the last couple of days, so my mind was already on Georgia and unsurprisingly Dukes. Then tonight they've been showing a lot of Bubba Watson, so I went to Google to see what he's been up to since his recent purchase. I found the following video of Bubba showing NASCAR driver Carl Edwards around LEE 1 and even taking him for a spin:
I also found a slideshow of Bubba talking with golf commentator David Feherty that includes some pictures of LEE 1. There's meant to be a video of the interview that includes The General, but the website just gave an error when I clicked on the link. If it becomes available again I'll post a link.
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I was flicking through 'Coy vs. Vance' the other day when I remembered to do some screengrabs of the Baxley Sisters' van. Here's my version of the sign on the side. It looks like the motorbikes were done by the same person who did them on the Carnival of Thrills poster - they're similar, but not the same (that would make things too easy
). The color choices seems a bit strange; blue and green used to be a frowned upon combination and the red and blue stripes are much darker than the red and blue in the logo.
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John is going to be turning 52 on Easter Day. I guess this means we won't be going to the Boar's Nest to celebrate this year since it will be closed.
He can always pop over to the Irish Boar's Nest. Pubs here are shut tomorrow (Good Friday), but it's the only day other than Christmas day that they shut. Most will open as usual on Sunday.
Happy Birthday for Sunday, John.
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Well, it's definitely not E)
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Well done Val. I hope you get a chance to drop by again soon.
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Take a look at Diane's butt, is it just me or is that a mic box clipped onto her jeans?
After watching the clip on YouTube I went back to my DVDs for a better quality look. The DVDs also help to give context in a longer version of the scene. Watch carefully just after Diane kisses Bo before the race - she reaches to her back pocket to pull the object out. She does this because the object is the gun used to start the race:
The other reason I'm sure it's not a mic is that the boom mic they used is visible in the center at the bottom of the screen. You can see it moving from side to side depending on who's talking.
If anyone else has a suspected blooper involving female guest stars butts, let me know
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Anyone want to paint the patrol cars Pink? Purple? Anyone?
Been there, done that
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Roger spotted it last week. I posted a couple of pictures of the car in this thread.
The Official Dukes of Hazzard Trivia Thread
in Dukes of Hazzard Trivia
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I agree with BL - CJ Holmes presented "Dixie" to Daisy at the end of the episode (although it mysteriously appeared two episodes earlier in 'Arrest Jesse Duke').