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Robert ALDA (Played C. J. Holmes in 'The Runaway') Played by Pete Munro, who also appeared as Willie, one of "Snake" Harmon's gang in 'Jude Emery'.

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HiXX (Bad guy played by Robert Gray in 'Sittin' Dukes')

Gherkins (It's what we call pickled cucumbers, aka pickles in the US)

The link no longer seems to work, and googling only gave me one result, which is a review from 2006 (scroll to the green-backed section of text about 3/4 of the way down the page). To summarize the review, Doug Thron, a photographer/real estate agent, made an hour-long low-budget film called 'The Making of an Awesome General Lee', which showed a standard '69 Charger being transformed into a General Lee replica. Thron hired local actress (and zombie extra) Theresa Ireland to host the video, but then employed Californian bikini model Cindy Pucci for extra scenes including washing the newly created General Lee. 'Waxing the General Lee' was a re-edited version of the video with the car transformation part condensed and the car wash scenes with the model in the skimpy bikini expanded. Between selling around 2,000 DVDs at $10-$20 each and selling the General Lee replica, Thron apparently made quite a good return on his investment.

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VERN Cook (Ultralight flyer) It was 'Trouble at Cooter's'.

The famous OSBORNE diamond necklace (From 'Targets: Daisy and Lulu')

Good job it wasn't a Lotus: Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious

I took these screengrabs from the first three episodes of season 1. It wasn't easy because the cars keep swapping between a '75 Monaco, a '70 Polara and a '75 Gran Fury mid-chase! As you can see, there were no fender decals on the '75 Monaco (or the other Georgia patrol cars). The side stripes appear to have been cut to accommodate the door decals, and the stripe on the back doors doesn't line up with the front doors or fenders. Finally, there is a "SHERIFF" decal between the rear lights. When I did my FanArt patrol cars, I used the font Compacta Bd stretched a bit to replicate the "HAZZARD COUNTY" and "SHERIFF" decals, but you may have a better match. I think mine were based on the later decals. I custom drew the "COUNTY SHERIFF" text in the badge. Obviously the decal positioning you use depends on whether you want to copy the '75 Monaco in the early episodes or go for the more generic look of the later episodes.

It's looking good, but I think the "SHERIFF" decals use a more condensed font. I'll see if I can get a good screengrab to check my hunch.

Here's the video, Roger. It looks like she's driving a '79 or '80 Trans Am which could also do with some new paint.

TimDuke beat you to that conclusion by 14 years!

Sheriff LITTLE

I thought I'd give Olivia Newton-John some space, but we also lost prolific songwriter Lamont Dozier on Monday at the age of 81. If the name's not familiar, he was part of the very successful Holland–Dozier–Holland Motown songwriting team who wrote hits for artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Isley Brothers. Here's an early hit from Martha and the Vandellas - Heatwave:

Skipper's already started a thread about the sad passing of Olivia Newton-John, so here's Xanadu from 1980:

Very sad news. Olivia Newton-John was originally diagnosed with breast cancer 30 years ago, and has been a long-time advocate for breast cancer research. FYI. All the sources I've seen said she was 73 years old.

I've just read the sad news that Roger E. Mosley, best known for playing Theodore "T.C." Calvin in 'Magnum P.I.', has died following a car crash in Los Angeles last week. He was 83. T.C. was Thomas Magnum's helicopter flying buddy from their time in Vietnam. From the article I read, Gerald McRaney was previously considered for the part of T.C. He was also once considered for the part of Luke Duke, but his only appearance in Dukes was as a workman in 'Hazzard Connection'. McRaney finally went on to take lead roles in 'Simon & Simon' and 'Major Dad'.

HAZZARD HOMECOMING

Today I got to spend my first day this year at the seaside. We found a quiet beach about an hour away and had blue skies all day. I even got into the sea three times!

3 on the tree

I've got no problem hearing about two-wheel action. Maybe you'll convert me as I get older!

BERTHA Jo BARLOW (From the 'Reunion' movie)

On <--- This is my word. I think you're getting mixed up somewhere along the way, Hobie. "Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink." is from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', but it's a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe' is the name of a novel by George Eliot (aka. Mary Ann Evans).

Even the YANKEES tried to avoid it. (Waylon's comment on Hazzard in 'Along Came a Duke')