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Well, according to IMCDb again, the white dirt bike that Miz Tisdale rides in 'Double Dukes' was a 1981 Yamaha IT 175 I. You can see my original reply (with pictures) here. Incidentally, it's noted in several episodes of CHiPs that because Kawasaki supplied the police motorcycles, the bad guys often rode Hondas.

You're correct, it is a Bonanza reference. Hoss seemed like a good screen name for HNet as a couple of incidental characters get referred to by that name (see below). I can't remember why I couldn't just choose plain "Hoss" (with no "C") - maybe it was too short - but for whatever reason, I added the "C" as a nod the best known Hoss on TV .

Welcome to HNet, Skipper. I approved your posts last night but forgot to say "hi".

Welcome to HNet, Burl. We hope you stick around no that you've finally made it here!

I don't know about motorcycles, but IMCDb says it's a 1969 Moto Guzzi V 7 Ambassador.

I'm not sure I can get to that part without actually creating a new account. As for bypassing that step, I certainly don't have the ability to do that - I can only moderate new posts. Maybe this is a job for MM after all.

There are definitely more credits on his page now (the link still works), although the last three are 2019/2020/2021, so wouldn't have been there when I originally posted. Here's the link: JebStuartProductions.com. You only needed to click the "Link" button and you could've posted it yourself, Roger.

You'll find that location here in my Hazzard Square thread, along with most of the other California filming locations. I'll agree with you on the pickup. You hardly ever see this type of truck in Europe.

Agreed. It's a lot of work if only one or two people are playing along.

It sounds more like something from Duck Dynasty .

Will you be posting new questions, Roger?

Thanks, Roger, but there was already a lot of content here when I joined thanks to people like you. Of course, none of us would be here if it weren't for MM starting and running the site!

It's so long ago that I signed up (I missed my 10th anniversary last month!) that I can't remember the process. I can look into it tomorrow if MM doesn't reply in the meantime. I know you couldn't use Hotmail addresses when I joined, but not many of us still have them.

After the Grand Prix finished, I switched over to catch the end of the British Touring Cars. One of the support races was the Mini Miglias and Mini Se7ens (different classes using the original Mini). In the Se7ens class, a driver called Jeff Smith was driving the 01 car which he's painted orange and put a Union Jack on the roof. The commentators even referred to him driving the General Lee, and as the cars came into the pits at the the end of the race, a Dixie horn could be heard in the background!

Dukes got a name check in the F1 commentary today. Towards the end of the race, I think it was when Lewis Hamilton passed Charles Leclerc, they said that he could now set off "in hot pursuit of Valtteri Bottas [his team mate] as they used to say on the Dukes of Hazzard". I may be paraphrasing slightly, but that was the gist of it.

Brilliant list, Roger. I had a small handful of those in mind when I wrote my post, but didn't expect there to be so many. I also wondered about 'Danger on the Hazzard Express'. This now poses a new question to me: how many ideas for episodes came from the title? I can imagine the writers thinking up a good title and then constructing a story around it.

Great question, Roger, and one I've never thought about before. Movies often have working titles that get changed before they're released, but I have no idea if TV episodes are the same. I did notice that the titles generally got longer as the seasons progressed. Maybe Gy Waldron had the final say. How many other episode titles were plays on existing songs/movies/phrases? 'Cool Hands, Luke & Bo' was obviously a reworking of 'Cool Hand Luke' (and even featured Morgan Woodward from the original movie). 'Play It Again, Luke' was probably based on the misquotation of Ilsa's famous line from 'Casablanca', although Woody Allen made a 1972 movie called 'Play It Again, Sam'. When I checked a couple of other episode titles, they actually pre-date movies with similar names: 'Repo Men' came out five years before the Alex Cox directed 'Repo Man' (starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez), and 'Southern Comfurts' came out a year before the classic 'Southern Comfort' (although the drink had been around for over 100 years). Has anyone got any other suggestions?

The episode title is a play on the old song 'Shine on, Harvest Moon', which always makes me think of the Neil Young song below. By coincidence, it was played on the radio earlier in a comparison with a later version (Neil won). It's such a beautiful song, I had to listen to it again all the way through before posting.

The episode also contains the quote that I use for my signature. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓

Chocolate (now I want some ice cream!) I'm guessing it was 10p coins originally, although it may have cost more than one to play. We didn't get 20p coins until 1982, and one pound coins a year later.

My brother has had medical issues throughout his life, and had half been expecting to be told to stay at home and isolate. He never was, and has been working in a food store serving the public since lockdown started. Some of his colleagues are only just starting to return to work now. I hope all goes well for you next month, MM.

It was actually a slightly newer Plymouth Satellite, similar to Roadrunner that Daisy had in the Georgia episodes. You'll see another similar car in a few episodes' time when you get to Molly Hargrove's race car in 'Birds Gotta Fly'. Speaking of which, Andra Akers, who played Molly Hargrove, popped up in a Hart to Hart episode I saw last week. Yep, I missed that one, probably because he didn't get mentioned in the credits.

Arcade (the game came out in 1979, just like Dukes!)

Today, a friend and I found ourselves deep in the south of Ireland, so naturally we ate lunch at a restaurant named Hillbilly's. Apparently, the chain started with a single restaurant over 20 years ago, but this was my first time there. Their chicken is cooked with a secret recipe which "was discovered in a humble farmhouse kitchen deep in the heart of the American South". We enjoyed our chicken fillet burgers.

I'm glad to hear that your wife's home safely. Maybe the covid left her immune system down and open to something else.