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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.

Let us know when you get news, Roger. I spoke to my brother last night, and he tells me that my aunt and uncle's condition is improving.

The second part has this great quote from Rosco when Cletus asks him to repeat the location: "Moose Creek, you dipstick. 'M' as in 'moose', 'O' as in 'moose', 'O' as in 'moose', 'S' as in 'moose', 'E' as in 'moose'." In the mid-90s, Alan Autry, who appeared in these episodes as Dawson (and credited as Carlos Brown), featured in season 3 and 4 of Grace Under Fire with Peggy Rea.

Apparently, "Besides being voluntary firemen, they're deputy sheriff reserves." It's funny how we never see them again. Bib Tucker only gets a second mention because he owes the Dukes money, and Homer Sneed disappears without trace.

I thought Homer Griggs would be the hardest to get. The other two Homers that I have are Dr. Homer Willis (the dentist in the RV) in 'Gold Fever' and Homer Hotchkiss who worked in the land office in 'Duke of Duke'. BTW. The other firefighter was Bib Tucker (who gets mentioned again in 'New Deputy in Town' later in season 4). Bib Tarkey is a character who gets mentioned in two season 6 episodes - 'Boss Behind Bars' and 'Enos's Last Chance'. It's possible that he was meant to be the same person, but the writers got his name wrong.

I'm marking another death in the music industry today. Peter Green, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, has passed away in his sleep at 73. No further details have been given. From his era with the band, the haunting instrumental 'Albatross'.

I know I've been posted about guest stars from Dukes appearing in other shows in The Last 24 Hours thread, but I've just watched the CHiPs season 6 episode 'Speedway Fever' and spotted Daniel Currie as a CHP captain. It was one of only seven credited acting roles for Daniel, with another being as Homer, one of the fire fighters in 'The Great Bank Robbery'. The same episode also features a second CHiPs appearance for Katherine (Kitty) Moffat who was Trixie the genie in 'When You Wish Upon a Hogg'. As an aside, I think there were three other characters named Homer across the seven seasons. How many can you remember?

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My uncle tested positive for covid-19 earlier this week, although my aunt was negative. Apparently, they've been pretty careful, but did meet up with my cousin's family recently.

One of yesterday's episodes of Hart to Hart finally had another Dukes guest star - Robert Tessier who was Mitch Henderson in 'The Runaway'. The reason I quoted my previous post about it being funny is that the same episode featured another familiar face (to me) - Joseph Stern. When I looked him up, I realized that I knew him from a guest spot in M*A*S*H. As luck would have, out of all 251 episodes of M*A*S*H, his episode was on tonight! ETA. I'm just watching the next episode of M*A*S*H and it has another Dukes guest cast member from season 2 - William Watson who was Simon in 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough'.

I just wanted to go briefly off topic to mention former F1 and Champ/CART driver Alex Zanardi. It looks like the only other time I posted about him was in 2012. As a quick recap, Alex's open-wheeled racing career was cut short when he lost both legs in a Champ car race in 2001. Although he later spent four years driving touring cars in Germany, it was as a paralympic athlete where he really made a name for himself, winning four gold medals at hand-cycling. Last month he suffered serious head injuries when he collided with a truck while racing his handbike in Italy. Today I read that, after three operations, he's been brought out of his medically induced coma so that he can be transferred to a recovery facility. There's obviously a long way to go, but at least this seems like positive news.

It's funny how this guest stars thing goes. I watched another two episodes of Hart to Hart today and didn't spot anyone from Dukes. I didn't recognize any of the guest stars in the first episode ('Murder Between Friends'). The second, 'Cop Out', featured Burr DeBenning who was in a couple of episodes of CHiPs and The Fall Guy. It also had an early appearance of Markie Post who went on to be Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy. The Terri Michaels character basically took over from Samantha 'Big Jack' Jack who was played by Jo Ann Pflug (Helen Hogan in 'Route 7-11') - that's the closest I could get to a Dukes connection!