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Here you go, Roger, this is the first episode:

As your Unofficial Companion will tell you, Cathy was actually away filming Circus of the Stars. This episode also contains the great Waylon line, "Friends, don't it make you kind of feel sorry for folks coming to Hazzard thinking it's just like any other place?"

I sat down to watch Dukes this evening, and it wasn't in the schedules. I wondered if it had been pulled, but the channel's Facebook page says they only had the rights to the first three seasons. I hope they get the other four, or at least repeat the first three.

I never realized that his suitcase had a name, Roger. Sorry, it just reminded me of this joke from 'Mary Poppins':

For a moment I thought you were quoting 'The Breakfast Club', but then I remembered that that's "You forgot ugly, lazy and disrespectful."

I hadn't even noticed that the passenger door was open, Roger! I eventually worked out that the chrome strip is an end-on view of the frame of the vent window.

F1 used to issue numbers to the teams rather than the drivers - two per team, with each team having two identical cars. Over the years, the numbers got smaller as the advertising space became more valuable. At one point it was pretty much only possible to tell the difference between team mates by their helmets. Then, it was decided to let drivers choose a permanent number to build a brand around (e.g. Lewis Hamilton has Team 44), and to increase the visibility of the numbers. The latest cars have a number on each side near the rear wing and another on the nose. Obviously, F1 cars don't have doors, so the numbers will never be as big as NASCAR. It'll still be strange seeing NASCAR with no large door numbers. Imagine the General with no numbers on the doors - it's just wrong!

automobile

Max Verstappen got his FIA Super Licence, which allowed him to compete in Grands Prix, when he was 17. He didn't get his road licence until he was 18, and even then he was too young to rent a hire car!

plane

Thanks for posting that, MM. For anyone who's interested, I think John's standing about here. The curve on the road as seen in the video is now wider than the one in the 2011 Google image that I linked to (and therefore the one seen in the show). John has started answering fans' questions about Dukes on his YouTube channel, although for some reason he seems to like filming them mainly in portrait mode and just after he's done a workout. So far he's talked about how long each episode took to film, what he thought of the reunion movies (and the 2005/2007 movies), and who drank real beer at the Boar's Nest. Back in November, he also answered what he consider to be the top 10 Dukes of Hazzard questions of all time. I doubt that it contains many surprises for the folks here on HazzardNet.

We've mentioned a couple of historically famous non-NASCAR drivers recently, so I thought I'd share a quote from another that I heard last night. Juan Manuel Fangio dominated the early years of F1, winning the World Drivers' Championship five times in the first decade. Here's his quote: "Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio."

Hoggominiums were mentioned when Boss wanted to build Hogg's Happy Hacienda on the site of Cooter's Garage in 'Hughie Hogg Strikes Again' in season 4.

dreams (If you build it, he will come)

I'm late to the party, but it's good to have you back, Garrett. Don't be a stranger

strawberry

Dew (Mountain Dew has never been a big brand over, but it is available at some stores, and I have a 500ml bottle in my fridge at the moment)

If you check your new 'The Dukes of Hazzard: The Unofficial Companion', you'll see that John was away filming the made-for-tv movie 'Dream House'. I seem to remember watching it a few years ago.

I've had it for many years, Roger, and it's currently about 2 feet from my computer. The episode guides will give you extra things to look out for when you do your Uncle Jesse's episode reviews. There's also some good info in the cast bios and other behind-the-scenes trivia.

The repeated chasing around the square before they knock the door off the truck is the scene as they're leaving Springville (aka. Hazzard Square redressed) in 'Deputy Dukes'. The guy in the truck doesn't speak, so he isn't credited. Here he is: The truck question is the same one that was driven by Swamp Molly a few episodes earlier. I don't remember the scene with guy jumping from the outhouse, but they could've used the same actor.

tan (I believe the General's interior was Saddle tan)

Sonny Shields was a pro boxer. If you watch the DukesVision commentary, John says, "That guy could've tied one arm behind his back and beat the c**p out of all of us." Tom recalls that Sonny spent a couple of days teaching him to box, and that he had a headache for two weeks after filming the fight.

Our next phase of easing of lockdown starts tomorrow. I was walking around the town this afternoon, and a lot of the high street stores look like they're ready to reopen. Unlike the UK, the same doesn't apply stores at indoor shopping malls which have to wait for now.

Billy

Sponge Bob