The Return of the Mean Green Machine
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Season 5, Episode 14
Original Air Date: 7 January 1983
Directed by: Paul Baxley
Written by: Martin Roth
Created by: Gy Waldron
Plot Summary
Boss is planning to reactivate the Mean Green Machine to rob $1 million of gold coins from a display in a store next to his bank. Before he gets his chance, the Mean Green Machine is stolen by Hatfield, one of the guys who sold it to Boss in the first place. Hatfield has escaped from jail with an accomplice, and also has his eye on the gold coins, but his plans suffer a setback when Vance's dynamite arrows damage the Mean Green Machine and require them to kidnap Cooter to fix it.
Commentary
In a departure from the norm, Jesse gets involved in a fist fight alongside Cooter.
Trivia
- Mitch Carter reprises his role as Hatfield from The New Dukes.
- The Mean Green Machine has received a few modifications since its first appearance, most notably the addition of a powerful magnet.
- The footage of the outhouse blowing up (when Boss shoots it with a bazooka) is recycled from Swamp Molly.
Bloopers
- Obvious stunt double used for Jesse during the fight at Cooter's.
- The Mean Green Machine is shown passing the Post Office, Seth M. Berley's and the Hazzard Picture Palace, but it comes from the direction of the courthouse when it knocks over the hydrant end enters the store with the gold coins.
- The magnet on the Mean Green Machine seems to be very picky about what it attracts. It pulled off Enos' badge, gun and belt bucket, but didn't move the security guards' badges or anything else metallic near the gold coins.
Quotes
- The Balladeer remembers a "famous pithy Hazzard saying":
Waylon: "Don't ever worry about nothing ever turning out wrong, because it usually won't."
Regular Cast
- Byron Cherry as Coy Duke
- Christopher Mayer as Vance Duke
- Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
- Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse
- Sonny Shroyer as Enos
- Ben Jones as Cooter
- James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
- Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg
- Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer (voice)
Guest Cast
- Mitch Carter as Hatfield
- Joel Bailey as Baxter
- Nedra Volz as Miz Tisdale
- Holly Roberts as Bonnie
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Mitch Carter as Hatfield -
Joel Bailey as Baxter
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Nedra Volz as Miz Tisdale -
Holly Roberts as Bonnie
Crew
- Supervising Producer: Robert L. Jacks (as Robert Jacks)
- Produced by: Myles Wilder and Ralph Riskin
- Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
- Executive Story Consultant: Myles Wilder
- Executive Story Supervisor: Si Rose
- Executive Story Editor: Martin Roth
- Executive Script Consultant: Bruce Howard
- Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
- Associate Producers: Skip Ward and Wes McAfee
- Director of Photography: Arthur R. Botham (as Arthur Botham)
- Art Director: Al Rohm
- Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
- Music by: Fred Werner
- Unit Production Manager: Wes McAfee
- First Assistant Director: Jon Paré
- Second Assistant Director: Robert D. Nellans
- Second Unit Director: Gary Baxley
- Second Unit Director of Photography: Dick Hutchings
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Nicholas Batchelor
- Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
- Editor: Jamie Caylor, A.C.E.
- Music Editor: Abby Treloggen (as Abby M. Treloggen)
- Sound Editor: Ron Tinsley
- Sound: Victor Goode
- Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
- Property: Beverly Hadley
- Special Effects: John James
- Makeup: Don Marando
- Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
- Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
- Women's Costume Supervisor: Susanna Sandke
- "Flash" Owned and Trained by: Alvin Mears
- Casting: Melissa Skoff
- Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
- Some Automobiles Supplied by: AMC
- Location Facilities Provided by: The Burbank Studios
- A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television
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