The Law and Jesse Duke

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Season 4, Episode 26
Original Air Date: 26 March 1982
Directed by: James Sheldon
Written by: Bruce Howard
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Flash on strike

Rosco and Cletus read about the lawmen in Chickasaw getting better pay and conditions after a strike, but when they threaten to withdraw their labor, Boss fires them. With no one to enforce the law in Hazzard, Boss employs Alabama Jones and her brothers to steal electrical goods and frame Bo and Luke for the robberies. Things get more complicated for the boys when Jesse is elected temporary Sheriff at an emergency town meeting,

Trivia

• Doug Heyes, Jr. (Floyd) also appeared in an episode of Dukes spin-off Enos, although he's better known as a writer.
• Melinda Naud (Alabama Jones) dated John Schneider between 1979 and 1983.

Quotes

• As Boss visits the Jones family:
  Waylon: "I tell you, being an entrepreneur is a heavy responsibility. Learning that word wasn't too easy either."

Regular Cast

• Tom Wopat as Luke Duke
• John Schneider as Bo Duke
• Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
• Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse
• Rick Hurst as Cletus
• Ben Jones as Cooter
• James Best as Sheriff Rosco Coltrane
• Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg
• Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer (voice)

Guest Cast

• Melinda Naud as Alabama Jones
• Ralph Strait as Otis Plunkett
• Charles Hoyes as Simon
• Doug Heyes, Jr. as Floyd

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  Melinda Naud as Alabama Jones
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  Ralph Strait as Otis Plunkett
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  Charles Hoyes as Simon and
  Doug Heyes, Jr. as Floyd

Crew

• Supervising Producer: Robert L. Jacks (as Robert Jacks)
• Produced by: Myles Wilder and Ralph Riskin
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Executive Story Consultants: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
• Executive Story Editor: Martin Roth
• Executive Story Supervisor: Si Rose
• Executive Script Consultant: Bruce Howard
• Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
• Associate Producers: Skip Ward and Gilles de Turenne (as Gilles A. de Turenne)
• 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: Gilles de Turenne (as Gilles A. de Turenne)
• First Assistant Director: Kelly A. Manners
• Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Batchelor
• Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Dick Hutchings
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Jon Paré
• Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
• Editor: Howard Epstein
• Music Editor: Abby Marable
• Sound Editor: Corinne Sesserago
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Travis Nixon
• Property: Beverly Hadley
• Special Effects: Steve Purcell
• Makeup: Ray Sebastian
• Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
• Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
• Women's Costume Supervisor: Linda Hickman
• 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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