Cooter's Girl

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Season 6, Episode 12
Original Air Date: 30 December 1983
Directed by: Don McDougall
Written by: Si Rose
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Cooter smartened up for Nancylou

While trying out a glider, Bo and Luke see a car run off the road. After they land, they go to help, and find that the young woman who was driving the car is looking for Cooter. She follows the boys to the Boar's Nest, but finds Cooter in the middle of a fight with two strangers. As the fight breaks up, she announces that she's Nancylou - Cooter's daughter. Upset that her father is still the wildman her mother told her about, Nancylou leaves. The Dukes chase her down and persuade her to give Cooter a second chance.

Cooter is back at the garage when he catches the same two strangers stealing gas, and gets into another fight just in time for Nancylou to arrive. One of the strangers drops his wallet, so Bo and Luke go after them to return it. During the hand-over, the strangers say that they're sheep farmers, but Luke doesn't believe them. They eventually find that the strangers are planning to use Hazzard as a dumping ground for toxic waste - something that even Boss won't profit from.

Trivia

• Cooter was briefly married to Nancylou's mother, Beverly Hibbs, but her parents had it annulled.
• The glider belongs to Darcey, which may be the same person who sold the crop-dusting business to Joe Ward in the previous episode.

Regular Cast

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

Guest Cast

• Kim Richards as Nancylou Nelson
• David Gale as Collins
• Jack Yates as Morgan

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  Kim Richards as Nancylou Nelson
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  David Gale as Collins
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  Jack Yates as Morgan

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 Editors: Leonard B. Kaufman (as Len Kaufman) and Martin Roth
• 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: Earle Hagen
• Unit Production Manager: Wes McAfee
• First Assistant Director: Kelly A. Manners
• Second Assistant Director: Robert D. Nellans
• Second Unit Director: Gary Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Dick Hutchings
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: R. Anthony Brown (as Tony Brown)
• Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
• Editor: Craig Hibbs
• Music Editor: Eugene Marks
• Sound Editor: Corinne Sesserago
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
• Property: Beverly Hadley
• Special Effects: Larry L. Fuentes (as Larry Fuentes)
• Makeup: Paul Stanhope Jr. (as Paul Stanhope)
• Hair Stylist: Renate Leuschner (as Renata Leuchner)
• Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
• Women's Costume Supervisor: Violet N. Cane (as Violet Cane)
• "Flash" Owned and Trained by: Alvin Mears
• Casting: Melissa Skoff
• Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
• Some Automobiles Supplied by: AMC
• A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television

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