By-Line, Daisy Duke

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Season 3, Episode 18
Original Air Date: 20 February 1981
Directed by: Hollingsworth Morse
Written by: Martin Roth
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Daisy is trying to earn some extra money for a correspondence school's modeling course, so she's moonlighting as a reporter at the Hazzard Gazette. After failing to impress Mr. Amos with her stories of laryngitis and a five-yolk egg, he sends her to cover the recent spate of tractor thefts.

After a meeting about the tractor thefts at the Boar's Nest, the Dukes decide that Boss is probably behind the operation. Jesse suggests that Bo and Luke should hire themselves out to farms which hadn't had their tractors stolen, and it isn't long before they spot the truck which had run them off the road earlier. After a short pursuit in a borrowed pickup, they find the truck stopped on a hill, and tractor coming up from behind. They only just manage to jump free in time before the pickup is tipped down the hill. Back in town, Bo, Luke and Jesse try to report what's happened, but Boss tries to put the blame on them.

Boss decides to try and frame the Dukes, so he leaves the truck and one of the tractors at the Duke Farm, and gets one of the thieves to phone Jesse to give him a warning about it. Jesse tells Bo and Luke to move it, but they don't realize that Cletus is watching the farm. Another phony call about a new theft is then made to Rosco, knowing that Daisy will overhear and follow with her camera. Along with Mr. Amos, Daisy joins the chase, and, not knowing who's driving the truck, fires an arrow into its tire. She gets quite a surprise when she sees that the suspected tractor thieves are Bo and Luke.

At the Hazzard Gazette, Mr. Amos promises Daisy and Jesse that he won't publish the incriminating photos if they can prove Bo and Luke's innocence within eight hours. Luke then hatches a plan to flush out the thieves and get Daisy to photograph them with Boss.

Trivia

Dottie West

• Kevin Hagen (Farmer Perkins) played Dr. Hiram Baker in over 100 episodes of Little House on the Prairie.
• This episode is the first that Boss' Celebrity Speed Trap is mentioned by name in the dialogue. The latest victim is Dottie West. It's still free entry, with beer at $5, but in a twist on Boss' usual pricing, it's $10 to leave.

Bloopers

• When Bo and Luke come up behind the stopped truck, they're on the side of a hill, but the close-ups show flat ground behind their truck.

Quotes

• When Boss tries to accuse Bo and Luke of the tractor thefts:
  Jesse: "Why don't you go fry yourself a snowball?"

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

• Dottie West as Herself
• Richard Paul as Mr. Clyde Amos
• Michael Greene as Vic
• Alex Kubik as Corey
• Kevin Hagen as Farmer Perkins

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  Richard Paul as Mr. Clyde Amos
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  Michael Greene as Vic

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  Alex Kubik as Corey
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  Kevin Hagen as Farmer Perkins

Crew

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• 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
• Story Editor: Bruce Howard
• Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
• Associate Producers: Skip Ward and Gilles de Turenne (as Gilles A. de Turenne)
• Director of Photography: Jack Whitman
• Art Director: Robert I. Jillson (as Bob Jillson)
• 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: Kurt Baker
• Second Assistant Director: Nicholas Batchelor
• Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Arthur R. Botham (as Arthur Botham)
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Jon Paré
• Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
• Editor: Howard Epstein
• Music Editor: Abby Marable
• Sound Editor: Sid Lubow
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
• Property: Beverly Hadley
• Special Effects: John James
• Makeup: Ray Brooks
• 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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