Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane

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Season 3, Episode 9
Original Air Date: 12 December 1980
Directed by: Jack Whitman
Written by: Si Rose
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Rosco's wedding

Romance is in the air when Rosco's lady friend, Sue Ann, comes to town, and he doesn't take much convincing to agree to marriage. His mama thinks that at 48, he's still too young to get married. Boss is also against the idea, until he comes up with a plan to have his bank robbed while everyone is at the wedding, claim the insurance money, and blame the Dukes, who aren't invited. What Boss doesn't know is that Sue Ann is part of a scam, and that her two accomplices, who ran the General off the road, also plan to rob the bank during the wedding.

Trivia

• Rosco's middle name is Pervis.
• Rosco meets Sue Ann through the Dixie Computer Dating and Marriage Service.

Bloopers

• The sign on Rosco's office door spells his name "Roscoe" when he first meets Sue Ann, but it's spelled "Rosco" when Mama Coltrane visits.
• Collins and McGraw spend the first half of the episode driving a black 1969 Ford, but the one that they roll down the hill appears to be a 1967 Ford with stacked headlights.
• Cooter fixes the bodywork on the General in record time, and the car looks perfect when Bo and Luke return to the farm to tell Uncle Jesse what's going on, but in the next scene when they go to town and speak to Cletus, there's heavy damage visible, especially on the front fender. There's even more damage to the front end when Collins and McGraw sabotage the brakes while Bo and Luke are in Rosco's office, but it's back to the original heavy damage when they come out.
• The advert for the Dixie Computer Dating and Marriage Service has no address or box number to write to.

Quotes

• When Rosco is trying to explain how he met Sue Ann:
  Mama Coltrane: "You mean you got a girl out of a machine?"

• When Boss sees Rosco's wedding outfit:
  Boss: "Next time I catch you dressed all in white you'd better be wearing wings and strumming a harp!"

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

• Lucille Benson as Mama Coltrane
• Peggy Rea as Lulu
• Tori Lysdahl as Sue Ann Bliss/McGraw
• William Sanderson as Russ Collins
• Reid Smith as Vic McGraw

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  Lucille Benson as Mama Coltrane
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  Peggy Rea as Lulu
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  Tori Lysdahl as Sue Ann Bliss/McGraw

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  William Sanderson as Russ Collins
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  Reid Smith as Vic McGraw

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 Editors: Leonard B. Kaufman (as Len Kaufman) and Martin Roth
• Story Editor: Bruce Howard
• Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
• Associate Producer: Skip Ward
• Director of Photography: Robert Hoffman
• Art Director: Robert I. Jillson (as Bob Jillson)
• Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
• Music by: Fred Werner
• Unit Production Manager: John H. Burrows (as John Burrows)
• 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: Jamie Caylor
• Music Editor: Abby Marable
• Sound Editor: Sid Lubow
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
• Property: Beverly Hadley
• Special Effects: Michael Wood
• Makeup: Ray Brooks
• Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
• Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
• Women's Costume Supervisor: Linda Hickman
• Casting: Vivian McRae and 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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