Carnival of Thrills Part 2

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Season 3, Episode 2
Original Air Date: 16 September 1980
Directed by: Dick Moder
Written by: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

After the fight which ended part 1, Bo makes his move to the fairgrounds more permanent. Boss finds out that the Dukes never paid the impound fee when they rescued the General from the crusher, and has Bo and Luke arrested. Diane's assistant, Carl, is sent to bail out Bo, but Luke has to wait until Jesse and Daisy raise his bail money.

Instead of taking Luke home, Jesse says that they're going patch things up with Bo. At the fairgrounds, Jesse gets Bo and Luke to apologize to each other and shake hands, but they leave when Bo says he's still going to make the jump. On the way back, the Dukes are followed by an insurance investigator who tells them about a string of unexplained accidents at the show which he thinks could be attempted murder.

Back at the fairgrounds, Bo pulls up before a practice jump claiming that the General's not performing right. Carl says that he's in over his head and not up to making the jump. Meanwhile, Luke, Daisy and Jesse visit Bob Dexter, the driver who crashed at the last show, in his hospital bed. He claims that his car was fine, but suddenly lost power at the last second. The trio then find his crashed car, and discover that the fuel line had been cut.

Resigned to Bo making the jump, Cooter tunes the General. As Bo and Diane go to relax before the show, Carl appears and cuts the General's fuel line. Unable to warn Bo about what they've found, the rest of the Dukes and the insurance investigator race to the fairgrounds. They arrive just in time, and tell Bo everything. He still refuses to believe he's been used. Diane admits that originally she just wanted someone to draw the local crowd, but now realizes that she feels more for Bo. Opening the General's hood to show Bo the cut fuel line, they work out that Carl, the former star of show and boyfriend of Diane, must've been behind the accidents. Carl tries to escape, but he's caught by Luke and arrested.

Thinking that the jump's been cancelled, Boss tells the crowd they'll all get refunds, thus meaning that Diane can't pay his fee. Realizing that Diane stands to lose her show, Bo tells the crowd to hang on. Cooter fixes the fuel line and Luke gets into the passenger seat to make the jump with Bo. Afterwards, Bo says goodbye to Diane, and moves back home.

Trivia

• Greg Finley, the proprietor of the Cedar City Garage, returned as Ben in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke.

Bloopers

Nudge bar breaks off

• When Bo and Luke make the Leap for Life, the shot from the rear shows the General heading down nose first, but the shot from the front shows it landing flat.
• As the General hits the ground, the nudge bar breaks off.

Quotes

When Bo hugs Diane and promises to make the jump despite what she's done to him:
Daisy: "Uncle Jesse, ain't that beautiful?"
Jesse: "Yeah, it's stupid, but it's beautiful."

As Bo bids farewell to Diane:
Balladeer: "And Bo grew up a little. And like all growing, it wasn't without pain."

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

• Robin Mattson as Diane Benson
• Vernon Weddle as John Zimbra
• Don Stroud as Carl
• Richard Jensen as Bob Dexter
• Greg Finley as Proprietor

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  Robin Mattson as Diane Benson
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  Vernon Weddle as John Zimbra
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  Don Stroud as Carl

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  Richard Jensen as Bob Dexter
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  Greg Finley (right) as Proprietor
  (with John Zimbra)

Crew

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Produced by: Myles Wilder and Ralph Riskin
• Co-Produced by: William Kelley (as Bill Kelley)
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Executive Story Consultants: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
• Story Editor: Bruce Howard
• Associate Producer: Skip Ward
• 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: John H. Burrows (as John Burrows)
• First Assistant Director: Kelly A. Manners
• 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)
• Edited by: Howard Epstein and Robert M. Ross
• Music Editor: Jay Alfred Smith
• Supervising Sound Editor: Ed Scheid
• Sound Editors: Richard Taylor, Jerry Jacobson and Alex Bamattre
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Rochelle Moser
• Property: Beverly Hadley
• Special Effects: Michael Wood
• Makeup: Ray Brooks
• Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
• Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
• Women's Costume Supervisor: Darlene Engle (as Darleen Engle)
• Casting: Vivian McRae and Melissa Skoff
• Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
• Location Facilities Provided by: The Burbank Studios
• A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television

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