High Octane

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Season 1, Episode 5
Original Air Date: 23 February 1979
Directed by: Don McDougall
Teleplay by: William Keys and William Kelley
Story by: William Keys
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

The Dukes "duded up" after their meeting

When the Federal Energy Commission holds a contest to find a substitute for fossil fuels with a $20,000 1st prize, Uncle Jesse decides to help out the country by making some shine. He and the boys also meet Roxanne Huntley (since she replaced Agent Andy Roach, who moved to Atlanta) during one of their quarterly check-ins with the ATF. After talking to Boss, who thinks he's got Jesse as a partner for the contest, the Dukes head up to one of their old still sites with Cooter. Roxanne catches them there after posing in disguise as a fishing woman. Jesse and Cooter dump the shine and the Dukes make a deal with her, telling her she can stay with them at the farm while she attempts to catch them with the shine.

Commentary

Despite Roxanne being an ATF agent, Luke must trust her. He takes her gun and puts it in his belt but after she wakes up he hands it back. Oddly enough this would be a trait that would get Luke into more trouble later in the series.

Brody, the Duke’s African American friend first seen in One Armed Bandits, is in this episode, but yet we never see him again. Such was the way with them folks in Hazzard sometimes…

What was up with Enos?!?!?! We never saw him so woman hungry before…or since!!

This was the last episode to be filmed in Georgia. Here we get one last scenic view at the town of Covington and the roads around it and a lot more “southern feeling” from this episode and the previous 4 than the next 140 that were filmed in California. It’s also the last time for Rosco’s fully staffed Sheriff’s department.

“This barn shot worked in ’33 let’s hope it works now!” Jesse exclaims as he and the boys are heading towards an old abandoned barn to shake Roxanne off their tail. And in 1979…it worked. :)

Trivia

Carlene Watkins as Roxanne Huntley

• As Roxanne Huntley finds the Duke Boys' file, she addresses them as "Lucas K. And Beauregard". Bo seems slightly embarrassed by the fuller version of his name.
• Only appearance of Uncle Jesse's old 'shine running car, Sweet Tillie. Uncle Jesse’s moonshine car is called Sweet Tillie in this one, but in the 2nd season opener, Days of Shine and Roses, the car is referred to as Black Tillie. The car is a 1971 Ford Custom 500.
• Rocky Laidler returns as Brodie. His first appearance in One Armed Bandits was uncredited.
• Boss and Rosco appear in camouflage in a scene. This would mark the first, but not the last time we would see them in some kind of disguise.

Bloopers

• At the end of the final chase, Roxanne Huntley's Ford Granada changes to a later model with rectangular headlights.
• The competition poster contains a couple of spelling mistakes: "Fuel" spelled as "Feul" in rule #2 and "Detonators" spelled as "Detinators" in rule #7.

Quotes

• When Roxanne Huntley sniffs the 'shine fumes and faints:
  Bo: "You think we ought to give her mouth-to-mouth recreation?"
  Luke: "You mean resuscitation."
  Bo: "Maybe, but I bet I'm a whole lot closer to the truth than you are."

• Rosco explains to Roxanne that he doesn’t trust the Dukes.
  Roxanne: "Oh come on, Rosco, they're just down-home country people. Andy Roach feels they can be trusted."
  Rosco: "Well, I’m a down home country person as much as a bowl of grits and I can’t be trusted!"

Regular Cast

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

Guest Cast

• Carlene Watkins as Roxanne Huntley
• Rocky Laidler (as Champ Laidler) as Brodie
• Ralph Pace as Ed Monroe
• Bob Hannah as Inventor

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  Rocky Laidler as Brodie
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  Ralph Pace as Ed Monroe
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  Bob Hannah (left) as Inventor

Crew

• Supervising Producer: Joseph Gantman
• Co-Produced by: Gy Waldron and William Kelley (as Bill Kelley)
• Executive Producers: Paul R. Picard and Philip Mandelker
• Associate Producer: Skip Ward
• Director of Photography: Robert C. Jessup (as Robert Jessup) A.S.C.
• Art Director: Charles L. Hughes (as Charles Hughes)
• Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
• Music Performed by: The Waylors
• Music Produced by: Richie Albright
• Unit Production Manager: Albert J. Salzer
• First Assistant Director: Bill Baker
• Second Assistant Director: Fred Wardell
• Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Allen Facemire (as Alan Facemire)
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Scott U. Adam (as Scott U. Adams)
• Film Editor: Albert P. Wilson, A.C.E.
• Music Editor: Abby Marable
• Sound Editors: Angel Editorial, Inc.
• Sound: Don Sanders
• Set Decorator: Joanne MacDougall
• Property: Ernie Sawyers
• Special Effects: Charles Spurgeon (as Charlie Spurgeon)
• Atlanta Casting: Stratton Leopold (as Stratton P. Leopold)
• Makeup: Guy Del Russo
• Hair Stylist: Irene Aparicio
• Wardrobe: Paula Lynn Kaatz (as Paula Kaatz)
• Additional Music by: Fred Werner
• Archery Equipment and Program Consideration Furnished by: Martin Archery
• Consultant: Fred Weintraub
• Casting: Linda Otto Associates
• Los Angeles Casting: Vivian McRae
• Location Facilities Provided by: The Burbank Studios
• Paul R. Picard Productions and Piggy Productions, Inc.
  in Association with Warner Bros Television Distribution

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