Treasure of Hazzard

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Season 2, Episode 16
Original Air Date: 25 January 1980
Directed by: Hollingsworth Morse
Written by: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Jeannie Wilson as Laura Bardsley

Laura Bardsley, a professor at the State University, comes to Hazzard looking for a buried regimental payroll dating back to the eve of the Battle of Hazzard in 1862. Dr. James Fenwick and Stacy Williams have also seen the letter about the payroll, and try to stop Laura by sawing through the supports on a bridge. Unfortunately, Bo and Luke get to the bridge first.

Laura goes to ask for help from Boss Hogg, who's furious when his new sheriff, Lester Crabb, suggests asking the Dukes. Out at the farm, Jesse digs out the old Duke family Bible to see if they can identify the old marker locations. The bible has "all the birthings and dyings in it since Caleb Duke came west in the middle 1700s." Finding one of the markers requires a trip into some swampland, and a meeting with the eccentric Jeb McCobb and his scantily-clad twin granddaughters. On the way to see Jeb, Laura falls in the water (where "the last census showed that alligators outnumbered people about 1,000-to-1"), and Bo has to wrestle an alligator to save her.

A visit to Colonial City for the last marker point sees the Dukes and Laura face to face with Fenwick and Williams. Knowing that Boss is after the treasure, the Dukes make a fake map with the Boar's Nest named as the location. As soon as they get the map, Boss and Lester immediately attack the floor with axes.

Meanwhile, Laura and the Dukes find the Yankee strongbox, but have it stolen by Fenwick and Williams. They give chase in the General, and then in a boat into the swamp, even stopping to rescue the twins, who've been knocked onto the water by the fleeing felons. Everyone meets up back on land, and Fenwick and Williams try to steal Dixie, but Bo and Luke reach for their dynamite arrows and bring their flight to a halt.

After realizing they've been duped, Boss and Lester arrive just as the fighting's over. Boss agrees to a deal where he gets the money and Laura gets everything else in the box. He ends up with a bundle of worthless Confederate money while Laura gets the real treasure in the box: the original orders to bury the Confederate payroll bearing the signature of President Abraham Lincoln.

Trivia

• This isn't the first time that Clifton James has played a sheriff: he appeared as Sheriff J.W. Pepper in two James Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
• Rosco's absence is explained when Boss tells Enos that he "has merely gone to study at the Police Academy downstate until such time as he is fully trained."
• Doris Dowling (Stacy Williams) returned in season 7 when she played Jeremiah Duke's wife Jenny in Go West, Young Dukes.
• Jeannie Wilson (Laura Bardsley) was seen previously as blonde Mary Kaye Porter in the first season episode Mary Kaye's Baby.
• The Acker twins were fourth runners-up in the first national Miss Twins USA Pageant in 1972.
• Walter Barnes (Jeb McCobb) played Tank Murdock in the 1978 Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way But Loose.

Quotes

• After Enos collides with Cooter:
  Balladeer: "Y'all ever hear of Murphy's Law? Well, in Hazzard we've got Enos' Law. If anything can go wrong, he'll be right smack-dab in the middle of it."

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
• Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg
• Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer (voice)

Guest Cast

• Jeannie Wilson as Laura Bardsley
• Doris Dowling as Stacy Williams
• Whit Bissell as Dr. James Fenwick
• Walter Barnes as Jeb McCobb
• Cindy Acker as Sam McCobb
• Sandy Acker as Gerry McCobb
• Duke Robbins as Zack
• Clifton James as Sheriff Lester Crabb

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  Doris Dowling as Stacy Williams
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  Whit Bissell as Dr. James Fenwick
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  Walter Barnes as Jeb McCobb

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  Cindy and Sandy Acker as
  Sam and Gerry McCobb (with Bo)
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  Duke Robbins as Zack
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  Clifton James as Sheriff Lester Crabb

Crew

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Co-Produced by: Gy Waldron and Ralph Riskin
• 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: James Martin Bachman (as James-Martin Bachman)
• 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)
• Film Editor: ASA Boyd Clark, A.C.E.
• Music Editor: Abby Marable
• Sound Editors: Ed Scheid and Vincent Connelly (as Vince Connelley)
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Rochelle Moser
• Property: Daniel Stoltenberg (as Dan Stoltenberg)
• Special Effects: Michael Wood
• Makeup: Ray Brooks
• Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
• Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
• Women's Costume Supervisor: Darlene Engle
• Casting: Vivian McRae
• 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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