Gold Fever

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Season 2, Episode 2
Original Air Date: 28 September 1979
Directed by: Paul Baxley
Written by: Si Rose
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

After faking an accident with the Duke Boys, Texan millionaire H.H. Harkness and his associates wind up in Hazzard. While Cooter waits for the parts to repair his car, H.H. Harkness visits Boss Hogg to arrange secure storage of his valuable cargo in the bank vault.

Boss quickly agrees to the offer of $25,000 to store the cargo overnight, before discovering he's given a personal guarantee to safeguard $3,000,000 in gold.

When the gold goes missing, it's the Duke Boys who are Boss and Rosco's #1 suspects. To try to clear themselves, Bo and Luke follow the associates out of town and watch as they bury the gold. As soon as the coast is clear, they dig up the gold and find it's only lead.

Meanwhile, Uncle Jesse has a bad toothache, and an aversion to going to the dentist. Bo and Luke have to virtually drag him to visit the mobile dentist, Dr. Homer Willis.

Trivia

Daisy in the French maid's outfit

• Director Paul Baxley claims the credit for putting Daisy in the French maid's outfit to serve at the banquet.
• Bruce M. Fisher, who plays Buck, returns in Hazzard Hustle in the fifth season as Bull, Big Billie Tucker's right-hand head crusher.
• If the actor who plays Dr. Homer Willis looks pretty comfortable in that white lab coat, it might be because actor Adam Wade, before becoming a performer, was part of Dr. Jonas Salk's research team in the late 50s while he was developing the polio vaccine.

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

• Curtis Credel as H. H. Harkness
• Bruce M. Fischer as Buck
• Hunter Von Leer as Dusty
• Adam Wade as Doc Willis
• Troy Melton as The Driver

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 Producers: Skip Ward and Albert J. Salzer
• 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: Albert J. Salzer
• First Assistant Director: Kelly A. Manners
• Second Assistant Director: Jon Paré
• Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Arthur R. Botham (as Arthur Botham)
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Jack W. Cash (as Jack Cash)
• Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
• Film Editor: Albert P. Wilson, A.C.E.
• Music Editor: Jay Alfred Smith
• Sound Editors: Ed Scheid and Gary Vaughan (as Gary Vaughn)
• 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 (as Darleen 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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