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Season 2, Episode 18
Original Air Date: 8 February 1980
Directed by: Arthur Marks
Written by: Jim Rogers
Created by: Gy Waldron

Plot Summary

Loretta Lynn

When Boss reads that Loretta Lynn is heading for the state fair, he sends out Rosco to detour her into Hazzard. Loretta is surprised when her arrival at the Boar's Nest is met with a fanfare welcome. While Cooter looks at an oil leak on her RV, Loretta gets ushered into the Boar's Nest for photographs. After a short stay, Loretta says her farewells and gets driven away, not knowing that her driver has been ambushed and she's being kidnapped. Inside the Boar's Nest, Boss is trying to sell off the glass used by Loretta when the real driver comes out and explains what's happened. With a flat tire on the General, and the patrol cars chained together, the pursuit is left to Bo and Luke in Daisy's Road Runner (back from the dead for this out-of-sequence episode).

The very polite kidnappers reassure Loretta that she's quite safe. They tell her that they have a singing group called The Pine Valley Rockers, and all they want for ransom is the $1,136.15 that a phony producer at Platter Records charged to make a demo.

To help people find her, Loretta leaves a trail of publicity photos. While everyone is looking for Loretta, her road manager escapes and finds Bo and Luke. They track the photos to the stockyard and try to get help from Rosco, although he still believes that the Dukes are behind the kidnapping. When the kidnappers realize they've been discovered, they break out of the barn in the RV, narrowly missing Bo and Luke. The boys give chase, and are briefly joined by Rosco and Enos. After taking out the car driven by kidnapper Cindy, Luke ties the General to the RV and he and Bo climb aboard. Once there, Bo hangs one of the kidnappers on a coat hook, and Luke holds up the other with a banana; both decide to give themselves up.

The kidnappers get let off with "a real tongue-lashing" from the state police when Loretta refuses to press charges. She also promises the help them make a record in Nashville. As a reward for being rescued, Loretta treats the Boar's Nest to a rendition of Y'all Come, accompanied by Bo, Luke and Cooter. Enos immortalizes the scene with a photograph, although Rosco stands a bit close to the flash.

Trivia

• The stockyard and barn buildings are still standing on the Disney Golden Oak ranch. When this episode was filmed, the Boar's Nest was only about 100 yards away!
• To soothe Luke's eye, Uncle Jesse uses Grandma Duke's famous recipe: boiled hickory leaves, a nice toad liver, and a scoop of bear grease.
• Henry Gibson (Squirt) was a regular performer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late-60s/early-70s and had roles in several TV shows and films including The Long Goodbye, Charlotte's Web (as the voice of Wilbur) and The Blues Brothers (as the Head Nazi).

Bloopers

• The chain attaching the patrol cars together is wrapped around Enos' front bumper in some shots and around the front axle in others.
• When Rosco is supposed to be caught on the tree by his gun belt, the long shot shows him swinging from a cable.
• When Rosco and Enos are following Uncle Jesse and Daisy, the missing front and rear panels on their patrol cars reappear in some shots.
• When Loretta Lynn's RV bursts out of the barn, Bo and Luke set off in pursuit. The General is parked on sandy gravel, but the close-up of the rear wheel accelerating shows it on grass.
• At the end of the final chase, the RV and General pull into a lay-by beside a paved road, but when Bubba makes a run for it, the vehicles are parked on a dirt track surrounded by grass.

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

• Henry Gibson as Squirt
• Dennis Burkley as Bubba
• Rebecca Reynolds as Cindy
• Janet Wells (as Janet Meshad) as Leona
• Hap Lawrence as The Driver
• Loretta Lynn as Herself

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  Henry Gibson as Squirt
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  Dennis Burkley as Bubba
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  Rebecca Reynolds as Cindy

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  Janet Wells as Leona
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  Hap Lawrence 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: Rafael Caro
• Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
• Music by: Fred Werner
• Unit Production Manager: Albert J. Salzer
• First Assistant Director: Kurt Baker
• Second Assistant Director: Jon Paré
• Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Bradley B. Six (as Brad Six)
• Second Unit First Assistant Director: Jack W. Cash (as Jack Cash)
• Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
• Film Editor: Martin J. Bram (as Marty Bram)
• Music Editor: Jay Alfred Smith
• Sound Editors: Ed Scheid and Alex Bamattre
• Sound: Victor Goode
• Set Decorator: Joanne MacDougall
• 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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