Happy Birthday, General Lee
Season 7, Episode 1
Original Air Date: 21 September 1984
Directed by: Tom Wopat
Written by: Si Rose
Created by: Gy Waldron
Plot Summary
It's the General Lee's birthday and the Dukes and Cooter reminisce about how the General Lee came to be.
Commentary
Trivia
- This is the first of two episodes in the last season which involve flashbacks (the other being Go West, Young Dukes). This time they only go back a few years, but all the main charaters have their appearances tweaked to make them look younger.
- It's revealed in this episode that the General Lee is orange because that's the only color paint that Cooter had in stock.
- This is the last of three appearances by Sam Melville (Rick). He was previously Snake in Jude Emery and Dunkirk in The Great Hazzard Hijack.
- Troy Melton (Sheriff Snead) also appeared as the driver in Gold Fever.
Bloopers
- The Charger collected from the junkyard has quite different damage to the one that crashed. It also goes from a shiny to a matt finish.
- When the robbers visit the junkyard, the owner describes their car as a "black '68 coupe". Although the car that's towed away appears to have a '68 front fender, General Lee is always supposed to be a '69 Charger.
- The lightbar on Sheriff Snead's patrol car swaps position between shots when he's pursuing the black Charger. Sometimes the blue light is above the driver, and other times it's the red one.
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
- Janie Fricke as Ginny
- Sam Melville as Rick
- Wayne Morton as The Customer
- Troy Melton as Sheriff Snead
- Will Hare as The Yard Manager
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Janie Fricke as Ginny
and Sam Melville as Rick -
Wayne Morton as The Customer
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Troy Melton as Sheriff Snead -
Will Hare as The Yard Manager
Crew
- Senior Producer: Myles Wilder
- Produced by: Ralph Riskin and Skip Ward
- Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
- Executive Story Supervisor: Si Rose
- Executive Story Editors: Leonard B. Kaufman (as Len Kaufman) and Martin Roth
- Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
- Associate Producers: Ronald R. Grow (as Ron Grow) and Russell Livingstone
- Director of Photography: Robert F. Sparks (as Robert Sparks)
- Art Director: Al Rohm
- Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
- Music by: Earle Hagen
- Unit Production Manager: Ronald R. Grow (as Ron Grow)
- First Assistant Director: Peter Gries
- Second Assistant Director: Anthony Mason (as Tony Mason)
- Second Unit Director: Gary Baxley
- Second Unit Director of Photography: John Elsenbach
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Venita Ozols-Graham (as Venita Ozols)
- Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
- Editor: Howard Epstein
- Music Editor: Eugene Marks
- Sound Editor: Ron Tinsley
- Sound: Victor Goode
- Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
- Property: Beverly Hadley
- Special Effects: Larry L. Fuentes (as Larry Fuentes)
- Makeup: Don Marando
- Hair Stylist: Judy Crown
- Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
- Women's Costume Supervisor: Hope Slepak (as Bonnie Hope Slepak)
- "Flash" Owned and Trained by: Alvin Mears
- Casting: Melissa Skoff
- Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
- Some Automobiles Supplied by: AMC
- A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television
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