Ding, Dong, the Boss is Dead
Season 5, Episode 15
Original Air Date: 21 January 1983
Directed by: Hollingsworth Morse
Written by: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Created by: Gy Waldron
Plot Summary
Twenty years ago, Floyd Calloway used to run 'shine with Boss, but when the feds closed in, Boss turned state's evidence to get off the hook. Now, Calloway wants revenge on the "fat water buffalo" who put him away, so he's sent a pair a killers to Hazzard. After surviving a couple of attempts on his life, Boss hides out at the Duke Farm, where Vance decides it would be best for Boss if Calloway thought that he was already dead.
Commentary
Trivia
- Amanda Horan Kennedy (Lorna) gets a part with a name in this episode. She was just credited as Girl #1 in Return of the Ridge Raiders.
- Rick Hill (Matt) played Phil Ackley in The Great Hazzard Hijack.
- R. G. Armstrong (Calloway) previously appeared as Tom Pryor in Witness for the Persecution.
- Annie O'Donnell returned as Gussie Peabody in Lulu's Gone Away.
- Floyd Calloway's 1964 Cadillac appears to be the same car that was used by H.H. Harkness in Gold Fever.
Bloopers
- When Coy and Vance drive Lorna and Matt around the square, the back projection shots shows them going the opposite way around to the long shots, and the General appears to travel past the Hazzard Picture Palace going almost sideways.
- When Vance calls Cooter to pick up Boss' car, Cooter leaves without asking where it is.
- When Boss' coffin flies into the tree, the cable from which it's suspended is clearly visible.
Regular Cast
- Byron Cherry as Coy Duke
- Christopher Mayer as Vance Duke
- Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
- Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse
- Sonny Shroyer as Enos
- Ben Jones as Cooter
- James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
- Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg
- Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer (voice)
Guest Cast
- Amanda Horan Kennedy (as Barbara Horan) as Lorna Mallory
- Rick Hill (as Richard Hill) as Matt Mallory
- R. G. Armstrong as Floyd Calloway
- Peggy Rea as Lulu
- Annie O'Donnell as Gussie Peabody
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Amanda Horan Kennedy as Lorna Mallory -
Rick Hill as Matt Mallory -
R. G. Armstrong as Floyd Calloway
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Peggy Rea as Lulu -
Annie O'Donnell as Gussie Peabody
Crew
- Supervising Producer: Robert L. Jacks (as Robert Jacks)
- Produced by: Myles Wilder and Ralph Riskin
- Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
- Executive Story Consultant: Myles Wilder
- Executive Story Supervisor: Si Rose
- Executive Story Editor: Martin Roth
- Executive Script Consultant: Bruce Howard
- Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
- Associate Producers: Skip Ward and Wes McAfee
- Director of Photography: Arthur R. Botham (as Arthur Botham)
- Art Director: Al Rohm
- Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
- Music by: Fred Werner
- Unit Production Manager: Wes McAfee
- First Assistant Director: Kelly A. Manners
- Second Assistant Director: Robert D. Nellans
- Second Unit Director: Paul Baxley
- Second Unit Director of Photography: Dick Hutchings
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Jon Paré
- Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
- Editor: Craig Hibbs
- Music Editor: Abby Treloggen (as Abby M. Treloggen)
- Sound Editor: Chick Camera
- Sound: Victor Goode
- Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
- Property: Beverly Hadley
- Special Effects: Steve Purcell
- Makeup: Paul Stanhope Jr. (as Paul Stanhope)
- Hair Stylist: Virginia Darcy
- Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
- Women's Costume Supervisor: Susanna Sandke
- "Flash" Owned and Trained by: Alvin Mears
- Casting: Melissa Skoff
- Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
- Some Automobiles Supplied by: AMC
- Location Facilities Provided by: The Burbank Studios
- A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television
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