Dukes Of Hazzard

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Doofus

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25,732 posts

172 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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S1 E1 is on Forces TV now, and they're in a race with several cars, one of which is the Starsky and Hutch Ford Tomato.

I thought it was cool. Even though it's generally a rubbish programme.

cologne2792

2,126 posts

125 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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The first six episodes filmed in Georgia have a much more adult content before the daftness of the second season onwards.
Huge amounts of fun thereafter and a great show in which the Dukes spend their lives driving sideways, being airborne and just generally trying to help people - a much nicer time and a pretty mellow watch.

Most enjoyable.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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this thread reminded me of this ace vid
https://youtu.be/s7lQUN3cgG0

the tune still gives me tingles

miniman

24,827 posts

261 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Halb said:
this thread reminded me of this ace vid
https://youtu.be/s7lQUN3cgG0

the tune still gives me tingles
That’s fantastic biggrin

MC Bodge

21,552 posts

174 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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cologne2792 said:
The first six episodes filmed in Georgia have a much more adult content before the daftness of the second season onwards.
Huge amounts of fun thereafter and a great show in which the Dukes spend their lives driving sideways, being airborne and just generally trying to help people - a much nicer time and a pretty mellow watch.

Most enjoyable.
Wasn't the original premise that they were bootleggers? I don't recall much moonshine in the episodes I saw on a Saturday evening as a young lad. Mostly Yee-Ha! and trying to avoid beong caught by Roscoe P Coltrane and Cleetus, and avoiding Boss Hogg.

Doofus

Original Poster:

25,732 posts

172 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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miniman said:
Halb said:
this thread reminded me of this ace vid
https://youtu.be/s7lQUN3cgG0

the tune still gives me tingles
That’s fantastic biggrin
clap

This show is a fond memory from my youth, although I suspect I never saw series 1, because it's st. smile

tribalsurfer

1,136 posts

118 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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MC Bodge said:
Wasn't the original premise that they were bootleggers? I don't recall much moonshine in the episodes I saw on a Saturday evening as a young lad. Mostly Yee-Ha! and trying to avoid beong caught by Roscoe P Coltrane and Cleetus, and avoiding Boss Hogg.
Think it was Uncle Jessie that made the moonshine.

MC Bodge

21,552 posts

174 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Halb said:
this thread reminded me of this ace vid
https://youtu.be/s7lQUN3cgG0

the tune still gives me tingles
That looks as if it drives just like the real one. The must have put Biro springs on the cpilover shocks!

cologne2792

2,126 posts

125 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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MC Bodge said:
Wasn't the original premise that they were bootleggers? I don't recall much moonshine in the episodes I saw on a Saturday evening as a young lad. Mostly Yee-Ha! and trying to avoid beong caught by Roscoe P Coltrane and Cleetus, and avoiding Boss Hogg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrunners

noell35

3,170 posts

147 months

Sunday 23rd February 2020
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Love it, thanks for the heads up.
So much want for the RC General Lee!

Evangelion

7,640 posts

177 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Dukes Of Hazzard was great, 'cos you could watch the first 20 minutes, go off and have your tea, then come back and watch the last 20 minutes ... and not really feel like you'd missed anything.

Escort3500

11,829 posts

144 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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miniman said:
Halb said:
this thread reminded me of this ace vid
https://youtu.be/s7lQUN3cgG0

the tune still gives me tingles
That’s fantastic biggrin
Brilliant! Thanks for posting smile

Bellini

768 posts

150 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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This may surprise many of you, but the DofH was based (first 5 episodes, anyway) on true events.

As stated above, the film Moonrunners was the precursor to those first episodes and was mostly an autobiographical synopsis of the man that inspired Gy Waldron. That man was Jerry Rushing.

Jerry was a moonshine maker, along with his uncle and cousin. He owned a modified white Chrysler 300C to transport moonshine that became notorious in evading the local Police, That car was named Traveler. It still exists. There was a County Commissioner, who didn't always obey the law. There was a County Sheriff. There was a female cousin. There was a Cooter-type mechanic.

The pre-production name for the General Lee was Traveler. You don't need me to tell you the connection between those two names.

In Moonrunners, Traveler was depicted as a beaten-up stock car. You can then see how the GL became to be by combining the two vehicles into one.

After the first five episodes, Waldron was asked by Warner to tone-down the DofH and to make it more comedic. You can clearly see Boss and Rosco morph into caricatures of themselves from Series 2.

Anyway, that's a brief history for those who were captivated by the DofH, as I was.

Doofus

Original Poster:

25,732 posts

172 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Bellini said:
This may surprise many of you, but the DofH was based (first 5 episodes, anyway) on true events.

As stated above, the film Moonrunners was the precursor to those first episodes and was mostly an autobiographical synopsis of the man that inspired Gy Waldron. That man was Jerry Rushing.

Jerry was a moonshine maker, along with his uncle and cousin. He owned a modified white Chrysler 300C to transport moonshine that became notorious in evading the local Police, That car was named Traveler. It still exists. There was a County Commissioner, who didn't always obey the law. There was a County Sheriff. There was a female cousin. There was a Cooter-type mechanic.

The pre-production name for the General Lee was Traveler. You don't need me to tell you the connection between those two names.

In Moonrunners, Traveler was depicted as a beaten-up stock car. You can then see how the GL became to be by combining the two vehicles into one.

After the first five episodes, Waldron was asked by Warner to tone-down the DofH and to make it more comedic. You can clearly see Boss and Rosco morph into caricatures of themselves from Series 2.

Anyway, that's a brief history for those who were captivated by the DofH, as I was.
Interesting. And it's good to know the show changes from series 2, because I loved it when I was a kid, but watching series 1 yesterday, I was disappointed.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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I had to just go and look up on Wikipedia to confirm my vague childhood memory that at one stage the original starring duo randomly left and their basically identical cousins turned up in their place. But it turns out I didn't dream it. rofl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard...

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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If you didn't try to enter your dad's car via the front window at least once were you even a child in the '80s?

Collectingbrass

2,198 posts

194 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Truckosaurus said:
If your dad didn't batter you for trying to enter your dad's car via the front window and scratching the paint at least once were you even a child in the '80s?
Fixed that for you :-)

Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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I spotted this the other day and applied suitable series linking on the Sky box smile

The theme tune still takes me straight back to being 6 years old and watching on a Saturday afternoon. I loved that show.

IINM, they can't/won't show it on American TV now, due to the racial links of the confederate flag on the GL.

There's a couple of cracking stories on VinWiki's Youtube channel in relation to the Dukes. I like this one in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BDOjfDuyA


krunchkin

2,209 posts

140 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Ah they dont make TV like that anymore! According to Wikipedia they destroyed an average of 2 Dodge Chargers EVERY EPISODE, and got through over 300 of them in the course of the show. Just incredible.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Bo'n'Luke sing the theme tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kpyA4uLzg