The Dukes of Hazzard (1979): 20 Things You Never Knew!
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Get ready to hit the open road with the Duke boys as we dive into 20 things you never knew about The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)! From behind-the-scenes secrets to the real story behind the iconic General Lee car, this video takes a deeper look at one of TV's most beloved shows. Buckle up for a fun ride through Hazzard County with trivia that will surprise even the biggest fans.
Don't miss these rare facts about your favorite rebel cousins, their wild adventures, and the colorful characters that made the show a TV legend!
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Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hogg, earned degrees from Columbia and Yale, was fluent in a dozen languages, and served in Army counter intelligence during the Korean War.
And he played a corrupt politician really well, Michael.
Whoa!
I like it how the Duke boys can't have firearms, but a stick of dynamite on an arrow is A-OK!
Well, they were on probation... firearms aren't allowed, but pretty much everything else is fair game. 😆
@@karlepaul6632 If the ATF ever showed up to Uncle Jesse’s farm because the Duke boys were manufacturing destructive devices all Bo and Luke need to do is drive off in the General Lee. As soon as the pursuing agents can’t make a jump they’ll forget all about it. Jut like Roscoe.
Only in America.
Tuned in for the car? HAHAHAHA
We all tuned in for Daisy!
Of course we did. But also the car.
The 1st 5 episodes were filmed in my hometown of Covington Georgia {since the '90s its called Hollywood South} & I was lucky enough to be in the 1st episode as a 13 yr old right where the General Lee comes sliding onto the square being chased by Roscoe, me & my dad were standing right there on the corner of the red brick building {Harper's Dime Store} & you see a quick glimpse of us {UA-cam video Dukes Of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode}! I was also at the famous opening credits jump at Oxford College where the General jumps over Roscoe! I grew up just 4 miles from the Boars Nest ✌💖☮
Wow, that is cool. Great claim to fame
WOW, YOU ARE BLESSED ❤❤✝️✝️❤️🔥❤️🔥WISH I HAD BEEN THERE🥰🥰
The best episodes for sure. Felt more raw and real. I loved early Rosco being a real bad guy and a true threat to the Dukes. Then he just became an idiot later on. I didn't like the campy route they took from the realism.
Dude, that’s awesome!
@@GisherJohn24 interesting take on Roscoe.
He really drew the kids though, and James Best really found his groove playing a silly kids'show character after a lifetime of playing fairly serious roles. He was always such a charismatic actor, no matter how big or small a role he played.
And since the driving narratives of each episode were rather cartoonish anyway, I thought his bumbling character was perfect. Loved his chemistry with Enos Strait.
And I'll tell you the BIGGEST problem I had with the Dukes movie; Yeah, it was a train wreck through and through, but the one detail that stuck out and bit me the most was that the movie made Roscoe EVIL. I mean there were no redeeming nor likeable qualities about him whatsoever.
On the show, Roscoe was a loveable dolt. He giddily did his boss' bidding because it was something exciting to do in a sleepy little town, and he enjoyed the challenges and stupid angles Hogg would think up with the zest of a child; He was always hammering on the Dukes because it was his business, but he actually did have a love for them.
I'll never forget that episode when Bo and Luke failed the jump over the river... The General went under, and took the boys with it, and everybody thought they'd drowned. Roscoe, who was chasing them at the time saw it happen, and wanted to save them, but he was in tears because he didn't know how to swim. That was one of the more emotional scene I can remember of the show.
But the Roscoe in the movie would have been fine shooting every one of the Dukes dead.
That was disgusting, and it bothered me. And I bet ole James Best was rolling in his grave.
I could forgive every other crappy thing about the movie but that.
The hood slide definitely has that classic action-movie vibe!
I wanna try once!
I liked the window slide myself
Family entertainment in our house. We upgraded to a colour TV in 1983, and the orange car never looked so good.
I remember my family visiting a doctor friend of my dad's one night, obviously a Friday, because the Dukes were on.
The orange of the General isn't what popped at me though... Oddly enough, it was Rosco's red and blue lights. My mother said "Whaddaya think about seeing this in color?" to which it finally dawned on me that I'd only ever seen the show in B/W, and never really noticed till that very moment with tug vibrant colors of those lights.
I had already had the lunchbox and toy cars, so I knew the car was bright orange.
Funny how, not having color, I never missed it. We got a color TV for the living room (with remote control!) in like '83 or so, and never looked back. Still watched a small b/w 13" set in my bedroom though!
Daisy Duke, enough said.
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When I was a kid I watched every single episode every Friday it came out. Finally when the DVDs were available I bought every season and watch them with my kids they're now grown and love it still. It was truly a great family show.
These types of shows rarely hold up when watched as an adult, especially binging them on DVD (it's obvious the plot's basically the same each week). The A-Team is unwatchable; Knight Rider and AirWolf aren't much better. Obviously the theme tunes still rock.
Haven't seen Dukes in 40 years though; perhaps it's still fun.
@@axi0matic I loved the Dukes of Hazzard as a kid and I still love it today as a 54 year old. It was such a great family oriented show. I bought the entire series on VHS and on DVD when it became available. I own many die-cast General Lee's in every scale imaginable. I went to Dukesfest in Nashville in 2006 and got to meet Catherine Bach and got her autograph. I met John Schneider as well years later at another car show in Toronto. They were both very down to earth. The General Lee has been my dream car ever since I first saw the TV show as a 10 year old back in the day. Just started watching the series again (nostalgia is a powerful drug) I hope to own a General Lee of my own one day since it is my dream car.
The Dukes of Hazzard was appointment television for my family. I'm the youngest sibling but I have solid core memories of everyone running to the TV to settle in for "The Dukes"
I'm Filipino and I will always love that design on the General Lee Dodge Charger. That flag on top is iconic and saw nothing racist about it.
Agree! 👍
Southern GURL HERE & I LUV IT AS WELL & ABSOLUTELY NOT A RACIST SYMBOL.MAY GOD BLESS ALL ✝️✝️❤️🔥❤️🔥🥰🥰
That's because you are not a racist. Only racists see racism in it.
Exactly! Flags aren't racist, only ignorant people are. If anyone has ever watched the show, there wasn't a racist tone in it at all. It was a family show with family values. They even prayed at the dinner table and sang Amazing Grace in one episode. The people that say that it's racist are just idiots.
@blahanger4304 Those people in white robes that you are referring to also flew the American flag at their rallies. Does that mean that the stars and stripes are racist too? Give your head a shake.
This show was everything in my childhood maybe thats why when I started driving I ran from the cops so much..
How'd that work out?
@@grannyweatherwax8005 lol pretty good for a while lol
I was living in Alabama at the time when the show aired. I was a young teenager at the time and remember that folks from Alabama were some of the kindest folks I've ever met ❤.
My father is originally from there. Very true.....kind people.
Yes, sure you were proggoprong, and that father was a very good friend of Warnie too no doubt 🤔 🤣
I'm a huge fan of the dukes of Hazzard and GENERAL LEE 🤠🤠
I was in elementary school watching this show. It was our fav every Friday night, and talked about in school every Monday. This show truly influenced my love for women and cars lol thanks to Daisy….
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I remember thinking it was a show about royalty so I didn’t watch it. Went to school the next day and everyone was talking about it.
Same
You failed to mention that Catherine Bach's legs were insured for $1 million .
@@Bohemiahotrodandcustom And the only insurance the producers can get on the stunt Chargers was for $1.
Her boob's for 2 million, 1 million each😂
The way those legs looked, they were worth every penny.
Just sayin.
John Schneider says the General Lee cars they used on the show were pretty rough. Terrible paint, rust holes covered up with massive amounts of body filler, the flag was made of tape and paper stars. It just had to be good enough to fool the low resolution TV broadcasts of the day.
They went thru a lot of Dodge Chargers because they were always launching them in the air for the car jump gimmick. No real life car could take the suspension abuse those cars took
Ya cause they wanted to use high quality cars to launch into the crusher
@@quidproquo3933 He made a video about making a General Lee clone, what color interior etc, and made a point that the cars used on the show were mostly old POS junkers nowhere near as nice as the clones. They had a hero car for the close ups, drivers, and jumpers.
Fun fact: The orange used on the original car was not a specific color, it’s something the prop department mixed up with various remnants of different cans of paint they had laying around
I grew up in the best times.
As a kid, I would sob if I missed watching The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday night. I'd have to wait a whole week to see it again. 😂
No Enos trivia?
No Roscoe P. Coltrane trivia
No Boss Hogg?
No Cletus?
What the f kinda show are you running here, mister?
Lol😂😂❤❤
The roll bar, door numbers and welded shut doors were part of the NASCAR stock car style that fitted in with the southern country look….
The Duke boys built the General Lee for a race.
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no mention of the fact Boss Hogg was Sorrel Booke's favorite role. - and he played it in a fat suit. also, James Best was actually considered the smartest actor on the set - and was a mentor to the three Duke kids, off camera.
If you want to see Booke without the fat suit, his MASH episodes are fairly easy to find.
James Best was highly respected by just about the entire crew. And his professionalism while acting drew high praise.
Great comment! All these years and I had no idea Booke was wearing a fat suit. (I never watched MASH) I also didn't know about Best being a mentor.
One fun fact about the Dukes of Hazzard is that the Duke farm and Boss Hogg's home were the same structure.
I'm lucky enough to have grown up knowing the real duke boy Jerry Rushing. His family is very near and dear to my heart.
The Confederate flag controversy was epically stupid. That show had more Black actors on it than Seinfeld and Friends put together. One of the Black characters was the Sheriff from the next county over.
Exactly!
The Nazis employed lots of Jews, too. 🥴
Catherine Bach ❤
To add to the horn bit, it was during rehearsals for the pilot in Conyers/Social Circle, Georgia, and I believe this literally happened at the Boar's Nest.
Also, it wasn't Schneider who had them chase down the passing car blaring the horn (a Chevy ElCamino actually) but the main director/co-creator of the show who absolutely had to have that horn for the Gen Lee.
All the cast was there though, so I don't doubt John was probably as excited by the horn as the director was.
That El Camino driver made a tidy profit, and bought/installed a new Dixie horn to his chevy the next week with money to spare.
On the first episode Bo said to Daisy that if she wasn’t his cousin, he’d marry her. She said that never stopped anyone before.
Names the Dukes and Daisy, but zero mention at all of the co-stars we know so well.
Happens when you never actually watched the show but just look it up on wiki to make a video
Ahhhhhh, the brakes were adjusted!! How could I have missed that?
Back when the Dukes where still on tv . My best friend and I were out driving around . And somehow we ended up outside the studio where they filmed the Dukes. And hanging on the side of the building was a for real 68/69 Dodge Charger with all of the cast members faces painted around it. I still have the two pictures that I took of it. We looked over the fence and saw several Chargers .Some in ok shape and some in that's not gonna buff out shape. But the only reason that I watched the Dukes was for Daisy.
Please pronounce it correctly: Hanna BAR-BERA. Not Barbara.
Wish I could go back to those days !
John Scheinder had a minor hit song, "It's Now or Never."
Wasn't there a thing about Bach's legs being insured on the series?
Yes, while she was on The Dukes of Hazzard her legs were insured for $1 million.
Great video Great show 😊
Why does this look so good even now? Most old shows look so old… not this.
Thanks for posting. You said that the General Lee was the main attraction. I respectfully disagree. I don't know about anyone else but Daisy Duke is why I watched.
Not gonna lie... Catherine Bach is singlehandedly responsible for the development of my leg fetish!
For me, it was Daisy and the car.
I'd suggest, that for some of us, the General Lee was not the main reason for watching.
As a kid, it was for the General Lee, and Rosco. I also aspired to grow up to be Bo.
Daisy's curves and legs came later as I grew into that particular interest, where Bach eventually became my first celebrity crush!
They may have put a lot of ballast in the trunks of those chargers, but we still saw the nose of the car getting smashed in a few shots. Yes, they cut away before the carnage was complete, but I knew that was the end of that stunt car.
Edit: I'll tell you what record they broke: The most 1969 Dodge Chargers destroyed in a TV series.
Denver pile was in many TV shows/movies, a farmer on gomer Pyle and Sheriff in the movie Bonnie and Clyde, and many others. Boss Hogg was Archie's boss and the TV station manager editorial episode of All in the family, plus many other characters in different TV shows and movies. Excellent video of an excellent show.
The amount of controversy that exists for the Confederate flag is purely amongst those who have no understanding of American history or the flag's actual meaning or why it was used for the show. To find understanding for any uses all anyone has to do is look up the definition of the word, rebel; because the Confederate flag was in fact called, The Rebel Flag.
Fact 21: In 1981 and 1982, Mattel's Hot Wheels made an homage to the General Lee using a casting called the Dixie Challenger. It was a modified version of a 1974 Charger and featured orange paint, a confederate style flag on the roof and the words "Dixie Challenger 426 Hemi" on the hood. In 1983, they removed the Confederate style flag and replaced it with a blue U shaped stripe. In 1982, Hot Wheels competitor Matchbox, also made an homage to the General Lee. They used a modified 1973 Dodge Challenger to create the Dodge Challenger Hot Rod. It had orange paint, a Confederate style flag on the trunk, two stripes with stars on the hood and "Revin' Rebel" on the doors.
I always found it funny that dirt roads where referred to as highways.
We spent a ton of spare time in the late evenings hanging out in the Lake Sherwood/Westlake Village area where they did the majority of the driving stunts once the filming was moved to Southern California. No security whatsoever. We helped ourselves to a bunch of memorabilia that we sold as a side hustle. Ironic, because soon thereafter. By happenstance, we ended up spending "personal time" with John Schneider and his (Miss America) Wife, Tawny Little. We were in our late teens and Tawny enjoyed us far more than an adult should have. Hmmmmm...
Strange to describe the General Lee as one car that they had to specially prepare when in reality they got through over 200 General Lees!
y whole family loved the show. The were moonshiners during prohibition and years later.
Great presentation 🎉🎉
I used to watch the show but never liked the car... Still to this day I wouldn't be caught dead in a Dodge.....
_Justa good ole boys...never meanin' no harm._
I loved that show as a kid. Then I watched the reruns in my early 20’s and finally understood why my dad hated it. It’s unwatchable as an adult. 🤣
You left out a big one. Why the show was created? Warner wanted a TV series based on Smokey and the Bandit, and tho it was never mentioned, the two take place in the same universe.
Funny enough years later Burt Reynolds would play the role of Boss Hogg in that god awful movie adaption monstrosity.
Actually The Dukes show was based off a 1975 movie called Moonrunners. Also if you watch the very first episode of Dukes called "One Arm Bandits" Bo and Luke actually refer to Burt Reynolds by name. Although the Dukes show and Smokey and the Bandit do fit very well together.
Enos (Sonny Shroyer), Cooter (Ben Jones) and Bo (John Schneider) were all in Smokey and the Bandit.
Cooter asked the question, " What would Bert Reynolds do?" Many times during the shows run.
Schneider said he went to the movie premiere and Knoxville and Scott came up to him and apologized before they even went in. They thought they were going to be doing a movie that was true to the series.
@@HariSeldon913Schneider was consulted during the production of the movie.
He famously said that after all was said and done, the General Lee was the only thing the movie got right.
I think the one thing that bothered John the most is the same thing that itched me... The movie made Rosco evil. I thought, even if I forgive the tragic casting and writing of every other character in it, the fact they made him evil was so abjectly disgraceful to Rosco the character, as well as to James Best who had so lovingly endeared that character to Dukes fans all those years. It's good that he didn't have to live to see them destroy Rosco like that.
If only the cars were built like the Ford crown Victoria with charger panels like now
only things i remember about the show was the car and a pair of Daisy Dukes
The show didn't cause a Charger shortage. They wrecked 300 Chargers during the show. Over 185,000 1968-69 chargers were made. The problem was that by the time the series ended in 1985 they were 15-16 years old and suffering the nature attrition all sporty cars have.
You ever notice its never raining on an episode? would be vaery bad as windows supposedly are always down... There are mess ups that show the doors being opened shown in other videos
Roscoe, arrest them Duke boys! 😆
Great video!
I bought a 1969 Charger in 1983 for $500. In California.
They didn’t get that one.
Today’s woke society has canceled the Dukes of Hazzard. That’s ridiculous. I enjoyed your video. Thanks.
That was before the history of the confederate flag was common knowledge, Brett.
@@tureytayno3154 that has to be the dumbest thing I've read on UA-cam in over a year. Well done. Because you're absolutely right man, no one knew where the freaking Confederate flag came from until all these insanely liberal, woke teachers polluted your brains with that knowledge. Riddle me this. What's wrong with the confederate flag?
Today's wokeism destroyed everything wholesome
You kept referring to the "General Lee" as "it", as if there were only one car;
there were OVER 300 different Dodge Chargers that were used in the production of the series.
More like 20 things we already knew
Didn't Maryann from Gilligan's Island do the short shorts first?
Lots of people did. Hot pants had been the fashion over 10 years earlier. But I think Daisy made the super short cut off jeans famous enough to get them named after her.
Everyone knew why Tom Wopat & John Schneider left the show. James Best left first because they would hose him off behind blankets, and he wanted an actual showering facility that was season 3
As a car lover, always hated that show because they destroyed so many Chargers.
True, but the ones that were left became more valuable. They tried using Ford Pintos, but the fire department got tired of putting the fires out ( just kidding about that part).
I get that but it was still an amazing show.
I have to give you that
There were 250,000 chargers built between 1968 and 1970. The 300 duke's of Hazzard destroyed made the rest extremely popular, very valuable, and saved 10 times that many from the crusher. It also created thousands of little gear heads who have restored hundreds of thousands of cars. If it wasn't for the show destroying all those cars some of the biggest names in the car scene today likely wouldn't even exist.
It's why shows reuse shots. Take Knight Rider. They always use the one shot of the car leaving the truck on the same road.
Don't need some British AI telling me about the Dukes.
They destroyed so many cars with those jumps. I heard they had a lot full of wrecked cars. And you can see the body bend on one of them in this presentation.
Imagine having such memorable booty shorts as to coin the phrase "Daisy Dukes".
between 85,000 and 89,000 69 chargers were built, and the tv show used 68 AND 69 chargers, using 300 in the shows 7 year run, ehhh 300 isnt shit. there was no shortage
Sure there was, these cars were over 10 years old when the series started. They were run hard by their owners and rusted out quickly. Cars back then did not last long.
I live in England and in my 20s i bought a set of Dixie Air Horns for £5.00 off a mate and had them fitted to my first car a Datsun Cherry a small car i was the dogs bollocks always playing them.
0:08......Giggity
The whole flag thing is just dumb.... it's all about context, and in this case, in regards to the Dukes of Hazzard, it was never a symbol of hate...I'm with Bo on this one! 👍🏿
How about if they came out with a show with a swastika on the car and call it the general Heinrich Himmler, do you think any Jews would be offended?
@@Real_Truth-ks2yw Have you even watched the show?
@@Real_Truth-ks2yw You're really delusional pal, aren't you?💁🏿♂️ Actually watch the show sometime.
@@Real_Truth-ks2yw Are you that delusional? Have you ever even watched the show?💁🏿♂️ Get a grip Mr Making Up Stupid Scenarios ....😋
@@thebob01 You know he hasn't
An added fact. When Tom Wopat jumps across the hood of the General Lee, watch real close. He also breaks the antenna, while doing the slide.
looks already broke? 2:12
Yeah he sliced his arm open on that antenna when he got in the car John noticed he was bleeding
there was so much sexual innuendo in those shows, both with the men and women. I never noticed it as a kid growing up watching but went back and watched some now and it's crazy... the guys wearing skin tight pants, shirts unbuttoned, Daisy constantly bending over in short shorts and halter tops.... they had to keep up with Charlies Angels after all....
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Just additionally goes to show how ignorant Hollywood was in the day, robbing TV stars of their due, casting Wopat aside as the 'unpopular/unsexy' Luke while Schneider and Bach received all the hey day fan mail as Bo and Daisy. Risking contracts abound until Wopat quit alongside Schneider to pursue Broadway, as he could sing the same as Schneider building a successful in musical career, while Duke replacements Byron and Christopher ruined the show, not fail of any efforts, but it wasn't the same.
Season 1 was raw and realistic. Rosco and JD Hogg was a real threat and evil. After season 1 they both just became teo bumbling bafoons and became too campy for me. Not that I didn't enjoy any future episodes but I would suggest that if you want to really enjoy it I would stick with season one!
I understand them wanting it more family friendly but in my opinion if it ain't broke don't fix it
. But i still like the real feel of the episodes in Season 1 simple as that. . Just got too campy for me i guess. And I think I speak from most dukes of Hazzard fans. The best episodes are clearly the ones that they recorded in Covington Georgia! When they went to a California back lot it just did not have the same feeling. Lost its appeal IMO
The episode at 6:00-6:05?
has 3 games, 2 on Playstation, one on the Xbox ( with a % of the original cast doing the voices). Pretty good games too. Has 2 films ( hated by the original cast, who were offered cameo roles but turned them down) James Best really let everyone know how he felt about the films schlock and sleaze. The 2005 film was a hit, the prequel, well... Better cast for Daisy, but...
I think it's safe to say if ya grew up on dukes and follow the actress since the show 95% fans knew majority of theses FACTS if nott more. BTW nice way of not mentioning Ben jones, Denver pyle, James Best & Sorrell book. It's hard imagine the show without any of theses people specially James and Sorrell.
The best show of my childhood, but THE most boring commentary in this video
Meh, nothing I didn't already know.
I was in 6th grade and thought this show was stupid.
I loved the General Lee when I was a 10 year old kid…..but the star of the show for me was Daisy Duke…..I wanted to see her more than the car or Bo & Luke…….I got a funny feeling inside when I saw her…..🤩🍆….😂
Hanna Barbra. Ha
I read somewhere that the later seasons they used fake chargers
Crown Vic with charger panels
No they used miniatures for the jumps and certain scenes
I believe it. I also heard they had the chargers with body panels held on with bungie cords so when the landed it gave a better effect of the body panels popping out and sliding back in. IDK if that is true but does make seem like it could be.
Some of the stunt cars used now at events like “Dukes Fest” are built from Crown Vic’s. None used in the original TV show were.
I just found the article, it was the latest movie that they used fake chargers
@@mrdynamic8678 possibly for the movie, I don’t know but the guy who does a lot of the stunt shows builds the Crown Vic replica cars. Great way to get the look without ruining a collector car.
Title LIES .. Most Duke Fan's Already know all of this stuff & then even more... Old news
A diehard Dukes fan here and no I didn't realize some of this
Fans of the show probably know but most other people won't know this stuff.
@@FalseTeeth-o4y I'm sure they don't, It seems either we are due hard fans or don't seem to care about the show at all lol.
Why is a brit doing this? Where are the Americans lol?
nothing new here. old news.
Meh, the show was okay I suppose. But what an absolute shame they wasted so many 68' Chargers.
No 68s were used and the show saved way more 2nd generations chargers that it destroyed
'68s were easily made into '69s with a grill and taillight panel change. They used '68s as well.]
Every now and again, you’ll see the round taillights of a ‘68 pop up on the screen.
I would love a few watches from Rolex, but so not willing to play the games. If my credit card can’t do the talking Rolex is not for me.
I never watched this stupid show - just too lame and idiotic. I liked the Rockford Files. James Gardner was eye candy for a gal like me.
learn to speak american english !
Me thinks thou protests too much
@jamesparson he can't say Chrysler correctly, was sacrilege
He’s providing you entertainment and it was free. I appreciate his efforts.
I think it's an AI voice-over.
man, i grew up with these turds. can we have a season 8?
Such a weird tv show.....what's the point?!?!?!?
Ok, with all due respect…,I know I’m old, but if you ask this question, you don’t get it, you must be below the age of 40.
@@obesefeline it's still pointless
They had 12cars they used and some of them were filled up challengers