Waylon Jennings needs a shout out for being the perfect narrator for the show. Tom Wopat became a great Broadway performer. I loved him in "Catch Me If You Can".
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.
Talk about a brilliant actor, yet also a linguistic genius - totally had me fooled as a back-woods petty criminal, yet was even counter-intelligence in the military among classical theatre training at prestigious Ivy League schools. Another genius that we lost way too young. I met him decades ago when I was a kid. I just remember he was too nice, a shocking contrast to his Boss Hogg persona
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 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 ✌💖☮
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.
@@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.
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 ❤.
On the episode, where the revenuer agent lady is doing their probation check in, the agent says, " We have Lukas J and Boregard" and Schneider says" That's Bo!".
Nobody smart does a hood slide, any metal on their jeans like brads on Levi’s would scratch the paint,Or a leather belt would scratch the paint. You would also want to put a couple of coats of wax on your hood first otherwise you’re not gonna slide very well, you also take a big chance of denting your hood. so what you wanna do is go out to a junkyard and try it on a junk car. Then it wouldn’t matter the dust might even help slide a little bit. That might be fun.
@@robertloving8743You're exactly right about the scratches. When I was 17-19 I went through a series of junk first cars that I'd buy for next to nothing and get/keep running for as long as possible before scrapping and starting over. My party trick was doing Duke style hood slides on them. As they were mostly old massive wagons with huge hoods that usually sat low because of shot suspension, it was not difficult. I remember the first decent car I got, took a look at the nice paint and thinking there's no way I'm scratching that up with my Levi pocket studs. They would sometimes leave really deep cuts in the paint. So that was the end of that.
@@mattkinsella9856 yes I remember, buddy. Mine purchased a Ford Mustang and he decided he was going to do hood slide on it and his Levi left a deep gouge across the hood. His father was pissed, but he couldn’t help but laugh. That was back in the 80s the late 80s $500 plus just to get the hood repainted lol. My first car was a pick up truck. My second car was a bar find out of a barn. It was a 67 Ford Mustang fastback been hard there for over 10 years covered up. It had been there since Mr Nagle. Passed away he was my neighbor that lived on the farm next to me for a while down the road, and I helped his widow ever since he passed away. on the farm keeping it going. I’ll she ended up selling it to me, she wanted to give it to me, but I wouldn’t just take it so I worked it off not that I was taking any pay for helping her anyway, that is what we did on the farm in the country, we help our neighbors. That was the 80s. It’s now 2024 and I still have the fastback.
@@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.
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…. 😂
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.
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 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!
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.
I was in kindergarten when this show was really hot. A teacher had the Dixie Horn on her truck and would play it when she pulled into the parking lot. We all went wild!
It literally captivated and entertained a majority of the country, And the changing of society and social life reflected when the country went from the Dukes of Hazard to the Knight rider television show / series. 😮
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
@@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
The saddest episode was when they wrecked Daisy's car, over the cliff, to introduce the new jeep, " Dixie". I liked the original car, which I think was a Dodge Satellite Sebring. That car was more Daisy, than Dixie was.
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.
@@1SqueakyWheel It’s a podcast about the show. They review pretty much every episode. I only asked because the info you gave sounded like some of the trivia they’ve covered on the show.
@@73clementines Ah. No, I'm just a lifelong fan who lives a short hop from Covington/Social Circle, GA (done a lot of work there too in the past) I've probably gleaned most of my trivia knowledge of that sort from John Schneider's Channel or Facebook page, whatever it was that he used to do. Great all-around guy, and a good storyteller too. But as a sidenote... who as a kid DIDN'T wanna be Bo Duke? 😁 Also from na old high school friend of mine who built a very faithful General Lee replica, and attends most of the Dukes of Hazzard events on the East Coast.
You forgot to mention that the producers originally wanted Daisy to be a literal Dolly Parton clone right down to the curly blonde hair and poodle skirts! Everyday I'm thankful to Catherine Bach for having a different vision for Daisy and being allowed to realize it!
I always hoped Bo and Luke would team up with Michael Knight or with members of the A-Team. As a kid, with the die cast cars, I could make that happen.😂
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...
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.
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.
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.
John Schneider played Jonathan Kent for 5 years on the Superman prequel series Smallville. A Dukes of Hazzard reunion happened in Season 5 when Tom Wopat guest starred. Yes, they did some fancy driving together in the episode!
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.
As a child born in 1974, the "Dukes of Hazzard" made me want to rebel, and make myself unique from everyone else. Oh what a great TV show it was! I can still remember the "Dixey Horn" in my youth... Sadly, the G.L. Flag and Horn Tone is "now" considered racist, it rejuvenates my youth and stamina!
I was one of those trying to track down one of these cars back then. They were almost impossible to come by even then and those that were around were already turned into General Lees by the owners due to the show.
When i was growing up, the series had already wrapped-up; Grew up on reruns. When i was in middle-school, some of my friends were over for a school-project over the course of a week. Told them we were taking a break when the show came on; Most had never -scene- seen it before and loved it. Pretty sure seeing DaisyDuke jumpstarted puberty for 2-3 of my classmates 😂😂😂
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.
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.
People always misinterpret the issue with the flag. (Including John Schneider, as quoted in this video.) No-one ever claimed the show was racist. I don't think anyone thinks the flag symbolizes racism, but it is has been adopted by certain racist organizations and individuals. TV networks no longer want to air the show, not because of anything the actors or writers did. They just don't want people to misinterpret the presence of the flag as implying the characters are aligned with these groups. I know we all find it hard to live in this complicated world these days and people get so frustrated with cancel culture and political correctness, but the Dukes situation is not so black and white. Hope this comment helps people to understand.
@@adamsartist496 Anyone who has ever watched the show knows there isn't a single ounce of racist intent in it. It was a family show with morals and good values. This whole nonsense with the rebel flag is just plain ignorance. People associate it with being racist because the KKK (founded by the Democratic party no less) use it in their ceremonies and that is why people call the flag racist. They also have used the stars and stripes as well but no one calls that flag racist. An inanimate object can't be racist. Only certain people are.
The '69 Charger was a stone cold classic even way back then. But the funny thing is the show came out in 1979 so it would have only been 10 years old at the time! Imagine someone nowadays swooning over a car from 2014. 😄
I owned a total of three, second-hand knock-offs of the General Lee as a kid (I couldn't afford the official ones), all bought at Goodwill for well under a dollar each. One day, I was playing with my largest one (about as long as a toaster oven), when a lady in a Benz ran it over by accident (when you live in the inner-city as an 70/80 kid, the driveway is the raceway). To her credit, she immediately came out, and apologized. Then she took a look at the car and I don't know if she recognized it or what, but she insisted on compensating me for it, even after I told her not to worry about it, and I shouldn't have been playing in the driveway. She commended me, and gave me ten bucks (20x what I paid for it). Which oddly enough, was more the enough to buy a legit one,
I actually just visit Covington Georgia, Conyers Georgia where they filmed the first 5 episodes. Got to see where the Duke Farm house was. Hazard Square, and The Boars Nest and Cooter's Junkyard
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.
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.
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.
When I was in about 4fh grade i would come home from school and watch The Dukes Of Hazzard while doing my homework. That was not 8pm. I was not watching in syndication. I was watching them play as they came out. I was born in 1979 and watched at least until the end of the series. I watched when it was on TNN in the early 2000's. I still watch it today.
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Nope I was watching brand new episodes from when the show came out. Dukes was 1979, i'm six months older. Okay so 4th grade was re-runs, but I've been watching from 1979 to 1985. Still not 8 pm. It's was on at like 4 pm(?)..... aftrer school anyway.
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS LIttle House On The Prairie was on while I was in school. Don't remember when Gilligan or Flinstones was on, but I watched them too. I watched a lot of shows, but Dukes Of Hazzard is probably my all time favorite.
You overlooked a very important part of the show's history. Actor Sonny Shroyer (who played Deputy Enos Strate) was in a shortlived spinoff of the Dukes of Hazard called Enos when Enos won a job offer from the LAPD in California.
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).
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.
the show was so popular that some high schools had to move their football games from Friday nights to Saturday nights because the show effected attendance...
I have just noticed @JohnSchneiderStudios is now a subscriber to this channel. If this is the real deal this is the coolest thing ever!
Waylon Jennings needs a shout out for being the perfect narrator for the show.
Tom Wopat became a great Broadway performer. I loved him in "Catch Me If You Can".
I guess it's not legal to use his voice in AI instead of the stupid foreign accents they seem to like. That would have made this video.
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!
Makes sense as many jokesters we know are secretly quite bright.
He was also a renowned Broadway actor.
Talk about a brilliant actor, yet also a linguistic genius - totally had me fooled as a back-woods petty criminal, yet was even counter-intelligence in the military among classical theatre training at prestigious Ivy League schools. Another genius that we lost way too young. I met him decades ago when I was a kid. I just remember he was too nice, a shocking contrast to his Boss Hogg persona
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.
high schools had to move games from friday night to saturday nights because of how popular the show was
70's era was good then the 80's was the best. Duke of Hazard. Brought family and friends together for an hour of laughter.
Catherine Bach made an entire generation of boys spontaneously go through puberty. 😊
And we were all Duke boys ever since 🤘🤘😎😎
She helped me thru puberty back in the day. 😊💦💦💦
hawt af
@@mau.5she is a he ....
...and doubled sales of Kleenex?
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.
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 🤔 🤣
we love our Dukes in bama
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.
she blew like the north wind
On the episode, where the revenuer agent lady is doing their probation check in, the agent says, " We have Lukas J and Boregard" and Schneider says" That's Bo!".
The actual line is, "That never stopped anyone in THIS family before."
The hood slide definitely has that classic action-movie vibe!
I wanna try once!
I liked the window slide myself
Nobody smart does a hood slide, any metal on their jeans like brads on Levi’s would scratch the paint,Or a leather belt would scratch the paint. You would also want to put a couple of coats of wax on your hood first otherwise you’re not gonna slide very well, you also take a big chance of denting your hood. so what you wanna do is go out to a junkyard and try it on a junk car. Then it wouldn’t matter the dust might even help slide a little bit. That might be fun.
@@robertloving8743You're exactly right about the scratches. When I was 17-19 I went through a series of junk first cars that I'd buy for next to nothing and get/keep running for as long as possible before scrapping and starting over. My party trick was doing Duke style hood slides on them. As they were mostly old massive wagons with huge hoods that usually sat low because of shot suspension, it was not difficult. I remember the first decent car I got, took a look at the nice paint and thinking there's no way I'm scratching that up with my Levi pocket studs. They would sometimes leave really deep cuts in the paint. So that was the end of that.
@@robertloving8743 Not to mention that vehicles today aren't built like they were back then. Modern hoods are about as durable as tinfoil.
@@mattkinsella9856 yes I remember, buddy. Mine purchased a Ford Mustang and he decided he was going to do hood slide on it and his Levi left a deep gouge across the hood. His father was pissed, but he couldn’t help but laugh. That was back in the 80s the late 80s $500 plus just to get the hood repainted lol. My first car was a pick up truck. My second car was a bar find out of a barn. It was a 67 Ford Mustang fastback been hard there for over 10 years covered up. It had been there since Mr Nagle. Passed away he was my neighbor that lived on the farm next to me for a while down the road, and I helped his widow ever since he passed away. on the farm keeping it going. I’ll she ended up selling it to me, she wanted to give it to me, but I wouldn’t just take it so I worked it off not that I was taking any pay for helping her anyway, that is what we did on the farm in the country, we help our neighbors. That was the 80s. It’s now 2024 and I still have the fastback.
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.
I hope arrows are not illegal anywhere 😂
@@VladislavBabbitt I've seen children with rocket launchers in other countries.
You're probably not American, or a Harris Walz supporter.
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….
😂
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
Yes I remember Friday night that was the show I was waiting to watch.
I'm a huge fan of the dukes of Hazzard and GENERAL LEE 🤠🤠
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. 😂
Yep! That could wreck the rest of a normal boys week
It was fine, we still had Knight Rider and Airwolf to get us by.
Tuned in for the car? HAHAHAHA
We all tuned in for Daisy!
Of course we did. But also the car.
Damn she looked great in a orange/red bikini
@@daverage4729 I'm going with brick. As in "She's a brick... house!"
We DEFINITELY noticed Daisy but there was a pretty woman on every show, no one else had Boss and Roscoe though
He forgot to mention anything about her car and Jeep!
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.
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"
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!
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.
Best also had some pretty good Twilight Zone episode appearances.
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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The doors weren't actually welded, there's a famous poster with them standing with the car door opened, whoops!
*_What a WONDERFUL video down MEMORY LANE!!!! LOVE THIS!!!!_*
Wish I could go back to those days !
Catherine Bach ❤
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.
I'm not sure if it was Dukes or Knight Rider that started my love for cars!! both excellent shows, thanks for the interesting facts about the show.
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
General lee was the best TV car to ever exist PERIOD!!
Always wanted to know more about the "Jukes of Hozzerd"...
I was in kindergarten when this show was really hot. A teacher had the Dixie Horn on her truck and would play it when she pulled into the parking lot. We all went wild!
😊😊😂😂😅😂😅
Nothing this guy could tell me about my favorite childhood t.v show...spot of tea to ya
It literally captivated and entertained a majority of the country,
And the changing of society and social life reflected when the country went from the Dukes of Hazard to the Knight rider television show / series. 😮
The best stunt car show of all time! Had all the right makings !! 🤘🤘😎😎
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.
she also loves to eat tube stakes with lots of creamy gravy
Those legs in that show are responsible for my pantyhose fetish - gorgeous !
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
The saddest episode was when they wrecked Daisy's car, over the cliff, to introduce the new jeep, " Dixie". I liked the original car, which I think was a Dodge Satellite Sebring. That car was more Daisy, than Dixie was.
I learned my driving style from dukes and smokey an the bandit and a love for fuxing and figuring things out from McGyver. I grew up with these shows
Great fun. Remember watching it on the weekend with a can of Cresta. Thanks for making the effort.
I grew up in the best times.
You and I both👍great time to be a kid🏴☠️
Dukes, A-team, Fall Guy, Greatest American Hero, Knight Rider
One of my absolute favorite TV's - loved this so much. Have an AWESOME day !! 🎥💥🔥👍☮
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.
Are you a listener of the Kibbe and friends podcast?
@@73clementines No sir, I've never heard of it. What about 'em?
@@1SqueakyWheel It’s a podcast about the show. They review pretty much every episode. I only asked because the info you gave sounded like some of the trivia they’ve covered on the show.
@@73clementines Ah. No, I'm just a lifelong fan who lives a short hop from Covington/Social Circle, GA (done a lot of work there too in the past)
I've probably gleaned most of my trivia knowledge of that sort from John Schneider's Channel or Facebook page, whatever it was that he used to do. Great all-around guy, and a good storyteller too.
But as a sidenote... who as a kid DIDN'T wanna be Bo Duke? 😁
Also from na old high school friend of mine who built a very faithful General Lee replica, and attends most of the Dukes of Hazzard events on the East Coast.
Get that horn at the swap meet for ur lowrider or JC Whitney catalog
Great video Great show 😊
You forgot to mention that the producers originally wanted Daisy to be a literal Dolly Parton clone right down to the curly blonde hair and poodle skirts! Everyday I'm thankful to Catherine Bach for having a different vision for Daisy and being allowed to realize it!
John Scheinder had a minor hit song, "It's Now or Never."
Thanks for the memories🎉
Great presentation 🎉🎉
I see 'THE DUKES OF HAZZARD' I click like!
After all, base my life on their teachings.
Daisy Duke, enough said.
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I loved this show as a kid.
I always hoped Bo and Luke would team up with Michael Knight or with members of the A-Team. As a kid, with the die cast cars, I could make that happen.😂
Why does this look so good even now? Most old shows look so old… not this.
I can tell you as a boy entering adolescence it wasn't the general Lee that was the attraction to the show. It was Daisy Duke!
Great video!
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...
One fun fact about the Dukes of Hazzard is that the Duke farm and Boss Hogg's home were the same structure.
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.
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.
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.
Denver Pile was also has on Grizzly Adams.
No Enos trivia?
No Roscoe P. Coltrane trivia
No Boss Hogg?
No Cletus?
What the f kinda show are you running here, mister?
Lol😂😂❤❤
He's obviously a foreigner and probably not even old enough to know the show.
Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hogg, was actually not overweight. He wore a fat suit on the show.
John Schneider played Jonathan Kent for 5 years on the Superman prequel series Smallville. A Dukes of Hazzard reunion happened in Season 5 when Tom Wopat guest starred. Yes, they did some fancy driving together in the episode!
Man, if you saw a General Lee replica in real life, YO HEAD SNAPPED AROUND QUICK!!!
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!
Liked 👍💯❤9:16am(9-22-24)
The exit music to this video is great too👍💯
I lived 12 miles from where it was shot in GA. Many of those cars, including 3 General Lee's, were in a local junk yard.
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.
As a child born in 1974, the "Dukes of Hazzard" made me want to rebel, and make myself unique from everyone else.
Oh what a great TV show it was!
I can still remember the "Dixey Horn" in my youth...
Sadly, the G.L. Flag and Horn Tone is "now" considered racist, it rejuvenates my youth and stamina!
I was one of those trying to track down one of these cars back then. They were almost impossible to come by even then and those that were around were already turned into General Lees by the owners due to the show.
When i was growing up, the series had already wrapped-up; Grew up on reruns. When i was in middle-school, some of my friends were over for a school-project over the course of a week. Told them we were taking a break when the show came on; Most had never -scene- seen it before and loved it. Pretty sure seeing DaisyDuke jumpstarted puberty for 2-3 of my classmates 😂😂😂
the amount of TV crushes I had as a kid was ridiculous 😍
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.
Love this I have met john schneider tom wopat and sorrell booke and twin brother have sat in original car as well very lucky in the 80's
You can see with almost every jump the chassis bending like a banana
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. 🥴
People always misinterpret the issue with the flag. (Including John Schneider, as quoted in this video.) No-one ever claimed the show was racist. I don't think anyone thinks the flag symbolizes racism, but it is has been adopted by certain racist organizations and individuals. TV networks no longer want to air the show, not because of anything the actors or writers did. They just don't want people to misinterpret the presence of the flag as implying the characters are aligned with these groups. I know we all find it hard to live in this complicated world these days and people get so frustrated with cancel culture and political correctness, but the Dukes situation is not so black and white. Hope this comment helps people to understand.
@@adamsartist496 Anyone who has ever watched the show knows there isn't a single ounce of racist intent in it. It was a family show with morals and good values. This whole nonsense with the rebel flag is just plain ignorance. People associate it with being racist because the KKK (founded by the Democratic party no less) use it in their ceremonies and that is why people call the flag racist. They also have used the stars and stripes as well but no one calls that flag racist. An inanimate object can't be racist. Only certain people are.
@@adamsartist496 Pure and simple ignorant wokeism...
Please pronounce it correctly: Hanna BAR-BERA. Not Barbara.
YES!!!!! 😔
Pause to look at the comments for this very flaw. Rocky must not have watched much 80's animation.
The '69 Charger was a stone cold classic even way back then. But the funny thing is the show came out in 1979 so it would have only been 10 years old at the time! Imagine someone nowadays swooning over a car from 2014. 😄
They certainly don't make 'em like they used to! 😊
_Justa good ole boys...never meanin' no harm._
I owned a total of three, second-hand knock-offs of the General Lee as a kid (I couldn't afford the official ones), all bought at Goodwill for well under a dollar each. One day, I was playing with my largest one (about as long as a toaster oven), when a lady in a Benz ran it over by accident (when you live in the inner-city as an 70/80 kid, the driveway is the raceway). To her credit, she immediately came out, and apologized. Then she took a look at the car and I don't know if she recognized it or what, but she insisted on compensating me for it, even after I told her not to worry about it, and I shouldn't have been playing in the driveway. She commended me, and gave me ten bucks (20x what I paid for it). Which oddly enough, was more the enough to buy a legit one,
For some context at 7:42 $190M in 1981 would be $650M today, in merchandishing. That is mind blowing. Surely any TV Exec would like a cut of that.
I actually just visit Covington Georgia, Conyers Georgia where they filmed the first 5 episodes. Got to see where the Duke Farm house was. Hazard Square, and The Boars Nest and Cooter's Junkyard
John Schneider in Eddie Macons run. I watched it just because of him. It was a good flick. Kurt Russell was in it, too
Adding cement to the trunk to improve jumps. Who woulda thunk?
Ahhhhhh, the brakes were adjusted!! How could I have missed that?
Yeah duh, stunt cars rig it so only the rear brakes lock up to make hard turns and 180's
Fun Vid!
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.
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
Dude had no clue who Uncle Jesse or Roscoe were.
...titled 20 things you "didn't know"...
It broke records, but nobody has records of the records that were broken. But it definitely broke those records.
If an episode has Coy and Vance I switch off.
My favorite show actor s I grew up watching
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.
only things i remember about the show was the car and a pair of Daisy Dukes
Southern charm?
Yes, indeedy? 🥰
I remember an ad in my local paper back then looking for 69 Chargers . I had a 70 and I wasn't selling .
While I didn't know the specifics, I had heard that the show went through numerous Dodge Chargers throughout its run.
You could have mentioned that when it became difficult to find cars they started retrofitting 68's.
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.
When I was in about 4fh grade i would come home from school and watch The Dukes Of Hazzard while doing my homework. That was not 8pm. I was not watching in syndication. I was watching them play as they came out. I was born in 1979 and watched at least until the end of the series. I watched when it was on TNN in the early 2000's. I still watch it today.
Those were reruns
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Nope I was watching brand new episodes from when the show came out. Dukes was 1979, i'm six months older. Okay so 4th grade was re-runs, but I've been watching from 1979 to 1985. Still not 8 pm. It's was on at like 4 pm(?)..... aftrer school anyway.
@tinarash7772 Yep, come home, watch Flintstones, Gilligan's island and Little House reruns before dinner
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS LIttle House On The Prairie was on while I was in school. Don't remember when Gilligan or Flinstones was on, but I watched them too. I watched a lot of shows, but Dukes Of Hazzard is probably my all time favorite.
You overlooked a very important part of the show's history. Actor Sonny Shroyer (who played Deputy Enos Strate) was in a shortlived spinoff of the Dukes of Hazard called Enos when Enos won a job offer from the LAPD in California.
Yes, and one of the famous sayings on that show, with Enos' partner, was " Grits & Greens".
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.
the show was so popular that some high schools had to move their football games from Friday nights to Saturday nights because the show effected attendance...
I think the Dukes also get inspiration from White Lightning with Burt Reynold.
I was just thinking how many Chargers were destroyed, and you just answered it... OUCH