Holy nostalgia, it’s 4th grade all over again. The show’s a bit racier than I remember. I don’t seem to recall the Winnebago full of hookers (the mobile brothel!?) from episode 2. And why does everyone in Hazzard county drive Chryslers? Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss Hogg deserve a place in the pantheon of classic comedic characters.
And how freakin’ cool is Waylon Jennings’ narration?
Nobody’s gonna cop to watching this show.
I watched maybe four or five episodes when it premiered in '79, and lost interest fast, but did watch the documentary before the marathon started because I am a fan of Paul Baxley, the stuntman/actor/director who was Stunt Coordinator (or whatever the title was) on the show.
They made mention that after the first demographics came in showing that a great number of the fanbase were about ten (probably your age at the time) the mobile home full of hookers and sexual innuendo was dropped.
Denver Pyle remains an underrated character actor who in a lifetime of good performances demonstrated he was capable of so much more than Mr. Darlin’, Mad Jack and Uncle Jesse.
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Add James Best to the list of fine actors pigeonholed by this show. I don’t mean to carp, but I hate it when this happens to a good/fine/great actor, and he has to basicaly go around saying “Goo-goo-goo gonna get them boys” for the rest of his life, and nobody remembers his good turnson Twilight Zones or The Wild Bunch, or even that dopey Billy Ray McAllister movie.
Sir Rhosis
I’m loving it!
I’m noticing alot of actors that I don’t recall being on that show.
Like I saw one where (I think) they had a new “revenuer” take over for Hazzard county. I swear I think that’s the mom on “Home Improvement”
Also the first 10 episodes are gonna be a little more racey because I was geared for the 9 o’clock spot. After they found out what a large children base they had; they toned it down.
I think I’m going to buy the box set so I can relive this with my sons.
make that: “it was geared for the 9 o’clock spot…” :smack:
Guilty.
I love Sherriff Coltrane. Especially in the seasons where he has ‘Flash’ as his police dog. We’ve been watching for a few hours now.
I don’t like that show, but I really enjoyed the Canadian spots CMT made to promote the show. They took some scene from the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ and dubbed new voices so that Bo is telling Luke to make sure and plug in the General at night and to not forget the curling gear in the back seat. (Or something to that effect) I laughed until I stopped.
My husband, DrLoveGun, has been enjoying it. I’ve been alternately amused and annoyed.
I don’t remember so much camel toe on Daisy, but then, I was 5 when it was first on.
I caught a couple of them. I was surprised to see that the early episodes were actually filmed in Georgia, or at least someplace that actually looked like Georgia, rather than the vast majority of episodes that I remember which were all shot in California. Guess I didn’t watch the show from the start.
I had forgotten the amount of “blowing crap up” that was involved in the show. Though I doubt you could get the Duke boys avoiding arrest by playfully handing Roscoe a lit stick of dynamite past Standards and Practices these days. “Those crazy Duke boys!!”
I watched one or two, but didn’t enjoy it as much as I remember…
Daisy was as hot as I remember though.