# Was the Dukes of Hazzard tv series any good?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 8, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877 "2007-08-08T16:50:28Z")
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/1 "2007-08-08T16:50:28Z")
I decided to put a DVD of the Dukes of Hazzard tv series into my Netflix queue. Think this show has aged well? Worth watching?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/2 "2007-08-08T16:56:55Z")
It was dreadful at the time, so I think “aged well” is pretty much a non sequitur.
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### Author:  [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/3 "2007-08-08T17:05:40Z")
Strange how you never saw a black face in that part of Georgia (if that’s what it was).
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/4 "2007-08-08T17:07:47Z")
Do you have an eight year old in the house? He’ll probably like it as much as eight year olds did 25 years ago.
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/5 "2007-08-08T17:09:14Z")
I remember when I was a kid. It was on Fridays at 9, then it switched to Thursdays at 9, right after The Incredible Hulk.
They show DoH reruns on CMT (Country Music Television) and my god, is it fucking terrible.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/6 "2007-08-08T17:14:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mk VII]
Strange how you never saw a black face in that part of Georgia (if that’s what it was).
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Except for the sheriff of the next county over. He was black.
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### Author:  [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/7 "2007-08-08T17:16:57Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
Except for the sheriff of the next county over. He was black.
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I don’t remember seeing that. Was he really black or were some people just saying he was near?
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/8 "2007-08-08T17:17:48Z")
The only thing I can think of that justifies the existence of the Dukes of Hazzard is the line “it was right about then that the Duke boys realized they were in a bit of trouble.” (Not a quote, just a paraphrase) Applied liberally by the bots on MST3K it works quite well.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/9 "2007-08-08T17:19:08Z")
When I was a kid, my sister and I would insist on watching it for the first season. Because of the time and night, all our brothers and sisters were usually in the room for at least the first segment. That year, we were a Nielsen family.
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### Author:  [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/10 "2007-08-08T17:19:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mk VII]
Strange how you never saw a black face in that part of Georgia (if that’s what it was).
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You would occasionally. But after the pilot episode or so, the series was moved to California and it shows.
The show wasn’t great. It had trite, cheesy plots that rivaled Scooby Doo in simplicity. But the actors had a natural, easy chemistry (for proof, look at how awful it was when they replaced Bo and Luke with their “cousins” during a contract dispute), car chases, and real stunts which made it entertaining.
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/11 "2007-08-08T17:26:23Z")
I only watched it to see Daisy. Now I know how to find better porn. If you don’t have fond memories of the show from watching it as a kid, I can’t imagine how any adult would enjoy “discovering” it now. It was offensive simplistic and repetitive and I loved t is as a kid. The theme song is still awesome though. Maybe you should just by a Waylon Jennings CD.
PS. I actually had a 1969 Dodge Charger while in high school. (same as the General Lee for those that don’t know)
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### Author:  [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/12 "2007-08-08T17:50:56Z")
I loved this show and watched it when I was a kid. I would not say it has aged well, but it is still fun to watch in a campy sort of way.
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### Author:  [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/13 "2007-08-08T18:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=Brain Wreck]
I don’t remember seeing that. Was he really black or were some people just saying he was near?
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He was on-screen a few times, if that’s what you mean.
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### Author:  [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/14 "2007-08-08T18:02:45Z")
I always thought Sorrel Booke’s character had most of the best lines, rendering him rather more likeable than the rather priggish Dukes.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/15 "2007-08-08T18:03:48Z")
I watched it as a kid and liked it but eventually got tired of it. Bo and Luke were all kinds of hawt, which even then allowed me to overlook a myriad of flaws. Never saw the replacement cousins.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/16 "2007-08-08T18:07:22Z")
I loathed the show when it was on and refused to be in the same room during that dreaded hour. My brothers, though, who at the time were hovering around the 8-year-old mark, loved it. Of course I live in Kentucky, which is not only abundantly blessed with hillbillies and rednecks, but an actual Hazard as well (though the spelling is different). I wanted the whole thing to go away with all my snobbish teenaged might.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/17 "2007-08-08T18:08:14Z")
[QUOTE=I’m No Saint]
He was on-screen a few times, if that’s what you mean.
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No, what he means is that you got whooshed, [Blazing Saddles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDICYjC8S28) -style.
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### Author:  [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/18 "2007-08-08T18:11:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
I loathed the show when it was on and refused to be in the same room during that dreaded hour. My brothers, though, who at the time were hovering around the 8-year-old mark, loved it. Of course I live in Kentucky, which is not only abundantly blessed with hillbillies and rednecks, but an actual Hazard as well (though the spelling is different). I wanted the whole thing to go away with all my snobbish teenaged might.
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Yeah, I live in Hazard. Anytime I go on a road trip, I’m careful to say that I’m free Southeast Kentucky and not Hazard. If I tell someone the town’s name, I’ll invariably hear…“Oh, you mean like the Dukes of Hazzard?”
Kills me.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/19 "2007-08-08T18:11:33Z")
It’s a wonder they were able to make a show at all, considering what I read about it. I’m sorry, I have no links or cite for this information - maybe it was here that I read this, or maybe elsewhere. But much of the cast and crew were wired on cocaine. On the set of Dukes, coke use was so intense that they had lookouts on the perimeters of the set with walkie-talkies, to alert the crew when anyone was coming - especially if they were cops.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dukes-of-hazzard-tv-series-any-good/414877/20 "2007-08-08T18:14:46Z")
My brother got the DVD set(s?) when they came out. I had grown up watching the show with him as a weekly event. Him and his best friend often “played Dukes” in the yard.
I wasn’t as in to watching the DVDs as he was, but I admit it made for a few laughs. Boss and Roscoe are always funny. It’s funny that one of the main characters is named “Cooter.” I’m a woman and even I look at Daisy with awe…
I do believe there were some commentary tracks, and some interesting “reunion” extras. Those were neat.
You’ll know after you get the first disc whether or not you want to get more. Doesn’t cost you anything, right?
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