A black sheriff?
Did you ever notice how much Hazzard County, Georgia resembles Walnut Grove, Minnesota?
It was a great Friday show. End of the work week, dump your brain in front of the TV and let it relax with the Dukes. You know the good guys are going to win and you’re going to see a car chase and you’re going to see Daisy’s legs. What’s not to like?
Enos.
Yep. I believe the simplistic plots were intended to echo those of early TV sitcoms, also some critics have compared Rosco & Boss to Laurel & Hardy.
I watched it as a young teen. Some action, some cars and a Daisy Duke was hot.
I can’t imagine it aged well.
I may watch it with my four year old - I have nice memories of the show (Bo was HOT) and my sister liked Luke (who has aged well).
I think it appeals to kids but anyone else? Meh
There is someone in my city that owns a charger, has it painted like the Genral Lee AND the horn plays dixie.
I think they take it a little too seriously.
Enos? At least he admitted to being the oldest virgin in Hazzard County.
Here I was thinking we were being whooshed Finian’s Rainbow style.
Didn’t Enos get his own spin-off show? Or was that a bad, bad, bad nightmare I was having?
Yes, he did. It lasted one season, eighteen episodes, back in the good old days when the networks would actually give a new show a chance no matter how bad it was, instead of canceling it after three episodes.
Warning: watching Dukes will make you get in and out of the family sedan through the window only! At least, that’s what it did to me when I saw it, back when I used to watch it (of course, I was only 7 at the time)
I think it’s aged fairly well, but it’s really aimed at country folk and 10 year old boys. You get to see car chases, Daisy, a comic duo (Boss and Roscoe), Daisy, and occasionally a good country band gets forced into playing at the Boar’s Nest. Plus there’s Daisy.
Black Sheriff? I think that was just in Smokey and the Bandit. BTW, if you don’t like Smokey and the Bandit, you probably won’t like Dukes of Hazzard.
I think Enos was an interesting character, more so than Barney on Andy Griffith. Enos was an honorable man while Boss and Roscoe were not, so that put him in an uncomfortable position of enforcing the (corrupted) law while trying to remain friends with the Dukes and other good folk of Hazzard.
By the way the first season is probably the best, the show is more gritty than the later cartoonish goody-goody seasons. There is moonshine running, slot machine hiding, and a great Daisy bikini scene.
We loved the Dukes of Hazzard (and the A-Team!) and watched it faithfully. I’m sure my mom hated it.
Several years ago I was working on a project and wound up watching it for a couple of weeks while I worked–boy, was it bad. Wow. I would say that it’s worth watching a few episodes for mindless fun and MSTing, but after that the pain will become too much to bear. I could watch an entire run of, say, MacGyver on DVD, but not the Dukes.
Is the A-Team available on DVD? I’d like to see a couple of episodes of that to see how it’s aged. Bullets everywhere, but no one ever gets shot, because this is a family show. Murdock was my favorite!
The Sheriff of Osage County next to Hazzard was black.
When you have a style of shorts named for the way your ass looks in them, that’s notable.
The first few (about 4 I think) episodes were actually much darker/more serious than the show quickly became and they were actually filmed in Georgia. In those episodes Roscoe wasn’t a buffoon but an embittered career sheriff who was cheated out of his pension, Boss Hogg was really bad, and the Dukes weren’t the foster family of Christ like they later became. That actually could have been a good show.
Even then it was “cute”, but it’s main fault was that it went on years and years too long. It would have been a cute one or two season comedy, and a Brokeback Hazard where Bo and Luke finally proclaim their feelings would have been a great ending.
Trivia: James “Roscoe” Best was an acting teacher for many years whose students included Quentin Tarantino and he was also once stalked by Bonnie Bakley (who met him at a party and was willing to do anything to marry a celebrity of any caliber- this was before she met Robert Blake). Sorrell “Boss” Booke was a former OSS officer who spoke several languages in real life and is remembered by the cast as a quiet, nice, and one of the most learned and intelligent people they ever knew- constantly reading and in a variety of languages from tabloid to classics.
Of course I’m forbidden to say it was a terrible show because its creator gave a $1 million endowment to a university I worked for so he’s a might fine man and a creator of folk art. I will say that the crossover episode of Alice that featured Boss and Enos opened a vortex of mindless entertainment that has never been fully closed and has made millionaires of Bronson Pinchot, Suzanne Somers, and Kirk Cameron.
I got a whole stack of the DVDs (review copies) through work. It’s still pretty funny, but one episode at a time is enough!
The earliest episodes series, which were actually shot in Georgia, are the best. Later on they got a bigger budget and started filming in California I think.
Edit… as Sampiro just said!
I believe we’re talking about the perpetually angry Sheriff Little. Wikipedia says: