Cast:

Tom Wopat as Luke Duke
John Schneider as Bo Duke
Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
Denver Pyle as Jesse Duke
Sorrell Booke as Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg
James Best as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
Sonny Shroyer as Deputy Enos Strate
Rick Hurst as Deputy "Cousin" Cletus Hogg
Ben Jones as Cooter Davenport
Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer
Peggy Rea as Lulu Hogg
Byron Cherry as Coy Duke
Christopher Mayer as Vance Duke

The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985):  This is a truly one-of-a-kind show and you either "get it" or you don't.  The mood of the series is always light-hearted, yet there is always an element of action.  It's one of the few modern-day Southern adventure series ever made.  The series was followed by the South just as much as the North and it was true to its source.  "The Dukes of Hazzard" celebrated all of the fun and the quirkiness of the 1970s-80s American South.  There was definitely a tip of the hat to the Southern racecar culture, as well as the beautiful Southern women, crooked authority figures, good-time country music, honky tonks, and the celebrated (if not self-depricating) Southern wit.  The series was all of these things.  If you ever wanted to study Southern pop culture, this show gives you a good look into their human condition.

    Despite the show's honesty to its locale, there was still a lot of fantasy worked into each episode.  Spectacular car crashes where no one ever gets hurt.  The General Lee (1969 Dodge Charger) always survives everything that happens to it and when it does get totalled, it comes back like brand new in the next scene.  Despite the fact that it takes a lot of time to make those kinds of repairs in real life, Cooter the mechanic seems to crank it out in short order.  It also takes a lot of money to make these repairs, and since the Dukes are poor one is left to wonder how they pay for the car's upkeep.  People also never get killed in the series or seriously hurt.   And the frequency of new love interests for the three young leads from episode to episode makes us all wish we had their love lives.  It also makes us wonder how come none of them ever got married!

    The series was not originally intended to be a family show, but became a family show several episodes into the first season.  There was little bad language, no gory violence, and no sex scenes.  There was also little talk of "dark" subject matter.  The worst thing they really talked about was marijuana that was planted on the Duke boys.  So this show was very accessible to audiences young and old.

    Creator Gy Waldron and everyone involved with the series did a wonderful job of giving us fun fiction in a real-type setting of which a lot of people could relate.  "The Dukes of Hazzard" is a perfect example of escapism in television!

Seasons:

Season 1 (1979-1979)
Season 2 (1979-1980)
Season 3 (1980-1981)
Season 4 (1981-1982)
Season 5 (1982-1983)
Season 6 (1983-1984)
Season 7 (1984-1985)
REUNION MOVIE #1: "The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!" (1997)
REUNION MOVIE #2: "The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood" (2000)

Special Episodes

Fun Facts:

The Boar's Nest-

• The popular bar hangout of Hazzard County was originally a warehouse where J.D. Hogg hid his moonshine during his ridge-runner days back in the 1930s.  This was revealed in the episode, "Bad Day in Hazzard" from Season 4.
• The Boar's Nest from the TV series was said to be destroyed in a bar fight.  This was revealed in the first TV reunion movie, "The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!" (1997), when the new Boar's Nest is first seen.

Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg-

• Boss has a similar cousin, Cousin Big Dan Hogg (played by Marty Zagon).  We see him only once, in the episode, "Targets: Daisy & Lulu" from Season 6.
• Boss has an identical twin brother, Abraham Lincoln Hogg (Sorrell Booke in a dual role), who is as honest as Boss is crooked.  A complete opposite to Boss in all but physical appearance, Abraham Lincoln Hogg wears all black and owns a black Cadillac.  We see him only once, in the episode, "Baa, Baa White Sheep" from Season 3.

Cletus Hogg-

• Cletus Hogg was not always the replacement deputy for Enos Strate.  As a matter of fact, he was in four episodes of the series PRIOR to his first as "Deputy" Cletus Hogg.  Cletus was always the idiot cousin of Boss Hogg who got roped into following through with his crooked cousin's schemes.
• The four episodes in which Cletus appeared PRIOR to his first Deputy episode are:  "Money to Burn" (from Season 1), "The Rustlers", "The Meeting", and "Road Pirates" (all from Season 2).
• Cletus Hogg (played by Rick Hurst) was the deputy for almost two complete seasons (Seasons 3-4).  When Enos Strate came back in Season 5, the two deputies worked together for five episodes until Cletus left the show completely.  He never returned to the series, but did come back for the two TV reunion movies in 1997 and 2000.
  

Deputy Enos Strate-

• Enos Strate (played by Sonny Shroyer) was not in the series for the full run.  He was in Seasons 1 and 2, and left in the second episode of Season 3, "Enos Strate to the Top".  However, filmed episodes were frequently shown out of sequence, so you could argue that the sixth episode of Season 3, "Uncle Boss", was his last appearance, although it was made BEFORE his farewell episode.  Enos came back in the first episode of Season 5, "The New Dukes", which was also the beginning of the Coy & Vance era, and remained with the series until the end.
• Enos Strate was spun off into his own series, "Enos", from 1980-1981.  He left for Los Angeles, CA to become a member of that city's police department.  In the first reunion movie from 1997, "The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!", we learn that Enos went back to the LAPD sometime after the series cancellation in 1985 and became a really talented plainclothes detective!
• When Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer) first came back to the series in Season 5, he and his replacement Deputy Cletus Hogg worked together for five episodes.  The last appearance of Cletus Hogg in the series was the episode "Big Daddy" from Season 5.
  

Hoggoco Gasoline-

• This is the brand of gasoline in Hazzard County, named after you-know-who.

Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane-

• Rosco lives with his mother.
• Rosco and Boss Hogg are actually brothers-in-law.  Boss Hogg is married to Rosco's "fat sister" Lulu.
• The "P" stands for Purvis.  We find this out in the episode, "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane" from Season 3.
• Rosco WAS married once (briefly) in the episode, "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane" from Season 3.
• We see Rosco's mother, Mama Coltrane, only once.  She was played by Lucille Benson in the episode, "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane" from Season 3.
  

Uncle Jesse Duke-

• Jesse Duke was married at one time.  Apparently, she died and left him a widower.  This was first revealed in the episode, "Luke's Love Story" from Season 1.
• The name of Jesse Duke's deceased wife is Lavinia.  According to Jesse, she held a strong likeness to Daisy Duke.  This was revealed in the Season 7 episode, "Enos & Daisy's Wedding".
  

Waylon Jennings-

• Waylon Jennings was the voice of The Balladeer, everyone knows that.  But he wasn't just playing an anonymous balladeer, he was playing Waylon Jennings.  Apparently, in the "Dukesverse", Waylon Jennings had some connection to Hazzard County.  We assume he was a former citizen of that area.  This is proven to us in the episode, "Welcome, Waylon Jennings!" from Season 7.