The Dukes of Hazzard: Difference between revisions

An American action/comedy series running on [[CBS]] from 1979 to 1985., '''''The showDukes of Hazzard''''' followed the adventures of "good ole boys" Luke and Bo Duke, in the fictional [[Deep South|Hazzard County, Georgia]]. On probation for transporting moonshine, the boys spend their time tweaking the nose of corrupt county commissioner "Boss" Hogg, who always has his eye on acquiring the Duke family farm. Hogg retaliates by keeping the incompetent Sheriff Rosco Purvis Coltrane always on the Dukes' trail for violating their probation.

The series is remembered for its wild car chases, campy Southern setting, and [[Catherine Bach]]'s near-criminally short shorts, which subsequently acquired her character's name as a generic term: "daisy dukes".

As further evidence of the accelerated erosion of Hollywood's creative abilities, a theatrical [[The Film of the Series|motion picture]] version of the series was made in 2005, with a 2007 made-for-TV prequel. Two made-for-TV [[Reunion Show|reunion movies]] with the original cast were also made, in 1997 and 2000. (What's often forgotten these days is that the original series was itself a loose adaptation of a 1975 theatrical film called ''[[wikipedia:Moonrunners|Moonrunners]]'', which featured essentially the same premise and the same characters under different names... or, in the case of Uncle Jesse and Sheriff Rosco Coltrane, the ''same'' names!)

Besides adding to the desirability of 1968-69 Dodge Chargers the show is also a major contributor to their rarity, having used up over three hundred over the course of the series (reportedly:, the exact number was 309).