Dukes Of Hazzard (Season 2) DVD
Warner Home Video
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 637 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (1980)
Britt Gillette's The Dukes Of Hazzard (Season 2) DVD Review
In the late 70's and early 80's, television viewers fell in love with The Dukes of Hazzard, a weekly foray into the fictional setting of Hazzard County, Georgia. Cousins Bo and Luke Duke (John Schneider and Tom Wopat) spent each episode trying to do good, while the loveable "Boss" Hogg (Sorrell Booke) concocted various schemes for making money and having the Duke boys (who always foiled his plans) thrown in jail for violating their probation (the result of a deal with the federal government to end the centuries-old Duke family tradition of bootlegging).
Joining Bo and Luke are their Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle), a grandfatherly figure who owns the family farm, and Cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach), whose skimpy shorts coined the cultural term "daisy dukes". Along with "Crazy" Cooter (Ben Jones), the local mechanic, they create a formidable threat to the money-making shenanigans of Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (James Best) and the owner of seemingly every business entity in Hazzard County, "Boss" Hogg.
But critics will argue that the true star of the show was the General Lee, Bo and Luke's bright orange Dodge race car with the Confederate flag pasted on its roof…
The Dukes of Hazzard (Season 2) DVD provides a number of famous episodes, including guest appearances by Cale Yarborough and The Oak Ridge Boys. Deputy Sheriff Cletus (Rick Hurst) also makes his first appearances on the show in Season 2. Boss Hogg's newphew Hughie (Jeff Altman) also makes his first appearance. With Waylon Jennings's weekly narrations as "The Balladeer" (performing artist of the show's legendary, chart-topping theme song), The Dukes of Hazzard provides hours of family-friendly programming as Boss and Roscoe match wits with the Duke clan…
The Dukes Of Hazzard (Season 2) DVD episode guide:
Episode 14 (Days Of Shine And Roses): Air Date: 09-21-1979
After viewing an old film from Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse's golden days
as moonshine runners in the Ridge Runners Association, the two get into
an argument over who was the better moonshiner. As a result, Boss and
Jesse decide to hold a race, the winner of which will determine which
one is the best of all time. But of course Boss never plays fair, and
Jesse has to pull out all the stops to keep Boss from stealing the race.
Episode 15 (Gold Fever): Air Date: 09-28-1979
$3 million in fake gold bars is brought to Hazzard by a group of con artists
who store it in Boss' bank. In an effort to capitalize by collecting insurance
money from Boss, the con men frame Bo and Luke for the robbing the gold
from the bank. As usual, Bo and Luke must work to clear their names.
Episode 16 (The Rustlers): Air Date: 10-05-1979
When Bo and Luke visit the Tolliver farm, they discover a horse that can
fly like the wind, but Rosco also witnesses the swift legs of the race
horse and notifies Boss Hogg. In one of his typical schemes, Boss plots
to steal the horse so he can race it in the Mrs. J.D. Hogg stake race
and pin the theft on the Duke boys. However, a bunch of crooked horse
ranchers have their own plot for stealing the horse, one that Boss Hogg
is sure to hate.
Episode 17 (The Meeting): Air Date: 10-12-1979
In yet another scheme to profit off of Hazzard County property, Boss Hogg
rents out the Hazzard jail to his old friend, Black Jack Bender, for $10,000.
Bender uses the jail setting a rouse for an important meeting with crime
bosses. But when Bo and Luke discover a cache of weapons in the cars of
the crime bosses, they must rush to notify the FBI before they get caught.
Episode 18 (Road Pirates): Air Date: 10-19-1979
When Boss Hogg enters into another crooked deal to buy a truckload of
hot TV sets, the truck is stolen by his equally crooked partner. But Bo,
Luke, and Cletus are framed for the theft.
Episode 19 (The Ghost Of The General Lee): Air Date:
10-26-1979
When two out-of-town hustlers steal The General Lee, it sparks a chase
between themselves and Rosco who believes he's chasing the Duke boys.
When the criminals drive The General Lee into a pond where it sinks, Roscoe
thinks that Bo and Luke are dead. Boss tries to capitalize by claiming
Bo and Luke stole his gold watch and chain prior to their death, prompting
Bo and Luke to "haunt" Boss and Rosco by making themselves and
The General Lee look like ghosts.
Episode 20 (Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough): Air Date: 11-02-1979
Cale Yarborough makes a guest appearance in this episode by meeting with
Bo and Luke to discuss his new turbo charger. But when Boss finds out
that Cale is in town, he tries to arrest Bo and Luke for crossing state
lines, and schemes to steal Cale's turbo charger in order to profit from
his competitors, The Jethro Brothers.
Episode 21 (Hazzard Connection): Air Date: 11-09-1979
Bo and Luke have new work delivering cars to the local Derby owner, Augie
Detwiler. The delivers raise suspicions that they might be involved in
a smuggling ring, allegations of which prompt the Duke boys to join the
derby and uncover the identity of the true culprits.
Episode 22 (Witness For The Persecution): Air Date:
11-16-1979
With Boss Hogg set to testify as the lone government witness against a
dangerous criminal kingpin, he finds his life in danger when a price is
placed on his head. Uncle Jesse offers to provide shelter to Boss on his
farm, bringing Boss's potential killers into his own backyard.
Episode 23 (Granny Annie): Air Date: 11-23-1979
When the Duke Boys receive counterfeit bills from local artist, Granny
Annie, they attempt to find out from where the money originated. They
discover that Granny Annie herself in the counterfeiter. When Boss finds
out, he tries to get the plates she made so he can profit from them. At
the conclusion, The Oak Ridge Boys make a guest appearance.
Episode 24 (People's Choice): Air Date: 11-30-1979
The Dukes boys become campaign workers for the beautiful T.C. Rogers as
she runs for Supervisory Administrator against Boss Hogg. But Boss's dirty
tricks threaten to soil the election, and Bo and Luke must find a way
to see that the system works the way it's supposed to.
Episode 25 (Arrest Jesse Duke): Air Date: 12-14-1979
When a group of female car-strippers, working in collaboration with Boss
Hogg, strip a car on the side of the road, Uncle Jesse is framed for the
crime.
Episode 26 (Duke Of Duke): Air Date: 01-04-1980
Traveling from London, Duke cousin Gaylord Duke attempts to lay claim
to a property that was rightfully willed to him. But Boss Hogg tries to
get possession of the property for himself by purchasing it at government
auction because of the tax burden it carries.
Episode 27 (The Runaway): Air Date: 01-11-1980
The Dukes attempt to aid two lovers who wish to get married, but the powerful
father of the girl in question will stop at nothing to make sure that
she doesn't marry her beloved. When the Dukes try to get the two across
county lines where they can get married, the father abducts Uncle Jesse.
Episode 28 (Follow That Still): Air Date: 01-18-1980
When the Dukes come to the aid of Hard Luck Jones, an old moonshiner and
family friend, he ends up building a still on their property inside an
armored truck stolen from Boss, one that carries an illegal shipment of
cigarettes.
Episode 29 (Treasure Of Hazzard): Air Date: 01-25-1980
Bo and Luke tries to help a history professor uncover a Civil War-era
strongbox buried somewhere in Hazzard County. The box supposedly contains
the army payroll, but Boss and some thugs are after it too. But the joke
is on the crooks when the payroll turns out to be Confederate money.
Episode 30 (Officer Daisy Duke): Air Date: 02-01-1980
Fired from her job at the Boar's Nest, Daisy take a written and physical
test for the new sheriff, Grady Byrd, who makes her a deputy. But Bo and
Luke are intent on protecting their female cousin, and they get on her
nerves by constantly looking after her.
Episode 31 (Find Loretta Lynn): Air Date: 02-08-1980
Traveling through Hazzard County on her country music tour, Loretta Lynn
is kidnapped from the Boar's Nest by another band who demands a ransom
for her release.
Episode 32 (Jude Emery): Air Date: 02-15-1980
The Duke boys agree to help Texas Ranger Jude Emery find a fugitive in
a large swamp territory in Hazzard County. But the task turns out to be
more than they bargained for.
Episode 33 (Return Of The Ridge Raiders): Air Date:
02-22-1980
The Ridge Raiders attempt to stop Boss Hogg from stealing money from the
senior-citizens center in order to build a strip-joint. Bombing his stills
and property, they wage a mini-war against Boss. But Uncle Jesse reasons
with them to fight Boss by more legitimate methods.
Episode 34 (Mason Dixon's Girls): Air Date: 02-29-1979
When the Duke boys unintentionally come into possession of a crate of
marijuana at the bus station, they end up being chased by Mason Dixon,
a private detective, and his two sexy assistants. But in the end, they
all work together to uncover the true drug smugglers.
Episode 35 (R.I.P. Henry Flatt): Air Date: 03-14-1979
Faking his death a year earlier, con man Henry Flatt appears in Hazzard
County, and the Dukes agree to help him with his problem. Henry's secret
won't be safe for long if Boss succeeds in plowing up an old veterans
cemetery in order to build a new highway, an act that would expose Henry's
deception.
Episode 36 (Southern Comfurts): Air Date: 03-21-1979
Jesse's cousin, Holly Comfurt, and her family suddenly strike it rich.
But while visiting Hazzard County, crooks steal their car with all of
their money locked in the trunk. The Duke boys agree to help search for
the car before the thieves find the money inside.
In addition, make sure to check out episodes 1-13 on The Dukes Of Hazzard DVD (Season 1)…
Britt Gillette
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