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With Jimmy Carter still in the White House, Burt Reynolds at his Smokey and the Bandit box-office peak, and unleaded gas still selling for under a buck, the powers-that-be at CBS decreed that producers must go forth and create a southern-fried show that featured good ole boys and a souped-up car. And so it was done. The vehicle is the General Lee, a kick-ass orange 1969 Dodge Charger that jumps over ponds, roadblocks, and anything else that gets in the way. And what better way to create opportunities for the General to strut his stuff than casting John Schneider and Tom Wopat as cousins Bo and Luke Duke, legendary Robin Hoods of Hazzard County? The fun-loving Dukes were always a few rpm ahead of the evil J. D. "Boss" Hogg (Sorrell Booke) and his bumbling cohorts, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (James Best) and Deputy Enos State (Sonny Shroyer). Further rounding out (and curving up) the Duke clan are the great Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse and Catherine Bach as cousin Daisy. (Her signature snug denim shorts became known as "Daisy Dukes," a usage that, like the look, shows no sign of going out of popular fashion.) Waylon Jennings sang the opening theme and served as narrator, grounding the tales of high-octane derring-do with genuine rebel grit. Of course, nothing beats the Confederate flag for rebel grit, and General Lee had a big one painted on his roof. The Dukes and the General raced through 13 episodes in Season 1, all collected here. Highlights include the pilot episode, "One-Armed Bandits," in which Bo and Luke hijack Boss Hogg's shipment of illegal slot machines and give the money to an orphanage. "Repo Men" finds the cousins stopping counterfeiters; "Swamp Molly" features veteran character actress Neva Patterson as an old moonshining friend of Uncle Jesse's; and the Dukes prevent Boss Hogg from stealing a million dollars in old bills marked for destruction in "Money to Burn." Seventies TV beauty Jo Ann Pflug shows up in "Route 7-11," wherein the boys outwit the owner of a rigged casino housed in an 18-wheeler. And Season 1 closes with one of our all-time favorites, "Double Sting," an unbelievable episode that finds all the Dukes quarantined in jail with a suspected case of the plague, while a pair of Laurel and Hardy look-alikes (Arte Johnson and Avery Schreiber) rob the bank. It doesn't get any better than this, folks.

Product Details

• UPC: 085393226428
• Source: WARNER HOME VIDEO
• Region Code: 1
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Français, Español
• Time: 10:37:00
• Sales Rank: 7,423

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• The Dukes of Hazzard: One Armed Bandits
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Daisy's Song
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Mary Kaye's Baby
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Repo Men
• The Dukes of Hazzard: High Octane
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Swamp Molly
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Luke's Love Story
• The Dukes of Hazzard: The Big Heist
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Limo One is Missing
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Deputy Dukes
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Money to Burn
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Route 7-11
• The Dukes of Hazzard: Double Sting

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