The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Second Season
The adventures of the fast-drivin rubber-burnin duke boys of hazzard county. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Tom Wopat Catherine Bach Run time: 1133 minutes Rating: Nr
The Dukes of Hazzard settled into a comfortable run in season 2. The show, originally shot on location in Covington, Georgia, was now permanently produced on a backlot in Burbank, California. While a couple of cast members (Ben Jones, who plays mechanic Cooter Davenport, and James Best, who portrays Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane) briefly boycotted the series in its second year (ushering in a parade of brief replacements, including Mickey Jones of the New Christy Minstrels, Dick Sargent of Bewitched, and James Hampton of F Troop), the actors relaxed into their now thoroughly cartoonish characters. What else can one say: The General Lee, the souped-up '69, orange Dodge Charger that belongs to cousins Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) Duke, has a full tank and is ready to ride. The Duke boys, scions of a proud--though reformed--moonshining family, are still on probation with the law but continue to root out the criminal schemes of diminutive villain Boss Hogg (Sorrell Brooke) and his Wile E. Coyote-like lackey, Sheriff Coltrane. Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) is still a fount of grizzled wisdom as well as Boss Hogg's old whiskey-running nemesis. Cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach) still burns up the road with her short-shorts, and Coltrane's deputies Enos (Sonny Shroyer) and Cletus (Rick Hurst) remain idiots with an edge of sympathy. Season 2 highlights include a funny fan favorite called "The Ghost of General Lee" (also co-star Schneider's favorite episode), in which Bo and Luke are assumed to have drowned when their stolen car ends up at the bottom of a pond. Hearing that Boss Hogg plans to blame them anyway for a theft they didn't commit, the Duke boys haunt him and Coltrane with apparitions of the General Lee as a "ghost." NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough makes an appealing guest in a story about the development of a secret turbo charger and Hogg's effort to steal it, while Loretta Lynn turns up as herself in a damsel-in-distress tale, featuring the country superstar as a kidnapped hostage. "Witness for the Persecution" introduces a recurring theme on Dukes: Occasions in which the vile Hogg must be protected from his enemies by hiding out with (gasp) the Dukes. The best of The Complete Second Season, however, may be "Days of Shine and Roses," in which Hogg and Uncle Jesse, after watching a film of their old moonshine-delivery exploits with the Ridge Runners Association, get into an argument about who was best and decide to resolve the question with a grudge race. Special features include Wopat and Schneider's screen tests, and a documentary about the Dukes' 25th anniversary festival in Tennessee, featuring series stars and stunt drivers. --Tom Keogh
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The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Second Season Reviews
This show has been around forever I'm only 14 and still this show has drawn me in and quickly became my favorite. Buy every season and watch it over and over. It will be the be great fun for the whole family. It is the best show and every episode has you on your toes. I guarentee it.
For another, the car chases and stunts on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD were a lot more impressive and amusing than they were on THE ROCKFORD FILES. -Pat Buttrum in the "Days Of Shine & Roses" episode after his co-starring days as Mr. -Peter Brown in the "Officer Daisy Duke" episode before his co-starring days on THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL and YOUNG & THE RESTLESS. This 1979-1980 Season of the Dukes also takes me all the way back to memory lane from the Fall of 1979 thru the Summer of 1980 when it was part of CBS's Friday night line-up starting with THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 8PM followed by THE DUKES OF HAZZARD at 9PM, and then topped off by DALLAS at 10PM when THE ROCKFORD FILES was part of NBC's Friday night line-up between 8PM and 9PM. -Morgan Woodward in "The Mason Dixon Girls" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS.
In addition to that, another reason why THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was partly blamed for NBC cancelling THE ROCKFORD FILES was because for one thing, Rockford(Jim Garner) was outclassed by Bo(John Schneider) & Luke(Tom Wopat), since Bo & Luke Duke were like eyecandy along with the fact that Bo & Luke were a lot younger, spunkier, & better looking than Rockford was. -Loretta Lynn's cameo appearance in the "Find Loretta Lynn" episode. -Jeannie Wilson in the "Treasure Of Hazzard" episode before her co-starring days as Janet Fowler on SIMON & SIMON. Finn) on HUNTER. Overall, you could say that in the First Season of The Dukes Of Hazzard, this show was kind of starting to crawl and then by the Second Season is when this show started to walk among other things, since the stunts with the General Lee were more upgraded than they were in the First Season, despite the fact that The Dukes Of Hazzard was already an instant smash when it was in its First Season on CBS along with the fact that the Dukes 1st Season is still my very favorite season to this very day throughout all 7 seasons of this show. -Dick Sargent as the interim Hazzard County Sheriff Grady Byrd in the "Officer Daisey Duke", "Jude Emery" episodes after his co-starring days as the second Darren Stephens on BEWITCHED.
-The Oak Ridge Boys doing a cameo apperance in the "Granny Annie" episode. The Dukes Of Hazzard's 2nd Season wasn't too shabby and was more upgraded with more action in it than the 1st Season was, although I don't think it was as great nor as exciting as the 1st Season or even 3rd Season was, due to the fact that James Best(Rosco) kept having different people sub for him as interim sheriff's like Dick Sargeant did as interim Hazzard County Sheriff(Grady Byrd) in the "Jude Emery" episode and like Boss Hogg's nephew Hughie Hogg(Jeffrey Altman) did in one episode in this season. -Gerald McRaney in "The Hazzard Connection" episode before his co-sttaring days as private investigator(Rick Simon) on SIMON & SIMON and his co-starring days on MAJOR DAD and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. The Dukes Second Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when CBS's motto was "Looking Good", which was their slogan on CBS from the Fall of 1979 thru the Summer of 1980. For another, since Rockford & the Dukes were both shown on the same night(Fridays) at one time, THE DUKES OF HAZZARD's time slot on CBS kind of interferred with THE ROCKFORD FILES time slot on NBC.
This 1979-80 Season was the first full season of The Dukes Of Hazzard throughout it's whole 7-year run on CBS, since the Dukes didn't premiere on CBS for the first time until January of 1979. For another, THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was a lot more hilarious than THE ROCKFORD FILES was. Haney on GREEN ACRES. As a matter of fact, that reminds me that the Dukes 2nd Season was also the season when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD ended up K.O.ing THE ROCKFORD FILES too, since Rockford started getting a slight dwindle in the ratings when the Dukes made it's debut on CBS in January of 1979, which partly contributed to NBC cancelling THE ROCKFORD FILES all of the sudden in January of 1980, which was a year later after THE DUKES OF HAZZARD premiered on CBS along with the fact that the Dukes were soaring big time in the ratings during this season on CBS too while Rockford was gradually weaking in the ratings, even though NBC's reason for cancelling THE ROCKFORD FILES in the middle of Rockford's 6th Season wasn't due to low ratings in general, but was unfortunately due to James Garner(Rockford) having health issues. -Lance LeGault in "The Runaway" episode before his co-starring days as the hard-nosed Col. For another, The General Lee had outclassed Rockford's Firebird, especially the General Lee was the hottest car on Friday nights at the time.
Decker on THE A-TEAM. -John Shearin in the "Jude Emery" episode before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's remarkable fellow officer(Lt. It was also interesting seeing. Therefore, you could say the Second Season of the Dukes was somewhat of a weak season for Rosco, since Rosco seemed to come out a lot less in this season a lot less than he did in all the other seasons, but I really missed Deputy Enos Strate(Sonny Shroyer) when he was replaced by Deputy Cletus Hogg(Rick Hurst) in the Third Season, especially since I've always preferred Enos to Cletus along with the fact that Cletus was a bigger doofus than Enos ever was, which was another reason why I loved the Second Season of the Dukes and why I was so bummed out that they had kept Cletus for 2 consequetive seasons in a row throughout The Dukes Of Hazzard's whole 3rd and 4th Seasons, but I was so glad that they ended up bringing Enos back to the show in the Dukes 5th Season, even though Cletus was still on the show during the first few episodes of the 1982-83 Season, since it was preferable to see both Enos and Cletus working together as partners than it was to have Cletus and no Enos, especially as Rosco's fellow deputy.
This product is really good fun to watch. Just like all the other hazard box sets.
I looked forward to Friday nights at 8 all week long when I was a boy. However, if your looking for car crashing, tire smoking, predictability and just entertaining family fun you can't go wrong. I was a fan then and I actually think that in some ways I even enjoy it more now that I can share it with my family. I do think that I enjoyed season three better. That is of course until the coy and vance disaster.
I only hope that the two reunion movies will also be released on DVD very soon,because I just can't get enough of "The Dukes of Hazzard". Like all the other seasons of "The Dukes of Hazzard" this one is just pure entertainment at its best.These lovable characters with their exiting adventures,that awesome car and the humour make this TV show to something very special.It's a must see. A tip for all people who loves the show as much as I do:If you really are a fan of the original TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard" than go and watch John 'Bo Duke` Schneider`s new movie "Collier & Co - Hot Pursuit" which is currently running in a couple of cinemas for only a short time.It's not called "The Dukes" but it has humour,an awesome '69 Dodge Charger,really hot car stuff,brain and heart and it's entertainment at its best.You'll love it.
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