The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season
The Duke Family -- cousins Bo and Luke, assisted by their cousin Daisy and their uncle, Jesse- fight the system and root out the corrupt practices of Hazzard County Commissioner Boss Hogg and his bumbling brother-in-law-Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The down home antics continue in the seventh and final season of this good ol boy TV series!
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The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season Reviews
The most interesting episode was Happy Birthday General Lee which flashed back to the time before the series started and how General Lee was created. Even more insulting than the worst ever episodes in the entire series (Robot P. Coltrane, A Visitor In Hazzard) was the fact the the jumps were done with miniatures and toys that looked fake(stock footage would've done a better job and cheaper). The series ended without a true finale as CBS cancelled the show in 1985, and fans would have to wait twelve years to see the Dukes again. After the underrated season six which was due to the lead actors complaining of bad scripts, Season seven showed the new direction of the show was short lived.
It had great action, great stories, and took a more serious turn, and ditched the whole cartoony kind of vibe that it had to it. Season 6 is the bomb. I recommend this set just to finish your Dukes Of Hazzard collection, but from an entertainment standpoint, don't expect to be too entertained with this season if you like the show for the stunts. I think if they were worried about money they should have just cancelled the show where they stood. I'm glad they lowered the price of it because it's not worth no 40 bucks. I always thought the stunts on the show were top notch, and it really brought out the best in the show, and with one fowl swoop, they ruined it with season 7.
Anyway, onto the Dukes.I've loved the first 6 seasons up until this point, and I thought Season 6 is the best season by far. I mean come on. BOY WAS I WRONG. It was still funny, and entertaining, but with a serious edge to it, so I was expecting Season 7 to continue in that direction.
Really a sad end for such a great show. The helicopter didn't even look as real as a remote control helicopter, which is sad. I bought this set to complete my collection, and since buying season 7 I have been kicking myself, and asking myself why I bothered to waste money on this garbage. 3-The Episodes themselves had a bit of substance, but not enough for you to really care what was going on. He jumps over a helicopter, and a grain elevator. Since they cut the season short, it really makes me wonder why they even bothered making 17 episodes. YEAH, LIKE THAT'S BELIEVABLE. I will start off by saying I am a huge fan, and I don't remember much of Season 7 from when I watched it as a kid, and thank god.
Yeah, sure to a little kid they might not notice, but I seen one shot of it, and knew right away that it was a complete joke. I'm glad I paid such a low price because if I paid a lot, I would be kicking myself even harder. Like when they would show a shot of the old cop car that hasn't been used since season 1, and they expected us not to notice. They should have said at the end of season 6, okay, we're done. I recommend season 6 to any Die Hard Dukes Fan.
First of all the car didn't even look real, and neither did the scenery. WB should be ashamed of themselves for ruining such a great show that had the potential to go on for at least a few more seasons if they would have done it right. Episodes like Lulu's Gone Away is what Dukes is all about in my humble opinion. I think this season is only worth maybe 15-20 dollars tops.
I used to complain about the fact that they would use old jump footage, or shots from old episodes, even though they didn't match. Anything more, and it's not really worth it. Now that I see this though, I would think twice about complaining about that now. 1-Storywise I think they couldn't come up with anything decent to write episodes about. 2-Money was becoming a real problem with the series, so in order to save money, Warner Bros tells them to stop wrecking so many cars in the episodes because it's costing way too much, so they say, okay, we'll use miniatures to do the jumps, and no one will notice. I am going to merely speculate here as to why the show ended in the way it did, so don't take any of this as fact, although I bet there is some truth to it.
You see the car land, and nothing breaks or anything, the car just kinda bounces. It was a good episode. Great Action, Great Stunts, Great Storytelling, Great Suspense, and Great Comedy from Boss and Rosco. It would have been a way better episode if they had've replaced the cheesy model car jumps and replaced it with old footage from older episodes like they did throughout the series. I hate to give such a great show a 1 rating, but this season IS BAD. It wasn't even funny, or believable for a second.
I did like some parts of the season however, like Happy Birthday General Lee.
Even though The Dukes Of Hazzard's 7th Season was okay, the Dukes started to lose their touch in this season, since it was almost identical to the Dukes 6th Season and part of the Dukes 5th Season with no new characters, no new co-stars, and no new introduction on top of that. Belding on SAVED BY THE BELL. -Morgan Woodward in the "Cool Hands, Bo & Luke" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS. got kind of lazy by not providing subtitles in English with the Sixth and Seventh Season Dukes Of Hazzard DVD's, because Universal didn't with any of their DVD's.
Therefore, you could say that The Dukes Of Hazzard's Seventh Season was the weakest and least successful season of them all throughout it's whole 1979-85 run on CBS, even though it still had Bo(John Schneider) and Luke(Tom Wopat) in it, but I think part of the reason why The Dukes Of Hazzard went downhill in this season was especially due to the fact that this show wasn't nearly as popular in this 1984-85 Season as it was during the Dukes first few seasons. did it with the first 5 seasons of The Dukes Of Hazzard. Except KNIGHT RIDER had continued to sustain it's touch and remained strong with the ratings while THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was starting to flop with it's ratings along with the fact that KITT was more upgraded with more features in it's Third Season, but the General Lee was still the same old car that was just simply getting older with no improvements or upgrades on it in the Dukes Seventh Season, which basically resulted in KNIGHT RIDER K.O.ing THE DUKES OF HAZZARD again. Therefore, I don't see why Warner Bros. -Dennis Haskins in the "Cale Yarborough Comes To Hazzard" episode before his co-starring days as Mr. This 1984-85 Season was the last and final season of The Dukes Of Hazzard and I can see why. -Michael Fairman in the "Enos & Daisy's Wedding" episode before his co-starring days on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS.
In addition to what resulted in CBS cancelling The Dukes Of Hazzard in 1985 and cutting this season short after only 17 episodes; all these Seventh Season episodes were a lot less funny, all the comedy scenes and actions on the show were overdone and out of style, plus the episodes in this season seemed to be getting more and more fake and a lot less sophisticated like in the "Strange Visitor To Hazzard" episode and the "Happy Birthday General Lee" episode for instance, plus Bo and Luke and the General Lee along with the rest of the cast and crew of The Dukes Of Hazzard seemed to all be getting burned out along with the fact that this show seemed to be running out of gas with no more hope left as if it were time to retire both the Dukes and the General Lee, especially since Bo and Luke nor the General Lee weren't nearly as impressive as it used to be as if the show and General Lee was dying and going out of style, which I'm sure was part of the reason why CBS had cut this season short along with the fact that this show was no longer going in the right direction either. Additionally; this DVD didn't provide Closed Captioning in DVD mode in English, but only Closed Captioning were able to be provided in television mode, unlike how Warner Bros. It was also interesting seeing. Therefore, The Dukes Of Hazzard was starting to lose their touch in this season and the General Lee wasn't as sharp or as impressive as it was during it's first 5 seasons, plus the General Lee seemed to start running kind of ragged and literally seemed to start losing its pep and horsepower, since the General Lee was getting a lot older along with the fact that the General Lee was already a '69 Dodge Charger, which already made the General Lee a classic when The Dukes Of Hazzard premiered on CBS in January of 1979.
-Barry Van-Dyke in "The Dukes In Hollywood" episode before his co-starring days as St. -Waylon Jennings making his first cameo appearance role in the "Welcome Waylon Jennings" episode Therefore, the Dukes Of Hazzard's Seventh Season seemed to be getting kind of like all the "Rocky" sequels, "The Karate Kid" sequels, all the Van-Damme movies, etc., which made the action on the show become semi-predictable of what would end up happening in the Dukes 1984-85 Season, since nothing really changed anymore, because Boss Hogg(Sorrell Booke) and Sheriff Rosco(Jim Best) seemed to have gotten dumber and more predictable, especially to the Dukes, especially since this was the 7th year for the Dukes, which didn't make a whole lot of sense, because you would think Boss and Rosco would've become smarter, wiser, more cautious, and more conscientious instead of stupider every year, especially after being screwed over and nearly killed so many times by various criminals throughout the Dukes whole 7-year run on CBS, but Boss and Rosco still never learned, not even after 7 seasons. John Hawke on the new AIRWOLF.
Therefore, I think The Dukes Of Hazzard's 4th Season was probably the last real solid season of this show before it started losing it's touch and when I like many other people started watching The Dukes Of Hazzard less and less each year every Friday night on CBS's Friday night line-up, especially between Coy and Vance Duke replacing Bo and Luke Duke in the first half of the Dukes 5th Season and then the episodes becoming even less sophisticated with everyone on the show getting burned out by the 7th Season and the 6th Season of the Dukes seemed to be just barely making it with sufficient ratings to keep the show afloat, since the 1983-84 Season of the Dukes was the first full season with Bo and Luke since their departure of the show, and KNIGHT RIDER coming out on NBC in the Fall of 1982 along with the fact that KNIGHT RIDER was still doing good in the ratings when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was in it's 7th Season, which was when KNIGHT RIDER was in it's 3rd Season. -Felix Silla in the "Strange Visitor To Hazzard" episode after his co-starring days as Twiki on BUCK ROGERS.
My family has all seven series of the Dukes on DVD. Thank you Amazon for carrying these beloved old classics. We love them and watch them over and over.
This show as one of teh most pure fun to ever be on tv (and technically it wsn't even a comedy). Clearly based on hit films like Smokey and the Bandit (with country lawmen far more funny than threatening and lots of great car chases.
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