[Vaquero]

I was a big Daisy Duke fan. I often watched it just to see her and the car.

Thought the show itself was dumb as a post though. Sorry fans. (Plus all those poor Dodge Chargers they ruined…criminal).

I assume it would be racist to watch it now? Do they digitally replace the battle flag with a gay rainbow or a pink Pussy Hat???

[atc23]

Tony Pyle and I were school chums from 4th grade to 12th grade in Newport Beach. Tony’s dad played the Duke patriarch - among many other roles.

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, how I loved Bo Duke when I was 14. I was absolutely transfixed every time he was on screen.

[Tanniker Smith]

Okay, having your cousin played by your (then) wife? That would’ve set up a whole different set of stereotype jokes!

[odawg]

“In 2015, after then-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley spoke out against the depiction of the flag in popular culture...”

Yep, that is what happens when immigrants are exalted to positions of leadership. They are tone deaf to cultural heritage when fired to the hilt by political ambition and think they are singled out by destiny to lord it over the natives.

I have noticed that some posters on this site get twitterpated at the mere mention of Nikki Haley. I honestly cannot figure out why.

[Buckeye McFrog]

James Best, who portrayed crooked sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane, refused to film five episodes because he had no private dressing room in which to change his clothes; the production just hosed him down when he got dirty.

Jack Albertson quit the Canadian series Police Surgeon for the identical reason.

[minnesota_bound]

I can think of a couple of more facts....

[Clay Moore]

I saw Daisy at Darryl Starbird’s Car Show in Houston. The show had some of his and Barris’ work in it but all I remember is Daisy. Every teen boy loved Daisy.

[FLT-bird]

The show was cornpone but everybody understood that and didn’t take it seriously. It was fun. It was such a big hit IMO because it depicted not only people who were not from NYC or LA but who were.....gasp!....Southerners. Furthermore, though it did have fun with the stereotypes, it depicted them as basically sympathetic people.

This is of course, anathema to the. Northeast/Left Coast types as is any kind of sympathetic depiction of Southern culture. Such a thing would never be made or aired today. They have decided sometime in the late 80s/early 90s that the Confederate battle flag is now suddenly a hate symbol and anybody displaying it MUST be filled with a seething hatred of anybody who isn’t a WASP - nevermind that totems of millions of Southerners it doesn’t mean that at all. Notice how this happened at about Leftists in Academia started pushing PC Revisionism.

I for one would not vote for Nikki Haley for county dog catcher. Plenty of others feel the same way. If you get in bed with South hating Leftists to further their agenda, you will forever be persona non grata with me.

[ConsCA]

This was a great show, fun entertainment.

[EMI_Guy]

I read or heard somewhere that the first five shows were shot on location in Covington and Conyers Georgia. The Covington GA town square and county courthouse could be seen frequently. Also, I heard a good number of chase scenes were shot in Henry County which is neighboring to the south of the county Covington is in.

I currently live in Henry County, and I could very easily be talked into believing that road scenes were shot here if my memory serves me correctly.

[bankwalker]

Item # 6 needs further discussion of the negotiations, including ALL of the photographic evidence that was presented.

[Ciaphas Cain]

That show nearly destroyed high school football across America.

Friday nights in the days before most people had even seen a VCR much less owned one. 8 pm and time for The Dukes! Except that's when the whole town is supposed to be at the high school's football stadium.

Attendance plummeted even in places like Texas. THAT is how powerful The Dukes of Hazzard was.

[pepsi_junkie]

CBS of the 60s was all country fare (Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, etc) and they were dominating the ratings but the boss wanted to be viewed as erudite by his peers in the intelligentsia and was embarrassed about the rural nature so he cancelled all of them and replaced them with a slate of shows which were meant to highlight leftwing values like All in the Family. Of course, to his chagrin Archie was the breakout star everyone loved, not meathead. But at least he didnt have a southern accent.

Then somehow a rural show about a couple of brothers driving around and doing good deeds while being chased by dopey lawmen slipped past him and became a giant hit. Must have driven him insane.

[ealgeone]

CBS execs hated the rural (think conservative fly over country) oriented shows. They wanted the urban, liberal based shows.

In the late 60s they had a cleansing and moved away from shows that were rural based to city based.

Been kinda downhill since.