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Dukes of Hazzard from a historical perspective
For many of us during 1970s and early 1980s, the highlight of the week was to watch this TV show on CBS. Like most fans, I enjoyed every second of this show and we owe this tremendous opportunity to a group of talented show creators on television, and crew and cast who did their jobs wonderfully. In this book the author narrates the story from a historical perspective. The book may be broadly classified into two sections; one, the history of making this show and the way the actors were casted, and second section describes the episodes (storylines) aired over seven seasons.

In the first section we get an opportunity to read the work of all the actors prior to this TV experience and how they reacted to becoming a part of the show. John Schneider, in 1970s and 1980s came on several talk-shows and described his experience on the set. Many fans are aware that he is from New York, but certain tricks pulled during the audition (cow boy hat, pick-up truck borrowed from a friend, chewing tobacco, etc.) helped him to pass himself as a southerner. The creator's thought that he is great for the role of Bo Duke. Tom Wopat who had experience in country music brought his guitar for the audition and the two actors became good friends since then. The Another piece of history is the well publicized quarrel between John and Tom with show producers since they did not share the large volume of revenue (from selling various products related to the show and other paraphernalia) with the two actors as they had originally contracted with them. But they were not alone, at various stages, Sonny Shroyer (Enos) Ben Jones (Cooter), James Best (Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane) and Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) had to walk out of the set for various reasons and they were brought back. The show had some turbulence but at the end it worked out greatly for the fans.

Another piece of history that is interesting to me is that the show was first shot on location in Covington, Georgia, and later at the end of first season the show was moved to California, and they were shot on location in Sherwood, and Valencia (near Santa Clarita), California. Much has changed since then, these locations where the great car chases of the show were shot are no longer there because of significant real estate developments.

There are many episodes that are my personal favorites which include "Swamp Molly,"
"Miss Tri-Counties," My son, Bo Hogg, The Law and Jessie Duke, The Hazzardville Horror," "The Great Santa Clause Chase" (incidentally this is the only Christmas episode of this show), "Dear Diary, "The Big Heist" and many other episodes. The author discusses each episode in some detail and provides information about guest actors and actresses of each episode, with additional notes and interesting trivia. I think this is a treasure; although some information about the show is also available on internet.

1. The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete TV Series (Seasons 1-7)

An Entertaining Read
"The Unofficial Companion of the Dukes of Hazzard" is packed with facts and stories about the amazing TV series.You'll learn about the real moonshine runners that inspired the series and how the concept of the show was able to get through the negative reactions of the Hollywood crowd.You'll learn a lot about the development of the show and how the cast members felt about it.Other than the walkout in season five, it's good to see that the cast members all have very fond memories about being a part of this chapter of television history.

The only reason I gave this four stars instead of five is that nearly two thirds of the book is made up of episode synopses.If you already have the series on DVD, then most of this section is not new information.However, they do add bits of trivia to this section, so it's still an interesting read.However, I would have liked the whole book to tell the story of how the series was made in more depth.I guess we'll have to wait longer for that type of book to come out.Until it does, this is a good one to check out.

If you're a Dukes fan,you'll love this book!
As a Dukes fan,I was thrilled when this book came out-it's about as official as you can get for an"unofficial"companion book. If there's anything you've ever wanted to know about the show,the actors,or even the General Lee,you'll find it in this book. I highly recommend it.

Wonderful, detailed book full of little known facts!
This is a great read for any Dukes of Hazzard fan.The author gives a detailed history describing Waldron's inspirations for the show, facts on the personal and acting history of each cast member,as well as an episode by episode discussion of all eight seasons!Even guest stars are discussed.I found out many interesting unknown facts about the guest stars which made the show even more fun to watch(for instance, I didn't not know that the lady playing the character of Sherry Tolliver in the episode 'The Rustlers' was the future Mrs. James Best.) The author then ends it all by giving updates on each member of the cast.Hats off to Hofstede for a job well done!

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