Sorrell Booke wore padding under his suit when playing over-weight Boss Hogg.
The first five episodes of the series were filmed in Georgia, before filming moved to the Warner Brothers set in Burbank, California, where filming stayed for the rest of the series. The original Georgia locations are to this day often visited by Dukes fans.
Waylon Jennings's band, The Waylors, provided the in-episode music for early episodes.
They crashed a lot of cars filming this show. Replacing the police sedans was easy - replacing the old Dodge Chargers ("General Lee") was not as they weren't made anymore. It got to the point where producers would spot a Charger on the street and would approach the owner and offer to buy it on the spot.
John Schneider (Bo Duke) has restored over 20 Dodge Chargers (The General Lee).
During one of the famous jump sequences the stunt crew actually set a world record.
One of Catherine Bach's (Daisy) outfits was on display at the Smithsonian in Washington DC.
Somewhere between 256-321 "General Lee" cars were created and mostly destroyed during the series. Less than 20 in various states of disrepair still exist. Despite popular belief, there were no 1970 Chargers used in the series according to all the car builders.
The "P." in Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane wasn't added until the 2nd season. It stands for "Pervis".
Before Tom Wopat was chosen for the role of Luke, among the other actors who were considered for the part were Dennis Quaid and Gerald McRaney.
Bo and Luke used bows and arrows instead of guns because the boys were on probation for moonshine running and any use of firearms would be seen as a probation violation.
Boss Hogg had a twin brother (Sorrell Booke in a dual role), who appeared just once in "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) {Baa, Baa White Sheep (#3.7)}. He was the literal opposite of Jefferson Davis Hogg - he was completely law-abiding, wore black, and his name was Abraham Lincoln Hogg.
Rosco's dog, a sleepy-eyed basset hound, was named Flash.
The name of the state that Hazzard County was in was never explicitly revealed. However, it was within driving distance of Atlanta, Georgia and in "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) {Happy Birthday, General Lee (#7.1)} Boss Hogg tells Daisy she has "the best legs in all of Georgia".
When Tom Wopat and John Schneider briefly left the show during their contract dispute, their absences were explained by having Bo and Luke leaving Hazzard to try their hands on the NASCAR circuit.
The original Georgia location of Ace's Used Car Lot (Repo Men episode) was torn down in 1998 to make way for a church expansion, and the original Boar's Nest is also now a church.
Uncle Jesse's CB handle was "Shepherd," Bo and Luke's handle was "Lost Sheep," and Daisy's handle was "Bo Peep."
Ben Jones (Cooter) actually owns a store called "Cooters" in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, dedicated to all things related to the show.
Over half of the fan mail for the show was actually addressed to the General Lee.
The General Lee's famous "Dixie" horn wasn't originally planned; when the producers were driving in Atlanta during the first few episodes, they heard a car pass with a "Dixie" horn and chased the driver down and convinced him to sell the horn. They later realized that it was a novelty horn which could be purchased at any auto parts store for a third of what they paid for it. The horn was only used in the first five episodes. Once filming moved to the Warner Brothers lot, the horn was edited in during post-production.
During the 1981-82 season, John Schneider and Tom Wopat demanded raises, claiming that they were owed a lot of royalties from the show's extensive line of merchandise. They ended up walking out, and the producers replaced the characters of Bo and Luke with Coy and Vance for the 1982-83 season, which resulted in a big fall in the show's ratings. The dispute with Schneider and Wopat was eventually settled, and they returned for the final four episodes of the season, with the "clone" Dukes being written out in the same episode, never to be mentioned again.
Many of the scripts for season five were written for Bo and Luke, and then just changed to Coy and Vance.
During season two, Ben Jones walked off the set over a dispute over whether or not he should cut his hair and shave. He was replaced temporarily by Cooter's cousins B.B. Davenport, played by Mickey Jones, and Ernie Lively, as L.B. Davenport.
James Best also left the series temporarily during season two over a dispute regarding the dressing rooms. He was replaced by Jeff Altman as Hughie Hogg, followed by Clifton James as Lester Crabb, Dick Sargent as Grady Byrd, and James Hampton as Buster Moon. Altman and James were listed as guest stars, while Byrd and Hampton were actually listed in the opening credits.
The episodes involving Texas Ranger Jude Emory and private investigators Mason Dixon and his girls were test pilots for possible spin-offs.
Sonny Shroyer had it written into his contract that if his spin-off, Enos, didn't last a full season, he could return to The Dukes of Hazzard. Enos only lasted 17 episodes, after which Shroyer returned to the Dukes.
On the CMT "Inside the Dukes" special, Catherine Bach said she offered to walk out along with Tom Wopat and John Schneider, but they convinced her to stay, with Uncle Jesse. The reasoning was that if she left, then there would be no show to come back to.
Country singer Mel Tillis played a character in one of the episodes, and then later reappeared in another episode as himself, who was a victim of Rosco's "Celebrity Speed Trap."
Sorrell Booke had it in his contract that there must be things that Boss Hogg would not do. The two things he would not do were dealing drugs, and killing.
In several interviews, John Schneider said that he lied about his age in order to get the part of Bo Duke. He told them that he was 24, when in reality, he was only 19. He also showed up in a T-shirt and blue jeans, carrying a six pack of beer, and pretending to speak with a Southern accent, when in reality he was from New York City.
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