Editing The Dukes of Hazzard (section)

==Cast and characters==
[[File:Dukes of hazzard cast photo.jpg|thumb|right|190px|Cast of ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' (''from left''): ''(bottom)'' John Schneider, Tom Wopat, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, Peggy Rea; ''(top)'' Ben Jones, Sorrell Booke, James Best, Sonny Shroyer]]
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"|Character
! rowspan="2"|Portrayed by
! colspan="7"|Season
! style="width:8%;" rowspan=2|''[[The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!|Reunion!]]''
! style="width:8%;" rowspan=2|''[[The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood|Hazzard in Hollywood]]''
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! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 1 (1979)|1]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 2 (1979–80)|2]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 3 (1980–81)|3]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 4 (1981–82)|4]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 5 (1982–83)|5]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 6 (1983–84)|6]]
! style="width:6%;" | [[List of The Dukes of Hazzard episodes#Season 7 (1984–85)|7]]
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! [[Luke Duke]]
| [[Tom Wopat]]
| colspan="4" {{CMain}}
| {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="4" {{CMain}}
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! [[Bo Duke]]
| [[John Schneider (screen actor)|John Schneider]]
| colspan="4" {{CMain}}
| {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="4" {{CMain}}
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! [[Daisy Duke]]
| [[Catherine Bach]]
| colspan="9" {{CMain}}
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! [[#Jesse|Jesse Duke]]
| [[Denver Pyle]]
| colspan="8" {{CMain}}
| colspan="1" {{N/A|}}
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! [[Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane]]
| [[James Best]]
| colspan="9" {{CMain}}
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! [[Boss Hogg]]
| [[Sorrell Booke]]
| colspan="7" {{CMain}}
| colspan="2" {{N/A|}}
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! [[#Cooter|Cooter Davenport]]
| [[Ben Jones (American actor and politician)|Ben Jones]]
| colspan="9" {{CMain}}
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! [[#Enos|Deputy Enos Strate]]
| [[Sonny Shroyer]]
| colspan="2" {{CMain}}
| colspan="1" {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="1" {{N/A|}}
| colspan="9" {{CMain}}
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! [[#Balladeer|The Balladeer]]
| [[Waylon Jennings]]
| colspan="7" {{CMain}}
| colspan="2" {{N/A|}}
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! [[#Cletus|Deputy Cletus Hogg]]
| [[Rick Hurst]]
| colspan="2" {{CRecurring}}
| colspan="2" {{CMain}}
| {{CGuest}}
| colspan="2" {{N/A|}}
| colspan="2" {{CMain}}
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! [[#Coy|Coy Duke]]
| [[Byron Cherry]]
| colspan="4" {{N/A|}}
| {{CMain}}
| colspan="4" {{N/A|}}
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! [[#Vance|Vance Duke]]
| [[Christopher Mayer (American actor)|Christopher Mayer]]
| colspan="4" {{N/A|}}
| {{CMain}}
| colspan="4" {{N/A|}}
|}

===Main characters===
* {{anchor|Luke}}'''[[Lucas K. "Luke" Duke]]''' ([[Tom Wopat]]), is the dark-haired, older Duke boy. He is typically the one who thinks of the plan that will get himself and his cousin Bo out of whatever trouble they have gotten into. Luke wears a checked blue shirt (a plain blue shirt in most, though not all, second-series episodes) and a denim jacket over it in first season and a few later second-season episodes. He is a veteran of the [[United States Marine Corps]] and a former boxer. Luke acted hypocritically on occasion, most prominently in season 1 episode 6 "Swamp Molly".<ref>{{Citation|title=Swamp Molly|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0567214/?ref_=ttep_ep6/|access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref> Luke was the first Duke to perform the "hood slide" across the ''General Lee'', which is seen in the opening credits of the show (a shot taken from the second episode, "Daisy's Song"). According to Wopat the slide was an accident, because his foot got caught on the side of the ''General Lee'' when he attempted to jump across the hood; he also caught his arm on the hood's radio antenna, resulting in such antennas being removed from later versions of the ''General Lee''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/08/09/wopat-luke-schneider-john-dukes-hazzard-indiana-state-fair/31384263/ |title=Tom Wopat: 'Dukes' are collateral damage in flag flap |access-date=April 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124180258/https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/08/09/wopat-luke-schneider-john-dukes-hazzard-indiana-state-fair/31384263/ |archive-date=November 24, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, the "hood slide" quickly proved popular and became a regular staple of the rest of the episodes. The only episode to directly refer to the age difference between Luke and Bo is in the seventh season opener, the "flashback" episode "Happy Birthday, General Lee", where it is stated that Luke had already been in the Marines while Bo was in his last year at high school.<ref>{{Citation|title=Happy Birthday General Lee|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0567172/?ref_=ttep_eps_top/|access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref> Though Bo and Luke share the CB call sign "Lost Sheep", in the season one episode "Money to Burn", Luke refers to himself (singularly) as "Sittin' Duck".
* {{anchor|Bo}}'''[[Beauregard "Bo" Duke]]''' ([[John Schneider (screen actor)|John Schneider]]) is the blond-haired, younger Duke boy. He is more of the "shoot first, ask questions later" type than Luke. In the first-season episode "High Octane", his actual first name is revealed to be Beauregard. Bo had his eye, or heart, distracted by a pretty girl at times, leading the Dukes into trouble in a few episodes. Bo usually wears a cream-yellow shirt; for the first two seasons he wears a blue T-shirt underneath (brown in the first episode). This was slowly phased out during the third season. An ex-[[Stock car racing|stock car]] driver, Bo is the one who drives the ''General Lee'' most of the time, with Luke [[riding shotgun]]. Bo was also the first Duke to jump the General Lee.<ref>{{Citation|title=Happy Birthday General Lee|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0567172/?ref_=ttep_eps_top/|access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref> He and Luke take turns of driving the ''General Lee'' in some episodes as they share the car with each other (very early episodes suggest that it belongs solely to him; Luke is said to have a car that Cooter had wrecked shortly prior to the start of the opening episode, "One Armed Bandits"). Bo is known for his [[rebel yell]], "''Yeeeee-haaa,''" which he usually yells when the ''General Lee'' is airborne during a jump. Bo was the only Duke to perform a roof slide (sliding over the roof of the car rather than just the hood), as seen in the season 4 episodes "Dear Diary"<ref>{{Citation|title= Dear Diary|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0567148/?ref_=ttep_ep20/|access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref> and "Share and Share Alike".<ref>{{Citation|title= Share and Share Alike|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0758193/?ref_=ttep_ep25/|access-date=2024-06-04}}</ref> The Duke boys share the [[Citizens band radio|CB]] [[call sign]] or handle "Lost Sheep".
* {{Anchor|Daisy}}'''[[Daisy Duke]]''' ([[Catherine Bach]]) is Bo, Luke, Coy, and Vance's cousin. She is beautiful, honest, and kind, although she can be slightly over-trusting and naïve, which has led the Duke family into trouble on a number of occasions. She sometimes aspires to be a songwriter and singer, and at other times, a reporter. She races around Hazzard with her cousins, first in a yellow and black 1974 [[Plymouth Road Runner]] (later a 1971 Plymouth Satellite was used) and then, from mid-season 2 on, in her trademark white 1980 [[Jeep CJ#CJ-7|Jeep CJ-7]], christened ''Dixie'' with a golden eagle emblem on the hood (and the name "Dixie" on the hood sides). Daisy works as a waitress at the Boar's Nest, the local bar and [[pub]] owned by Boss Hogg, as part of an agreement with Boss Hogg so that he would give Uncle Jesse and the boys a loan for a lower interest rate so the boys could purchase the entry fee for a race in which they wished to race the ''General Lee''. The arrangement was supposed to be for an indefinite time, but there are several times throughout the series when Hogg fires her. However, he always ends up rehiring her at the end of each episode because of various circumstances. Although Hogg is a nemesis to Daisy and her family, she is friends with Hogg's wife Lulu. Daisy often uses her charming personality and sex appeal to influence male policemen or henchmen into going easier on other Duke family members and/or cause them to become too distracted to carry out their assigned duties or evil plans.  Daisy also utilizes her position at the restaurant to get insider information to help the Dukes in foiling Hogg's various schemes. She also has the distinction of having her trademark provocatively high-cut jean short shorts named after her: "[[Daisy Duke#As a sex symbol|daisy dukes]]". Her CB handle is "Bo Peep". Occasionally, the variant of "Country Cousin" is used.
* {{Anchor|Jesse}}'''Jesse Duke''' ([[Denver Pyle]]), referred to by just about everyone in Hazzard other than Boss Hogg as "Uncle Jesse", is the patriarch of the Duke clan, and the father figure to all of the Dukes who stay with him on the Duke farm. Jesse apparently has at least five siblings but no children of his own, and he happily provides for his nephews and niece in the unexplained absence of all of their parents (Gy Waldron, the creator of the show, states on the DVDs that their parents were killed in a car wreck, but it was never mentioned in the show). In the third broadcast episode, "Mary Kaye's Baby", Jesse says that he has delivered many babies, including Bo and Luke. Jesse Duke, in his youth, had been a [[Moonshine|ridgerunner]] in direct competition with Boss Hogg, whom he always calls "J.D.". However, while both Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse would scowl at the mention of the other's name, the two enjoyed a lifelong "friendship" of sorts, with one helping the other when in desperate need. Jesse educated his nephews against Hogg, and often provides the cousins with inspirational sage advice. Uncle Jesse drives a white 1973 [[Ford F-Series|Ford F-100]] pickup truck. In the barn, he also has his old moonshine-running car, called ''Sweet Tillie'' in its first appearance (in the first-season episode "High Octane"), but referred to as ''Black Tillie'' in subsequent appearances. In the second-season episode "Follow That Still" and the sixth-season episode "The Boar's Nest Bears", the marriage to, and death of, his wife is mentioned; he also mentions marrying her in the first-season episode "Luke's Love Story". His CB handle is "Shepherd", a reference to his always seeking out and saving his "lost sheep"—Bo and Luke—from their various mishaps.
* {{Anchor|Sheriff}}'''[[Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane]]''' ([[James Best]]) is the bumbling and corrupt [[Sheriffs in the United States|sheriff]] of Hazzard County and right-hand man and brother-in-law of its corrupt county administrator, Jefferson Davis "J.D." Hogg ("Boss Hogg"), whom Rosco calls his "little fat buddy", "Little Chrome Dome", "Little Meadow-Muffin", and several other names. In the early episodes, it is mentioned that Rosco spent the first 20 years of his career as a mostly honest lawman, but after the county voted away his pension, Rosco joined Hogg in an effort to fund his retirement in his last couple of years as sheriff. Early episodes also portray him as a fairly hard-nosed, somewhat darker policeman character, who even shoots a criminal during the first season. As the series progressed and producers recognized how popular it had become with children, Best altered his portrayal into a more bumbling, comical character. By the end of the first season, his origin had been virtually forgotten (and his job as sheriff appeared to become open-ended). Rosco is also the younger brother of Lulu Coltrane Hogg (Boss Hogg's wife). Rosco frequently initiates car chases with Bo and Luke Duke, but the Duke boys usually elude Rosco by outwitting him, with Rosco typically wrecking his patrol car as a result from which he would nearly always escape unscathed (only two episodes—the fourth season's "Coltrane vs. Duke" and the sixth season's "Too Many Roscos"—toy with the concept of him being injured. The first episode has him faking injury so that the Duke boys would lose the General Lee while the latter has Best playing two characters. His normal character, Rosco, is presumed drowned while a criminal that looks like Rosco has a headache). These chases are often the result of Rosco setting up illegal speed traps such as false or changing speed limit signs and various other trickery, which became increasingly cartoonish and far-fetched as the seasons passed. While he enjoys "hot pursuit" he seemingly (Boss Hogg as well) never intends for anyone to get seriously hurt. His middle initial, "P", was added at the start of the second season, and only one episode (the third season's "Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane", in which he is subjected to a scam marriage) reveals his middle name, "Purvis". Rosco also has a soft spot for his [[Basset Hound]] Flash, introduced at the start of the third season. His radio codename is "Red Dog". When Best briefly boycotted the show during the mid-second season, he was temporarily replaced by several "one-off" sheriffs, the longest standing being Sheriff Grady Bird, played by [[Dick Sargent]], who appeared in two episodes ("Jude Emery" and "Officer Daisy Duke").
* {{Anchor|Boss Hogg}}'''[[Boss Hogg|Boss Jefferson Davis "J.D." Hogg]]''' ([[Sorrell Booke]]) is the wealthiest man in Hazzard County and owns most of its property and businesses—whether directly or by holding the [[Mortgage law|mortgages]] over the land. Usually dressed in an all-white suit, he is the fat, greedy, corrupt county commissioner with visions of grandeur and a voracious appetite for food, who constantly orders Rosco to "Get them Duke boys!" He is also Bo and Luke's probation officer; when Bo and Luke need to leave Hazzard they always get permission from him. Boss Hogg is also married to (and dominated by) Rosco's "fat sister" (Lulu Coltrane Hogg), a point that does not always sit well with either Boss Hogg or Rosco; Hogg sometimes claims that Rosco is indebted to him because of it, though his on-screen interactions with Lulu typically show him loving her deeply (and giving in to her stronger personality). In addition to his role as county commissioner, he is also the police commissioner, land commissioner, and bank president. Boss is also the chief of the Hazzard Fire Department and the owner of, or primary mortgage holder on, most of the places in the county, including the Boar's Nest, Rhubottem's Store, Cooter's garage and the Duke farm. It is implied in some episodes that he is the Justice of the Peace, but in others Hazzard relies on a circuit judge. In the episode "Coltrane vs. Duke", Hogg represents Rosco when he sues the Dukes, implying that he is a licensed attorney. His vehicle is a white 1970 [[Cadillac de Ville series|Cadillac Coupe de Ville]] convertible, with bull horns mounted on the hood. In the first few seasons, he is almost always driven around by a [[chauffeur]]. His old moonshine-running car was called ''The Gray Ghost''. Every morning, Boss Hogg would drink coffee and eat raw liver (Booke, a [[Method acting|method actor]], actually ate the raw liver).<ref>''The Dukes of Hazzard'': "One Armed Bandits" DVD commentary track by John Schneider and Catherine Bach</ref> Boss Hogg is described in one analysis as "an ineffectual bad guy—hence amusing".<ref>John Shelton Reed, ''Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types'' (2007), p. 21.</ref>
* {{Anchor|Cooter}}'''Cooter Davenport''' ([[Ben Jones (American actor and politician)|Ben Jones]]) is the Hazzard County mechanic, nicknamed "Crazy Cooter" (a "[[Pseudemys|cooter]]" is a large freshwater turtle, common in the southeastern U.S.). In the early episodes, he is a wild man, often breaking the law. By the end of the first season, he has settled down and become an easygoing good ol' boy. Although not mentioned in the first couple of episodes, by the mid-first season, he owns "Cooter's Garage" in Hazzard County Square, directly across from the Sheriff's Department. Cooter is an "honorary Duke", as he shares the same values and often assists the Dukes in escaping Rosco's clutches, or helps them to foil Boss Hogg's schemes. During the second season, Jones left the series for a few episodes due to a dispute over whether the character should be clean-shaven or have a full beard. In his absence, Cooter's place was filled by several of Cooter's supposed cousins who were never mentioned before or since. Jones returned when the dispute was solved—Cooter would be clean-shaven (although, for continuity reasons, with the episodes being broadcast in a different order to that which they were filmed, he was not clean-shaven until the third season onwards). Cooter drives a variety of trucks, including [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]s, [[Chevrolet|Chevy]]s, and [[GMC (automobile)|GMC]]s. His CB handle is "Crazy Cooter" and he often starts his CB transmissions with "Breaker one, Breaker one, I might be crazy but I ain't dumb, Craaaazy Cooter comin' atcha, come on."
* {{Anchor|Enos}}'''Deputy Enos Strate''' ([[Sonny Shroyer]]) is a friend of the Dukes but, while working for Rosco and Boss, he is often forced into pursuing the Dukes and/or arresting them on trumped-up charges. In the early episodes, Enos is shown to be a rather good driver (and respected as such by Bo and Luke) but, by the end of the first season, he is shown to be as incompetent a driver as Rosco. His common catchphrase is "Possum on a gumbush!" When he returns from [[Enos (TV series)|his stint in Los Angeles]], he seems to be able to stand up to Boss and Rosco slightly more, and sometimes refuses to participate in their schemes. In the early episodes, Rosco frequently calls him "jackass", which soon evolved into the more family-friendly "dipstick" as the show became a hit with younger viewers (though Boss Hogg, who also used the term "jackass" to berate Sheriff Rosco, occasionally returned to calling Enos this in later seasons). Enos has a crush on Daisy Duke that she often uses to the Dukes' advantage in unraveling Hogg and Rosco's schemes. Enos is very much in love with Daisy, and although Daisy seems to love him back, it is supposedly only as a close friend. In the penultimate episode, "Enos and Daisy's Wedding", the two plan on getting married, only to have Enos call it off at the last minute due to an attack of [[Urticaria|hives]], brought on by the excitement of possibly being married to Daisy. Later, in the [[The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!|first reunion movie]], Enos and Daisy become a pair again and plan to get married, but this time ''Daisy'' backs out at the last minute upon the unexpected sight of her ex-husband.
* {{Anchor|Cletus}}'''Deputy Cletus Hogg''' ([[Rick Hurst]]), Boss Hogg's second cousin twice removed, is generally friendly and dim-witted. Like Enos, Cletus is often forced by Rosco and Hogg to chase the Dukes on trumped up charges. While Cletus is good-hearted, and sometimes resentful of having to treat the Dukes in such a way, he is somewhat more willing to go along with Hogg and Rosco than Enos. Cletus has a crush (though not as bad as Enos' crush) on Daisy and is even convinced she wants to marry him. Like Enos and Rosco, Cletus frequently ends up landing in a pond when pursuing the Duke boys in a [[car chase]]. Cletus makes his first appearance as the driver of a bank truck, part of Hogg's latest get-rich-quick scheme, in the first-season episode "Money To Burn", and becomes temporary deputy while Enos is away in the second-season episodes "The Meeting" and "Road Pirates". Leaving a job at the local junkyard, he becomes permanent deputy in the third season's "Enos Strate to the Top". After Enos' return, the pair both serve as deputies and share the same patrol car until the end of season five. Each of the Hazzard County Sheriff's Department officers drives various mid- to late-1970s Chrysler mid-size [[Chrysler B platform|B body]] patrol cars, most often a [[Dodge Monaco]] or [[Plymouth Fury]].
* {{Anchor|Coy}}'''Coy Duke''' ([[Byron Cherry]]) is another blond-haired cousin who moves to Uncle Jesse's farm along with his cousin Vance after Bo and Luke left Hazzard to join the [[NASCAR]] circuit in season 5. Like his cousin Bo, he often drives the ''General Lee'', is a bit wilder than Vance and chases women; he and Vance are only in the first 19 episodes of season 5 and Coy and Vance are in only one episode with their cousins Bo and Luke when they return from the NASCAR circuit. Supposedly, with cousin Vance, Coy had previously lived on the Duke farm until 1976, before the series had started.
* {{Anchor|Vance}}'''Vance Duke''' ([[Christopher Mayer (American actor)|Christopher Mayer]]), an obvious replacement for Luke, filled the void of a dark-haired Duke on the show. Like Luke, Vance is more the thinker and the planner of the duo, along with being more mature than Coy. He is also a former [[United States Merchant Marine|Merchant Marine]]r.
* {{Anchor|Balladeer}}'''The Balladeer''' (voice of [[Waylon Jennings]]) sings and plays the ''Dukes of Hazzard'' theme song, "Good Ol' Boys", and serves as the show's narrator. During each episode, he provides an [[Narration#Third person|omniscient]] viewpoint of the situations presented, and regularly interjects comical [[aside]]s during crucial plot points (often, during a freeze frame of a [[cliffhanger]] scene right before a commercial break) and "down home" aphorisms (these freeze-frame cliffhangers were often abridged in showings in some countries, such as the commercial-free [[BBC]] in the United Kingdom). After numerous requests from fans to see the Balladeer on-screen, Jennings finally appeared in one episode, the seventh season's aptly titled "Welcome, Waylon Jennings", in which he was presented as an old friend of the Dukes.
* {{Anchor|Flash}}'''Flash''' (Sandy and others) is a slow-paced [[basset hound]] and Rosco's loyal companion, who hates Boss Hogg but loves the Dukes. She first appeared in the first official third-season episode "Enos Strate to the Top" (the two-part third season opener "Carnival of Thrills" was held over from the previous season), although the dog was not formally "introduced" in that episode. Initially referred to as a boy, Flash is later regularly a girl (despite an occasional male reference afterwards). Flash was added at the start of the third season, after James Best suggested to the producers that Rosco have a dog. Rosco doted on Flash, often calling her "Velvet Ears". Flash was portrayed by several Basset Hounds during the series (distinguishable by different facial colors), the most regular being Sandy.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} James Best bought a share of Sandy, who was rescued from an [[animal shelter]] and was trained by Alvin Mears of Alvin Animal Rentals. Sandy lived to age 14. A [[Stuffed toy|stuffed]] dog named Flush was used for dangerous stunt work in a few episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvacres.com/dogs_bassett_flash.htm|title=Basset Hounds|publisher=tvacres.com|access-date=April 6, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205002757/http://www.tvacres.com/dogs_bassett_flash.htm|archive-date=February 5, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

The pilot episode was to include a barber modeled after [[Floyd Lawson]] on ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' as a regular character, but was eliminated when the final draft of the pilot's script was written and before the show was cast.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

===Recurring characters===
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| '''Lulu Coltrane Hogg''' || [[Peggy Rea]]
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|colspan=2| Boss Hogg's wife, Hughie Hogg's aunt, and Rosco's sister. Lulu constantly challenged her husband for authority and rallied for the equality of women in Hazzard, and was one of the few people in Hazzard who actually intimidated Boss, though he genuinely loved and cared for her. Although much mentioned, Lulu only appeared once during the first season (in the episode "Repo Men") and once during the second season ("The Rustlers"), before her appearances gradually increased over the third season. By the fourth season, she was a frequently seen recurring character. Initially in her single first- and second-season appearances, she was portrayed to be rather spoiled and selfish; as her appearances increased, the character evolved into being more caring and kind—often in contrast to Boss, and which on occasion proved to be his downfall or his [[Achilles' heel]]. Although Boss is a nemesis to the Dukes, Lulu is best friends with Daisy.
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| '''Myrtle / Mabel Tillingham''' || [[Lindsay Bloom]]
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|colspan=2| Mabel is Hogg's cousin who runs the Hazzard Phone Company, who often sneak-listens to calls and lets Hogg know what is going on. Her name mysteriously changed from Myrtle to Mabel midway through the second season.
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| '''Longstreet B. Davenport''' || [[Ernie Lively]] (credited as Ernie W. Brown)
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|colspan=2| L.B. was Cooter's cousin who filled for Cooter when he was away from the garage in several second-season episodes (in reality, this was to cover for Ben Jones's absence, after a disagreement with producers as to whether Cooter should have a beard or not). L.B. appeared in the episodes "Follow that Still", "Duke of Duke", and "The Runaway", before Jones returned to the series; the episode "Grannie Annie" also features another temporary Cooter replacement, [[Mickey Jones]] as B.B. Davenport. Ernie Lively also played a different character named "Dobro Doolan", a friend of Bo and Luke, in the first episode of the series, "One Armed Bandits" (where he was credited as Ernie Brown), and as a guard called Clyde in the later sixth-season episode "The Ransom of Hazzard County". With Cooter's temporary absence, it was never fully explained why one of his relations was suddenly running the garage in his place; and in a similar vein to Coy and Vance in the fifth season, both of these cousins of Cooter were very much clones of the original character, and were never mentioned before or after their temporary spells replacing the original character.
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| '''Hughie Hogg''' || [[Jeff Altman]]
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|colspan=2| A play-on-words of the popular military helicopter.  Boss Hogg's young nephew, said to be as crooked as—maybe even ''more crooked'' than—Hogg. Dressed in an all-white suit just like his Uncle Boss, Hughie drove or was chauffeured around in a white [[Volkswagen Beetle|VW Beetle]] with bull horns on the hood, similar to Boss Hogg's [[Cadillac de Ville series|Cadillac]]. Typically, Boss Hogg would call in Hughie once per season to come up with a particularly dastardly scheme to get rid of the Dukes. Hughie's seemingly flawless plots always ended in disaster, and Boss Hogg would throw him out of Hazzard at the end of the episode. Despite this, Hogg always gave Hughie "one last chance" on his next appearance. In later appearances, Hughie wormed his way back into Hazzard by coming up with a scheme and then persuading Hogg to go along with it, often by bribery. The character of Hughie was first introduced in the episode "Uncle Boss", produced as the second episode of the second season but not broadcast until the third season (for unknown reasons, and just several episodes prior to "The Return of Hughie Hogg"). By that time, Hughie had already been seen as Temporary Sheriff in the second-season episode "Arrest Jesse Duke", in which he appeared in a secondary role, written in at the last minute to cover Sheriff Rosco's absence during James Best's temporary boycott of the show. He acted somewhat out of character of his usual conniving self in the episode, due to being given most of Rosco's lines. Like the two Hazzard County deputies, Hughie has eyes for Daisy Duke, but his feelings are merely of a selfish, lustful nature; Daisy despises Hughie, and thus the only reason that she will ''ever'' appear to return Hughie's interest is merely to charm him into relaxing his guard or lure him away from a certain area until the other townspeople can prepare to act against him, thus preventing him from subjecting Hazzard County to additional corruption.
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| '''Wayne / Norris''' || Roger Torrey
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|colspan=2| One of Hughie's loyal duo of henchmen. Played by the same actor, but with different names on different occasions.
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| '''Floyd / Barclay''' || [[Pat Studstill]]
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|colspan=2| The other of Hughie's duo of henchmen. He and Norris were both bigger than Bo and Luke, but nonetheless struggled in fights against them. Again played by the same actor, but with different names on different occasions.
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| '''Emery Potter''' || Charlie Dell
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|colspan=2| Emery Potter is the part-time Hazzard County registrar and chief teller of the Hazzard Bank. Emery is a meek, soft-spoken man with a low tolerance for anything exciting. He is a friend of the Dukes, and sometimes falls under Hogg's crooked schemes simply because he is too timid to stand up for himself. First seen in the second-season episode "People's Choice", the character made several return appearances across the seasons. He has also served as Temporary Deputy on occasion.
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| '''Dr. Henry "Doc" Petticord''' || [[Patrick Cranshaw]]
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|colspan=2| Hazzard County's ancient, long-serving physician.
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| '''Miz (Emma) Tisdale''' || [[Nedra Volz]]
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|colspan=2| The postmistress of the Hazzard Post Office, Miz Tisdale ("Emma" to Jesse Duke) was an elderly woman who drove a motorcycle and had a huge crush on Uncle Jesse because they knew each other long ago. She was also a reporter for the ''Hazzard Gazette''.
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| '''Sheriff Edward Thomas "Big Ed" Little''' || [[Don Pedro Colley]]
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|colspan=2| The hulking sheriff of neighboring Chickasaw County, who drove a 1975 [[Plymouth Fury]] patrol car, and the only recurring character in the series played by a black actor. Sheriff Little had an angry tendency to punch and kick fenders and doors off cars that he wrecked. He was also not afraid to pull out his trusty 12-gauge shotgun and open fire. He is a left-handed police officer. The ill-tempered sheriff hated Bo, Luke, Daisy, Coy, Vance, Uncle Jesse, and Cooter immensely and they were well aware that Bo and Luke were not allowed to enter his county. Sheriff Little was constantly irritated by the bumbling performance of Sheriff Coltrane and the crookedness of Hogg, although he thought highly of deputy Enos; Little was strict, by-the-book, and a competent law officer, everything that Sheriff Rosco was not (although he too had little luck in capturing Bo and Luke). He had a wife named Rachel and a daughter. Before Sheriff Little was introduced, in the third-season episode "My Son, Bo Hogg", several first- and second-season episodes saw several similar tough-as-nails Sheriffs from adjoining counties.
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| '''Mr. Rhuebottom''' || John Wheeler
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|colspan=2| A local store owner, seen occasionally from the fourth-season episode "Pin the Tail on the Dukes" onwards (the Rhuebottom General Store shopfront is seen as early as the first-season episode "Luke's Love Story").
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| '''Dr. "Doc" Appleby''' || Elmore Vincent, later [[Parley Baer]]
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|colspan=2| Elderly successor to Doc Petticord. Played by Elmore Vincent on the character's first appearance, in the fourth-season episode "Dear Diary", before Parley Baer took over the role in subsequent appearances.
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| '''Elton Loggins''' || Ritchie Montgomery
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|colspan=2| A [[disc jockey]] on the local WHOGG radio station, seen in the sixth-season episode "Enos's Last Chance" and the late seventh-season episode "Strange Visitor To Hazzard", and referred to, along with the radio station, in several other episodes. Other than actor [[M. C. Gainey]] (who played Sheriff Rosco in the 2005 movie version and had previously played a villain in the fourth-season episode "Bad Day in Hazzard"), Ritchie Montgomery is the only actor to appear in both episode(s) of the TV series and the 2005 movie (where he plays the small role of a State Trooper). Montgomery mentions this in a feature on the DVD versions of the movie.
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===Notable guest appearances===
Throughout its network television run, ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' had a consistent mix of up-and-comers and established stars make guest appearances.
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* [[Robert Alda]]
* [[Alan Autry|Carlos Brown/Alan Autry]]
* [[Anthony De Longis]]
* [[James Avery (actor)|James Avery]]
* [[Norman Alden]]
* [[Rayford Barnes]]
* [[Pat Buttram]]
* [[Dennis Burkley]]
* [[Clancy Brown]]
* [[Regis Cordic]]
* [[Charles Cyphers]]
* [[Roz Kelly]]
* [[Ji-Tu Cumbuka]]
* [[Ben Davidson]]
* [[Elinor Donahue]]
* [[Jason Evers]]
* [[Jonathan Frakes]]
* [[Janie Fricke]]
* [[Michael Fairman]]
* [[David Gale (actor)|David Gale]]
* [[David Graf]]
* [[Joy Garrett]]
* [[M. C. Gainey]]
* [[Henry Gibson]]
* [[Burton Gilliam]]
* [[Linda Hart]]
* [[Dennis Haskins]]
* [[Ernie Hudson]]
* [[Kevin Peter Hall]]
* [[Waylon Jennings]]
* [[Stepfanie Kramer]]
* [[Lance LeGault]]
* [[Loretta Lynn]]
* [[Britt Leach]]
* [[Jon Locke]]
* [[Brion James]]
* [[Arte Johnson]]
* [[L. Q. Jones]]
* [[Frank Marth]]
* [[Robin Mattson]]
* [[John Matuszak]]
* [[Donald May]]
* [[Gerald McRaney]]
* [[Louise Minchin]]
* [[Richard Moll]]
* [[Chris Mulkey]]
* [[Charles Napier (actor)|Charles Napier]]
* [[Tim O'Connor (actor)|Tim O'Connor]]
* [[Roy Orbison]]
* [[Johnny Paycheck]]
* [[Kim Richards]]
* [[Hari Rhodes]]
* [[Roger Robinson (actor)|Roger Robinson]]
* [[Dick Sargent]]
* [[Ronnie Schell]]
* [[Avery Schreiber]]
* [[Judson Scott]]
* [[William Smith (actor)|William Smith]]
* [[Don Stroud]]
* [[Les Tremayne]]
* [[Mel Tillis]]
* [[Mary Treen]]
* [[Lurene Tuttle]]
* [[Lewis Van Bergen]]
* [[Joseph Whipp]]
* [[Dottie West]]
* [[Hal Williams]]
* [[Steven Williams]]
* [[Terry Wilson (actor)|Terry Wilson]] (final role)
* [[Morgan Woodward]]
* [[Tammy Wynette]]
* [[Cale Yarborough]]
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====Others====
[[NASCAR]] driver [[Terry Labonte]] makes a brief, uncredited appearance as a crewman in the episode "Undercover Dukes Part 1". The race cars supplied for both "Part 1" and "Part 2" of "Undercover Dukes" were supplied by Labonte's racing team owner, [[Billy Hagan (racing driver)|Billy Hagan]]. However, the emblems of the sponsors of the cars (at that time Labonte was sponsored by [[Budweiser]]) were covered to avoid paying royalties.

====The celebrity speed trap====
During the show's second season, the show's writers began incorporating a "celebrity speed trap" into some of the episodes, as a means to feature top [[country music|country]] stars of the day performing their hits. On its first couple of instances, the "speed trap" was featured early in the story, but for most of the cases, it was featured in the last few minutes of an episode, often used when the main story was running too short to fill episode time.

The "celebrity speed trap" feature was essentially the same each time: Aware that a big-name country star was passing through the area, Boss Hogg would order Rosco to lower the speed limit on a particular road to an unreasonable level (using a reversible sign, with one speed limit on one side and another, far lower, on the back), so that the targeted singer would be in violation of the posted limit. The singer would be required to give a free performance at the Boar's Nest in exchange for having their citations forgiven; the performer would then perform one of their best-known hits or other popular country music standard, while the Dukes, Boss, Rosco, Enos, Cletus, Cooter, and other patrons whooped and hollered in enjoyment of the performance. More often than not, the performer would give a sarcastic parting shot to Boss and Rosco.

Singers who were featured in the "speed trap" segments were:
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* [[Hoyt Axton]]
* [[Donna Fargo]]
* [[Freddy Fender]]
* [[Doug Kershaw]] (on the original soundtrack)
* [[The Oak Ridge Boys]] (twice)
* [[Roy Orbison]]
* [[Buck Owens]]
* [[Johnny Paycheck]] (lip-syncing an original recording)
* [[Mel Tillis]]
* [[Dottie West]]
* [[Tammy Wynette]]
* [[Waylon Jennings]] (the show's narrator)
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'''Honorable mentions''': [[Mickey Gilley]], [[Loretta Lynn]]

Gilley's and Lynn's appearances were not solely for the celebrity speed trap. After performing a concert in Hazzard, Gilley was nabbed while leaving and forced to do a second show to nullify his citation. Loretta Lynn was kidnapped by criminals wanting to break into the music business. Lynn was the very first country music guest star on the show in 1979 and had an entire episode dedicated to her, titled "Find Loretta Lynn".

[[Janie Fricke]] was the only country music guest star who did not perform a song, celebrity speed trap or otherwise. She played an accomplice to a robber who hid money in the dashboard of the car that was to become the ''General Lee''.