The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fifth Season
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Actor: Ben Jones, Catherine Bach, John Schneider, Sorrell Booke, Thomas WopatBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 1059 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 72694
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- The Duke cousins, Vance and Coy, come to Hazzard to embark on a new series of adventures, while Bo and Luke race the NASCAR circuit. Following the phenomenal success of this franchise on DVD, Dukes Season 5 will street in conjunction with the theatrical release. The Duke family is back for more down-home adventure in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fifth Season, now on DVD in this 8-disc, 22 ep
DVD Reviews of The Dukes of Hazzard: The Complete Fifth Season
DVD Review: The Coy & Vance Duke Season
Summary: 3 Stars
The 1982-83 Season of The Dukes Of Hazzard was a so-so season since it left us mourning the loss of Bo & Luke Duke throughout most of this season since the Dukes 5th Season was when Bo Duke(John Schneider) and Luke Duke(Tom Wopat) were replaced by their long-lost cousins Coy Duke(Byron Cherry) and Vance Duke(Chris Mayer)throughout most of the Dukes Fifth Season since Schneider & Wopat left the series in the late Spring of 1982 due to a salary dispute, but then a drastic slump in ratings inclined the producers to bring Bo and Luke back to the show in the Spring of 1983.
In addition to what led to a big drop in ratings for THE DUKES OF HAZZARD; the premiere of KNIGHT RIDER in September of 1982 on the same weekend THE DUKES OF HAZZARD kicked off its 5th Season, KNIGHT RIDER was a big instant smash that had wiped everything out in the ratings ranking at number 2 in the top 10 Nielsen ratings back then along with the fact that Michael & KITT had stole the Dukes thunder & the Knight 2000 had became the hottest car on Friday nights and the General Lee was no longer the hottest car on Friday nights, especially since KITT could do 10 times more than the General Lee was ever able to do along with the fact that this show was no longer in its honeymoon phase on top of that while KNIGHT RIDER was just starting its honeymoon phase of that show.
Therefore, KNIGHT RIDER K.O'd THE DUKES OF HAZZARD and nearly led to THE DUKES OF HAZZARD's cancellation since the Dukes were going downhill and running out of steam, especially since KITT had obviously outclassed the General Lee causing the General Lee to go out of style and lose its touch making the Dukes & the General Lee pale by comparison, which resulted in THE DUKES OF HAZZARD losing a lot of viewers from KNIGHT RIDER since KNIGHT RIDER had practically ruined THE DUKES OF HAZZARD.
Therefore you could say that Michael & KITT were peaking while the General Lee and the Duke boys were creaking especially since KNIGHT RIDER wiped everything out in the ratings from the Fall of 1982 thru the Summer of 1983, including DALLAS which was on at the same time-slot on CBS as KNIGHT RIDER was on NBC every Friday night which made it kind of interesting to watch THE DUKES OF HAZZARD at 8PM on CBS and watching KNIGHT RIDER at 9PM on NBC afterwards even though the Dukes didn't provide nearly as much as excitement as they had during the Dukes first 4 seasons of this show did since KNIGHT RIDER was killing the Dukes with its ratings shooting through the roof.
On the other hand, what made the Dukes Fifth Season kind of intriguing was this was also the season when Deputy Enos Strate(Sonny Shroyer) returned to the show after Sonny Shroyer's unsuccessful short-lived spin-off series ENOS fizzled & cancelled by the Spring of 1981 when the Dukes 4th Season was underway, which therefore resulted in Enos going back to Hazzard County to get his old job back as Sheriff Roscoe's fellow deputy replacing Deputy Cletus Hogg(Rick Hurst) eventually, since Cletus departed from the show after the first 5 episodes of the 5th Season, but it was interesting seeing Enos and Cletus working together as partners temporarily, since Cletus had replaced Enos in the 3rd Season when Enos had departed the show after the 2nd Season when Enos moved to California to take a job with the LAPD, but I always preferred Enos to Cletus, since Enos was never as clutzy as Cletus was and was usually more cooperative with the Dukes than Cletus ever was too along with the fact that it was kind of interesting seeing other Duke relatives driving and handling the General Lee too.
I also used to get a kick out watching Cletus and Enos fighting over who would get to drive and who would get to do what, but for some reason they never explained how or why Cletus left the show all of the sudden after Cletus made his last appearance in the "Big Daddy" episode aside from the fact that Enos had returned to Hazzard County to work for Roscoe and Boss Hogg again.
Unfortunately the Bo and Luke Duke wannabes(Coy & Vance Duke) didn't have what it took to make this show work, just like it was for Ponch and Joh on CHiPs when Ponch(Erik Estrada) left CHiPs in it's 5th Season temporarily, due to a salary dispute and then when Jon(Larry Wilcox) was fired and replaced by CHP Officer Bobby Nelson(Tom Reilly)in CHiPs 6th Season, due to the fact that Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada didn't get along very well in real life.
Therefore, NBC ended up cancelling CHiPs after it's 1982-83 Season, since the ratings on CHiPs had toppled when Jon left the show, plus the producers of CHiPs ended up bringing Ponch back permanently when the ratings started going downhill on CHiPs after showing 3 episodes without Ponch while world famous athlete(Bruce Jenner) briefly joined the cast on CHiPs as Jon's interim partner trying to help save the show by temporarily replacing Ponch when Erik Estrada(Ponch) left CHiPs temporarily due to a salary dispute, but Steve McLeisch only lasted 6 episodes and only his first 3 co-starring episodes subbing for Ponch.
Therefore, the producers of CHiPs were inclined to bring Ponch back permanently by bringing Erik Estrada back with an agreeable salary.
In other words, CBS had to use the same strategy with THE DUKES OF HAZZARD that NBC had to use with CHiPs, since THE DUKES OF HAZZARD wasn't the same at all without Bo and Luke and CHiPs wasn't the same without Ponch and Jon, since Bo and Luke were the soul support for THE DUKES OF HAZZARD and Ponch and Jon were the soul support for CHiPs.
As a matter of fact, it just so coincidentally happens that the year Bo and Luke were replaced by Coy and Vance on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was the same year Jon Baker got replaced by Bobby Nelson on CHiPs as Ponch's new partner, which made both shows plummett in the ratings, except the old Dukes returned in the second half of the Dukes 5th Season, but Jon never returned to CHiPs even though it was going down the toilet with no other hope left to improve the show, which was very similar to what resulted in BUCK ROGERS and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA cancelling after their 2nd Seasons.
It was also interesting seeing Richard Moll on this show before his baliff(Bull Shannon) days on NIGHT COURT getting beat up by Bo and Luke in the "Daisy's Shotgun Wedding" episode along with the fact that the ratings on this show surged back up big time when Bo and Luke returned to Hazzard County, which certainly helped save the show.
It's just too bad Jon Baker(Larry Wilcox) couldn't return to CHiPs in it's Sixth Season when the ratings on CHiPs went downhill when they replaced Jon with that Jon Baker wannabe Bobby Nelson(Tom Reilly), because I think the ratings would've gone back up if they'd brought Jon back to the show and got rid of Bobby later, but it wasn't bound to happen since Erik Estrada(Ponch) and Larry Wilcox(Jon)didn't get along in real life, just like Fred Dryer(Hunter) and Stephanie Kramer(McCall) didn't get along in real life on the police drama HUNTER, which was why Stephanie Kramer departed that show after Hunter's 6th Season and got replaced by Hunter's new partner LAPD Sgt. Joanne Molenski(Darlanne Fluegel) in Hunter's 7th Season, which eventually got replaced by Hunter's last partner Los Angeles police Sgt. Christine Novak(Lauren Lane) before HUNTER was cancelled in the Summer of 1991 after it's 7-year run on NBC.
This 1982-83 Season of the Dukes also had an interesting bonus feature with creator(Gy Waldron) explaining why the old Dukes left the show in the first place after the Dukes 4th Season, which was due to John Schneider(Bo) and Tom Wopat(Luke) feeling mistreated by the producers on this show and feeling overworked, which was why they left the show and why the producers had Bo and Luke replaced with new co-stars Byron Cherry(Coy) and Christopher Mayer(Vance)in the Fall of 1982, but that Gy Waldron had ended up bringing the old Dukes back, since the ratings started to flop in the 5th Season when Coy and Vance took over the show which nearly led CBS to cancel this show in the Winter of 1983, but the ratings started to surge back up immensely when they brought Bo and Luke back to the show in the second half of the 1982-83 Season, which was quite an interesting documentary on this show and this season by the way.
It was also interesting seeing
-William Russ in "The New Dukes" episode before his co-starring days on BOY MEETS WORLD
-Andy Robinson in "The Treasure Of Soggy Marsh" episode after his co-starring days on RYANS HOPE
-Judson Scott in the "Witness Jesse Duke" episode after his co-starring days on the short-lived THE PHOENIX
-Shawn Weatherly in the "Coy Vs. Vance" episode before her co-starring days as Jill Riley on the original BAYWATCH
-Richard Moll in the "Daisy's Shotgun Wedding" episode before his co-starring days as Bull Shannon on NIGHT COURT
-Noble Willingham in the "Witness Jesse Duke" episode before his co-starring days on WALKER TEXAS RANGER
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when I lived in my hometown(El Centro, CA) since the Imperial Valley is where I lived all my childhood years at which was another reason why I used to always look forward to watching the Dukes on CBS every Friday night back then, since the Imperial Valley is evidently a ridiculously hot and boring place with basically nothing to do for fun or entertainment.
This 1982-1983 Season also takes me back to memory lane to when we had all those budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was our president.
Overall, I would have to say the 1982-83 Season of the Dukes was somewhat of an interesting season, but not as good as the first 4 seaons.
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