The BEST episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard

Every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard!

Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.

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The Great Santa Claus Chase
star
8.87
62 votes

#1 - The Great Santa Claus Chase

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/1980

On Christmas Eve, Bo and Luke are hijacked when delivering a truckload of Christmas Trees to Hazzard and the rap fall right back on them.

Directors: Denver Pyle
Writer: Martin Roth
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Southern Comfurts
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8.27
64 votes

#2 - Southern Comfurts

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1980

Jesse's cousin Holly Comfurt and her family suddenly strike it rich, but while in Hazzard, their car gets stolen with all of their money in the trunk. So the search is on to find the car before the thief finds the money.

Directors: Rod Amateau
Writer: Martin Roth
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Happy Birthday, General Lee
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8.23
70 votes

#3 - Happy Birthday, General Lee

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1984

It's been 8 years since the Dukes got the General Lee and we see the story of how they got it. When it was originally used as a getaway car for some gold dust thieves and Bo and Luke got it from a junkyard because they needed a car to race in.

Directors: Tom Wopat
Writer: Si Rose
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The Ghost of General Lee
star
8.06
62 votes

#4 - The Ghost of General Lee

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1979

The General Lee is stolen by two pool hustlers who drive it into the pond while being chased by Rosco. Unaware that it wasn't Bo and Luke driving it, he thinks Bo and Luke drowned. Boss Hogg schemes to claim they stole his genuine gold watch and chain and when Bo and Luke hear of this, they figure the only way to prove their innocence is to haunt Boss and Rosco by making the General Lee look like a ghost.

Directors: Jack Starrett
Writer: Martin Roth
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Enos Strate to the Top
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8.06
34 votes

#5 - Enos Strate to the Top

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1980

After taking a snapshot of Uncle Jesse in Atlanta, she got two bank robbers in the shot who kidnap her in exchange for the photographs. Meanwhile, Enos - against Rosco's orders - helps the Dukes rescue Daisy and eventually, he is offered a job with the Los Angeles Police that he has always wanted.

Directors: Rod Amateau
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People's Choice
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8.02
48 votes

#6 - People's Choice

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1979

Bo and Luke become campaign managers to the gorgeous T.C. Rogers, who is running against Boss Hogg for Supervisory Administrator. But Boss Hogg will not stand to lose, so he pull out every dirty trick in the book to see that he wins. But the Dukes know how to fight the system - even for other people.

Directors: Allen Baron
Writer: Bruce Howard
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Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough
star
7.98
54 votes

#7 - Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1979

Bo and Luke find Cale Yarborough is testing a new secret turbo charger and bring him to Hazzard County to get his car serviced by Cooter. But Boss find out about Cale being in town and frames Bo and Luke for crossing the state line and works with Cale's opponents, The Jethro Brothers to scheme to steal Cale's turbo-charger.

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Treasure of Hazzard
star
7.97
36 votes

#8 - Treasure of Hazzard

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1980

The Dukes help a history professor find a Civil War strongbox buried in Hazzard County that contains a regimental payroll. But Boss Hogg and a couple of thugs are after it too.

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Duke vs. Duke
star
7.97
35 votes

#9 - Duke vs. Duke

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1981

Hazzard's annual Hazzard Derby is on and while Cooter is injured trying to help the Dukes, Luke must race in his car while Bo is in the General Lee. However, All the entrants who signed the contracts didn't see the fine print about every loser will have to give up their cars to Boss Hogg, and Rosco's car can't lose with a tank of nitrous oxide in the engine. With a sure win, Boss bets with a big time Chickasaw bookie, Ma Harper.

Directors: Paul Baxley
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Find Loretta Lynn
star
7.95
39 votes

#10 - Find Loretta Lynn

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1980

When Loretta Lynn detours through Hazzard County, she stops at the Boar's Nest where she is kidnapped by a trio mini-band who demand $1136.15 ransom.

Directors: Arthur Marks
Writer: Jim Rogers
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Money to Burn
star
7.95
56 votes

#11 - Money to Burn

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/20/1979

The government was going to burn the cash anyway, so who'd miss a cool million in ragged bills? Besides, Boss Hogg has masterminded his scheme so that Bo and Luke are the fall guys.

Directors: Rod Amateau
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Carnival of Thrills (2)
star
7.94
34 votes

#12 - Carnival of Thrills (2)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1980

After a fight between Bo and Luke breaks out, Bo leaves the farm for the carnival and prepares for the jump. But Luke, Daisy and Jesse are determined to stop him but they receive some shocking news about the carnival from an insurance investigator named Zimbra.

Directors: Dick Moder
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Gold Fever
star
7.94
67 votes

#13 - Gold Fever

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1979

A group of Texas con artists bring $3 million in fake gold bars to Hazzard and store it in Boss' bank. But Bo and Luke are framed for the robbery of the gold committed by the con artists to collect insurance from Boss.

Directors: Paul Baxley
Writer: Si Rose
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Luke's Love Story
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7.93
75 votes

#14 - Luke's Love Story

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/16/1979

Luke's rival in Hazzard's stock car derby has million-dollar legs and a lead foot... and she's got his heart revved up. Boss Hogg worries about reclaiming the derby trophy because his moma's ashes are inside it.

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Mason Dixon's Girls
star
7.92
38 votes

#15 - Mason Dixon's Girls

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/29/1980

Bo and Luke accidentally pick up a crate of marijuana at the bus depot and end up on the run - But Mason Dixon, a private detective and his two sexy associates are on to the Dukes but end up working together to stop a drug-smuggling ring.

Directors: Jack Starrett
Writer: Bruce Howard
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One Armed Bandits
star
7.92
411 votes

#16 - One Armed Bandits

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/1979

Sherrif Coltrane is hissier than a sack of rattlesnakes! He sets up a slot machine operation to fund his election, but a pair of two-armed bandits - Bo and Luke - find a way to give the proceeds to charity.

Directors: Rod Amateau
Writer: Gy Waldron
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The Return of Hughie Hogg
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7.92
24 votes

#17 - The Return of Hughie Hogg

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1981

Boss calls his devious nephew Hughie Hogg back to Hazzard to get rid of the Dukes, and he frames Bo and Luke for possession of illegal moonshine. But he also manages to swindle his uncle Boss out of everything he owns when a phony IRS agent audits him.

Directors: Dick Moder
Writer: Bruce Howard
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A Boy's Best Friend
star
7.90
20 votes

#18 - A Boy's Best Friend

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1983

Bo and Luke help an orphan boy who just recently lost his parents by getting him a dog from the pound. It turns out to be a basset hound that was kidnapped from John J. Hooper's dog show for a ransom and got away when the kidnappers came to Hazzard. But the kidnappers mistake Flash for the other dog.

Directors: Sorrell Booke
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Cooter's Girl
star
7.89
19 votes

#19 - Cooter's Girl

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1983

A young woman comes to Hazzard to see Cooter, who happens to be his daughter that he's never met. But she thinks Cooter is very rambunctious who is working with the Dukes to stop new landowners from dumping toxic-wastes in Hazzard.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: Si Rose
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The Runaway
star
7.88
43 votes

#20 - The Runaway

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1980

The Dukes help an eloping heiress escape from her irate big shot daddy's henchmen to bring her to her fiancé to get her across the county line to get married. But her daddy wants her back and will stop at nothing - even kidnapping Uncle Jesse.

Directors: Dick Moder
Writer: Jim Rogers
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Arrest Jesse Duke
star
7.86
43 votes

#21 - Arrest Jesse Duke

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/14/1979

Jesse is arrested for car-stripping when he was seen at the scene of the crime by a motorist while the real strippers are a group of females that are tied up with Boss Hogg who doesn't want the temporary sheriff - his nephew Hughie Hogg - to find out about it.

Directors: Jack Whitman
Writer: Si Rose
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Mary Kaye's Baby
star
7.86
214 votes

#22 - Mary Kaye's Baby

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/9/1979

Bo and Luke are unaware that 1) the borrowed car they're driving is loaded with moonshine and 2) the pregnant hitchhiker they've picked up is carrying over $100,000 in stolen mob loot.

Directors: Rod Amateau
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R.I.P. Henry Flatt
star
7.86
35 votes

#23 - R.I.P. Henry Flatt

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1980

Henry Flatt, a con man who faked his death a year ago show up and the Dukes try to help him with his problem: Boss Hogg is planning on plowing up an old vetran's cemetary to build a new highway - that would also reveal that Henry was never dead.

Directors: Denver Pyle
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Deputy Dukes
star
7.85
71 votes

#24 - Deputy Dukes

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/13/1979

There ought to be a law. Instead, there's Bo and Luke. They've been deputized and sent to Springfield to retrieve a prisoner. One detail the boys aren't told: the prisoner is notorious Public Enemy #1!

Directors: William Asher
Writer: Marty Roth
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By-Line, Daisy Duke
star
7.84
31 votes

#25 - By-Line, Daisy Duke

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1981

Boss Hogg hires a group of thieves that are stealing tractors from various farms in Hazzard County. While Daisy moonlights as a reporter at the Hazzard Gazette, Boss frames Bo and Luke for the thieves and sets it up so that Daisy's snapshot of the thieves are Bo and Luke. Dottie West performs at the Boar's Nest.

Writer: Martin Roth
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