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.
#1 - Uncle Boss
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/1980
Boss Hogg unleashes his "secret weapon" against the Dukes: his college-educated nephew Hughie Hogg comes to Hazzard with some dirty tricks and schemes to frame Bo and Luke into prison. The episode contains an extensive demonstration of the then-new video cassette recording technology (which will be at the heart of Hughie's scheme to video-record the Dukes confronting Boss at the bank) ... which seems to be just the thing to finally put Bo and Luke away for good, but just be careful not to get the tape too close to Cooter's giant magnet.
#2 - 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.
#3 - To Catch a Duke
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1981
A pair of jewel thieves comes through Hazzard County and while confronted by Boss and Rosco, they make a getaway in the General Lee. This makes Boss think the Duke boys are a part of the gang and also, when the loot is found in Rosco's patrol car by Flash (who retrieved them), Rosco is fired when Boss thinks he's in on it too.
#4 - The Canterbury Crock
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/10/1981
Bo and Luke buy an old vase from a widow that turns out to be worth a fortune. And while it changes hands so much, a big time buyer will stop at nothing to get his hands on it.
#5 - Mrs. Daisy Hogg
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1981
When Boss' rich, polite nephew Jamie Lee Hogg comes to Hazzard to buy off the grits mill, Daisy and him become sweet on each other and fall in love. However, Bo and Luke go to extremes to find something wrong with Jamie Lee who turns out to be a counterfeiter.
#6 - Diamonds in the Rough
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1981
Bo and Luke find stolen diamonds that were dropped out of a hijacked plane and the thief follows the Dukes to the farm claiming to be a reporter. Also, Boss Hogg finds out about the diamonds and tries to get his hands on them by sending a phony FBI agent out to get them.
#7 - New Deputy in Town
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1982
A gorgeous new deputy comes to Hazzard to escort a prisoner to trial. But getting too suspicious, Bo and Luke investigate her and suspect that she is a phony.
#8 - Bad Day in Hazzard
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1982
A group of armed robbers take over the Boar's Nest with the Dukes, police and Boss Hogg hostage, so that they can evacuate the town by pulling off a false evacuation notice, and rob an armored truck when it arrives. So the Dukes try and think of a plan to stop them before it's too late.
#9 - Hazzard Hustle
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1982
Boss opens up an illegal horse-betting saloon in Rapahoe County and uses the Dukes' phone line to frame them. But the Boss of Rapahoe County is not happy being cheated out of her county's money.
#10 - Witness: Jesse Duke
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/18/1983
Uncle Jesse is blinded while trying to foil a robbery. But the robbers won't rest until Jesse's dead. So they go to Hazzard to track him down while Coy, Vance and Daisy decide to hide their sitting duck uncle at Boss' house.
#11 - Lulu's Gone Away
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1983
After a confrontation between Lulu and Boss, Lulu moves out and is invited to stay on the Duke Farm. Later three crooks kidnap her and demand a ransom.
#12 - Too Many Roscos
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1983
When Rosco chases the Dukes, he drives into a pond and then is kidnapped by a man who underwent plastic surgery to look just like him (also played by James Best). But when the townsfolk all think Rosco is dead, the ringer shows up in town to be there when the armored truck arrives - and rob it.
#13 - Boss Behind Bars
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1983
The Beaudrys (from "Daisy's Shotgun Wedding" (522)) return to Hazzard to swipe Boss Hogg's still since their's blew up. But to get Boss out of the way, they frame him of sabotaging Jesse's car in the old timer's race when his car flips over. Rosco throws Boss in the slammer while the Beaudreys steal Boss' still.
#14 - Jude Emery
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1980
Bo and Luke help Jude Emery, a Texas Ranger find a contraband varmint in a big swamp but it gets hard when they decide to play along with the varmint's game.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Close Call for Daisy
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1984
Nervous Norman, a neurotic crime boss comes to Hazzard County and loses his little black book, accidentally picked up by Daisy, containing all his crooked deals. so Norman is after Daisy - who decides to hide out at Enos' place.
#19 - Danger on the Hazzard Express
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1984
Boss Hogg masterminds a plan to knock a boxcar off a train containing valuables by hiring three crooks to hook a remote control up to a car to knock off the boxcar. But when the car they use is wrecked, they steal the General Lee to use it for the remote control.
#20 - Cool Hands, Luke & Bo
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984
While driving through Osage, the most feared county around ruled by the mean Colonel Claiborne, Bo and Luke end up on a chain gang in the Osage Road Prison - which is the first step of Claiborne's plan to get Boss down there to swindle him out of everything he owns.
#21 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1984
Boss swindles the Dukes into thinking they won a bunch of prizes at the Capitol City Department Store. All the prizes turn out to be stolen. However, Boss Hogg gets a bump on the head, later on, gets amnesia and becomes a nice gentleman - temporarily.
#22 - Welcome, Waylon Jennings
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
The Dukes' old friend Waylon Jennings comes to Hazzard with his mobile museum to use as a charity exhibit. But Boss hires two crooks to steal it and sell it back for a ransom.
#23 - The Ransom of Hazzard County
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1984
Fed up with the honest deputy Enos ruining Boss and Rosco's schemes, they promote him to a civilian job and replaced him with a crooked deputy who plans on Flooding Hazzard County by opening up the Hazzard dam unless Boss gives him all the county funds.
#24 - Undercover Dukes (2)
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1984
Bo and Luke uncover the evidence for Carver's conspiracy plan but they get their cover blown - thanks to Boss and Rosco, who think that Bo and Luke are making gambling deals.
#25 - Undercover Dukes (1)
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1984
Bo and Luke are offered to race on the circuit again for the daughter of a racketeer J.J. Carver. But since they vowed not to go back they turn him down, until a Federal Agent offers them to work undercover to get enough evidence to put Carver away for a long time.