The BEST episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard season 3
Every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard season 3!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Carnival of Thrills (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1980
When the Dukes go see a stunt show called "Carnival of Thrills", the star of the show is injured while trying to jump a car over 32-parked cars. When the carnival owner, Diane Benson holds a prize race, she offers Bo the star position and he accepts after she makes a play for him.
#8 - The Legacy
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1981
A recently widowed old flame of Jesse's returns to Hazzard to claim an old debt owing to her late husband by Boss Hogg, but he refuses it. So she finds a legacy that the Dukes find in a mine under their property containing 9 full barrels of shine.
#9 - The Hazzardville Horror
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/1980
A pair of thieves rob all of Boss Hogg's silver at the Boar's Nest and stash it at Hazzard's haunted house - which the gorgeous Mary Lou Pringle inherited and is trying to sell. But to keep her away from the loot, the silver thieves rig a bunch of horror to scare her away along with the Dukes - who are accused of the silver theft. Tammy Wynette performs "Rocky Top" at the Boar's Nest.
#10 - The Great Hazzard Hijack
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1981
Bo and Luke find part of a million dollar robbery that happened 5 years ago - and a flood washed the money away and the search is on when an old Marine buddy of Luke's comes to Hazzard to help the Dukes find the rest of the money.
#11 - And in This Corner, Luke Duke
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/1980
After Luke broke an expensive mirror of Boss Hogg's, Jesse may be forced to sell the farm to pay for it unless Luke fights Catfish Lee - managed by crooked promoters - in a boxing match.
#12 - Mrs. Rosco P. Coltrane
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/12/1980
After meeting a woman through a computer dating service, Rosco plans to get married and Boss Hogg plans for him to invite everyone in town to his wedding except the Duke - which makes them the only possible suspects for the bank robbery he's arranging to take place during the ceremony - Unaware that Rosco's fiancé and her gang are planning a robbery of their own.
#13 - 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.
#14 - State of the County
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1981
A neighboring Boss, J.W. Hickman is trying to take over Hazzard, and Daisy gives a stranger named Earl into Hazzard to work for Cooter - and Daisy is sweet on him - not knowing that he's working for Hickman, setting off bombs near Boss Hogg. The Oak Ridge Boys perform at the Boar's Nest.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Late J.D. Hogg
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/1980
Boss manages to foreclose on the Duke farm fair and square, no thanks to his idiot deputy cousin Cletus, and also has them arrested fair and square on a federal charge. But he gets news from his physician that he only has two weeks to live and the only way to save him from the devil is to perform good deeds until it's time.
#17 - Baa, Baa, White Sheep
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/5/1980
Boss Hogg's honest, rich twin brother Abe (also played by Sorrell Booke) comes to Hazzard for the ready of their great Aunt's will which entitles a piece of land to both of them but Boss had Abe declared legally dead years ago and sold the land.
#18 - Good Neighbors, Duke
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1981
The Dukes help their new neighbors - the Venables out of a jam when they are being chased by bounty hunters who think they know the location of a stolen $2 million ransom. Also, Boss Hogg thinks there is uranium in Hazzard. Hoyt Axton performs "Out-of-State-Cars" at the Boar's Nest.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Along Came a Duke
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1981
Boss throws a big celebration for Stonewall Jackson day so that he can steal the General Jackson historic sword and sell it to a big buyer and pin it on the Dukes. The Dukes' cousin Jeb Stuart joins the chase in this episode.
#21 - My Son, Bo Hogg
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1981
When Bo is on his way to go boar hunting, Rosco chases him but he has an accident and gets amnesia. Boss Hogg takes advantage of him by claiming to be his father so that Bo will make a moonshine delivery to a big buyer in Chickasaw County.
#22 - The Hack of Hazzard
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1981
The Dukes cover for Miz Tisdale while she goes to visit her mama. Daisy and Jesse run the post office while Bo and Luke run the cab company. Bo and Luke end up giving a ride to a pair of crooks who stole a gold certificate and stash it in the back seat of the cab.
#23 - Bye, Bye, Boss
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1981
Digger Jackson, an escape convict is out to get Boss Hogg - whom he swore, a mortal revenge on. Also, the Dukes are accused of a robbery, committed by Jackson and when Boss is kidnapped for a ransom, nobody in Hazzard even wants to help get him back. Freddie Fender performs at the Boar's Nest.