The WORST episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard
Every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - Share and Share Alike
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1982
Bo and Luke find a bag full of stolen credit cards that two thieves stashed. When Boss gets his hands on it, he plans on selling them and framing the Dukes for it. Meanwhile, Lulu, in the Hazzard's Equal Rights Society, tries to take over half of Boss' businesses and ends up selling Rosco's car to Sheriff Little - containing the stolen credit cards.
#3 - Ding, Dong, the Boss is Dead
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1983
A mobster named Calloway is out to exact revenge on "the fat water buffalo" (Boss), for sending him to prison on his testimony. To thwart Calloway's plans to have Boss killed, the Dukes and Lulu announce that Boss has died and stage a phony funeral so that Calloway will back off. But then Calloway arrives at Boss' "funeral" to make sure his old enemy really is dead, forcing the Dukes to come up with another plan to foil the mobster's plans.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1984
Luke drinks some pond water that a truck accidentally spilled some genetic drugs into. This makes Luke character change a great deal. He becomes a total jerk, badmouths Bo, Daisy, and Jesse, harasses every girl at the Boar's Nest and eventually plans to rob Boss' bank.
#6 - Shine on Hazzard Moon
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1982
Boss Hogg needs Jesse's moonshine recipe to sell to a dealer. But since Jesse isn't just going to tell him, Boss hires a crooked magician to frame Bo and Luke for stealing the orphanage money. He then asks Jesse for his moonshine recipe for the release of Bo and Luke.
#7 - The Return of the Mean Green Machine
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1983
Boss tries to use the mean green machine again but it gets stolen by the original crook who try and rob the Hazzard Emporium for all the gold. But when it breaks down, they kidnap Cooter to fix it and hold for insurance.
#8 - The Fortune Tellers
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/1984
Boss Hogg is in a stew when he learns that Lulu is going to cash in bonds that Boss had already cashed in on and replaced with fake bonds. So Boss must get rid of them somehow but Lulu changed the combination of her safe. So Boss hires a pair of fortuneteller con artists - who just framed Daisy for stealing the Boar's Nest receipts - to get the combination of the safe from Lulu and get rid of the fake bonds.
#9 - The Revenge of Hughie Hogg
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1982
When Rosco is up for re-election, Boss has no trouble supporting him until his devious nephew Hughie Hogg returns to run for sheriff and blackmails his uncle into helping him by showing evidence of a crooked deal he made.
#10 - Enos and Daisy's Wedding
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1985
A pair of crooks robs Boss' bank and frame Enos for it; Daisy becomes a witness against him when she thinks she saw it. Daisy, knowing that Enos would never do it, cannot refuse to testify against him or she'll be in contempt. So she decides to marry Enos - that way she cannot legally testify against him.
#11 - The Fugitive
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1981
A pretty drifter named Mindy Lou overhears Boss and Rosco talking about stealing motorcycles, repainting them and selling them for the upcoming Tri-County motor cross. So Boss orders Rosco to arrest her but she gets away and is found by the Dukes - who try to help her. Johnny Paycheck performs at the Boar's Nest.
#12 - Lawman of the Year
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1982
Boss hired two crooks to rob the jewelry store and Coy and Vance are very suspicious about them and go and investigate while being chased by Cletus and Enos. But when Boss sends Rosco to arrest Coy and Vance, he refuses because he wants to be good so that he will be elected "Lawman of the Year".
#13 - Miz Tisdale on the Lam
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1982
Boss has a scam running through the mail for phony properties. But when an investigator comes to Hazzard, Boss frames Miz Tisdale for mail fraud and the Dukes hide her out at the farm.
#14 - How to Succeed in Hazzard
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1984
Boss' devious nephew Dewey - who is Hughie's brother - comes back to Hazzard after many years, pretending to be dying and tries to cheat the townsfolk out of $100,000 and frame Jesse for it.
#15 - Opening Night at the Boar's Nest
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1985
Boss and Lulu put on a talent show at the Boar's Nest. And when Rosco uses his magic act to make Boss disappear, he does when two parolees come to Hazzard who is out to kill Boss - who put them away. But instead they hold him for a ransom.
#16 - Strange Visitor to Hazzard
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1985
With a lot of UFO sightings in Hazzard, Bo and Luke are starting to think that people are crazy until an alien from outer space hides in the General Lee and comes back to the Duke farm with them. However, when Boss finds out about this, he wants to take it and sell it.
#17 - Dead and Alive
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1984
Bo and Luke chase armored truck robbers through Chickasaw. But Sheriff Little mistakes the Dukes for the robbers and the only eyewitness who can vouch for them is Artie Bender - the local artist who Boss just declared legally dead so he can sell his paintings to pay off his bills.
#18 - Dukescam Scam
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1982
Boss Hogg is arrested after Rosco thinks that he robbed his bank. Because of old debt owed to Boss, Jesse signs away the Duke farm to go his bail. But Boss just used this to pull a scam, jump bail and swindle the Dukes out of their property.
#19 - 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.
#20 - Sky Bandits Over Hazzard
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1984
When a group of armored car robbers steals the armored car by lifting off the ground with a helicopter, the Dukes are blamed for the crime. But when Bo and Luke are apprehended, they strike again. Knowing that they're innocent, Boss and Rosco let the Duke boys escape so that they can do Rosco's dirty work and catch the robbers.
#21 - The Treasure of Soggy Marsh
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1982
Boss has Coy, Vance and Daisy framed and sends them to Chickasaw County where they are arrested by Sheriff Little so that he can go ahead with his master plan and hires two crooks to scuba-dive down to Soggy Marsh and unburry 5 million in stolen bonds.
#22 - Comrade Duke
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1983
The Russians' gymnast team comes to Hazzard and a defector named Natasha escapes and hides out at the Duke farm while Boss helps the Russian gymnast leader find her.
#23 - Coy Meets Girl
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1982
While delivering a shipment of antiques to some friends, Coy and Vance are hijacked by a couple of Boss' henchmen. But they didn't known that a runaway orphan was stowaway in the back of the truck and saw the whole thing. She ends up going back to the farm and has crush on Coy, which slows down the Dukes looking for the hijackers.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.