8.1/10206 votesLoading...#1 - The Ghost of General Lee
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1979
Car thieves drive the General Lee into a pond. Thinking Bo and Luke were drowned, Boss Hogg claims they stole his watch. So the boys scheme to haunt Boss.
Director: N/A
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8.1/10186 votesLoading...#2 - 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.
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8.0/10173 votesLoading...#3 - Bad Day in Hazzard
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1982
The Dukes are forced to bond with their sworn enemies — Boss Hogg and Rosco — after they are held at gunpoint by a gang of robbers at the Boar's Nest. The lead robber, posing as a law enforcement officer, then orders an emergency evacuation of Hazzard... thereby eliminating any witnesses to his plans to rob an armored truck making a delivery to Hazzard Bank.
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7.9/10171 votesLoading...#4 - The Runaway
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1980
Millionaire C.J. Holmes is determined to retrieve his runaway daughter, who plans to marry a Hazzard County farmer. The girl later takes her appeal to the Dukes, explaining that her father wants her to marry within her social class and not someone involved in an unglamorous profession. Uncle Jesse ultimately meets with Mr. Holmes, and gives him a stern lecture about the dedication and self-sacrifice of farmers.
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7.9/10182 votesLoading...#5 - 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. Boss plans for him to invite everyone in town to his wedding--except the Dukes. This makes them the only possible suspects for the bank robbery he's arranging to take place during the ceremony. But Boss is unaware that Rosco's supposed fiancé and her gang are planning a robbery of their own.
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7.9/10153 votesLoading...#6 - Welcome Back, Bo 'n' Luke
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/25/1983
Bo and Luke return to Hazzard after great season at the NASCAR Circuit and they won but they wanted to come home - which is ok since Coy and Vance have to leave Hazzard to take care of a sick relative. Meanwhile, Boss plans to foreclose on Cooter's garage - after Cooter owes a balloon mortgage payment - so he can put up a new shopping center.
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7.9/10150 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
Director: N/A
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7.8/10167 votesLoading...#8 - 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 a crooked promoter, in a boxing match.
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7.8/10140 votesLoading...#9 - 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.
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7.8/10158 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
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7.8/10154 votesLoading...#11 - 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.
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7.7/10185 votesLoading...#12 - Days of Shine and Roses
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1979
On your mark, get set, cheat! To prove who was the fastest moonshine runner back in the day, Bos Hogg challenges Uncle Jesse to a fair-and-square car race. But to Boss Hogg, "fair" is a four-letter word.
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7.7/10165 votesLoading...#13 - Duke of Duke
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1980
Gaylord Duke, a (supposed) British third cousin of the Hazzard County-based Duke family, comes to visit. He asks Uncle Jesse for help in paying off a $30,000 tax bill for a parcel of land he claims he inherited. But is Gaylord really a Duke or a con man?
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7.7/10191 votesLoading...#14 - Carnival Of Thrills (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1980
When the Dukes attend a stunt show called "Carnival of Thrills," the star of the show is injured while trying to jump a car over 32 parked cars. Looking for a new star, carnival owner Diane Benson offers Bo the job. While Diane seduces a lovestruck Bo with her charms; Luke, Daisy and Uncle Jesse suspect something is amiss. Their fears are confirmed when an insurance investigator reveals that the earlier stunt show mishap—-along with several others—-was no accident. Luke tries to convince Bo of his findings, but Bo does not listen. This leads to a huge fight that results in Bo leaving the Duke farm, threatening further repercussions on the Duke family. Meanwhile, Boss Hogg can foreclose on the "Carnival of Thrills" if Diane can't pay back a loan she makes for use of the Hazzard County fairgrounds. Furthermore, Rosco manages to impound the General Lee for a taillight he busted; and, in an attempt to keep Bo from taking the stunt job, Luke allows the impounding to happen.
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7.7/10165 votesLoading...#15 - The Hazzardville Horror
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/1980
A father and son criminal duo steal Boss' silver from the Boar's Nest and hide out in a house owned by Hezechiah Pringle, which he left to his niece, Mary Lou Pringle. When Mary Lou returns to Hazzard to sell the house, the crooks try to scare her off by staging a series of paranormal events. She turns to Bo and Luke for help, who are on the run from Rosco because Boss is convinced they are the silver thieves and therefore ordered Rosco to arrest them for the theft.
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7.7/10168 votesLoading...#16 - 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 (Jeff Altman), who comes to Hazzard with some dirty tricks and schemes to frame Bo and Luke into prison.
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7.7/10165 votesLoading...#17 - Mrs. Daisy Hogg
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/1981
Daisy is smitten by Boss Hogg's handsome, rich nephew, Jamie Lee Hogg, who has come to town to purchase his uncle's grits mill. While romance quickly blossoms and a wedding appears to be on the horizon, it isn't long before Bo and Luke confirm their initial suspicions about Jamie's criminal side as a counterfeiter.
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7.7/10156 votesLoading...#18 - Diamonds in the Rough
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/1981
Everyone's after a sack of diamonds that had accidentally been dropped from an armed robber's vehicle driving through Hazzard, and all roads lead to the Duke farm after Bo and Luke get to them first. While the Duke boys are trying to report their find to the state police, they are bugged by the original thief (who poses as a reporter to get at the loot) and later, by a phony FBI agent hired by a greedy Boss Hogg who wants the reward money for himself.
Director: James Best
Writer: Gy Waldron
7.7/10156 votesLoading...#19 - 10 Million Dollar Sheriff (2)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1981
Uncle Jesse seriously injures himself as the shaken Duke patriarch learns that bounty hunter Jason Steele is a wanted criminal. Steele eventually manages to frame Bo and Luke on grand-theft auto (by having them drive away in a stolen Dodge Charger painted exactly like the General Lee). Hosiah Coltrane's attorney then informs Rosco that a mistake had been made and that the sheriff had only inherited $10 - leaving Rosco way short of the $100,000 needed to pay Steele for services rendered. Steele eventually blows his top when he learns Rosco doesn't have the money, and...
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7.7/10150 votesLoading...#20 - Dear Diary
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1982
Rosco has kept a diary detailing Boss Hogg's illegal schemes carried out over the years. Two of Boss' former (and now disgruntled) associates become aware of this and swipe the diary, demanding a huge ransom or else they tip off the authorities. This leaves Bo and Luke with a moral dilemma: Defeat the crooks, as their criminal activities are more serious than Boss'; or see their longtime enemy brought to justice once and for all.
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7.7/10148 votesLoading...#21 - The Law and Jesse Duke
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1982
When Rosco and Cletus go on strike after Boss refuses to give them a pay raise, Uncle Jesse is named the sheriff. Bo and Luke are subsequently deputized to help capture a pair of thieves who have stolen a cache of electronics items in Boss' latest effort to frame the Duke boys.
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7.6/10172 votesLoading...#22 - The Meeting
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1979
It's good ol' boys versus goodfellas when Bo and Luke tangle with the mobsters who paid Boss Hogg $10,000 to rent out of jail for a wise guy confab.
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7.6/10168 votesLoading...#23 - Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1979
Racing legend Cale Yarborough is working on a secret turbocharger. When the grimy Jethro brothers and slimy Boss Hogg start snooping around, it's up to the Dukes to save Cale's tail.
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7.6/10159 votesLoading...#24 - People's Choice
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1979
Boss Hogg is up for re-election as county administrator against an unlikely opponent--a young woman in her twenties named T.C. Rogers, who is determined to avenge her father's loss to Boss in a rigged election, which occurred fifteen years earlier. Bo and Luke help T.C. (the honest candidate) counter Boss' dirty tricks in an effort to unseat the incumbent Hogg.
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7.6/10179 votesLoading...#25 - Officer Daisy Duke
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1980
When she asks for a raise, Daisy loses her job at the Boar's Nest. Enos suggests to Daisy that she apply for a position as a Hazzard County deputy. Boss and acting Sheriff Grady Byrd try to rig the training program, but Daisy more than proves her worth--and is determined to demonstrate it when she takes a call to stop a pair of hardened bank robbers with nothing to lose.
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The Best Episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard
Every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
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Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"The Ghost of General Lee" is the best rated episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard". It scored 8.1/10 based on 206 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/26/1979. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Happy Birthday, General Lee".