World Famous Comics: The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season
The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season
Directed By: Gabrielle Beaumont, Jack Whitman (II), George Bowers, Dick Moder, Bob Sweeney Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 6 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 05, 2006 Running Time: 882 minutes Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1979
Product Description: The Duke Family -- cousins Bo and Luke assisted by their cousin Daisy and their uncle Jesse- fight the system and root out the corrupt practices of Hazzard County Commissioner Boss Hogg and his bumbling brother-in-law-Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The down home antics continue in the seventh and final season of this good ol boy TV series!Running Time: 822 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569815490 Manufacturer No: 81549
PATHETIC! Worst Season yet! Beware! I will start off by saying I am a huge fan, and I don't remember much of Season 7 from when I watched it as a kid, and thank god. I bought this set to complete my collection, and since buying season 7 I have been kicking myself, and asking myself why I bothered to waste money on this garbage? I'm glad I paid such a low price because if I paid a lot, I would be kicking myself even harder. Anyway, onto the Dukes...I've loved the first 6 seasons up until this point, and I thought Season 6 is the best season by far. It had great action, great stories, and took a more serious turn, and ditched the whole cartoony kind of vibe that it had to it. It was still funny, and entertaining, but with a serious edge to it, so I was expecting Season 7 to continue in that direction.
BOY WAS I WRONG! I am going to merely speculate here as to why the show ended in the way it did, so don't take any of this as fact, although I bet there is some truth to it.
1-Storywise I think they couldn't come up with anything decent to write episodes about.
2-Money was becoming a real problem with the series, so in order to save money, Warner Bros tells them to stop wrecking so many cars in the episodes because it's costing way too much, so they say, okay, we'll use miniatures to do the jumps, and no one will notice. Yeah, sure to a little kid they might not notice, but I seen one shot of it, and knew right away that it was a complete joke! It wasn't even funny, or believable for a second. First of all the car didn't even look real, and neither did the scenery. He jumps over a helicopter, and a grain elevator? I mean come on! The helicopter didn't even look as real as a remote control helicopter, which is sad. You see the car land, and nothing breaks or anything, the car just kinda bounces. YEAH, LIKE THAT'S BELIEVABLE! I think if they were worried about money they should have just cancelled the show where they stood.
3-The Episodes themselves had a bit of substance, but not enough for you to really care what was going on. Since they cut the season short, it really makes me wonder why they even bothered making 17 episodes? They should have said at the end of season 6, okay, we're done! I did like some parts of the season however, like Happy Birthday General Lee. It was a good episode. It would have been a way better episode if they had've replaced the cheesy model car jumps and replaced it with old footage from older episodes like they did throughout the series. I used to complain about the fact that they would use old jump footage, or shots from old episodes, even though they didn't match. Like when they would show a shot of the old cop car that hasn't been used since season 1, and they expected us not to notice. Now that I see this though, I would think twice about complaining about that now.
I think this season is only worth maybe 15-20 dollars tops. Anything more, and it's not really worth it. I'm glad they lowered the price of it because it's not worth no 40 bucks. I recommend this set just to finish your Dukes Of Hazzard collection, but from an entertainment standpoint, don't expect to be too entertained with this season if you like the show for the stunts. I always thought the stunts on the show were top notch, and it really brought out the best in the show, and with one fowl swoop, they ruined it with season 7. Really a sad end for such a great show.
I hate to give such a great show a 1 rating, but this season IS BAD! I recommend season 6 to any Die Hard Dukes Fan. Season 6 is the bomb! Episodes like Lulu's Gone Away is what Dukes is all about in my humble opinion. Great Action, Great Stunts, Great Storytelling, Great Suspense, and Great Comedy from Boss and Rosco. WB should be ashamed of themselves for ruining such a great show that had the potential to go on for at least a few more seasons if they would have done it right.
Season 7 Bites The Dust! This 1984-85 Season was the last and final season of The Dukes Of Hazzard and I can see why.
Even though The Dukes Of Hazzard's 7th Season was okay, the Dukes started to lose their touch in this season, since it was almost identical to the Dukes 6th Season and part of the Dukes 5th Season with no new characters, no new co-stars, and no new introduction on top of that.
Therefore, the Dukes Of Hazzard's Seventh Season seemed to be getting kind of like all the "Rocky" sequels, "The Karate Kid" sequels, all the Van-Damme movies, etc., which made the action on the show become semi-predictable of what would end up happening in the Dukes 1984-85 Season, since nothing really changed anymore, because Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco became seem to get stupider and more predictable, especially to the Dukes, especially since this was the 7th year for the Dukes, which didn't make a whole lot of sense, because you would think Boss and Rosco would've become smarter, wiser, more cautious, and more conscientious, especially after being screwed over and nearly killed so many times by various criminals throughout it's whole 7-year run, but Boss and Rosco still never learned, not even after 7 seasons.
Therefore, The Dukes Of Hazzard was starting to lose their touch in this season and the General Lee wasn't as sharp or as impressive as it was during it's first 5 seasons, plus the General Lee seemed to start running kind of ragged and literally seemed to start losing its pep and horsepower, since the General Lee was getting a lot older along with the fact that the General Lee was already a '69 Dodge Charger, which already made the General Lee a classic when The Dukes Of Hazzard premiered on CBS in January of 1979.
Therefore, you could say that The Dukes Of Hazzard's Seventh Season was the weakest and least successful season of them all throughout it's whole 7-year run on CBS, even though it still had Bo and Luke in it, but I think part of the reason why The Dukes Of Hazzard went downhill in this season was especially due to the fact that this show wasn't nearly as popular in this 1984-85 Season as it was during the Dukes first few seasons.
Therefore, I think The Dukes Of Hazzard's 4th Season was probably the last real solid season of this show before it started losing it's touch and when I like many other people started watching The Dukes Of Hazzard less and less each year every Friday night on CBS's Friday night line-up, especially between Coy and Vance Duke replacing Bo and Luke in the first half of the Dukes 5th Season and then the episodes becoming even less sophisticated with everyone on the show getting burned out by the 7th Season and the 6th Season of the Dukes seemed to be just barely making it with sufficient ratings to keep the show afloat, since it was the first full season with Bo and Luke since their departure of the show, and KNIGHT RIDER coming out on NBC in the Fall of 1982 along with the fact that KNIGHT RIDER was still doing good in the ratings when THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was in it's 7th Season, which was when KNIGHT RIDER was in it's 3rd Season.
Except KNIGHT RIDER had continued to sustain it's touch and remained strong with the ratings while THE DUKES OF HAZZARD was starting to flop with it's ratings along with the fact that KITT was more upgraded with more features in it's Third Season, but the General Lee was still the same old car that was just simply getting older with no improvements or upgrades on it in the Dukes Seventh Season, which basically resulted in KNIGHT RIDER K.O.ing THE DUKES OF HAZZARD again.
In addition to what resulted in CBS cancelling The Dukes Of Hazzard in 1985 and cutting this season short; the episodes in the Dukes Seventh Season were a lot less funny, all the comedy scenes and actions on the show were overdone and out of style, plus the episodes in this season seemed to be getting more and more fake and a lot less sophisticated like in the "Strange Visitor To Hazzard" episode and the "Happy Birthday General Lee" episode for instance, plus Bo and Luke and the General Lee along with the rest of the cast and crew of The Dukes Of Hazzard seemed to all be getting burned out along with the fact that this show seemed to be running out of gas with no more hope left as if it were time to retire both the Dukes and the General Lee, especially since Bo and Luke nor the General Lee weren't nearly as impressive as it used to be as if the show and General Lee was dying and going out of style, which I'm sure was part of the reason why CBS had cut this season short along with the fact that this show was no longer going in the right direction either.
Additionally; this DVD didn't provide Closed Captioning in DVD mode in English, but only Closed Captioning were able to be provided in television mode, unlike how Warner Bros. did it with the first 5 seasons of The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Therefore, I don't see why Warner Bros. got kind of lazy by not providing subtitles in English with the Sixth and Seventh Season Dukes Of Hazzard DVD's, because Universal didn't with any of their DVD's.
Fond farewell Dukes! Hello Collier & Co! Another fun and entertaining season of our much-loved TV show THE DUKES OF HAZZARD.
This final season has all the action, stunts, comedy and drama we have come to expect.
Boss Hogg and Rosco are both so funny in their antics and, as always, are figuring out how to frame 'them Dukes'!
There are many good episodes this season too but I'm not fond of the episode when an alien visits Hazzard nor of the stunts with miniatures.
Anyhow, we can finally complete our collection of this excellent comedy-drama series.
The Amazon webpage of John Schneider's Collier & Co. is worth a look:
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The Dukes of Hazzard Are Great My family has all seven series of the Dukes on DVD. We love them and watch them over and over. Thank you Amazon for carrying these beloved old classics.
The show was incredible Clearly based on hit films like Smokey and the Bandit (with country lawmen far more funny than threatening and lots of great car chases. This show as one of teh most pure fun to ever be on tv (and technically it wsn't even a comedy).
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