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Rating:  - Not as comical as other seasons.
The 6th season is pretty good, but some episodes are just not funny, such as "A Boy's Best Friend", "Brotherly Love", and "The Boar's Nest Bears". They're like dramas. And "Undercover Dukes" part 1 and 2 is like an action show. And we're back to those dang double sided DVDs-I never liked those.
Rating:  - DVD Review
I really love this series & now I can view my favorite scenes & repeat if I want. It's all so clear too.
Rating: - Yeeeeeeee Haw!!!
Season 6 is the first full season with Bo and Luke after they returned to the show. The entire original cast is here, including Enos who returned in the 5th season. Lulu also stars in more episodes during this season. Some very memorable episodes aired this season, including "Targets: Daisy and Lulu", "Undercover Dukes" and "Cooters Confession". Look for the General Lee's jumps to appear higher and more unrealistic at times. This is because around this time Warner Brothers started to use minatures to film some of the jump scenes. This was one of the better seasons they filmed, right behind the first two seasons which are the best ever.
Rating: - Possum on a gumbush, it's almost the last season!
As a kid, Dukes of Hazzard was my favorite show and through the years I have enjoyed watching reruns, but nothing beats owning the DVD sets and watching the episodes back-to-back. It brings back great memories.
In the previous season (season five) actors Tom Wopat (Luke) and John Schneider (Bo) walked out in a contract dispute, missing most of the season and leaving the show scrambling for replacements. The boys returned at the end of season five and in season six, the Hazzard County action takes off again.
Cousins Bo and Luke live with their other cousin Daisy (Catherine Bach, in the shorts that made her famous) on the farm that belongs to their Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) in rural Hazzard County, Georgia. They are good folks, but the they have a way of getting under the skin of the thing that passes for the law in Hazzard County. Sheriff Rosco Coltrane (James Best) and County Commissioner J.D. "Boss" Hogg (Sorrell Booke) are about as crooked as anyone can get and they like to pin their various wrongdoings on the Duke family. Along with friend Cooter Davenport (Ben Jones), it is usually up to the Dukes to take matters in their own hands to get to the bottom of things.
In season six we see a lot of new story lines that reveal new sides to the characters. We get to see a soft side of Boss Hogg when his darling wife Lulu (guest star Peggy Rea) is kidnapped and held for ransom. It's funny to see Boss and Rosco dress in drag to try and catch jewel thieves who are after Lulu and Daisy. Bo and Luke help out an orphan boy by getting him a dog, only to find that the dog was kidnapped and has a reward for his return, which everyone knows Boss Hogg will want. The Dukes also take over a rag-tag basketball team and help build it into a winner with the help of a young boy who recently lost his father. Luke's ex-girlfriend, an up and coming country singer returns to Hazzard and the Dukes have to help her escape her manager, who is trying to cash in her life insurance policy. The Duke family also helped Cooter connect with his long-lost daughter when she shows up in Hazzard. All told, it was a busy year for the Duke boys.
Perhaps the highlight episode of the season was the two-part episode where Bo and Luke went undercover on the NASCAR circuit to help bust a crime ring that spread all across the country. This episode showed a lot of family dynamic within the Duke family and also got to show some good racing scenes as well.
Another highlight is the episode where deputy Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer), the only honest law man in Hazzard, is being chased by a fugitive he helped put in jail while he was in California. This was a great episode for Enos' character, who had failed in spin-off land a few years earlier.
The extras on the set include a tour of the original set for Hazzard, Covington, Georgia, with Ben Jones and Sonny Shroyer. This is interesting, as you get to see many of the places that were used in the very beginning of the show and were still shown in the opening credits, over possibly one of the best theme songs ever, Walon Jennings' Good Ole' Boys. There is also a feature on the most famous cast member of the Dukes of Hazzard, Bo and Luke's orange 1969 Dodge Charger, The General Lee.
All told this was a nice season, a great change from the tough season five. This was also the penultimate season for the Dukes. I am sure I will enjoy the final season as well, though as a kid, I remember crying when the Dukes went off the air.
Rating: - Yea for the Dukes!
What else is there to say? It's the sixth season of the Dukes of Hazzard. Fun show!
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