In the fifth season of The Dukes Of Hazzard Bo and Luke were replaced with their cousins, Coy and Vance when stars Tom Wopat and John Schneider wanted more money than the producers were willing to shell out. By the end of that season, however, Bo and Luke were back and this sixth season, which ran from September 1983 through to March 1984, continues the adventures of the real Dukes Of Hazzard.

With the ever popular leads back where they belong, the series was poised for another successful season Aside from the standards that the show was known for – Daisy in short shorts (yeeeeeeeeeeeehaw!), Bo and Luke running from the law and being framed for crimes that they didn't commit, family drama, things like that – the writers threw in a few different twists this season and took the Duke boys a little out of their element from time to time. We got to see them couch a boy's basketball team (who knew they were such basketball studs? Is there anything they can't do?) as well as help save and in turn deal with an infant baby. We see Boss Hogg doing hard time and Daisy and Lulu fight Charles Napier (!) when they unwittingly get involved in a diamond smuggling ring.

A few of these twists work better than others and the writers deserve some credit for trying to spice things up a bit, but a few of them kind of stink and end up feeling like rehashed plots from earlier episodes. The bonus this season is that the good does definitely out-weigh the bad and if you liked the first five seasons (or at least the first four seasons) of the show, then you'll probably enjoy season six's return to form just as much as the earlier material.

A few highlight episodes this time around include:

A Baby for the Dukes: Mary Lou is on the run with her new baby and she hides out in the back of the General Lee for safe keeping one day as the men her father-in-law has paid to capture her are hot on her tail. The spot her but not before she stashes the little munchkin in the back seat where Bo and Luke find him later that day. While all of this is going on, Roscoe and Enos end up having to patrol Hazzard County on horseback due to some budget cuts.

Too Many Rosco's: What's better than one Rosco P. Coltrane? Two Rosco P. Coltrane's, that's what! A pair of hoods are going to pull a smash and grab on an armored car that's about to make a delivery in Hazzard, and they're going to use a dead ringer for Rosco to pull it off and make the lawman look like the guilty party!

The Boar's Nest Bears: In one of the strangest episodes in the history of the show, the Duke Boys and Uncle Jesse and up working with Boss Hogg's boys basketball team. In order to get the star player into the final game they have to race to the hospital and get back with his birth certificate to prove he's under thirteen years old, otherwise the visiting team are sure to mop the floor with them.

Boss Behind Bars: Remember the Baudrey Boys? Them that tried to force poor Daisy to marry one of their kind at gun point? Well they're back and this time around they plan on stealing Boss Hogg's moonshine still to replace the one that they blew up. In order to keep Boss distracted the rig Uncle Jesse's car so that when he enters it in the Old Timer's Race it flips, and they make it look like Boss is the one behind it. Rosco throws him in jail and the Duke Boys have to sort it all out.

Targets: Daisy And Lulu: Daisy and Lulu Hogg head to New Orleans for a vacation and when they get back to the airport they pick up the wrong luggage and completely unknowingly wind up with a suitcase full of diamond. Pete (Charles Napier of Russ Meyer's Supervixens!) hunts them down to get the schwag back and he and his cohorts aren't above popping a cop in Daisy's fine, fine ass to get what they want.

Heiress Daisy Duke: An insurance investigator representing late millionaire Carter Stewart mistakes Daisy for the sole heiress to his fortune and he's willing to pay handsomely if anyone can bring him to her. Boss hypnotizes Daisy so that she's really believe that she is the heiress so that he can get his greasy, chicken loving hands on the money but this doesn't make some of the other people involved in the case and Daisy soon finds herself in the kind of danger that only Bo and Luke can take care of.

Undercover Dukes (Parts One And Two): Bo and Luke like racing and they're pretty tempted when the daughter of a crime boss offers to get them back in the circuit. When they find out about the shady dealings going on, however, the opt out until an F.B.I. agent talks them into taking the job so that he can bust them and make them pay for their crimes.

The Fortune Tellers: A while ago Boss Hogg cashed in some bonds and replaced them in his fortune with counterfeit notes. Now Lulu wants to cash those in and so he's in a bit of a panic. Boss would normally get rid of the bonds but Lulu changed the safe combination so he hires a fortune teller (Leslie Easterbrook of The Devil's Rejects) and her assistant, both of whom are crooked, to coerce the safe combination out of Lulu so that he can dispose of the evidence.

Cooter's Confession: The season finale finds Cooter's good buddy Jonas Jones framed for hijacking! He's not happy about this at all, he knows that Jonas didn't do it and so he confesses to the crime so that Jonas doesn't do hard time. Of course, when Bo and Luke find out about this they set out to catch the real hijackers but it turns out to be a lot more dangerous than they first thought it would be.

The complete list of episodes in the order that they appear in season six (spread across four discs, one of which is a flipper) is as follows:

Lulu's Gone Away
A Baby for the Dukes
Too Many Rosco's
Brotherly Love
The Boar's Nest Bears
Boss Behind Bars
A Boy's Best Friend
Targets: Daisy And Lulu
Twin Trouble
Enos's Last Chance
High Flyin' Dukes
Cooter's Girl
Heiress Daisy Duke
Dead And Alive
Play It Again, Luke
Undercover Dukes (Part One)
Undercover Dukes (Part Two)
How To Succeed In Hazzard
Close Call For Daisy
The Ransom Of Hazzard County
The Fortune Tellers
Cooter's Confession

Video:

The show was shot and composed for TV as we all know, so it shouldn't surprise anyone to see it presented here in its original fullframe aspect ratio. As far as the transfers go, it is a mixed bag. Some episodes fair better than others, but a few have got quite a bit of minor print damage present throughout. While this is to be expected on a show that's over two decades old, the real problem is once again with the mild to moderate edge enhancement and the aliasing that is noticeable throughout, giving quite a few scenes a shimmering effect that is mildly distracting. It's not all bad though – print detail is high and colors look good, while black levels remain pretty stable. So while it's not perfect, it is at least watchable and realistically looks as good as anyone probably figured it would.