Happy Birthday, General Lee
Season 7, Episode 1
Original Air Date: 21 September 1984
Directed by: Tom Wopat
Written by: Si Rose
Created by: Gy Waldron
Plot Summary
It's the General Lee's birthday and the Dukes and Cooter reminisce about how the General Lee came to be.
Commentary
Trivia
- This is the first of two episodes in the last season which involve flashbacks (the other being Go West, Young Dukes). This time they only go back a few years, but all the main charaters have their appearances tweaked to make them look younger.
- It's revealed in this episode that the General Lee is orange because that's the only color paint that Cooter had in stock.
Bloopers
- The Charger collected from the junkyard has quite different damage to the one that crashed. It also goes from a shiny to a matt finish.
- When the robbers visit the junkyard, the owner describes their car as a "black '68 coupe". Although the car that's towed away appears to have a '68 front fender, General Lee is always supposed to be a '69 Charger.
Regular Cast
- Tom Wopat as Luke Duke
- John Schneider as Bo Duke
- Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
- Denver Pyle as Uncle Jesse
- Sonny Shroyer as Enos
- Ben Jones as Cooter
- James Best as Sheriff Rosco Coltrane
- Sorrell Booke as Boss Hogg
- Waylon Jennings as The Balladeer (voice)
Guest Cast
- Janie Fricke as Ginny
- Sam Melville as Rick
- Wayne Morton as The Customer
- Troy Melton as Sheriff Snead
- Will Hare as The Yard Manager
Crew
- Senior Producer: Myles Wilder
- Produced by: Ralph Riskin and Skip Ward
- Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
- Executive Story Supervisor: Si Rose
- Executive Story Editors: Leonard B. Kaufman (as Len Kaufman) and Martin Roth
- Creative Consultant: Gy Waldron
- Associate Producers: Ronald R. Grow (as Ron Grow) and Russell Livingstone
- Director of Photography: Robert F. Sparks (as Robert Sparks)
- Art Director: Al Rohm
- Title Song Composed and Sung by: Waylon Jennings
- Music by: Earle Hagen
- Unit Production Manager: Ronald R. Grow (as Ron Grow)
- First Assistant Director: Peter Gries
- Second Assistant Director: Anthony Mason (as Tony Mason)
- Second Unit Director: Gary Baxley
- Second Unit Director of Photography: John Elsenbach
- Second Unit First Assistant Director: Venita Ozols-Graham (as Venita Ozols)
- Supervising Editor: Russell Livingstone (as Russ Livingstone)
- Editor: Howard Epstein
- Music Editor: Eugene Marks
- Sound Editor: Ron Tinsley
- Sound: Victor Goode
- Set Decorator: Tom Bugenhagen
- Property: Beverly Hadley
- Special Effects: Larry L. Fuentes (as Larry Fuentes)
- Makeup: Don Marando
- Hair Stylist: Judy Crown
- Men's Costume Supervisor: Bob Christenson
- Women's Costume Supervisor: Hope Slepak (as Bonnie Hope Slepak)
- "Flash" Owned and Trained by: Alvin Mears
- Casting: Melissa Skoff
- Creative Consultant: Philip Mandelker
- Some Automobiles Supplied by: AMC
- A Lou Step Production in Association with Warner Bros Television
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