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The Dukes Of Hazzard – Episode Review:
“Road Pirates” S02E05
Our Dukes review this week takes us to Season 2, Episode 5, “Road Pirates,” an early California episode filled with fake police cars, stolen televisions, tractor-trailer chases and the kind of genuinely dangerous stunt work that could only have happened during this era of television. It might not give the General Lee as much screen time as I would prefer, but when the action starts, real people are driving real vehicles—and occasionally jumping from one moving vehicle to another.
The story begins with a gang of electronics thieves hijacking tractor-trailers carrying televisions, radios and just about anything else that qualified as a home entertainment system in 1979. Their plan is surprisingly effective: disguise a white four-door sedan as a sheriff’s car, pull over an unsuspecting trucker and disappear with the entire shipment.
Boss Hogg becomes involved after agreeing to purchase one of these stolen shipments for ten cents on the dollar. Because this is Boss, he pays the thieves before they have actually stolen anything. When the hijacking goes wrong and the truck driver mistakenly connects the Dukes to the crime, Boss immediately convinces himself that Bo and Luke stole the merchandise and kept it for themselves.
That misunderstanding eventually leaves Bo, Luke and temporary deputy Cletus handcuffed together like a three-man charm bracelet. Their escape from the sheriff’s office includes one of the episode’s stranger moments when Bo bites Cletus’s hand, causing Cletus to press the accelerator with the wrong foot. It doesn’t make any mechanical or anatomical sense, but this is Hazzard County. Logic is rarely the most important part of the story.
Rick Hurst returns as reserve deputy Cletus Hogg while Enos is supposedly away having his appendix removed. This was one of two Season 2 episodes in which Cletus filled the deputy role during Sonny Shroyer’s absence. Cletus is technically supposed to arrest the Dukes, but he spends most of the episode being dragged into their effort to expose the real road pirates.
The crooks are led by Marty Garbade, played by Billy Green Bush. I recognized Bush from an early episode of MASH*, where he played a helicopter pilot trying to prevent Henry Blake from sending him home. He brings exactly the right rough-edged energy to this group of hijackers, although their disguises are only convincing if nobody looks closely at the police car for more than a few seconds.
That car creates some of the episode’s best continuity mistakes. Depending on the scene, the fake sheriff’s car switches between an AMC Matador and a Dodge Diplomat or Plymouth Fury. Apparently, the production rule was that any white four-door sedan with a red light and a sheriff’s decal was close enough. We even watch one of the crooks peel the markings from the side, although the removable graphics look more like modern magnetic signs than the thinner decals normally used on police cars at the time.
The episode also uses what appears to be the same green tractor-trailer to represent two different trucks. Bo is supposedly driving one while Luke is driving the other, but apart from the lettering on the trailer, there isn’t much separating them. It is another example of the production stretching its available vehicles as far as possible and trusting the audience not to study every frame 47 years later with Corndog.
No CGI—Just Courage!
What makes “Road Pirates” memorable is the amount of real driving and practical stunt work captured on camera. There are several sequences where Tom Wopat, John Schneider and James Best appear to be genuinely driving instead of sitting in front of rear-screen projection. That gives the episode a raw energy that polished effects simply cannot reproduce.
At one point, Tom Wopat takes off on a dirt bike, spins the rear tire and lifts the front wheel with no stunt double hiding the fact that it is really him. James Best also appears to be genuinely hustling Rosco’s patrol car through a corner while another car follows extremely close behind. You can even see him glance toward the rearview mirror like any driver would when somebody is sitting directly on his bumper.
Corndog brought several rare behind-the-scenes photographs that make the episode’s biggest stunts even more interesting. One sequence involves Bo jumping from a moving tractor-trailer onto the General Lee. Al Wyatt Jr. performed the actual transfer, and the production photographed the preparation from a camera car driving alongside both vehicles. There was very little room for error and no digital safety net waiting to fix the shot later.
The finale gives us another outstanding stunt when one of the road pirates rides a motorcycle around the hideout, launches over Daisy’s yellow Plymouth and lands on an airbag. That rider is legendary stunt performer Jack Gill, who also appears onscreen as the crook who gets lifted by a forklift and punched before escaping on the motorcycle.
Jack Gill would go on to perform the famous General Lee jump through a barn in a later episode, become the stunt coordinator for Knight Rider and eventually work on the Fast & Furious movies. Seeing him here in one of his early appearances is another reminder of how much stunt history is hidden throughout The Dukes of Hazzard.
We also revisit a recycled General Lee jump from an earlier California episode. The behind-the-scenes photographs show just how battered the Charger already was and how close the camera operator stood to the landing area. The car carries an R/T grille, but Corndog identifies it as one of the 1968 Chargers brought from Georgia and later repaired with whatever production parts were available.
Daisy’s Second Yellow Plymouth
“Road Pirates” gives Daisy’s yellow Plymouth considerably more screen time than the General Lee. This is the second version of her yellow car, and it combines details from different model years. The recessed center section of the hood is a 1971–72 design, while the strobe-style stripe resembles the graphics used on the 1973–74 Road Runner.
The hood stripe itself does not appear to match an original factory treatment. It looks like the production crew was attempting to recreate the later Road Runner appearance on an earlier Plymouth Satellite. It is exactly the kind of mixed-year television car that seems perfectly normal until Corndog pauses the episode and explains why none of the pieces technically belong together.
Despite the limited General Lee action and some extremely relaxed continuity, “Road Pirates” still gives us fake lawmen, stolen televisions, wet cement, a nitrous bottle, motorcycles, forklifts and tractor-trailer chases. It’s another wonderfully chaotic trip through early Hazzard County—filled with courageous practical stunts, behind-the-scenes discoveries, questionable police work and absolutely no CGI!
Episode Stats
K&F Show: #376
Dukes of Hazzard Season: 2
Episode: 5
Title: “Road Pirates”
Original Air Date: October 19, 1979
Written By: William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Directed By: William Asher
Original K&F Review: Kibbe & Finnegan Show #16 (December 2016)
Marty Garbade: Billy Green Bush
Powers: J.N. Roberts
Meznick: Bob Yerkes
Truck Driver: Salt Walther
Hijacked Driver: Boyd Bodwell
Shipping Clerk: Owen Bush
Garbade’s Girl: Ashley Cox
Cletus Hogg: Rick Hurst
Notable Stunt Performers Discussed: Al Wyatt Jr. and Jack Gill
General Lee History: A recycled early California jump featuring one of the original Georgia Chargers
Dallas Kibbe Racing Update: Building the Next Chapter
We didn’t have a new Dallas race weekend to break down during this recording, but the work behind Dallas Kibbe Racing never really stops. Every race, test and trip to the track is part of building the next chapter of the program. The goal is not simply to enter races—it is to keep developing Dallas into a smarter, more confident and more complete race-car driver.
Competing against stronger national-level fields has forced Dallas to learn quickly. The margins are smaller, the equipment is more evenly matched and every mistake costs track position. That experience has become especially noticeable when he returns to familiar tracks. He is reading races differently, communicating better and showing far more confidence behind the wheel than he did even one season ago.
We are also continuing to build the program away from the track through stronger content, merchandise and potential partner opportunities. The long-term goal is to give sponsors more than a logo on a race car. We want to create stories, videos and promotional opportunities that allow people to follow Dallas’s development and feel like they are part of the journey.
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A Screen-Used General Lee Goes Up for Sale
Away from this week’s television episode, Corndog helps me examine a genuine screen-used General Lee currently being offered for sale. This particular Charger was built for the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie and later reused in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning. It is the specialized two-wheel car equipped with a massive hydraulic arm and outrigger wheel underneath.
Instead of depending entirely on a stunt driver to balance the Charger, the hydraulic assembly supported the vehicle and allowed it to drive on two wheels. The equipment looks like it was assembled from a mixture of farm machinery, aircraft components and whatever else happened to be sitting around the shop. Corndog explains that this was the work of Ilya Popov and the GMFX team, who created some genuinely ingenious mechanical effects for the movies.
The car had recently changed hands and was being offered again after only a short period of ownership. That led us into a discussion about its value and whether a rough—but authentic—screen-used Charger should be worth more than a beautifully finished General Lee replica.
A nice replica will probably look better at a show. A movie car was built to perform a specific job, survive the shot and move on to the next scene. Underneath the orange paint, the construction can be crude and the bodywork can show sanding marks, quick repairs and decades of hard use. The value comes from the history rather than perfection.
Corndog walks us through what he sees as the General Lee hierarchy. Original television-series cars sit at the top, followed by the reunion-movie cars, the 2005 and 2007 movie cars and then the later AutoTrader commercial cars used by John Schneider and Tom Wopat. Each group has a different connection to the franchise, but every authentic car carries a story that a replica cannot duplicate.
Remembering Dolly Parton and Tim Curry
We begin this week’s show by remembering Dolly Parton, one of the rare entertainers who seemed to be universally loved. She was a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist whose personality was every bit as recognizable as her music. Her Imagination Library placed millions of books into the hands of children, and her deep faith produced a joy that people around the world could recognize even when they could not explain it.
I grew up with 9 to 5. My parents had recorded the edited television version onto a VHS tape, and it became one of the movies I was allowed to watch whenever I stayed home sick from school. I saw that version so many times that I did not realize until years later how much language and adult material had been removed for television.
To celebrate Dolly’s life, I found an AI-generated trivia game covering her childhood, music, movies, Dollywood and charitable work. Between Bernie and Corndog, we somehow answered all ten questions correctly. Apparently, we know far more about Dolly Parton than any of us realized.
We also remember Tim Curry, whose voice, expression and ability to completely disappear into unusual characters made him unforgettable. Whether you remember him from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Home Alone 2, It or The Hunt for Red October, he always brought something completely unique to the screen.
Is There Still a Future for Audio Podcasting?
Automotive journalist Chris Harris recently announced that his podcast would pause after reaching its 100th episode. That sparked an honest conversation about how much work goes into producing a podcast and whether the traditional audio-only format still makes sense for somebody starting a new show today.
The world increasingly expects video. Viewers want to see the cars, shops, events and people being discussed. They are used to creators like Cleetus McFarland and Mike Finnegan taking cameras into the middle of the action rather than simply describing it from behind a microphone.
If I were starting from scratch today, I probably would not launch an audio-only podcast. The K&F Show continues in this format because broadcasting is the foundation of what we do and we have spent years learning how to do it well. We are adding video to an established audio program rather than abandoning the format that built the audience.
Between K&F, The Muscle Car Place, the Ultimate Street Car Podcast and the other shows we have produced, we have well over a thousand episodes in the can. Reaching 100 episodes is a significant achievement, but we apparently missed the part where we were supposed to stop and reconsider our life choices.
Holley MoParty 2026
Holley MoParty is returning to Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, for another massive celebration of everything Mopar. The event includes drag racing, autocross, a full car show, Dodge thrill rides, Gen III Hemi discussions, the VanDemonium race, Vice Grip Garage, monster trucks and even a mullet contest.
MoParty is now part of an incredible run of Holley events held on consecutive September weekends at Beech Bend. LS Fest, MoParty and Ford Festival turn Bowling Green into the center of the automotive universe for nearly an entire month.
Our own MoParty plans were still developing when we recorded this episode. As soon as we know exactly who from the K&F crew will be attending, our Patreon audience will receive the announcement first. We understand that some listeners plan portions of their event weekend around seeing us, and we do not take that support for granted.
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KF Crew: Bernie, Rob, and Corndog.
