The series focused on the adventures of Enos Strate, a former deputy in rural Hazzard County, after he moved to Los Angeles to join the LAPD. Sonny Shroyer played the character of Enos on both shows.[1] One reviewer stated that the series was "basically Gomer Pyle in a new uniform."[2]
While working as a rural deputy in Hazzard County Enos accidentally captured two most-wanted criminals, so impressing the Los Angelos Police Department that they offered him a job in their a newly formed Special Branch. He was teamed with a street-smart black partner, Turk Adams, and was under the watch of Lt. Jacob Broggi.[1]
At times friends from Hazzard County came to see him.[1] In one episode Daisy Duke visited while taking part in auto race, not knowing she was being used to smuggle a diamond.[4] Enos narrated each episode as viewers heard parts of a letter he was writing to Daisy.[1]
The character Enos Strate returned to The Dukes of Hazzard in autumn 1982, at the start of the show's fifth season. It had been written into Shroyer's contract that he be allowed to return to the series if the spin-off was canceled. In the CBS film specials made years after the series ended—The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)—Enos appeared as a California lawman. It was explained that he had returned to the LAPD and eventually become a detective.{{Citation needed}}
The series never achieved the ratings CBS had hoped for, partly because it was up against two popular series, Eight is Enough and Real People. It was cancelled after one season.[5]
Enos needs $5,000 a bank robber claims Enos pocketed when he arrested the robber.
11
"The Hostage"
Bruce Kessler
Ray Brenner
February18,1981(1981-02-18)
Counterfeiters take Lt. Broggi prisoner, and Enos and Turk use creative police methods to free him.
12
"Now You See Him, Now You Don't"
Michael Caffey
Robert I. Holt, Stephen Thornley
March4,1981(1981-03-04)
A bank robber of many disguises keeps Enos and Turk on the run.
13
"Once and Fur All"
Bruce Kessler
Jim Rogers
March11,1981(1981-03-11)
Enos is busy with a series of fur robberies while playing Big Brother to Hobie, a young black boy.
14
"Cops at Sea"
Don McDougall
Simon Muntner
March18,1981(1981-03-18)
Enos volunteers himself and Turk for boat duty when a rash of burglaries sweeps the Marina. Turk is seeing a police psychologist because of Enos' wild driving.
15
"The Moonshiners"
Dennis Donnelly
Gerald Sanford
April1,1981(1981-04-01)
When moonshine shows up in the big city, Enos tracks down the perpetrators with the help of a young female singer he knew in Hazzard.
Enos and Turk have the misfortune to give citations to the Deputy Chief's wife, but their luck changes when they locate and close down an illegal gambling casino.
Bullets and heroin don't mix, but it takes Enos and Turk a while before they decipher what's happening.
18
"Forever Blowing Baubles"
Bernard McEveety
Rick Mittleman
May20,1981(1981-05-20)
An ancient Egyptian ruby is stolen from a museum and Enos employs some ancient country skills to get it back.
References
1 2 3 4 5 Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 – Present (7th Edition), Ballantine Books, 1999, page 309
↑ Reddicliffe, Steven, Tube goes country, The Duluth News Tribune, February 24, 1981, page 12
↑ Bobbin, Jay, American networks plan new fall schedule, Del Rio News Herald, May 29, 1981, page 22
1 2 Tonight on TV, Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick Canada), May 16, 1981, page 27
↑ Walz, Steve K., Tele-Pulse, Enterprise-Record, May 9, 1981, page 50
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