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Did you know that The Dukes of Hazzard was a spinoff?



Yes indeed. Writer/director Gy Waldron took elements from his 1975 film Moonrunners (starring Robert Mitchum's son and Dean Martin's son in law, not to mention a grown-up Spanky from the Little Rascals) and used them in the creation of the TV show four years later. You'll meet Uncle Jesse and Roscoe Coltrane here, and that's still Waylon Jennings as the Balladeer.

Not here, but still interesting if you're a Dukes fan: Ben Jones, who'd go on to play Cooter in the TV show, played a federal agent in this. The part of Cooter was played by C. Pete Munro, who'd later go on to guest in Dukes and have a regular part in Enos, the Dukes spinoff starring Sonny Shroyer.

Yes, IMDb is a wonderful thing.