Product Details

• Actors: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, Sorrell Booke
• Directors: William Crain
• Writers: Bill Kelley, Gy Waldron, Simon Muntner
• Producers: Wesley J. McAfee
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 13, 1998
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 079073236X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,586 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE FIVE GREATEST SHOWS OF TELEVISION HISTORY!, April 22, 2000

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Marky K. Billson (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dukes of Hazard: High Octane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first five episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard are about as good of television as you can get. They filmed not on a set in California but on location in Covington, GA. The plots are- dare we say it- REALISTIC AND WELL WRITTEN! The comedy is great, Rosco and Boss are actually not dumbed down to the point of absurdity, and, well, THEY ARE JUST OUTSTANDING EPISODES OF TELEVISION THAT RANK WITH ANYTHING YOU CAN NAME! Especially if you're like me and dispise "social commentary" in your television shows.

This episode is famous for several reasons. First, it is the first time that Luke ever drives the General Lee. His jump over a semi to begin the show, as well as give the General Lee its first great shot of its famous CNH-320 license plates, not only begins the episode with a bang, but is the shot used on the General Lee model kits sold in toy stores in the 1980s. This is also the first episode directed by Don McDougal, the greatest Dukes director of them all, who directed Dukes episodes throughout the show's seven year run. And, of course, this is the last episode filmed in Georgia.

This episode also features sexy character actress Carlene Watkins. Remember the blonde Alex Riger fell in love with when Latka and Simka set everyone up in "The Schlogel Episode" of Taxi? Remember the blonde after Fraiser Crane with a boyfriend in prison and a taste for intimacy in dangerous situtations in Frasier? This is her, young, BRUNETTE, and playing a REVENUER! As Cooter says- "She's a whole lot better looking than ol' Agent Roach"- so much so she even gets Enos' eyes to stray from Daisy and call JD Hogg "Boss" for the only time in the 145 episode run of the series (well- he looked at Vera too when he guest starred on that crossover episode of Alice)!

The plot is great fun- a real cat and mouse game on the moonshine theme the series was based on but later shyed away from- and for the first time it reveals the fact Boss and Uncle Jesse ran shine back in the old days. Bit parts from two actors who appeared in the historic pilot "One Armed Bandits" are included- Champ Laidler as "Old Brodie" and Ralph Pace with such a new look to him in his new character you'd never recognize him from the first episode. It's the only episode Jesse ever breaks his word in as he makes some moonshine "for his country to help solve the energy crisis"- a 1979 history lesson from pop culture if there ever was one! And the General, for one brief shot, has its original checkered-Confederate flag pattern between its rear window and trunk lid!

Remember Gasahol! Learn how we will have fuel for combustion engines even if someday we run out of oil! And buy this great episode! NOW! PULL OUT THE CREDIT CARD! LET THE KIDS GO ANOTHER WEEK WITHOUT NEW SHOES! PUT OFF THE NEW CAR AND DESTROY YOUR CREDIT RATING IF YOU MUST! IT'S THAT GOOD!

If nothing else, you'll finally "get it" after the hatchet job of cutting scenes TNN does to it!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fill Er' Up...Duke's Style!, August 9, 2002

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"jake_l" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dukes of Hazard: High Octane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Tastes like Whiskey, kicks like a mule-- must be moonshine! In this classic Dukes of Hazzard, Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) has gone against his word and fired up a new a new batch of sipping whiskey. But looks can be downright decieving. What Jesse, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are cooking up is a substitue for fossil fuels.

The Dukes are applying the secret family recipe and distilling a kick-tail "gasoline" in order to solve the nation's energy crisis. Of course, that only brings trouble for the Dukes. A federal revenue agent (Carlene Watkins) is doing her best to catch the Duke boys breaking their word and making moonshine. And Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) figures he can collect royalties on the fuel if the Dukes are given a government-funded stay in an iron-bar hotel. With all the heat on can Jesse and the boys make it in time to win the $20000 prize money? Find out and buy this hilarious GAS of an episode!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fill 'Er Up......Dukes Syle!, April 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dukes of Hazard: High Octane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Tastes like Whiskey, kicks like a mule-- must be moonshine! In this classic Dukes of Hazzard, Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) has gone against his word and fired up a new a new batch of sipping whiskey. But looks can be downright decieving. What Jesse, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are cooking up is a substitue for fossil fuels.

The Dukes are applying the secret family recipe and distilling a kick-tail "gasoline" in order to solve the nation's energy crisis. Of course, that only brings trouble for the Dukes. A federal revenue agent (Carlene Watkins) is doing her best to catch the Duke boys breaking their word and making moonshine. And Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) figures he can collect royalties on the fuel if the Dukes are given a government-funded stay in an iron-bar hotel. With all the heat on can Jesse and the boys make it in time to win the $20000 prize money? Find out and buy this hilarious GAS of an episode!