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: 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 (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790731363
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,881 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest Dukes of Hazzard episode of them all!, November 1, 1999

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Marky K. Billson (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dukes of Hazzard: One-Armed Bandits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Not only the greatest Dukes ep ever, but perhaps the best episode of TV ever. This is the Dukes with a realistic flavor. Those aren't TV sets, they are real buildings that still exist in Covington and Conyers, GA, today!

If you are a Dukes fan, YOU MUST buy this episode. If not only to see how it all begins, if not only to see this classic American tale, but because TNN does such a hatchet job in cutting this one up in re-runs, you can't follow the plot and many of the episodes', and series', great scenes! But you can here, and you learn of the story between Bo and Jill Rae Dotson (Tisch Raye) that TNN doesn't show and are essential to the plot, which is based on a real life tale of a slot machine racket writer Gy Waldron discovered doing research creating Dukes. Raye, who would later marry in to French royalty and retire from acting, two years later landed a guest spot on Charlie's Angels in an episode entitled, "Moonshinin' Angels". This role unquestionably helped her land that one.

From the opening scene, where a Hazzard Co. Patrol Car and the General Lee jump over a hill on Covington, Georgia's Elm Street, to the final joke of Rudy (played by Jason Lively, the son of Ernie Davis Lively, who played Dobro in this ep and appeared in three other Dukes eps as two other characters. Jason himself would be the focal point of the sixth season episode, "The Boar's Nest Bears") squirting flies on the General's rear windshield, this show is captivating. There is action, four, count 'em, FOUR car chases! But there is also drama, mischief, and a tale that really leaves no gaps. So many people think of The Dukes of Hazzard as a slapstick show, but that dumbed down feel of the show is absent here. Watching this makes you wonder how good Dukes would have been if they had continued to shoot in Georgia and followed Waldron's vision, rather than move the show to California and adopt hack writers from Gilligans Island and McHales Navy to "Hollywoodize" it.

If you love the Dukes of Hazzard, this is a must for your library. You cannot enjoy the show in its proper context without seeing the above missing scenes! And if you're a southerner looking for a feel of rural southern life in the 1970's, look no further. This is it.

"One Armed Bandits" is such a quality piece of television die-hard Dukes fans have been known to memorize every line of dialoge to it and travel to Covington and Conyers to check out shooting locations! Let's just say I still remember vividly watching this episode for the first time on its very first airing on Jan. 26, 1979, and I was seven at the time. For a memory like that to be imprinted on such a young mind, this episode must really be something special. You will agree after viewing it. Five stars do not do it justice. It should receive an infinite amount of stars.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, February 13, 1999

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This review is from: The Dukes of Hazzard: One-Armed Bandits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the Dukes Of all Dukes and the first Dukes. The boys steal some slot machines to help out the county orphanage and help Rosco win the county sheriff's election as well.The dukes raise the money and give it to the orphanage saying Rosco raised the money to help the orphanage. This helps Rosco as well, and he wins the election for sheriff. Not a bad job by the dukes to help out the needy. Good high speed chases and a HOT Daisy Duke in a bikini!!!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best!, September 27, 2003

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This review is from: The Dukes of Hazzard: One-Armed Bandits [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The best of the series,without a doubt.Filmed on location in Georgia,this episode has a different feel than the rest of the series.A free spirit,fun loving episode,yet still with Jesse Duke's inbred decency and character upon Bo and Luke.Future episodes clashed with this debut's statement that Luke owned a car that he loaned to Cooter,and the lack of mentioning that Cooter owned a garage (Cooter was far more wild in this episode than he would be later).To think if the series would be different if it had stayed in the Covington area and not Hollywood boggles the mind....imagine a "country" show filmed in the country...that would be unimaginable!!!
If you have never seen this episode.....you need to....the action and characters "actions" will surprise you!! But thats a good thing!