List of The Dukes of Hazzard Episodes - Season 3 (1980-1981) - 22 Episodes

When the Dukes go see a stunt show called "Carnival of Thrills", the star of the show is injured while trying to jump a car over 32-parked cars. Looking for a new star, carnival owner Diane Benson offers Bo the job. While Diane seduces a lovestruck Bo with her charms, Luke, Daisy and Uncle Jesse suspect something is amiss. Their fears are confirmed when an insurance investigator reveals that the earlier stunt show mishap—along with several others—was no accident. Luke tries to present his findings to Bo, who refuses to listen. This leads to a huge fight that results in Bo leaving the Duke farm and threatens much farther-reaching repercussions on the Duke family.

Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau

• Produced by:
• Myles Wilder
• Ralph Riskin

Created by: Gy Waldron

• Written by:
• William Raynor
• Myles Wilder

• Director: Dick Moder

Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard

Guest Starring:

• Robin Mattson as Diane
• Vernon Weddle as John Zimbra
• Don Stroud as Carl
• Richard Jensen as Bob Dexter
• Greg Finley as Proprietor

• Note: Although used to start the third season, this story, which exists in both feature-length and two-part formats (as on the "Dukes of Hazzard" Season 3 DVD), was actually produced at the end of the second. This is evident in that Enos is still Deputy, Cooter still has a beard, and Rosco does not yet have his dog, Flash.

When taking pictures of Uncle Jesse in front of a bank in Atlanta, Daisy inadvertently gets two bank robbers in the shot who kidnap her in exchange for the photographs. Meanwhile, Enos goes against Rosco's orders, helping the Duke boys rescue Daisy and captures the bank robbers in the process. He is then offered a job with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau

Co-Produced by:

• Myles Wilder
• Ralph Riskin

Created by: Gy Waldron

Written by:

• William Raynor
• Myles Wilder

Directed by: Rod Amateau

Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard

Special Guest Star:

• Sonny Shroyer as Enos Strate

Guest Stars:

• Leonard Stone as Ringleader

Co-Starring:

• Nedra Volz as Postmistress
• Jerry Summers as Cosgroves
• Tom Oberhaus as Gumbs
• Troy Milton as Driver

Note: Cletus Hogg, played by Rick Hurst, is hired as deputy; however, he does not begin his duties until the next episode, The Hazzardville Horror. Sonny Shroyer is credited as a special guest star for this episode.

Note: Rosco's lazy basset hound, Flash, is seen for the first time, added to the series at the suggestion of James Best.

Note: Ben Jones (Cooter) does not appear in this episode.

A father and son criminal duo steal Boss Hogg's silver from the Boar's Nest and hide out in a house owned by Hezechiah Pringle, which he left to his niece, Mary Lou Pringle. When Mary Lou returns to Hazzard to sell the house, the crooks try to scare her off by staging a series of supernatural events. She turns to Bo and Luke for help, who are on the run from Rosco because Boss is convinced they are the silver thieves and has ordered Rosco to arrest them for the theft.

Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau

Produced by:

• Myles Wilder
• Ralph Riskin

Created by: Gy Waldron

Written by: Si Rose

Directed by: Jack Whitman

• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard

Special Guest Star Tammy Wynette as Herself

Guest Starring

• Morgan Brittany as Mary Lou Pringle
• Andrew Robinson as Billy Joe
• Charles Tyner as Claude Billings

Hazzard Speed Trap Victim: Tammy Wynette

After Luke broke an expensive mirror of Boss Hogg's, Jesse may be forced to sell the farm to pay for it unless Luke fights Catfish Lee, managed by a crooked promoter, in a boxing match.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Jim Rogers
• Director: Paul Baxley
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars are:
• Dianne Anthony as Bessie Lou Perkins
• Sonny Shields as Catfish Lee
• Richard Schaal as Billy Ray
• Eddie Ryder as Culpepper
• Pat Cranshaw as Doc Petticord

Boss manages to foreclose on the Duke farm unfair and square, no thanks to his idiot deputy, cousin Cletus. Also, he has them arrested unfair and square on a federal charge. But he gets news from his physician that he only has two weeks to live. The only way to save him from the Devil is to perform good deeds until the time comes.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Martin Roth
• Director: Hollingsworth Morse
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars are:
  • James McIntire As Linc
  • Ray Young As Dell
  • Waren Munson As Doctor Carney
  • Lindsay Bloom As Mabel Tillingham
  • Joanne Hickman As Nurse
  • Dennis Haskins As Charlie Watkins

Boss Hogg unleashes his "secret weapon" against the Dukes: his college-educated nephew Hughie Hogg comes to Hazzard with some dirty tricks and schemes to frame Bo and Luke into prison.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Gy Waldron And Ralph Riskin
• Writers: William Raynor & Myles Wilder
• Director: Hollingsworth Morse
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
• Jeff Altman As Hughie Hogg
• Ellen Murry As Mary Belle
• Note: This story, produced as the second episode of the second season, was designed to introduce the character of Hughie Hogg. However, for unknown reasons it was not broadcast until the third season, by which time Hughie had already been seen in the second season's "Arrest Jesse Duke". Even to the more casual viewer, this episode is notably out of sequence, as Enos is still Deputy, Daisy still drives her Plymouth, Cooter still has a beard, and the episode is copyright 1979.

Boss Hogg's honest, rich twin brother Abe, has come to Hazzard for the reading of their great aunt's will, which entitles a piece of land to both of them. But Boss had Abe declared legally dead years ago and sold the land.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writers: William Raynor & Myles Wilder
• Director: Dick Moder
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
• Boyd Bodwell As Benny The Quill
• Ross Elliot As Finchburg Sheriff
• Sorrell Booke As Abraham Lincoln Hogg
• Ted Gehring As The Judge
• Note: John Schneider (Bo) does not appear in this episode. In his absence, Luke is paired with both Cooter and Daisy at different points in the story.

After meeting a woman through a computer dating service, Rosco plans to get married. Boss Hogg plans for him to invite everyone in town to his wedding, except The Dukes. This makes them the only possible suspects for the bank robbery he's arranging to take place during the ceremony. Unaware that Rosco's fiancé and her gang are planning a robbery of their own.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Si Rose
• Director: Jack Whitman
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
• Lucille Benson As Mama Coltrane
  • Peggy Rea As Lulu Coltrane Hogg
  • Tori Lysdahl As Sue Ann Bliss
  • William Sanderson As Collins
  • Reid Smith As Mcgraw
• Note: Ben Jones (Cooter) does not appear in this episode. He has one line (probably stock) heard off-screen.
• Note: This episode reveals that Rosco's middle name is Purvis.

In the series' only Christmas-themed episode, Boss who is in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like mood throughout this episode, hires a trio of criminals to hijack the Dukes' Christmas tree shipment, then pin the blame on the Dukes. The scheme involves two of the bad guys stealing the trees from Bo and Luke at gunpoint, then the third associate disguised as a clergyman giving the Duke boys a lift into town, and then telling them they forgot "their" $500 down payment on the trees. While Uncle Jesse and Daisy set out to clear their family's name, the criminals plot to double-cross Boss by taking more than their payment due on the trees, breaking into the safe while each one is dressed as Santa Claus. Meanwhile, Bo and Luke - with some help from Cooter - decide to take back the trees and have a little fun confusing Rosco and Cletus while delivering the trees (dressed as Santa Clauses). In the end, the episode takes a turn toward forgiveness and fellowship as the Dukes and Cooter invite Rosco and Cletus to their Christmas Eve gathering. Boss comes in later, reformed after having read Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Martin Roth
• Director: Denver Pyle
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
• Woody Strode As Willie
• Brian Libby As Russ
• Roy Jenson As Lacey
• Dake Pullum As Little Boy
• Roger Pancake As Hank

While being chased by Rosco, Bo and Luke crash through a piece of land thought to be owned to nobody. They soon find out they are wrong, and make friends with the new citizens of Hazzard. But Luke soon finds out that they're being followed by bounty hunters, out to get some kind of document which holds a secret to the Bensons' past.

• Hazzard Speed Trap victims: Hoyt Axton performs 'Out of State Cars'. Watch for Rosco taking notes about the red light trap.

Boss Hogg's rival uses a good-looking stranger to come into Hazzard and to bomb the Boar's Nest. Daisy falls in love with the stranger, and is soon kidnapped by him.

• Hazzard Speed Trap victims: The Oak Ridge Boys perform 'Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight'. This was their second time on the show.

A recently widowed old flame of Jesse's returns to Hazzard to claim an old debt owing to her late husband by Boss Hogg, but he refuses it. So she finds a legacy that the Dukes find in a mine under their property containing 9 full barrels of shine.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writers: William Rayonr And Myles Wilder
• Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard

• Guest Stars:
  • Jan Clayton as Lucinda Meadows
  • Gregory Walcott as Hatcher
  • Jack Garner as Blaine
  • Jay Ripley as Deputy Wilbur Fudge
• Note: James Best (Rosco) does not appear in this episode. For this episode, Deputy Cletus is promoted to temporary Sheriff, with Wilbur Fudge assigned temporary Deputy.

Hazzard's annual Hazzard Derby is on. While Cooter is injured trying to help the Dukes, Luke must race in Cooter's car while Bo is in the General Lee. However, all the entrants who signed the contracts didn't see the fine print that every loser will have to give up their cars to Boss Hogg. Rosco's car can't lose with a tank of nitrous oxide in the engine. With a sure win, Boss bets with a big time Chickasaw bookie, Ma Harper.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder and Ralph Riskin
• Writers: William Rayonr and Myles Wilder
• Director: Paul Baxley
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
  • Fran Ryan as Ma Harper
  • Johnnie Collins III as Billy Boy Harper
  • Richard Fullerton as Billy Gene Harper
  • Alan Wyatt Jr. as Junior Harper
  • Sandy Wescott as Nurse

When Bo suffers a bump on the head in an auto accident, he begins to suffer from temporary amnesia. Boss Hogg uses this to his advantage, telling Bo that he is his long-lost son, "Bo Hogg." After turning Bo against his family by this brainwashing, Boss asks him to drive a shipment to Chickasaw County. Boss fails to tell him that it is moonshine he is to deliver to C. V. Gumble in Chickasaw County for ten times the going rate. However, when an armored truck driver alerts Chickasaw County Sheriff "Big" Ed Little, Luke & Daisy go after Bo before he is captured and his probation is revoked. But when Daisy & Luke pull Bo over, the proverbial gloves come off.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Si Rose
• Director: Rod Amateau
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
  • Don Pedro Colley as Sheriff "Big Ed" Little
  • Anne Haney as C.V. Gumble
  • Bill Cross as Armored Truck Driver
  • Ken Hixon as Dr. Floyd

A pair of jewel thieves comes through Hazzard County and while confronted by Boss and Rosco, they make a getaway in the General Lee. This makes Boss think the Duke boys are a part of the gang and also, when the loot is found in Rosco's patrol car by Flash who retrieved them, Rosco is fired when Boss thinks he's in on it too.

• Supervising Producer: Rod Amateau
• Producers: Myles Wilder And Ralph Riskin
• Writer: Bruce Howard
• Director: Denver Pyle
• Executive Producer: Paul R. Picard
• Guest Stars:
  • James Crittenden As Burt Robie
  • Martha Smith As Myrna Robie
  • Victoria Johnson As Lori Mae
• Note: This is the only episode in which Catherine Bach does not appear.

In this show cousin Jeb Stuart (Duke) comes to Hazzard on a Motorcycle from Chickasaw county. He helps Bo and Luke (his cousins) catch the bad Guys.

Daisy wants to become a newspaper reporter, and to do that she decides to write a story about how Boss Hogg bought stolen tractors.

Hughie Hogg is back in town! He gets the Duke boys to join the Hazzard County fire team (so he can sneak shine in to the Duke farm). Rosco catches the Dukes with shine, and they get away. All'n all it's one big scheme to get the Duke boys in jail, but in the end Hughie's plan is ruined, and Boss Hogg is really MAD!

While driving on the road to the Boar's Nest, Bo and Luke are ambushed by an escaped prisoner. He steals the General Lee, and plans to hunt down Boss Hogg. Then later, Boss hears that the escaped prisoner is an old foe, who is set out to get revenge on J.D.!

Three good old friends of the Dukes come to Hazzard after Bo and Luke find a bag of $1 million in a river.

• Hazzard Speed Trap Victim: Roy Orbison

While she's away, Bo and Luke run a taxicab service owned by Miz Tisdale, and their first customers are two men with a special briefcase. After getting to the destination, the two men leave a stolen gold certificate in the back seat of the cab and try to retrieve it without getting caught. Boss Hogg, meanwhile, wants to make sure the briefcase is still in the cab when federal authorities arrive ... the main goal (of course) being to implicate the Duke boys.

An old widow sells the Dukes a "worthless" vase for $25. A man comes to the widow after the Dukes leave, looking for the vase which turns out to be of some very good value!