DOH last season

[Dino]

Does anyone have any pictures/screenshots/video from the last season?  I don't think I've ever seen any of it.  I would like to see something from the ufo episode but more than anything I would love to see the model cars they used for the jumps.  I can only imagine how bad it was but I want to make sure.   

[Indygenerallee]

It's bad, like the General Lee jumping over a barn bad. 

[tan top]

 you don't wana see    , can still remember seeing it first time round on tv  ,  (  Sorry Dukes fans )  was soo embarrising  ,     , although from memory was first time you ever saw the general lee driving at night with head lights on !!  think bo & luke were looking for the Alien  

[Ghoste]

So the aliens were their shark jump?

[skip68]

This little alien would vanish in thin air.   Very embarrassing to say the least.       

[tan top]

 amazing , just found it on youtube  
 says part ten so would imagine  the whole  episode is on here , cant  bring my self to watch it again , its crap   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk4zlhcQMEM

[Dino]

You're right, the whole thing is on there.  Unreal! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db29DZClRPs

I was shocked when I saw this, they have '68 seats!   

[Indygenerallee]

Script writers did WAY TOO MUCH COKE!!!!!

[Dino]

Script writers did WAY TOO MUCH COKE!!!!!

Or not enough.

[Indygenerallee]

 

[tan top]

You're right, the whole thing is on there.  Unreal! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db29DZClRPs

I was shocked when I saw this, they have '68 seats!   

from memory they had 68 seats on lots of interior shots  & not just the later seasons 

Script writers did WAY TOO MUCH COKE!!!!!

Or not enough.

hahahaha thats funny  

[SRT-440]

U would have thought the actors or SOMEBODY would have stepped in and said something...I'm sure they started to run out of plots and were prolly trying to go along with "trends" of the time like ET, Star Wars...but it was lame..should have stuck to what worked.

[Indygenerallee]

That's the problem, They could only "win the race to collect the prize money to keep boss hogg reposessing uncle Jesse's farm" bit so many times!! 

[Back N Black]

I think the Alien was embarrassed to be in the General Lee, that's why he was hiding behind the rear seat. 

[bull]

Bo says it best, "I can't hardly believe that really happened." Pretty sure he was talking about that alien episode though.

I'm assuming "Li'l Cousin" left because he didn't find any intelligent life.

[bull]

That's the problem, They could only "win the race to collect the prize money to keep boss hogg reposessing uncle Jesse's farm" bit so many times!! 

You know, if those two knuckleheads would have actually worked the farm instead of burning gas in the GL all day long the Duke farm probably would have turned a profit. Instead poor old Uncle Jessie did all the farm work and Daisy was only making $1.50/hour at the Boar's Nest. Free-loaders!

[bakerhillpins]

So the aliens were their shark jump?

No, the model cars were, the aliens is when they doubled down.  

It was/is so bad, just awful.  

[JB400]

I can't blame the script writers for trying something different to spice the series up a bit, but, in this instance, it was the last nail in the coffin

[marshallfry01]

I am a huge Dukes fan, but I never watch the 6th or 7th season because the episodes are so stupid and the jumps are too fake.  The general lee's are much nicer on the later seasnons though.  One or two of the close up cars were 68's on the later seasons because of the seats and the pointed dash pad.  I don't know why they didn't pick a 69 to make a good close up car...

[Mike DC]

You know, if those two knuckleheads would have actually worked the farm instead of burning gas in the GL all day long the Duke farm probably would have turned a profit. Instead poor old Uncle Jessie did all the farm work and Daisy was only making $1.50/hour at the Boar's Nest. Free-loaders!

Any time the Dukes ended up making spare money they gave it to the orphanage.

[Brightyellow69rtse]

haha i remember seeing that. i like the show but the last couple years were pretty rough. i think i remember the general jumping a water tower at one point 

[projectanimal]

Last year I was home sick for a few days and happen to catch a mini marathon of the good Ol Duke boys.... Was able to see their first episode and then a few of the last. 
The jumps were pretty bad with the model cars, but I give them credit for realizing they could make more jumps and stunts without the actual wrecks and huge budget.... That being said I had to laugh when one episode would have the model car jumping a nice HO train set, then the next would have all the same trees and road but instead of train they added a new cross road and a truck or a fake dock! 

I agree that they may have run out of good weed so the show just wasn't the same good quality "where is the farm money going to come from" saga!   Now get them back Into the stunt show and races!! 

[RCKSTR]

I have all the seasons on DVD.. Cant for the life of me figure out why 

[hatersaurusrex]

Watched this vid a couple weeks back, it's got all the model jumps compiled into one vid.   I think they did a decent job with what they had but a few times it's PAINFULLY obvious it's not a real car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlls_m1x-34

Forward to about 4 mins for the first of the model jumps

Also at about 8:00 you'll see what appears to be a white 68 Coronet being jumped over.

[dodgey68]

W.T.F!!!!!!!

i just seen this thread, watched the youtube,,,,, alien in the general??,, thats f%^&ked up, bring on the coke laced with metho, that was just stupid, ,
on the other hand, the alien did get a ride in the general, wonder did he sign the car too, didnt see him in any DOH reunion's pictures

[Mike DC]

The DOH models were mainly 1/8th scale stuff.  The cars were about the size of a skateboard.  Hollywood likes to build their miniatures on the large side to help the realism.  


That kind of miniature work is actually more expensive than you'd think.  The little vehicles aren't too expensive but those are not the only things in the shot.  They also needed hundreds of square feet of miniature roads/backgrounds.  

 

[daveco]

...Also at about 8:00 you'll see what appears to be a white 68 Coronet being jumped over.

[Cooter]

Any REAL DOH fan knows thew last two seasons aren't watched. First 3 seasons are the best.

[Dino]

Watched this vid a couple weeks back, it's got all the model jumps compiled into one vid.   I think they did a decent job with what they had but a few times it's PAINFULLY obvious it's not a real car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlls_m1x-34

Forward to about 4 mins for the first of the model jumps

Also at about 8:00 you'll see what appears to be a white 68 Coronet being jumped over.

Thanks for posting that.  I can now say I say the model cars jump...and I wish I hadn't.   

I think they did pretty good for the time, obviously it's not a real car but they did better than I expected.  The part that likely killed it is not how they did the jump, but what they were trying to clear.  A water tower?  A big ass barn?  I was waiting for the damn thing to just fly off at one point.

I only got half way through the video though, couldn't take any more of it. 

[Mike DC]

            
The model jumps were too big but that was part of the reason for doing them that way.  To outdo what could (affordably) be done with the real thing.  "Knight Rider" had gone to miniatures a couple years earlier and the DOH producers were keeping up with them.


Another problem was the physics of throwing model cars around.  Smaller objects don't behave the same way as bigger versions of them do, even if you make them out of the same materials.  

The most convincing miniature shots in the movies are usually done BIG scales (read: expensive) to keep the realism better.  For the shot when the Titanic broke in half in the Leo DeCaprio movie, they used a "miniature" of the ship the size of a semi trailer. 

[F8-4life]

I liked the first episode or ttwo, the ones were rosco would say jackass instead of just being overly goofy. The first ones just seemed more real before they fell into the "groov" of the show. Oh and the ones with the minitures are not to be watched, unless your drunk/high and are into that kinda thing lol.