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    When "The Dukes" premiered on CBS, it was the winter of 1983. Hanna-Barbera threw it into the schedule during mid-season for reasons I couldn't fathom. If I were the network CEO, I'd have kept "Speed Buggy," which was airing in reruns back then. Being the stubborn woman that I am, I refused to see it, fearing it would go away prematurely. Well, I was right. It left the airwaves later that year, the weekend before Halloween.

    All I really saw of it were promotional ads. Maybe that was all I needed to see.

    Trivia Question 20: The dog Flash bore a striking resemblance to: A. Astro. B. Bandit. C. Muttley. D. Wimper.
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    Tom Wopat and John Schneider were holding out for a new contract to continue their roles as Bo and Luke in the live-action "Dukes of Hazzard" series in Fall 1983 and did not appear in that show in that season nor did they appear in the "Dukes" cartoon series in its first season. Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer had replaced Wopat and Schneider as cousins Coy and Vance in the live action "Dukes" show and their cartoon likenesses and voice performances were used in the first season episodes (13 of them). It was possible the "Dukes" animated series was delayed from its planned Fall premiere because of Wopat and Schneider's hold-out and the animation and voiceover tracks had to be redone with Cherry and Mayer.

    Wopat and Schneider resolved their contract disputes for the 1984 Fall season and returned to the live action "Dukes" show and in 7 episodes in the second season "Dukes" cartoons which lasted two months in Fall 1984 before it was cancelled. Coy and Vance disappeared in the second cartoon season. Cherry and Mayer continued appearing as Coy and Vance with Bo and Luke in the live-action "Dukes" series as supporting co-stars before their characters were written off in the middle of that season.

    The cartoon series premise had Uncle Jessie (Denver Pyle), with a raccoon named Smoky keeping him company back at home in Hazzard County, reading a letter mailed by Daisy as Daisy (Catherine Bach), Coy and Vance/Bo and Luke raced their General Lee Dodge Charger around the world versus scheming Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke), Sheriff Roscoe Coltrane (James Best), and Roscoe's dog Flash (Frank Welker) in Boss Hogg's Cadillac convertible with the winner keeping the deed to the Dukes family farm. The Dukes would help people in various foreign locales as they raced...keeping one step ahead of Boss Hogg and Roscoe. Of course the General Lee jumped over obstacles at high speed on European and Asian terrain just as cool as back in Hazzard County.

    The "Dukes" meets "Wacky Races" with Boss Hogg and Roscoe supplying the "wacky". Boss Hogg seemed to fit in very well as an expressive, frustrated cartoon character. Sorrell Booke later played a guest character voice in "The Smurfs" and performed other voices for Hanna-Barbera's cartoons.

    In a foreshadowing of things to come, this was the first co-production between Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers Television as Warner produced the "Dukes of Hazzard" series. Hanna-Barbera would become a Warner Brothers property in the 2000s through WB's acquisition of Turner Entertainment. Hanna-Barbera did animate DC Comics' "Super Friends" for a long while and DC Comics is owned by Warner but no Warner logo appeared in the network airings of the series. The Warner logo did appear after the "Super Friends" end credits on the DVD releases and in the off-network televised reruns of the series as the program distributor/syndicator.

    Hanna-Barbera had produced the "Dukes of Hazzard"-like "Trollkins" series with the Trolls getting into the rural Hazzard County way of life effortlessly.
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    The phenomenon seen with Hanna-Barbera Studios creating animated series parallel to live action ones resulted ultimately from funding. Hanna-Barbera had the staff and resources to produce cartoon series, and even write them from scratch. The trick lay in getting commercial sponsors to underwrite some or all of the production costs. This meant Hanna-Barbera had to prove that their cartoon series was going to play in Peoria, and one tested method of convincing sponsors of this was to cull from live action television series that were generating good ratings. The Dukes of Hazzard was pulling strong ratings for CBS Television, so it stood to reason that an animated adaptation would generate similar good ratings. It's likely that Hanna-Barbera were hoping to pitch an original series somewhere down the line, but finding a sponsor for an untested, out-of-the-blue production tends to be difficult. It was so much easier to run the animated-adaptation drill, and sponsors were much more amenable to that. "Them with th' money makes th' rules."
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    The Hanna-Barbera live action tv show/cartoon adaptations were also co-produced by the studios producing the live action tv series...Paramount Pictures for "Fonz and the Happy Days Gang", "Laverne and Shirley in the Army", and "Mork and Mindy" and Warner Brothers for "Dukes of Hazzard".
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    Answer: D. Whimper.

    Flash was a basset hound as was Whimper from "Clue Club"
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    Right, Artytoons. You get an A for that.
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