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Though the film Moonrunners (1975) is the precursor to the television series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985), from the same creator and with many identical settings and concepts, the popularity of Smokey and the Bandit and similar films helped get the Dukes series on the air.
Oct 26, 2023 · Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds was the fourth-highest-grossing movie of 1977, and The Dukes of Hazzard was a massive hit for CBS. The show was a television adaptation of...
Jul 17, 2018 · Smokey and the Bandit was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie. He was known to watch it again and again. Take It Back. Due to the success of the movie, Burt Reynolds was promised a new Trans Am every year by the president of General Motors. When he did not receive one, he inquired with General Motors to find out what happened.
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Apr 5, 2017 · Why do you think "Dukes of Hazzard" was such a hit? Do you think it simply tapped into what films like "Smokey and the Bandit" did and gave that to audiences on a weekly basis?
Jan 27, 2010 · “The Dukes of Hazzard” (along with the 1977 trucking movie “Smokey and the Bandit”) helped promote the CB craze that swept America from the mid 1970s to the early 1980s.
- Missy Sullivan
Sep 11, 2022 · Before Smokey and the Bandit and The Dukes of Hazzard came out, CB radios were used mostly for work purposes. Seeing characters like Bandit use it to get up to mischief with his buddies helped ignite the imagination of people who never previously dreamed of owning a CB radio.
Shroyer almost became typecast as a bad guy before landing the role of the naive Deputy Enos Strate in the hit pop culture series The Dukes of Hazzard in 1978 (first broadcast early 1979). The Dukes of Hazzard role was Shroyer's most visible.
