Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Jonathan Frakes guest stars in "Mrs. Daisy Hogg," episode 1 of the fourth season of The Dukes of Hazzard (original air date November 22, 1978).
Frakes plays Boss Hogg's nephew from Atlanta, who comes to town to run a counterfeiting ring out of the family grits mill. (This show was basically a live action cartoon; you gotta just roll with it.) He and Daisy Duke fall in love and become engaged despite the longstanding feud between the Dukes and Hoggs, but it's all over when he gets caught and sent off to the Federal hoosegow. The Malibu Ken hairstyle is really working for him here.
Other Trek Connections: Stunts!
Paul Baxley, the second unit director of this episode, was also a legendary stunt performer (and patriarch of a stunt family that's performing to this day) who worked on many episodes of Star Trek. He was William Shatner's primary stunt double, frequently worked as stunt coordinator, and played a bunch of small or background roles involved in action or stunt sequences. The first part he played outside of doubling was the knight who kills Dr. McCoy in "Shore Leave."
Two uncredited stunt performers also have Star Trek connections. Ted Barba did stunts on several episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager, and Henry Kingi played one of the Native American colonists in the Next Generation episode "Journey's End."
I just had to share these two bonus shots. "GRITS: HANDLE WITH CARE" is giving me life right now, and I love the backwoods version of the M*A*S*H signpost.
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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie and TV Marathon...The Dukes Of Hazzard: Lulu's Gone Away (1983) on classic DVD 📀! #tv #television #actionadventure #comedy #thedukesofhazzard #dukesofhazzard #TheGeneralLee #lulusgoneaway #dvd #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual80sfest #JohnSchneider #TomWopat #catherinebach #DenverPyle #ripdenverpyle #benjones #sonnyshroyer #sorrellbooke #ripsorrellbooke #JamesBest #ripjamesbest #peggyrea #rippeggyrea #waylonjennings #ripwaylonjennings
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UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE
Robert Mulligan
USA, 1967
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“Manon began screaming then.
Screaming, endless and wordless, as that thing in her chest, as her heart, shattered.”
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Art by @s.seidel.art, commissioned by me
*DO NOT REPOST/EDIT/CROP*
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The covers of some books based upon The Little Mermaid (2023) started coming out today and oh my god!!
(The Little Mermaid - Guide to the Merfolk, by Eric Geron. Expected to come out in April)n
This one is AMAZING, also finally first look to Ariel's sisters??
- Perla (Lorena Andrea)
- Mala (Karolina Concet)
- Tameka (Sienna King)
- Caspia (Nathalie Sorrell)
- India (Simone Ashley)
- Karina (Kajsa Mohammar)
And they're all so beautiful, can't wait to see them dressed as their characters!!
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