The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard was a 1979-1985 American television series about two brothers (Tom Wopat and John Schneider) who fight crime and corruption in the rural Georgia countryside with the help of their cousin Daisy (Barbara Bach), their Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle), and their souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger (The General Lee).

Heiress Daisy Duke (Season 6, Episode 13)[edit | edit source]

The corrupt Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) learns that a wealthy industrialist is offering a $200,000 reward for anyone who can lead him to his long-lost niece Vivian Stewart, who happens to look exactly like Daisy. Boss hires a hypnotist to convince Daisy that she is the long-lost heiress so that he can claim the reward. Unfortunately for Boss and Daisy, the industrialist also has two other heirs who are not happy to see "Vivian" return to take their place in the line of inheritance, and they set out to murder her.

Daisy is hypnotized
In a trance
Daisy wakes up
Daisy heeds a post-hypnotic suggestion to return to work
She is programmed with Vivian's history
The programming is finished; time to test their subject
Deeply hypnotized
Daisy becomes Victoria
Daisy reacts to a trigger phrase
Daisy becomes herself again
The hypnotist puts her into a trance
Daisy awakens with no memory of being hypnotized
A scene shown in the opening credits but missing from the syndicated version
As programmed, a confused Daisy returns to Boss Hogg
Boss Hogg uses the trigger phrase
Daisy becomes Victoria
Boss has a fancy dress and hat for "Victoria"
Daisy doesn't recognize Uncle Jesse
Until he accidentally says the trigger phrase
Daisy snaps back to normal
Boss Hogg says the trigger phrase again
Back to being Victoria
Back to seeing Uncle Jesse as a stranger
The hypnotized heiress meets her long-lost uncle

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Duke (Season 7, Episode 3)[edit | edit source]

Luke drinks water laced with a personality-altering drug and becomes an abusive thug. While Luke conspires with a pair of criminals to rob Hazzard Bank, Bo, Daisy and Uncle Jesse race against time to demand answers from the research firm that developed the drug.

Goodbye General Lee (Season 4, Episode 11)[edit | edit source]

When the Duke boys lose a cross country race to a better car, a discouraged Luke makes an offhanded remark about the General Lee possibly wearing out its usefulness. Boss Hogg picks up on this and hires his hypnotist friend to ensure that Luke really means what he says ... and to make sure the next road the General Lee drives is to the junkyard.

My Son, Bo Hogg (Season 3, Episode 14)[edit | edit source]

The Dukes find themselves tangling with a new, meaner adversary in Chickasaw County Sheriff "Big" Ed Little. This, after Bo develops amnesia after an accident and Boss convinces the young Duke that he is actually Bo Hogg, the Hoggs' long-lost son. Boss convinces Bo to drive a shipment to Chickasaw, not telling him that the delivery is moonshine. He then tips Sheriff Little about a rumored moonshine runner, forcing Luke and Daisy to race against time to save their cousin from prison.