Cracker
When his bungling led to boss Christopher Eccleston’s murder by serial stabber Robert Carlyle (how’s that for a cast?), Lorcan Cranitch’s creepy cop descended further and raped colleague DS Jane Penhaligon (Geraldine Somerville). Even after Beck died, Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) was unforgiving: “I spit on the bastard’s grave every time his name is mentioned.”
Lieutenant Gilles Escoffier
Spiral
“Gilou” (Thierry Godard) was the lover and most trusted enforcer of Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust). He’d beat up suspects, snort cocaine and steal from gangsters, then give a Gallic shrug and somehow get away with it.
The Dukes of Hazzard was based on a 1975 film called
Moonrunners. The first episode of the show s first season was titled One Armed Bandits, and it introduced viewers to the main characters and some of the broad plot points that would dominate the long-running series.
John Schneider and Tom Wopat starred as Bo and Luke Duke, two good old boys, as the song s iconic theme song from Waylon Jennings described them, who always conducted their lives just a little bit on the wrong side of the law.
The show focused on the Duke family s multi-generational dispute with a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, their Uncle Jesse s nemesis. The simple, fun plots often hinged on the cousins various run-ins with the local sheriff, Rosco P. Coltrane, who s in Boss Hogg s pocket. Catherine Bach played the Duke boys cousin, Daisy, whose skimpy costumes were the inspiration for the Daisy Dukes jean shorts that have been popular ever since in Southern fashion.
The
Dukes of Hazzard was more than just a popular TV show, it was a television phenomenon that launched several of its cast members into sex symbol status. Forty-two years after the show debuted in 1979, the cast members look very different today, but they ve held up remarkably well.
The Dukes of Hazzard starred John Schneider and Tom Wopat as Bo and Luke Duke, two good old boys, as the song s famous theme song described them, who were always living just a little bit on the wrong side of the law. The show s relatively simple, but fun plots centered around their various scrapes with the local sheriff and a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, a longtime archenemy of their family.
The Dukes of Hazzard was based on a 1975 film called
Moonrunners. The first episode of the show s first season was titled One Armed Bandits, and it introduced viewers to the main characters and some of the broad plot points that would dominate the long-running series.
John Schneider and Tom Wopat starred as Bo and Luke Duke, two good old boys, as the song s iconic theme song from Waylon Jennings described them, who always conducted their lives just a little bit on the wrong side of the law.
The show focused on the Duke family s multi-generational dispute with a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, their Uncle Jesse s nemesis. The simple, fun plots often hinged on the cousins various run-ins with the local sheriff, Rosco P. Coltrane, who s in Boss Hogg s pocket. Catherine Bach played the Duke boys cousin, Daisy, whose skimpy costumes were the inspiration for the Daisy Dukes jean shorts that have been popular ever since in Southern fashion.