The Dukes of Hazzard is a classic American action-comedy television series that aired on CBS from 1979 to 1985, following the high-spirited adventures of cousins Bo Duke and Luke Duke in the fictional rural Hazzard County, Georgia.
While the core genre of the series is considered to be action comedy, some fans informally call it a contemporary Western due to outlaw heroes vs. corrupt authority and rural setting, combined with chase sequences standing in for horseback pursuits. Is it a Western? We will dive into that discussion in this article.
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