Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
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The Dukes are forced to bond with their sworn enemies -- Boss Hogg and Rosco -- after they are held at gunpoint by a gang of robbers at the Boar's Nest. The lead robber, posing as a law enforcement officer, then orders an emergency evacuation of Hazzard ... thereby eliminating any witnesses to his plans to rob an armored truck making a delivery to Hazzard Bank.
Bo and Luke are skinny-dipping in Hazzard Pond when two pool hustlers steal both the cousins' clothing "and" the General Lee. Sheriff Rosco soon pursues who he thinks are the Duke boys, but the crooks drive the stolen General Lee into the pond. When no one is found with the car, Rosco tearfully announces to everyone that Bo and Luke have drowned. Bo and Luke arrive home safe and sound, however, then learn that Boss Hogg has used their alleged "deaths" to implicate them on the theft of his gold watch (so that he can fraudulently collect the insurance money). The Duke boys and Cooter concoct a scheme to turn the General Lee into a "ghost" and "haunt" Boss and Rosco until they admit their scheme.
Boss hires a trio of criminals to hijack a load of Christmas trees bound for Hazzard, knowing that Bo and Luke were responsible for the deliveries and receipt of a $500 down payment. With the community convinced that the Dukes had stolen the funds, the crooks each dress as Santa Claus and break into Boss' safe to retrieve the stolen money. Bo, Luke and Cooter eventually team to give Boss and the bad guys a lesson in confusion. In the end, Boss - who has played the part of Scrooge throughout the episode - gets a lesson in the meaning of the season.
Bo and Luke make friends with a space alien (nicknamed, "The Visitor") that stows away in the General Lee. It isn't long before Boss and Rosco find out about The Visitor and want to abduct him for fun and profit. Problem is, so do two crooks who plan to loot Hazzard's business.
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