''Enos'' is an American

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television series and a

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of ''

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''. It originally aired on

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from November 12, 1980, to May 20, 1981.Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 – Present'' (7th Edition), Ballantine Books, 1999, page 309 The series focused on the adventures of Enos Strate, a former deputy in rural Hazzard County, after he moved to

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to join the

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. Sonny Shroyer played the character of Enos on both shows. One reviewer stated that the series was "basically ''

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'' in a new uniform." Enos was broadcast in Canada on both CTV and ATV, now named

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.Tonight on TV, ''Telegraph-Journal'' (Saint John, New Brunswick Canada), May 16, 1981, page 27

Synopsis

While working as a rural deputy in Hazzard County Enos accidentally captured two most-wanted criminals, so impressing the Los Angelos Police Department that they offered him a job in their a newly formed Special Branch. He was teamed with a street-smart black partner, Turk Adams, and was under the watch of Lt. Jacob Broggi. At times friends from Hazzard County came to see him. In one episode

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visited while taking part in auto race, not knowing she was being used to smuggle a diamond. Enos narrated each episode as viewers heard parts of a letter he was writing to Daisy. The character Enos Strate returned to ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' in autumn 1982, at the start of the show's fifth season. It had been written into Shroyer's contract that he be allowed to return to the series if the spin-off was canceled. In the CBS film specials made years after the series ended—'' The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!'' (1997) and '' The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood'' (2000)—Enos appeared as a California lawman. It was explained that he had returned to the LAPD and eventually become a detective.

Cast

* Sonny Shroyer as Enos Strate * Samuel E. Wright as Turk Adams *

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as Lt. Joseph Broggi *John Milford as Captain Dempsey *C. Peter Munro as Detective Bigelow *Leo V. Gordon as Sergeant Theodore Kick

Cancellation

The series never achieved the ratings

had hoped for, partly because it was up against two popular series, ''

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'' and '' Real People''. It was cancelled after one season.Walz, Steve K., Tele-Pulse, ''Enterprise-Record'', May 9, 1981, page 50

Episodes

References

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