This was the hit show when I was a child. I dreamed about these guys, has their posters from Teen Beat. Then I got the idea to write an episode in my crazy-kid's 12-year old brain based on a script I has seen written down: I wrote a whole episode on notebook paper with the fringe edges when I tore it out...I even made sure to put in a paragraph in parentheses that said (you guys can put in a car chase here, you do that thing better than me). My dad showed it to a bunch of his co-workers, all priests, because dad worked at a seminary, so their testimony would be sacrosanct. They've all admitted to me they saw it, fringed-edges and all. A few even saw the episode and congratulated me.
And two years later in 1982, when Jon Snyder and Tom Wopat were in contract disputes so they still had the show but it was Coy, the blonde cousin, and Vance Duke, the dark haired cousin, doing the show while the "real stars" held out for more money...they were doing MY episode. I saw it, and just screamed. I was also pissed, cause I'd written it for Jon Snyder. Episode 4: Coy meets Girl. October 15, 1982 was the day the Dukes betrayed me personally.
All I had asked for in payment was a color tv, cause ours was older and - I was TWELVE and naiive. They never did send me anything or acknowledge me in any way, but the young girl who played the young girl, Bobby Lee Jordan in the episode was Actor Michele Greene. It's on IMDb - look it up!
I figured maybe that was a nod to me, or something, because otherwise they didn't acknowledge my input at all. It was step by step the episode that I had written; me a 12 yr old girl, a budding writer.
That soured my feelings about working on scripts - movie & TV. Never wrote another one. Became a journalist, instead. Still think I'll write the Great American Novel but Coy and Vance Duke and the Dukes of Hazard simultaneously made me ecstatic and broke my little heart in 1982.
And two years later in 1982, when Jon Snyder and Tom Wopat were in contract disputes so they still had the show but it was Coy, the blonde cousin, and Vance Duke, the dark haired cousin, doing the show while the "real stars" held out for more money...they were doing MY episode. I saw it, and just screamed. I was also pissed, cause I'd written it for Jon Snyder. Episode 4: Coy meets Girl. October 15, 1982 was the day the Dukes betrayed me personally.
All I had asked for in payment was a color tv, cause ours was older and - I was TWELVE and naiive. They never did send me anything or acknowledge me in any way, but the young girl who played the young girl, Bobby Lee Jordan in the episode was Actor Michele Greene. It's on IMDb - look it up!
I figured maybe that was a nod to me, or something, because otherwise they didn't acknowledge my input at all. It was step by step the episode that I had written; me a 12 yr old girl, a budding writer.
That soured my feelings about working on scripts - movie & TV. Never wrote another one. Became a journalist, instead. Still think I'll write the Great American Novel but Coy and Vance Duke and the Dukes of Hazard simultaneously made me ecstatic and broke my little heart in 1982.