Enos is an American action comedy television series and a spin-off of The Dukes of Hazzard. It originally aired on CBS from November 12, 1980, to May 20, 1981.
The series focused on the adventures of Enos Strate, a former deputy in rural Hazzard County, after he moved to Los Angeles to join the LAPD. Sonny Shroyer played the character of Enos on both shows. One reviewer stated that the series was "basically Gomer Pyle in a new uniform."
Enos was broadcast in Canada on both CTV and ATV, now named CTV Atlantic.
While working as a rural deputy in Hazzard County Enos accidentally captured two most-wanted criminals, so impressing the Los Angeles 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 Daisy Duke visited while taking part in an 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 endedâÂÂ' (1997) and ' (2000)âÂÂEnos appeared as a California lawman. It was explained that he had returned to the LAPD and eventually become a detective.<code></code>
The series never achieved the ratings CBS had hoped for, partly because it was up against two popular series, Eight Is Enough and Real People. It was cancelled after one season.