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Hazzard County Deputy Enos Strate

Enos Strate was a character on the television series, The Dukes of Hazzard played by Sonny Shroyer.

Enos was born in Hazzard County to a loving family, and grew up as friends with Bo and Luke Duke. At the age of sixteen, he enrolled at the Hazzard Police Academy, graduated at the age of nineteen, and was promptly hired as Deputy Sheriff of Hazzard County by J.D. Hogg.

Enos was always honest and straight, despite the corrupt state of law enforcement in Hazzard County. He was a polite and coy, yet bumbling young deputy, whose ineptitude as a police officer, as well as his crush on Daisy Duke, usually inadvertently served to help the Dukes in their attempts to foil the crooked Boss Hogg and his stooge, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. Daisy often exploited his weakness for her by sweet-talking him into revealing their schemes. When Enos's incompetence was shown, Rosco would usually respond by exclaiming his nickname for him, "Dipstick."

Enos was known for using the expression "Possum on a gum bush" whenever applicable. Despite his amiable, bumbling ways, Enos is invariably the most capable of the Hazzard PD dealing with real threats: he usually is the one to handcuff the bad guys or draws his gun to cover them.

For one season in 1980, Strate even went on to star in his own short-lived series, Enos. Sonny Shroyer played the same character as his role on Dukes, but with a bit more intelligence and fighting skills. The show began with the premise of Enos capturing two notorious criminals back in Hazzard County, then being invited to join a Special Branch of the Los Angeles Police for his nation-wide heroics.

In The Dukes of Hazzard series premier, it was revealed that Enos was the oldest virgin in the county.

Enos returned to Los Angeles at the series end. In The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard In Hollywood, he had already become an LAPD detective.

Enos was later played by Michael Weston in the subsequent cinematic version.

Adam Shulman will play Enos in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

• Enos Strate was one of the only original characters from the series with no basis on any real person from Jerry Rushing's life. Creator Gy Waldron wrote the character of a goofy "straight and narrow" cop based on actor he knew named Sonny Shroyer. Shroyer auditioned for the role and was selected from a list of prospects, having no knowledge that the character was written specifically for him.