watch those episodes they are good and even the other actors have said they saved the show when john and tom left cause they wanted more money cause if it was not for the two actors agreeing to fill in cbs would have canceled the show right there and even after the show ended they remained close friends with the other actors and christopher who played vance died in the early 2000's due to cancer and byron cherry who played coy has been at every dukesfest event and was invited to the big dukes fan event at cooter's place museum this past weekend and was taking pics with fans and signing lots of autographs this dukes event was also a retirement party for ben jones who played cooter and byron was friends with john until recently same with the rest of the remaining cast they don't seem to want anything to do with john after his incident with the secret service in 2024 and since all have distanced themselves from him and he was not invited to ben jones retirement party a fan event either