Grady and Bobby Lee use their stock car to run moonshine in Shiloh County for the family patriarch, Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Sherriff Rosco Coltrane and Boss Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters from his Boar's Nest. Narrated by Waylon Jennings, the Balladeer, and written and directed by Dukes of Hazzard creator, Gy Waldron, Moonrunners retroactively became the Proto-Dukes of Hazzard, when Waldron was approached by Warner Bros. two years later to develop Moonrunners into a TV series.