Did you know Edit. Trivia The series is a modern day western. Hobo, whose background, origins, motivation, and ultimate destination are never explained, wanders from town to town and befriends those who need help.
At the end of each episode, despite the people he helped attempting to adopt him, he would head off by himself, preferring to be on his own. User reviews 20 Review. Top review.
It is still being aired on CTV. It is still being aired on CTV, at least in the Vancouver area. I also watched it this morning; episode where a guy just gets out of jail I was howling. Details Edit. Release date October 11, Canada.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Related news. But the real stars were the incredibly trained dogs that played London and went everywhere with their owner Chuck Eisenmann Garrison tells the tale of first meeting the former pro baseball player.
That writer? Put it in the garbage! One dog jumped up on the desk, pulled the paper out of the typewriter and tossed it in the wastebasket. There were several dogs that played London depending on their special talents. Garrison says.
However, several episodes per year found Hobo visiting the mean streets of Toronto and nicely showcase the city's early s gritty look. S city. The most ridiculous example of this can be found in the somewhat timely episode "Day of the Fugitive", in which a ship full of Russian plague carriers arrives at Port.
As the U. S customs agents warn the infected sailors to stay aboard the ship, the CN Tower can be seen in plain view behind them. Outside of filming, Hobo routinely visited Toronto area schools, malls, and fairs during the series production. Although cancelled in , The Littlest Hobo is still a perennial favourite on TV in constant reruns where it has amassed a whole new audience who probably wonder what all the fuss is about. But the legacy of that theme song eclipses everything else.
In , Dulux used it in a popular TV commercial in the United Kingdom which drove the song to the top of the digital music charts. The first incarnation of The Littlest Hobo appeared not on Canadian television, but as part of a American film of the same name. In the movie, the Littlest Hobo arrives in California in a box car, like hobos of days past. He takes the lamb to the estate of the Governor of California, whose daughter befriends the lamb as her pet. A few years later, The Littlest Hobo debuted on Canadian television screens running for 61 episodes from to One interesting aspect of the series was that it was produced in colour, but the series was broadcast in black and white and completely shot in British Columbia.
The main character of the show was of course the German Shepard, which was not given a name but typically referred to as Hobo through popular media about the show. Hobo was typically portrayed by London, who was owned and trained by Charles Eisenmann. On occasion, relatives of London including dogs named Toro, Litlon and Thorn would act in scenes of the show. London would appear in 48 episodes total in the series, with the other dogs appearing in the other episodes.
As for why the main dog was named London, that comes from Eisenmann and his time in England during the Second World War when he survived a German bombing in the capital city. At the time, he was serving with the US Army when in July he was blown through the wall in his office in London by an exploding V1 buzz bomb. He would say later:. I instinctively did and was actually in the air when the explosion came.
It blew me backward right through the wall of the room. Fortunately, the wall was crumbling with that explosion, however. He would spend seven days in hospital with an injured hip and back and he almost lost his index finger, which was important for him as he made a living as a semi-professional baseball player in the United States, specifically as a pitcher.
After he returned back to the United States he would continue to play baseball and in he joined the Bismarck Barons.
It was there he would have his dog London with him. On Aug. Then Life magazine did a three-page spread so I moved from baseball to the dog even though I was still a decent pitcher.
That spread would be what got London cast in The Littlest Hobo movie, and then the television show. Eisenmann would use his own training methods on the dogs, which taught them to think and understand very specific directions, to recognize colors and to understand English, French and German commands. Widely celebrated in the dog training world for his methods, he would take the dogs on tour to offer live demonstrations.
In interviews he stated he was proud that he never read a book about dog training but wrote four of them. One aspect of both the s and s versions of the shows is the number of well-known actors who would appear on them. One of the most prominent was Chief Dan George, who appeared in a episode. Half a decade later, he would become the first Indigenous person to be nominated for an Academy Award.
He was also a celebrated Indigenous writer, activist and poet when he appeared on the show. After the series ended, Eisenmann would write a dog training book in called Stop! And Think!
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