![]() ![]() One of the effects of that was that it slowed down the dogs. It took a while for them to get to that level of language comprehension. There was a patriarch that kept the dogs in line, there was a lead acting dog who was seven or eight years old. They would bring actors back every season or two because they needed so many people. It was the kind of thing where every actor in Toronto was on the show at some point in time. I was mostly doing theater at the time and he got onto Hobo. Allen Eastman and I had written a screenplay that had been produced. I was an actor in Toronto for about 15 years. Jim Henshaw (Actor): I would have been in about my 30s back then. You don't know how to produce something like that." I said "Get me a line producer and I'll learn on the job and make sure the show is as true to the original series." We went into production, and it lasted 114 episodes and six years. So I went to CTV and said, "I have the rights from the owners, a contract with the trainer, and me as producer." They said, "Well, we like two of the three of the elements. I'd maintained contact with the trainer (Chuck Eisenmann) and drew up a contract. All CTV had was the original Hobo, this glorious show in black and white. ![]() It's only years later when you realize those were golden years.Ĭhristopher Dew: Everything was going into color programming. We were just off in nature having a good time, all the time. But it was this really great action-adventure show that was shot in the woods, it was a five-day shoot for a half-hour show. You look back at those things and you think, Oh yeah, a dog show. I'd come back to Toronto in the summer of 1979 and was looking for gigs and met with Chris. I'd taken a run at Hollywood and it hadn't worked out well. They said they would be happy to sign the rights to me if I could get a financial package together.Īllan Eastman (Director): I'd been directing things like Beachcombers and Grizzly Adams. You don't spend three years in an editing department without understanding every nuance and every subtlety of the storytelling and the character and what he can and can't do. Would you be interested in getting the show back into production?" They said, "No, not really," and I asked if they'd be interested in licensing the rights to me and let me get some money together and a broadcaster and get it back into production. I contacted the McGowans and said, "I'd never produced anything like this, I edit and direct, but I think I could probably figure out how to do it. Here's how the show came together and found a place in Canadian hearts:Ĭhristopher Dew (Producer): I'd always really loved the show and I had an idea to get it back into production. Like most successful Canadian TV shows, every working actor within a 50 mile radius of the set appeared on the series, including Mike Myers and Reign's Megan Follows (whose publicist wasn't terribly helpful for this piece). However, a young Canadian named Christopher Dew who'd worked on the series as an editor knew the nomadic canine still had more rides to take on that train. When the case came to conclusion seven years later, in favor of the brothers, they'd long tired of the idea to keep the show alive. Shot in British Columbia between 19, the original series had to halt production because of legal disputes concerning ownership between the McGowans and funders Stoner Broadcasting. Since the character of Lil' Ho was so endearing, it was eventually turned into a TV series. The show's roots date back to 1958, when old-timey Hollywood producers Stuart and Dorrell McGowan made a low-budget film about a wandering German Shepherd dog that went on to be a big success. ![]()
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