Is Canada Even Real?
Frisbee contest, much to the chagrin of the boy’ s dad, who has hated dogs ever since he swerved his car to avoid a stray and instead crashed, killing his wife and maiming his son( another typical Hobo plot of light fare the whole family can enjoy). Myers plays the boy’ s buddy, Tommy. The credited guest star for this episode is Clarence Williams III, best known as the Mod Squad cop with the sweet afro.
Although Bob Einstein’ s luckless stuntman character Super Dave got his start on CTV’ s early’ 80s sketch comedy show Bizarre and parlayed his popularity into the Global TV series The Super Dave Osborne Show( 1987 – 92), Einstein isn’ t even Canadian— he was born in Los Angeles. This interloper has never appeared on The Littlest Hobo.
David Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, environmental activist, and national treasure. Since 1979, he’ s hosted the CBC science program The Nature of Things, which is seen in more than forty countries. Surely he’ s too urbane to appear in the unsophisticated canine caper that is The Littlest Hobo. Instead, he guest-starred on The Beachcombers in the 1981“ Tray Tree” episode, playing himself.
2. How many episodes of The Littlest Hobo were produced by CTV?
Answer: d) 114
CTV shot a whopping 114 episodes, with plots that ranged from Hobo befriending a vaudevillian kleptomaniac to Hobo finding a truckload(!) of diamonds to Hobo helping a farmer and his mute
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