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could be considered told Star
Week in1985. “It unexciting.…
The A-Team is exciting. They
shoot guns.”
Returning to the show, we
see that, naturally, Caldwell and
the doctor take the only reason-
able course of action under the
circumstances: they strap a para-
chute to the stray and hurl it out
of the plane in a storm.
“You know, I could swear
you’ve done this before,”
Caldwell says to a dog with a
cure for poisoning attached to his
collar and a parachute strapped
to his back. Our four-legged hero
hops out of the plane as the ran-
ger whispers, “Good luck.”
The chute deploys and Hobo
comes to a reasonably graceless
landing in a field. He sprints
through a forest and across a creek.
We see the toddler’s anxious
parents waiting in a medical
clinic. Then Hobo walks into
the clinic and the attendant im-
mediately goes for his neck pack.
Obviously, this dog is here with
the cure. A perfunctory “good
dog” is issued. The toddler is
saved. Now, Hobo rests.
Only one question remains:
How is this even a real show? Oh,
and also, all these other questions:
1. Which of these Canadian
celebrities guest-starred on
The Littlest Hobo?
a) Super Dave Osborne
b) Mike Myers
c) David Suzuki
d) Leslie Nielsen
2. How many episodes of The
Littlest Hobo were produced
by CTV?
a) 50
b) 67
c) 18
d) 114
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