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The premise of Here's Boomer was similar to that of the Benji films and television specials of the 1970s and 1980s. In real life, both Johnny and Higgins, the dog who first played Benji, were abandoned or lost mixed-breed dogs who were adopted from animal shelters by animal trainers in California.
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- Edward Leonetti, Zoey Wilson
- March 14, 1980 –, August 14, 1982
- NBC
Here's Boomer: Created by Don Balluck, A.C. Lyles, Diana Bell Tokatyan, Leon Tokatyan. With Johnny the Dog, Doris Roberts, John Reilly, Raymond Singer. The adventures of Boomer, a stray dog who travels the country helping those in trouble.
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- 1980-03-14
- Adventure, Drama, Family
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Boomer goes into a mansion and sees that the owner's dog looks like him. When the dog decides to go, Boomer decides to take his place. The owner tells Boomer thinking he's her dog that she made arrangements for him to be with her when she goes. That means when she dies he will be put to sleep and buried with her. And she dies not long after that.
Boomer was played by a four-year-old mixed-breed dog named Johnny, who was trained by Ray Berwick. A stunt dog stood in for Johnny on some of his more difficult tricks. The pilot for the series was aired as a 1979 television movie called A Christmas for Boomer .
Jan 26, 2017 · Heavenly Dog, Here’s Boomer debuted on NBC. A remake of a Canadian series called The Littlest Hobo, the show chronicled the adventures of Boomer, a smart, mixed-breed stray dog, as he wandered from town to town.
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