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Here's Boomer aired on NBC-TV first as a mid-season replacement late in the 1979-80 season. Hear about the show concept, the origins of its shaggy star, its ties to the Benji film series, the show concept they abandoned, Boomer's first appearance in The Red Hand Gang, as well as that fever dream Saturday morning series McDuff, the Talking Dog.

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Some background information sourced from the books Encyclopedia of T V Pets: A Complete History of Television’s Greatest Animal Stars, God Only Knows: Can You Trust Him With The Secret? by Joe Camp, and the Here’s Boomer website.

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