Here's Boomer
- Boomer - mixed breed dog
- Guest appearances American Stars
Boomer, the stray is an American television series on NBC, which was produced from 1980 to 1982 by Paramount.
Content
Boomer is an orphan, shaggy mixed breed dog, which - as the title suggests - strays across the U.S. states. On his journey he meets all kinds of people. To those who lead the good in the shields, it helps with the evil he helps that they will get the just punishment.
Background
Strictly speaking, Boomer is the response of NBC on the success of the Benji movies. The first was in 1979 Christmas special. Due to the overwhelming success we decided to make a series about boomers who then took up the NBC in August 1980 into the program. The icing on the cake was to be the Boomer, or rather " actor ", was interviewed by the late show legends Johnny Carson and David Letterman. In addition, the series was nominated once for the Young Artist Award.
The original idea of the producers was that the Boomer audience tells his thoughts by a speaker from the off. This idea was realized in the Christmas episode, but not continued in the series itself.
For animal stunts in the series, a double was used, although the Boomers looked very similar, but yet so far different that you could not show it in close-up with the stunts.
The theme song of the series was sung by David Michael Frank.
Guest appearances
As in the U.S. television standard (eg, The Muppet Show ) had numerous guest star appearances in the series, including
- Tom Bosley ( of Charlie's Angels; resulted in 02 His major appearance as Archie Hale)
- Ken Kercheval ( Dallas, result in 04 The Hermit, as Dr. Chelsea Haggert )
- Michael J. Fox ( from Back to the Future; episode 06 in all advertising, as Jackie )
- Doris Roberts ( Remington Steele from; consecutive 06 all advertising, as Liz Wiggins )
- Jonathan Frakes ( Star Trek; resulted in 08 private, as Philip )
Boomers in Germany
ZDF secured quite quickly the rights for a German version of Boomer. On 12 September 1981, the first episode was on the small screen. From Christmas Eve of the same year, the ORF delighted his audience with the adventures of the little dog. Finally, viewers from Switzerland could participate via SRG.
However, Boomer was in no other transmitter repeated as often as the ZDF - be it as a winner of a desire movie action or as a complete season. The first repetition was 1983. Since the ZDF program awarded a gap between two places had ( a television series ended, the next began two weeks later ), they showed as a stopgap two boomer consequences. The fans of the series indignant so much that the German TV magazine Gong of the theme adopted. ZDF bowed to the pressure and gave the remaining episodes soon after.
In the early 1990s began the private channels to secure the rights of the U.S. television series, which previously ran on public television. In 1989 she ran for the first time on Sat.1, then 1990 on ProSieben.
From New Year's Day 2008, the television station Nick showed in the program window Nick after eight - after a free-TV gap of nearly 14 years - every Tuesday a two-part episode.
From 28 June to 26 July 2010, the station Anixe repeated the series.