NBC, slowly making its way out of the ratings basement, wanted to come up with something that could appeal to families, something like the "Benji" movies or Canada's Littlest Hobo.
In the spring of 1980, the network inserted Here's Boomer on Friday nights at 8 (ET). Like the German shepherd star of Littlest Hobo, Boomer wandered here, there, and everywhere, helping people in need.
Unfortunately, NBC had no room for Boomer on their fall schedule, but the series would, in fact, return the following spring for another run. After all the hype, the show aired on the wrong night in its first season. CBS owned Fridays by that point with Incredible Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard.
An idiot on Wikipedia tried to claim that this show was a spinoff from a failed Saturday morning series, The Red Hand Gang, just because Boomer shared the same name as the dog on that show. William D'Angelo's production company packaged Red Hand. Boomer came from Paramount. Big difference, along with the 2 1/2 years in between series.
From April 1980, here's "Overboard", with guest stars Scott Baio (Happy Days), Tracey Gold, Frank Welker, and Charles Siebert (Trapper John, MD).
No rating. We were a Hulk/Dukes house if baseball wasn't on.
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