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THE LITTLEST HOBO

    "There's a voice that keeps on calling me.
    Down the road. That's where I'll always be.
    Oh, every stop I make, I make a new friend.
    Can't stay for long. Just turn around, and I'm gone again.
    Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down.
    Until tomorrow, I'll just keep movin' on.
    So, if you want to join me for awhile,
    just grab your hat, and we'll travel light. That's hobo style.
    Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down.
    Until tomorrow, I'll just keep movin' on.
    Until tomorrow, the whole world is my home."

The popularity of the movie led to a 1963-5 television series, also in black and white, for which production by Storer Programs Inc. moved north of the U.S./Canada border, to the Vancouver area of British Columbia. Three episodes were lensed in Toronto, Ontario, and two of the entries in this set of Littlest Hobo adventures, "Death at 5 P.M." (with guest star Paul Richards) and "Little, White Liar" wherein the television series' title character is solemn confidant to, respectively, a grieving widower whose wife has been killed in an accident at a fireworks factory and a teenaged girl desperately desiring peer acceptance, were available on public domain videotape in the United States in the late 1980s.

After an immensely successful first run as a syndicated (sold to individual television stations) offering in the United States and Canada, the Storer Programs Littlest Hobo was repeated in further syndication in both countries in the late 1960s and early-to-mid-1970s. Maritime Canada's ATV, an affiliate of the CTV network, aired it on Saturday mornings with such classic 1960s television shows as Spiderman (1967-70) and Rocket Robin Hood (1966-9).

The Littlest Hobo follows the adventures of a highly intelligent German shepherd named London, who wanders the country, befriending people in trouble and helping to remedy their situation. He then declines their offer to adopt him as a pet, leaves them, and continues his hobo life. Among the names given to London by his human friends are Smoke, Einstein, Scout, Mr. Magic, Lucky, Shadow, Buddy, Slapshot, Roamer, Crusoe, Ulysses, Hercules, Sinbad, and Gulliver.

For the 1958 film, motion picture score composer Ronald Stein proposed to director Rondeau that the thoughts and feelings of the film's central canine character may be conveyed to the audience through both choral and instrumental melody. Rondeau was skeptical about this procedure achieving the desired effect of viewer empathy with the dog, because something like this had never before been successfully attempted, but he wanted for Stein to supply the film's tuneful soundtrack and agreed to Stein's request to experiment in this regard. A young folk music guitar player and singer named Randy Sparks was recommended to Stein by Verve Records' Bernie Silverman, and after meeting Sparks and sampling his style of song, Stein knew that Sparks had the precise musical sound for The Littlest Hobo and wrote the following lyrics for Sparks to sing.

    "Looks like we're comin' into town.
    Seems like this train is slowin' down.
    Can't help but wonder what's in store.
    Could be I've been here once before.
    A-driftin'. The world is my friend.
    I'm travlin' along the road without end.
    Ridin' these rails town to town.
    Sometimes I think I'll settle down. 
    But I know I'd hunger to be free.
    Rovin's the only life for me.
    A-driftin'. The world is my friend.
    I'm travlin' along the road without end."

    "I find adventure everywhere,
    and friends with whom I'd like to share.
    This is my stop along the way.
    Don't really know how long I'll stay.
    Stop over. The world is my friend.
    Stop over along the road without end.
    Traveling around from town to town.
    Sometimes I think I'll settle down.
    But I know I'd hunger to be free.
    Rovin' is the only life for me.
    A-driftin'. The world is my friend.
    I'm travelin' along the road without end."

Actors who had roles in Storer Programs' Littlest Hobo included those mentioned above and Pat Harrington Jr., Herb Vigran, Henry Gibson, Edgar Bergen, Rosemary DeCamp, Jim Davis, Keith Andes, Ellen Corby, Doug Lambert, Bill Williams, Noah Beery, Ben Cooper, and Ron Hayes.

Starting in 1979, The Littlest Hobo was remade as a television series on color videotape-recorder (VTR) in Canada for prime-time broadcast on the CTV network by CTV's production wing, Glen-Warren Productions. Three episodes, "Double Trouble", "Little Girl Lost", and "Silent Witness", were virtual reprises of ones from the 1963-5 television series (with original writer Dorrell McGowan credited along with Stuart McGowan for "Double Trouble" and "Silent Witness"), while others reused ideas, with different treatments or technicalities. "Smoke", for instance, has distinct similarity (i.e. London's parachute jump to save the life of a young boy) to the prior Hobo television series' "Bush Pilot" episode.

Newspaper television listings, during the 1979-85 television series' network run, assigned to London the character name of Hobo, whereas TV Guide magazine always referred to the canine performer-star and to his character as London. Professional baseball player Charles P. Eisenmann chose Britain's capital city as the name for his celebrity German shepherd because it had been the location of Mr. Eisenmann's survival of an exploding V2 bomb, probably the most cogent event of his youth. In the span of The Littlest Hobo's television life, London was actually more than one dog yet always received on-screen credit as London. Therefore, it seems reasonable to also give the London name to the character.

Between the 1963-5 and 1979-85 television shows, the dogs of The Littlest Hobo and their master, Mr. Eisenmann, toured the United States and Canada for in-public performances and appeared on such renound television programs as The Tonight Show, Mike Douglas, The Today Show, Steve Allen, Betty White's Pet Set, and Wide World of Entertainment, in addition to over 200 engagements on individual television stations, to demonstrate the extent to which a dog can be educated. With a vocabulary of 1,000 words, the dogs responded correctly to spelled sentences containing commands- and did this faster than people who volunteered to compete with them in the exercise!

From the first canine that he owned to assist him in operating a night club, Eisenmann learned that a dog has the capacity to think by means of three words: faith, respect, and attitude. Dogs can distinguish between colors. They can understand the same word in different languages. They can agree or decline, entirely from their own assessment of potential hazards, to undertake a particular task. All of this, says Eisenmann, "...is the value of teaching or forcing a dog to use his God-given qualities but always within his realm of accomplishment." In the 14-year hiatus between the two Littlest Hobo television series, Eisenmann wrote books entitled Stop, Sit, and Think, The Better Dog, the Educated Dog, and A Dog's Day in Court, and he produced a videotape, The Educated Dog. "To me, no matter how great a dog becomes, he is still a physically handicapped child. He cannot talk and has no hands."

For the 1958 movie, Eisenmann had only one German shepherd, London. A second London was the canine performer for the first, 65-episode television series. By 1972, Eisenmann's German shepherd complement had increased to seven, with five males: London, Toro, Thorn, Lance, and Litlon; and two females: Venus and Roura. Eisenmann is shown in the first episode, "Stand-in", of the 1979-85 Littlest Hobo series teaching young Bo, a spry German shepherd with a yellow-gold mane and wide, hypnotic eyes. Bo was to be a successor to the original London after Eisenmann's incumbent Hobo dog died on the first production day of the 1979-85 Littlest Hobo. Toro performed the role of the title character in Season 1, with Bo being his "stunt-dog". For Seasons 2 to 6, Bo was the primary 1979-85 Littlest Hobo, though other German shepherds of similar color markings were used in his stead on some occasions.

Bo is no longer living, but the lineage of Eisenmann's London dogs has survived in another Toro, 16 years-old in 1998.

It is essential to now state that this Web page concerns the travels and travails of the London character portrayed by London, Toro, Bo, and others. So, all references to London henceforth will be to The Littlest Hobo himself. Further, the 1979-85 series is to be the focus of attention here for three reasons. First, it appears to be the only version of The Littlest Hobo currently shown on television. Second, this writer has had the benefit of recently experiencing all of its episodes, and it has been more than 22 years since he last saw most episodes of the 1963-5 Littlest Hobo. Third, it contains almost twice the number of episodes (114:65) as its predecessor and appears to have replaced the black-and-white 1963-5 television series in syndicated distribution.

In the tradition of the 1958 movie and 1963-5 television series and the Ronald Stein and Randy Sparks contributions thereto, each episode of the 1979-85 Littlest Hobo television series opens and closes with a soul-stirring song, "Maybe Tomorrow", performed by Terry Bush to the lyrics of John Crossen, to accompany visuals of London walking the roads, "riding the rails", traversing fields, swimming rivers, and sitting on a log on a shore, contemplating life. Like its forebear, it was also intended to communicate to the audience London's perspective on his itinerant odyssey.

Although produced for family audiences, the 1979-85 Littlest Hobo is at times rather too violent for younger children, but every story reaches a happy resolution for the characters whom London helps. The television series is quite enthralling, aided by music that is at the appropriate times sprightly, tense, or sentimental. This writer can honestly say that the conclusion of many episodes brings a lump to the throat and tender, damp eyes. It is wholesome, heart-warming entertainment, engaging the wish of many viewers to have a pet as supportive and as smart as London!

London reads. He understands all conversations around him. He puts two and two together before the humans usually do. He never panics. He knows instantly what to do in any situation. He can remove a cassette from an audiotape or videotape recorder. He can chew a rope loose from a boat and use it to pull a distressed person in the water all of the way to shore. Herman Melville in Moby Dick suggested that if God could come to Earth in any form, He would be a whale. But perhaps a dog would be a more appropriate form to choose- a land animal, intimate with humans who need help, able to snarl and intimidate the ill-intentioned, to bark disapprovingly at basically good people about to illegally err, and to lick and pat the people that He cares for and wants to help. As the series progressed, the producers and writers, intentionally or otherwise, hinted more and more at London being far, far more than a conventional canine. A mutant dog with superior intelligence. A dog with noble human karma. A "Guardian Angel" in the form of a "spirit dog". A mythological hero reincarnated. Anything but an ephemeral German shepherd. Lassie and Benji cannot "hold a candle" to London's heroics. And London belongs to no one and to everyone! This series is mythical, as well as a Canadian icon!

London parachutes from an airplane, with medicine which can save a boy's life, attached to him in "Smoke". He leaps through a window to prevent two robbers from heisting electronic supplies in "Stand-in". Seriously ill and almost paralyzed with botulism, he moves through a wilderness to find help for two young friends, one of whom is identically afflicted, in "The Trail of No Return". In "Airport", he survives the force of a bomb blast; in "Sheep in Wolf's Clothing", he recovers from a gunshot wound; and in the two-part series finale, "Voyageurs", he endures a snake bite. In "The Locket", a very touching episode written by series producer Simon Christopher Dew, London journeys approximately 100 miles with a silver locket to give to the estranged granddaughter of an elderly gentleman played by Chris Wiggins, a mission accompanied by a string-and-piano rendition of the series' main theme music.

As extraordinary as London's feats are, the television series is very wise not to encumber them with forced explanations. While it must be accepted by the viewer that London has the ability to understand the problems of his friends and the ingenuity to help to solve them, London's heroism is portrayed with subtlety. It is never sensational, like it would be if the series were to be produced in the U.S., by Disney for instance. If Disney were to remake the series, London would probably talk, or would communicate his thoughts to the audience with a voice-over! It is only intimated in the two-part episode, "The Genesis Tapes", that London is telepathic and theorized that he is first of a new breed of "Meta-canine". Ultimately, the viewer is left to provide his or her own explanation, if he or she feels that an explanation is necessary.

Richard and Trish Kellerman (Alan Scarfe, Candace O'Connor) ponder the origin and nature of what they perceive to be an extraordinary dog, in "The Genesis Tapes".

Videotaped in Ontario in the Toronto region, the television series featured an impressive number of major American and British actors and actresses as guest stars, among them Monte Markham, Andrew Prine, Vic Morrow, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Gilford, Nehemiah Persoff, Ray Walston, Simon Oakland, Patrick Macnee, Barry Morse, DeForest Kelley, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, and Abe Vigoda, in addition to several recognizable Canadian actors and actresses, like Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bochner, Chris Wiggins, John Ireland, Rosemary Radcliffe, John Vernon, Robin Ward, Louis Del Grande, Susan Hogan, and Al Waxman.

Several of these guest stars had a part in The Littlest Hobo in accordance with their own acting history. Patrick Macnee resumed his flamboyant dandy persona when he was cast as a debonaire magician. Vic Morrow played his rough-around-the-edges, vulnerable type of role as a drunken, hit-and-run driver who is compelled by London and by his conscience to confess his guilt and to reform himself. DeForest Kelley, forever the technology-wary Dr. McCoy of Star Trek to television viewers, guest starred in The Littlest Hobo as an educated man of the modern world, one who rebels and chooses a back-to-basics life with the humble hobos of the hinterlands. And Sheldon Leonard appeared in his trademark portrayal of a suave gangster. Conversely, some actors were cast against type. Loud-voiced film villain Keenan Wynn became a sympathetic, introspective balloonist, and Al Waxman, for many years the easy-going King of Kensington, was, in his second Littlest Hobo guest role, an uptight, foul-tempered construction boss who must learn to cope with permanent paralysis.

Waxman contributed both his acting and directing talents to the television series toward the end of Season 5 and in the first half of Season 6, directing the highly suspenseful "Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" and parts one and two of "Firehorse" and first guest-starring as a desperate hunter in the wonderful Season 5 entry, "Passage". In "Passage", Waxman's character, Vernie Davis, an aging woodsman-turned-welder, is offered a large sum of money to go into the wild and obtain a peregrine falcon for a zoo. Davis' welding job is dismal, with repetitive, strenuous duties, long hours, and a younger co-worker always needling him. Remuneration for his capture of the desired bird is his chance, perhaps his only chance, to forsake his dreadful job and retire in comfort. Enter London, who just two episodes previous avoided capture by a crypto-zoologist and in this episode represents the cause of freedom for the bird. Established here is a clear conflict of values, the essence of drama.

Davis catches a falcon, and London thwarts Davis' attempt to trap a second one and hides the angry hunter's rifle, but he acts to help Davis, who, while trying to obtain a falcon egg from a nest, falls down a hill and injures himself. London assists Davis to ascend the hill and accompanies Davis on a long, painful, and perilous journey back to civilization, and though Davis' heart warms to the helpful canine's cause, he insists that he cannot relinquish the bird. "I can't go back to that filthy sweatbox," he says of his job in town. But upon meeting the zoo official who sent him on the quest, Davis recognizes that the bird, trapped in a confinement box, craves freedom as much as he yearns for release from his own "sweatbox". He looks down at London's beseeching eyes and makes the only possible moral decision. He allows London to free the captured bird from its box. When the zoo official protests, Davis replies, "Wild birds don't belong in cages, mister." He declines the zoo official's money and decides to take a two-week vacation to recover from his ordeal.

The Littlest Hobo also served as an early career-booster for some of Canada's most talented young actors and actresses. Megan Follows, who would become Anne of Green Gables (1985), guest starred with her father and the rest of her family in the three-part episode, "The Spirit of Thunder Rock", and also appeared in "Hidden Room". Hadley Kay, Mark Polley, Shane O'Brien, and Jennifer Jewison all delivered admirable portrayals in the episodes in which they were primary guest stars, and truly it is London's rapport with the characters played by these excellent young performers that gives to the television series some of its most sensitive moments. While Megan Follows was to achieve fame in Canadian and North American film and television and Hadley Kay was to proceed to a lucrative career in voice characterization, the remaining aforementioned acting youngsters sadly faded into obscurity after London departed from their only or final Littlest Hobo character.

Other up-and-coming actors appeared in episodes in supporting roles. Mike Myers, lead portrayer in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), was a frisbee-throwing friend to the "Boy On Wheels". The CTV television series, Night Heat (1985-91), starred two familiar faces from episodes of The Littlest Hobo: Clarke Johnson of "East Side Angels" and "Arrivederci Roma" and Jeff Wincott of "Wolf Hunt" and "Lumberjacks". Wincott's brother, Michael, of "Stand-in" and "Wolf Hunt", has acted prominently in such major films as Robin Hood- Prince of Thieves (1991), in which he was cousin to the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Alien Resurrection (1997), playing the leader of a group of interplanetary mercenaries.

Actor Mike Myers (right) essayed an early-career supporting role in "Boy On Wheels".

Although an attempt to appeal to the American market is very evident in Season 1, with American guest stars in several episodes and a significantly high level of violence (e.g. a drunken man striking a hapless bystander with a tire iron and being killed by a pitchfork, a criminal falling to his death down an elevator shaft, and a young man being assaulted by a loan shark's thugs), the television series undertook a distinctly Canadian path from Season 2 onward, setting most of its action out-of-doors and usually in suburban, small-town, or rural, rather than intercity, areas, and almost always limiting the violence to threats only. Indeed, many of the television series' most charming episodes have no violence at all.

One of the most endearing of London's adventures was the two-part finale, in terms of broadcast, of Season 4. In this remarkable Littlest Hobo television series entry, London is not engaged in his usual task of preventing or solving crimes, foiling troublemakers, and saving people's lives, but is instead given the responsibility of dog-sitting, to help a disabled boy to earn money to buy a purebred Saint Bernard puppy. The unusual story, a plethora of canines, was provided by Mr. Eisenmann from the premise of a 1959 movie, Just Between Us, starring Eisenmann's first German shepherd as the hero who "rounds up" six lost dogs. Eisenmann and script editor Christine Foster adapted this premise for 1982-3's "The Five Labors of Hercules", which shows London at his most steadfastly resilient and fleet-of-foot, when he strives unsuccessfully to maintain control of 5 dogs rather less developed in intelligence than he. Four of the five dogs free themselves, and three of them run into the hustle-and-bustle of the city of Orillia- and London justifies the boy's trust in him when he acts alone to find the dogs and reassemble the canine group for the boy.

There was an admirable amount of planning for "The Five Labors of Hercules". Actor Hadley Kay, who played London's faithful, young friend, Nathaniel, was required to wear a leg brace and walk with a limp. To research for the role, he went to a Toronto hospital to study the movements of polio patients, because the script in its early development stated that Nathaniel's limp was caused by polio, of which the brace was a corrective treatment. A specialist at the same hospital fitted a real brace to Kay's leg, ensuring that Nathaniel's disability, demonstrated to London both by the limp and by the showing of the brace, is thoroughly convincing. From this follows London's unfailing devotion to his friend- against the daunting odds of finding three errant dogs in a city, devotion which is to a large extent essential to the story's success. So too was Eisenmann's "Herculean" feat of training five additional dogs to appear with London and cooperate on cue so that London can gain hold of their leashes and guide them to a park shed, where the dogs are safely deposited.

Nathaniel's scenes with London are always one-on-one. Though there are some adult dog owners necessary to the story, in every other way, Nathaniel is a solitary human figure, both when London meets and leaves him, and his relationship with London depends on his empathy through conversation with the mute but always understanding canine helper-wanderer. Hadley Kay had the ability at age twelve to inject all kinds of emotion into his lines always at the appropriate times and with corresponding facial expressions, and he has since then applied his superb voice talents to many animated television series, to the Bee in television advertisements for Honey Nut Cheerios, to the lead characters of two Care Bears movies, and in 1997 and 1998 to Scooby-Doo. He fondly remembers his two-part episode of The Littlest Hobo, and says that, "...all these years later I still swing my right foot out a bit before it lands squarely on the pavement. Of course, this has nothing to do with the limp I faked for the benefit of the character Nathaniel, in "The Five Labors of Hercules"... Or, maybe I did take a piece of Nathaniel with me? Who knows?"

In "The Five Labors of Hercules", London and his friend, Nathaniel (Hadley Kay), escort their canine charges for a sprightly suburban excursion.

For another fourth season story, the three-part "The Spirit of Thunder Rock", realistic wilderness earthquake scenes were achieved. In the third season episode, "War Games", a shed full of explosives is detonated, and a scene on a roller coaster in Season 3's "Forget Me Not" was shot on the roller coaster itself. Clearly, The Littlest Hobo had moments when production values were quite high! The only totally objective visual shortcoming of the television series is its production on videotape rather than film, meaning that pictures have a soft look, and impressive scenes such as the aforementioned suffer in comparison to like events on filmed television series or movies, thus inviting the frequent criticism of cheesiness.

One episode does in fact benefit from being lensed onto videotape, in that the not-100-percent-sharp resolution complements the dream-like quality of image-fade transitions. In Season 5's "Dragonslayer", a group of children, pretending to be medieval warriors, unwittingly choose for their place of imaginative fun the grounds of a reptile farm and to their astonishment encounter lizards and a giant snake which distort their ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy, and London is attributed by the children the properties of a teleporting "blink dog" while he rescues them from several perilous predicaments. The keeper of the reptile farm is seen by the leader of the fanciful juveniles (three boys and one girl) to be a benevolent wizard, and a bear-pestered beekeeper on neighboring property is envisioned as an antagonistic Black Knight. It is inarguably the 1979-85 television series' strangest episode and has thus attained a "cult" following.

Audra Williams was age of six when she was chosen by the casting director of The Littlest Hobo to portray "Princess Theaella", the girl in the group of valiant vanquishers of the forces of darkness: "It for sure was a weird episode, like beyond bizarre." Her entertaining memories of "Dragonslayer" are extensive and precise: "The director's name was Allan (Eastman), but he let all of us kids call him, 'Alien', and that was how he signed my autograph book. Imagine one director, five dogs, four kids, an iguana, a bear, a baby bear, an alligator which had not been used for years and escaped during filming, and a giant, snapping turtle. It took three days to (tape) the episode, and the dogs had their own Winnebago, while we all cooked (in the 1983 summer sun). I had a hard time not laughing when I had to chant, 'I'm invisible... I'm invisible,' while rubbing the shell, and because the bear was a little moody, they would not let it go near us kids. When I was in extreme close up being scared of the bear, it was actually the director, 'Alien', in front of me going, 'GRRR RWOR!!'- which made me giggle, also."

Audra recounts her rapport with her co-stars, human and canine. "Being the only female and the youngest performer in the cast, I was carried everywhere, especially by Jamie Dick, on whom I had a huge crush at the time. I had been told not to stare down the dogs, and I decided to find out why. I picked the wrong one to stare at, however. He freaked out at me and I was petrified! I remember that I was so excited about meeting Captain Highliner, who played the beekeeper/'Black Knight'. I do still have the dress, but, sadly, the scary 'protection' necklace that Simon (Craig) gave to me when I was 'on the lookout' is gone."

Audra now lives in Nova Scotia in Canada's eastern Maritimes and is a specialist in sign language interpretation.

For many Canadian youngsters, The Littlest Hobo was not only a television attraction. While the 1979-85 series was in production, children were thrilled spectators as videotaping locations included their own neighborhoods- or even their own homes! For Season 6's "Liar, Liar", Christopher Barnes of Scarborough, Ontario was delighted to learn that the makers of The Littlest Hobo had selected his family's residence, which was adjacent to the type of wooded area required by the script and ideally structured to accommodate the positioning of equipment for a living room scene, as the site for most of the episode: "It was very exciting to have an episode of The Littlest Hobo (taped) at my home. I can remember all of the kids on the street coming over to my place to watch the shoot, sitting on the lawn and eating Popsicles as a giant cavalcade of trucks parked outside my house." Barnes' parents cleaned and painted the house for the occasion. The paint was "still fresh" when Richie (Todd Woodcroft) was exiting the house through an upstairs window, and some of the paint smeared onto his clothes.

Jacques Urbont's diverse music scores for Seasons 1 to 5 were mostly written as stock music at the start of the 1979-85 television series, to be used as needed, and they are always effective. Episodes with similar situations or characters share the same tunes. For example, the rustic banjo score utilized as hermit Jasper McGilicuty's theme in Season 1's "Heritage" fits later episodes, "Fussin' and Fightin'" and "Lumberjacks", with equal precision; this music is only used in conjunction with offbeat, backwoods characters. And a mirthful melody of youth, innocence, and play delights the audience as Kate's theme in "Willie and Kate", then is heard in combination with boys at a hockey rink in "Snapshot". Its most extensive usage is in "The Five Labors of Hercules" as the theme for the lively and amorous Shih tzu, the first dog to free itself from London.

For most episodes that open with a shot of a town's street, panoramic motifs are heard in the music, and more lavish phrases initiate episodes such as "The Locket" and "Back to Nature", in which London is seen crossing a blooming, summer woodland. An apt title for the latter music, used also in "Sailing Away" and "Passage", would be "Nature's Grandeur".

A peculiar horn-led melody accompanies London's stranger deeds: directing a group of easily-misled, petty criminals on a false scent for stolen money in "The Last Job", trying to maintain order among the animals at a troubled research institute in "Guinea Pig", and chasing a bakery truck containing a pie-sampling bulldog in "The Five Labors of Hercules". This music is used while the Kellerman couple is studying the quite impossibly videotaped records of London's activities in "The Genesis Tapes". A tune that tends to spur the flow of eye moisture by starting with a piano and proceeding to a glorious instrumental sweep, is invariably heard in an episode's last minutes, combined either with London's climactic act of rescue and the amazement of all humans around him (in "Guardian Angel", "Smoke", "The Trail of No Return", and "The Spirit of Thunder Rock") or with a farewell that brings tears to the eyes of London's friend (in "The Hero").

Rarest tunes include the alternately creepy and fantastical passages of "Dragonslayer". A carnival-esque, rapid piano music curiously coincides with the high-technology theft attempt in the James Bond spoof, "Tempest Probe". There is an energetic, put-on-a-show melody that goes with the events of "The Clown" and with the waterfall theme park in "Forget Me Not". A slower-paced, tender version thereof is utilized in "Happy Birthday, Mom". Very appealing is a "disability music" performed in three formats: solemn string and synthesized piano solos, and an upbeat, full instrumental. Though brief passages of the string or synthesized piano are heard in "The Hero", "Second Sight", and "Rookie", all of the versions, highlighted by the full instrumental, are used in "East Side Angels" as the theme for guest star Chris Makepeace's involvement with a basketball team despite his handicap of a leg in a cast, and in "The Five Labors of Hercules" to coincide with Nathaniel and London's endeavor.

London befriends a basketball team player, Willie (Chris Makepeace), with a temporary though problematic physical condition in "East Side Angels".

Urbont's music is profoundly missed in Season 6, for which new, heavily synthesized, and repetitive music scores (the same ten-second passage played in a loop) contribute to a diminished viewing experience. Still, the very sombre piano music of "One Door Closes" and the pleasant, moderate tempos of the "Matchmaker" tunes sound appropriate and acceptable. A pair of melodies reminiscent of Chariots of Fire in "Second Best", though appealing in conjunction with a lengthy foot race, are dulled by repetition spanning most of the episode. Probably the most lifeless, annoying, and worst music in the series is that in "Three Monkeys of Bah Roghar" and in "Prodigal Son".

Later episodes of Season 1 were clearly shot in the winter, but such was not the case in the subsequent seasons, for which production evidently commenced late in the spring and stopped in the fall, with episodes being shot fast and furiously during the summer months.

In "Small Pleasures", London finds himself in a quite unusually tiny community that attracts the larceny aims of a pair of ex-convicts.

In 1979-80 and in 1981, The Littlest Hobo ran on Thursday evenings on CTV at 8:30 Atlantic Time before Buck Rogers in the 25th Century at 9. After Buck was put back in cryogenic moth balls, London's continued travels, still on Thursdays at 8:30, preceded 9 o'clock's Magnum P.I., until London was retired and replaced by the Keaton family, when Family Ties moved to 8:30 on Thursdays in 1985.

CTV did not run The Littlest Hobo in production order. The first episode that aired in the autumn of 1979 was "Smoke", followed by parts one and two of "Manhunt", although there had been five episodes produced before these. In the later years, episodes from earlier seasons were mixed with first-run ones.

Once the television series went out of production, all episodes were formatted with an opening title showing multiple squares containing scenes of London's missions of mercy from each of the seasons. This is why episodes of the first season being circulated in syndication, have an opening title sequence containing scenes from the later seasons. Syndication packages have appeared in Canada on CTV affiliate television stations and such specialty cable television channels as YTV, Showcase, and Vision. Showcase's episodes only consisted of those until "Suspect" inclusive. Vision telecasted a number of times a complete, 114-episode set, though ending in September, 2001 its run of London's adventures with part one of "The Five Labors of Hercules", which was anything but a sensible way to finish a broadcast of the television series in that anyone seeing this two-part story for the first time would not know how London escapes from his capture in an Animal Control van or how his young friend ultimately fares in a quest for funds to buy a puppy.

What follows is a complete episode guide for the 1979-85 Littlest Hobo.

London assists magician Elmer (Patrick Macnee) in "Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend".

Season 1

"Stand-in"
During a series of robberies at an electronics warehouse, the canine helper of a dedicated guard turns placid and sits at
the sight of a stick held by the robbers, allowing the criminals to escape with the stolen merchandise. The electronics 
company's owner, Mr. Hoffner, begins to suspect the guard, Harry, of being in collusion with the thieves, whose repeatedly
successful heists do not weigh in Harry's favor, and Harry's reports of his trained attack dog's immobility are not easy 
to believe. London joins Harry as a second canine to defend the warehouse, and he discovers that Walt Temple, the 
electronics company's Chief of Security, is in conspiracy with the hoodlums and has been conditioning Harry's dog to 
motionlessness. London acts to stop the robbers, and from the handwriting on a note written by Temple and possessed by the
subdued thieves, Harry has proof of Temple's involvement in the robberies. Hoffner promotes Harry to be the electronics 
company's new Chief of Security.
Guest stars: Alan Hale (Harry), Cec Linder (Hoffner), John Evans (Walt Temple), Michael Wincott (Charlie).

"Boy On Wheels"
In a suburban community, London befriends Chris, a paraplegic boy with an open-minded guardian named David, who is 
employed by Chris' overprotective father, a commercially powerful man named Barton. Barton is particularly averse to dogs
and reacts with hostility to London when he sees London playing fetch-the-frisbee with Chris. He refuses the suggestion 
from David that Chris be allowed to adopt London, whose presence cheers the boy by making him less conscious of his 
disability. In Barton's memory flashbacks, it is revealed that it was a stray dog that caused the car accident that 
resulted in Chris' paraplegia. When his father is away from home for business purposes, Chris is permitted by David to 
play with London in a park, but Barton returns early from his travels and finds his son again playing fetch-the-frisbee
with the canine. Suddenly, Chris' wheelchair rolls uncontrollably down a hill toward a busy road, and London chases the
wheelchair and saves the boy's life by tipping the wheelchair on its side just short of the road. Barton's heart warms to
the dog that rescued his son and becomes less imperious and more sympathetic to his son's wishes.
Guest stars: Clarence Williams III (David), Lloyd Bochner (Mr. Barton), David Craig Collard (Chris Barton), Mike Myers 
(Tommy Fraser).

"Little Girl Lost"
Big Sam, a retired transport-truck driver, hears a boy describe a mongrel as "dumb" and decides to tell to the boy a story
about how a very, very intelligent German shepherd, London, protected a little girl lost in a forest after she wandered
away from her parents, who were replacing their camper trailer's flat tire. Coming onto the road where Big Sam's 
transport-truck was parked, appropriating Big Sam's lunch and blanket, and going back into the forest- back to the little
girl, London strived to keep the girl, Eileen, warm, fed, and safe until he could locate a pick-up truck into which to 
place her. The truck was then driven to a depot where Big Sam found Eileen, accompanied by London, in the pick-up truck's
rear, with the blanket that London had attained for her. Big Sam then telephoned the police, who were desperately 
searching for Eileen, and the police and Eileen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, came to the truck depot to receive the
girl and to thank London for all of his help.
Guest stars: Stephen Young (Scott Phillips), Linda Day George (Lisa Phillips), John Friesen (Big Sam).

"Guardian Angel"
Lukash, a compulsive thief, sees a priest depart from a car with the keys in the ignition and decides to steal that car, 
then discovers a baby in the back seat. The priest was going to convey the infant to an orphanage after the child had been
left on his church's doorstep by an impoverished and desperate illegal-immigrant mother. Lukash brings the baby home to 
his wife, who says that they must surrender the baby to the police without letting the police know about Lukash's car 
theft. En route to a police station, Lukash and his wife stop in a park where they find an empty baby carriage and put the
infant inside the carriage. London, who had been with the baby's mother, appears in the park and, using his canine mouth,
lifts and transports the carriage and its gurgling occupant to the mother, who has reconsidered her previous decision and
now wants to keep the baby, with which she can legitimately apply for citizenship. Lukash is arrested by police not for
car theft, but for absconding with the baby carriage, and tells this whole story to a fellow prisoner. Lukash is later 
released from police custody and informed that his fellow prisoner is deaf and could not have heard the story which he has
told.
Guest stars: Nehemiah Persoff (Lukash), Ardon Bess (Policeman), Henry Beckman (Priest).

"Double Trouble"
London befriends Ben Smith, a human hobo with an aversion to work but a generous heart. Ben tries to help the mistress of 
a small-town girls' camp to successfully bid on two magnificent Clydesdale horses at an auction so that the girls' camp 
can have them as prized workhorses, but Ben and the camp mistress are outbid by a man intending to use the horses for 
fertilizer. While Ben resides as an overnight guest at the girls' camp, London releases the horses from their holding area
at the place of auction, from where the successful bidder plans to collect them in the morning, and brings the horses to 
the girls' camp. Ben feels sure that the police will suspect him, and not London, of snatching the horses, but London 
hides the beautiful Clydesdales from the prying eyes of Sheriff Johnson. With London's direction, the horses prove 
instrumental in helping London, Ben, and the camp mistress to rescue a bus filled with the camp's girls trapped in flood
water that has washed out a road. The horses are then given to the girls' camp, and Ben and London are community heroes.
Guest stars: Barry Morse (Ben Smith), Mignon Elkins (Miss Allen), Sean McCann (Sheriff Johnson).

"Smoke"
London assists forest ranger Ray Caldwell to save the lives of wild animals from a raging forest fire. The fire has driven
many animals out of the woods and into a town where the owner of a store is selling traps and poison to control the influx
of wild animals. A young boy eats some poisoned meat and lapses into a coma. An antidote to the poison is available only
in a city on the other side of the fire, and London and Caldwell hasten by airplane to the city to obtain the needed 
remedy, and because time is crucial and a storm is preventing them from landing on their return by air to the ranger 
station where the sick boy is, London, with the medicine attached to him, does a parachute jump close to the ranger
station and saves the boy's life.
Guest stars: Monte Markham (Ray Caldwell), Gary Reineke (Rooker).

"Manhunt: Pt. 1"
A young traveler named Tom Malone stops in a small town called Meadowville to eat at a pool pub, where he attracts the
attentions of a woman whose jealous, drunken husband, name of Charlie, attacks him with a tire iron, intending to kill. In
defense, Tom holds a pitchfork onto which Charlie stumbles mortally. Charlie's brother, Jake, and buddies refuse to allow
Tom to claim self-defense in the death, and they throw the deceased's attack weapon, the tire iron, into a bush. London
has witnessed these events and helps Tom to escape Jake's vigilante group, who want Tom apprehended dead or alive. The 
local sheriff, though disapproving of Jake's motives, permits Jake and Charlie's friends to join a posse, with 
bloodhounds, to catch Tom. Tom and London find an older man, Ed Thompson, trapped beneath an overturned jeep and release
him. Ed's leg is broken, and Tom drags him on a makeshift stretcher while temporarily evading the posse by trekking with 
London through a wilderness. Tom recounts the killing and its full circumstances to Ed, and the posse converges on Tom and
his two companions.
Guest stars: Andrew Prine (Tom Malone), Chris Wiggins (Ed Thompson), Richard Donat (Charlie), Charles Shamata (Jake).

"Manhunt: Pt. 2"
London helps Tom to outwit the posse and escape a confrontation at a lake, but Tom learns, upon reaching help for Ed, that
Ed is the uncle of the dead man. Ed appreciates Tom's assistance but insists that the law is the law. He has Tom arrested
by police and jailed. London locates and procures the tire iron that Charlie, Tom's slain attacker, had used and gives it
to Ed, who confronts his vigilante nephew, Jake, with the evidence that will clear Tom of the murder charge and prove Jake
and Charlie's pals guilty of attempting to miscarry justice.
Guest stars: Andrew Prine (Tom Malone), Chris Wiggins (Ed Thompson), Charles Shamata (Jake).

"The Defector"
London and a human drifter, Andy McClelland, are passed on a road by a car, from which a woman with an Eastern European
accent exits and runs in their direction, pleading for them to help her. Two similarly accented, armed men repel Andy with
a hit to his head and force the woman back into the car. Andy sees the car enter the estate of a prominent policeman. He
also recognizes the woman as a dancer, Anna Marko, from the Eastern Bloc. But he is unable to persuade a constable on 
patrol to enter the premises on his suspicion of forcible confinement of the woman. The politically powerful owner of the
estate denies knowing anything about Ms. Marko. So, Andy and London act on their own initiative to free Ms. Marko, but 
Andy is caught by the men holding Ms. Marko, whose intent to defect to the West has been discovered with the certainty of
punishment when she is returned to home country. Andy is to be flown over and dropped into the ocean. London mouth-grabs a
scarf belonging to Ms. Marko, with her initials on it, and shows it to the constable as evidence that Andy's story was 
true. The constable orders the airplane intercepted and returned to the estate, then apprehends the policeman who owns the
estate and the East European agents that were about to murder Andy.
Guest stars: Paul Burke (Andy McClelland), Charlotte O'Dele (Anna Marko).

"Silent Witness"
Sam Powers, the intoxicated driver of a pick-up truck, collides with a mail-lady named Miss Pickins, panics, and flees the
accident site, but London, who was assisting Miss Pickins, witnessed the accident and will not allow Powers to shirk 
responsibility for it. He acquires Miss Pickins' uniform cap and places the cap on Powers' doorstep. Powers burns the cap
and tries to kill London with poisoned meat, which London refuses to eat. London persists in reminding Powers of the 
accident until Powers concedes defeat and goes to hospital to visit the recovering mail-lady and confess his guilt, with a
promise to repent and never drive drunk again. She forgives him, and no criminal charges are pressed.
Guest stars: Vic Morrow (Sam Powers), Sandra Scott (Miss Pickins), Michael Ironside (Bill).

"Heritage"
Stubborn rustic hermit Jasper McGilicuty refuses to allow a developer to purchase land which has belonged to his family 
for generations (and on which he operates a gold mine that has not yielded anything for years), despite the generous price
which he is being offered- and despite the increasingly violent persuasion tactics of a couple of thugs under the 
developer's employ, ending with a bomb blast in the mine while McGilicuty is inside and London, McGilicuty's faithful 
helper, is outside. London runs to find aid when he sees that McGilicuty is pinned by debris. And the first car he 
encounters on a nearby road, is being driven by Parsons, the developer himself! By appropriating Parsons' keys, London 
leads him to the bombed mine, from where Parsons frees McGilicuty before the shaft entirely collapses. Parsons repents and
finally dismisses his thugs, and declines McGilicuty's agreement to sell him the land in gratitude for his saving of
McGilicuty's life. Parsons helps McGilicuty to rebuild the mine and wins the affections of McGilicuty's niece.
Guest stars: Leon Aames (Jasper McGilicuty), Lynne Griffin (Laura Bailey), John-Peter Linton (Glen Parsons).
 
"Target For Terror"
Criminals want for a judge, Chief Justice Hamilton, to overturn the conviction of their associate. To demonstrate their
ability to cause misery for the judge, they place a bomb inside of Hamilton's grandson's locker at a train depot, but 
London sees them priming the bomb and has a Depot Security man find and disarm it. Hamilton's grandson, Paul, and Paul's
fiancee, Pam Williams, are then kidnaped by the criminals, the ransom being a favorable decision by Hamilton on a 
conviction appeal for the criminals' associate. London follows the kidnapers and attracts the attention of the proprietor
of the kidnapers' motel premises to the presence of nefarious goings-on. While London leads the criminals on a chase, the
motel proprietor frees Paul and Pam, and, with London's help, Paul overpowers the thugs, and Paul and Pam, obtaining the
villains' guns, immobilize them at gunpoint until the police, summoned by the motel proprietor, arrive.
Guest stars: John Carradine (Chief Justice Hamilton), John David Carson (Paul Hamilton), Trudy Young (Pam Williams).

"Willie and Kate"
London travels with two hitchhiking humans, who are together not by choice but by circumstance: a cantankerous old man
named Willie and an equally cantankerous, orphaned young girl named Kate, who is running away from Child Welfare
authorities in the hope that her elder sister, now married, will accept and raise her. Though Willie and Kate are 
constantly arguing, London perceives that they have a growing affinity for each other. Willie must act when an 
unscrupulous couple try to transport an unwilling Kate to the authorities for possible reward. Willie and London rescue 
her, and the three hobos resume their journey, Willie to California to cultivate oranges, and Kate to her sister. When 
Kate arrives at her sister's house, her sister does not desire any parental responsibility, and her sister's husband wants
to notify the police, so that Kate will be returned to the orphanage from which she escaped. London overhears the pair's
plan for Kate and runs to bring Willie to Kate's sister's house. Together with London, Willie rescues Kate from her 
unloving sister, and London, Willie, and Kate continue their travels. 
Guest stars: Gary Merrill (Willie Brogan), Pauline Falton (Kate Benson).

"The Further Adventures of Willie and Kate"
London accompanies Willie and Kate in their resumed travels as Kate continues to be chased by officials who have declared
her a ward of the state. Kate and London prevent a pair of ruffians from forcibly stealing Willie's wallet after Willie 
was too demonstrative with his money in a cafe at which he agreed to treat Kate to a meal. While London assists Willie in
collecting corn cobs in a field and Kate is alone, the feisty youngster is captured by a Juvenile Corrections officer, and
she is consigned to the State Youth Centre For Girls. London urges Willie to come to Kate's rescue, and while London 
gains the undivided attention of everyone in the regimented establishment, thus permitting Kate to regain liberty, Willie
stealthily enters the building through one of its doors but is quickly discovered sneaking around the lobby by a custodian
and brought to the headmistress of the correctional facility, for questioning. The headmistress is sympathetic to Kate's 
predicament and is impressed by the rapport between Brogan and Kate. She is about to consider allowing Willie and Kate to
reunite as traveling companions when London activates a fire alarm that preoccupies all Youth Centre officials and enables
Willie to easily escape the "girls' prison" facility through a window and to outside rejoin Kate. Juvenile Corrections 
chooses not to pursue Willie and Kate, from whom London departs once the duo are both en route to California, in the back
of a goat farmer's truck.
Guest stars: Gary Merrill (Willie Brogan), Pauline Falton (Kate Benson), Jonathan Welsh (Juvenile Corrections Officer).

"Second Chance"
Phil Jenkins, a paroled man working for a shipping company, discovers, with London's help, that narcotic smuggling is 
being done by employees in the company, but he thinks that the police will not believe his report thereof because of his
criminal record. On the advice of his girl-friend, Sally, who is the company owner's secretary, he proceeds to inform the
police, but the drugs have been moved, and the police find nothing. Little does Jenkins realize that the company's owner,
Mr. Robbins, is involved in the scheme. When he says to Robbins that he is determined to prove the ongoing incidence of
smuggling, Jenkins becomes unwilling guest of a gun-toting Robbins. The criminals plan to silence Jenkins permanently, but
London brings the police, who were sufficiently intrigued by Jenkins' complaint to covertly observe the company warehouse,
to surround said warehouse. The police catch the smugglers in the act of moving their drugs and rescue Jenkins. Robbins is
jailed with his criminal cohorts.
Guest stars: Michael Cole (Phil Jenkins), Ken Pogue (Mr. Robbins).

"Give My Regards to Broadway"
London protects Gladys Gates, a former Broadway celebrity so bedazzled by theatre life and by her own prior fame that she
is pridefully unemployable in any mundane job and wanders a city as a vagrant, sneakily exiting a boarding house without 
paying her rent, trying to order a meal at a delicatessen on dubious credit, and, with London's extreme disapproval,
shoplifting and pawning a jewel. She is recording in a little book every instance of her "borrowing", intending to repay 
everyone when she is again a top Broadway personality, but a theatrical agency refuses to hire her. Police eventually 
apprehend her for shoplifting, and it is the intervention of a reporter, to whom London has brought her list of all 
previous "borrowing" and who remembers her wartime entertaining duty and lobbies for her, that spares her from 
imprisonment. She is given 48 hours to find a job or be arrested by police for vagrancy. London directs her to a job 
opportunity as a waitress, for which she is hired- and permitted to sing "on the side"!  
Guest stars: Rosemary Radcliffe (Gladys Gates), Eric House (Mr. Bush), Marvin Goldhar (Peter O'Brien).

"The Million Dollar Fur Heist"
London befriends Howard Mattson, an elderly transport-truck driver who is bitter about impending forced retirement at age
of 65. Despite London's disapproval, Mattson decides to confiscate the truck that he has driven for many years after he
sees it stop for gasoline at Artie's Truck Stop. What he does not know is that the truck has been rented by two bandits 
and contains a million dollars' worth of stolen furs. The criminals see their rented truck being driven away from them and
contact the trucking firm from which they rented it to inquire about who else has a key to the ignition, and they are 
given Mattson's name and address. Mattson's plans to return the truck on the following morning are halted when he sees the
stolen furs in the truck's rear. Fearful that the police will think that he was involved in the fur heist, Mattson does 
not immediately report what he has found. While Mattson goes to the trucking firm to talk to the owner about the furs, the
thieves kidnap Mattson's grandson, Daniel, and detain him to insure that Mattson brings the furs and truck to a rendezvous
point of their choosing. The crooks tie Mattson and Daniel to chairs in an isolated house, and when they go to the truck
to check that the furs are inside, London jumps out of the truck, with a fur in his mouth, leading the criminals on a 
chase. He returns to the truck, with the nefarious pair in pursuit, and locks them inside of it. Then, he frees Mattson
and Daniel, and Mattson telephones the police, who reward him for recovering the furs and catching the thieves. 
Guest stars: Abe Vigoda (Howard Mattson), Dan Hennessey (Worheim), Derek Jones (Daniel).

"Big Al and Sam Strawberry"
Kyle, a young artist who owns a business that restores damaged or faded paintings, is a compulsive gambler who has 
accumulated debts with a mob boss/loan shark named Big Al, who threatens serious harm to Kyle's physique if a large amount
of loaned money is not repaid. Kyle believes that his fortunes have changed when a new customer, a lovely, young lady, has
given to him an old painting to restore, and upon close examination, he finds that it is a genuine work of Van Gogh! 
Although his new friend, London, disapproves of his scheme to paint a fake, give the fake to his customer, who is not 
aware that the original is a Van Gogh, and supply the original to Big Al to clear his debt with the ruthless loan shark,
Kyle insists that if given a choice between dishonesty with a customer and violent assault by Big Al's thugs if the debt
is not repaid, he must opt for dishonesty. Big Al agrees to his proposal, and before Kyle can transport the original to 
Big Al, London switches it with the fake, and the artist unknowingly brings the fake to the loan shark! Big Al ensconces
it in a safe to be appraised on the next day by an expert, and London gains covert entry into Big Al's office by night and
removes the fake from the safe. Big Al suspects a rival mobster, Sam Strawberry, to whom he showed the painting, of 
stealing it. So, Big Al confronts Sam Strawberry in a gun battle which attracts the police. Kyle's troubles are solved,
and he confides in his customer about his situation and his dishonest intentions. She understands, and a beautiful
friendship begins. 
Guest stars: Sheldon Leonard (Big Al), James B. Douglas (Sam Strawberry), Brian Smeagle (Kyle), Linda Mason-Green (Wanda
Vanderhoff).

"The Last Job"
London meets a man named Nick, who has just been released from prison after serving his sentence for participation in a
robbery, and though Nick promises to London that he is going to "go straight", he has, while in jail, agreed to be the car
driver for a robbery. One last "job" to provide him with money upon which to live. London disapproves and urges Nick to 
become a door-to-door salesman as per Nick's promise to his girl-friend and probation officer. Nick, however, believes in
honor among thieves and says that he cannot shirk his promise to his crooked associates. Accompanied by London, Nick 
performs his assigned role in an armed bank robbery as getaway car driver. When the group of robbers stop at an abandoned
house to wait until "the heat dies down" and to divide the money, London mouth-lifts the satchel of loot when the robbers
are sleeping and hides it. The robbers suspect a "double-cross" by someone among them, and untrusting eyes are cast upon
Nick. London pretends to have the scent of the trail to the hidden money and guides the robbers to an outdoor location,
where they dig, expecting to find the loot. They find nothing. London later locks the robbers in a room in the abandoned
house, and he and Nick escape. Nick agrees with London to surrender the money to the police, and he is leniently treated.
Guest stars: Alan McRae (Nick), Mary Long (Sharon).

"Snapshot"
London befriends a bespectacled boy named Joey, who is the son of a deceased famous hockey player. When she sees that her
boy is more interested in photography than in continuing in the boldly athletic tradition of his father, Joey's mother 
scolds him with accusations of cowardice. Joey crawls out of a window of his home on one night, accompanied by London, and
comes upon some men attempting forced-entry into a bank. The men capture Joey and decide to kill him by pushing him down 
an elevator shaft, removing his glasses so that his fall will appear to be accidental because of his poor vision. London 
fetches Joey's mother and brings her to the robbery site, where she is detained at gunpoint by one of the crooks. London 
races to aid Joey just as the blurry-visioned boy is about to fall down the shaft and pushes him safely aside, with one of
the criminals falling instead. Joey uses a wooden stick to hit the man with the gun and free his mother, who now respects
him and is willing to allow him to be his own person.
Guest stars: Mark Polley (Joey), Tedde Moore (Mrs. Baxter), Richard Farrell (Sam Hayden).

"Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend"
London helps a struggling magician named Elmer, who is the unsuspecting dupe of diamond thieves. The thieves arrange for
Elmer to use his disappearing act on a diamond at an auction, and they seize the diamond in the middle of Elmer's trick 
and replace it with a cheap copy. Elmer is arrested, and the thieves think that they have successfully stolen the gem, 
with Elmer as their "patsy", but they had not considered the London factor! London follows them to their apartment, 
snatches the jewel from them, brings it to Elmer's domicile, and drops it in an aquarium. Unable to find the diamond, the
thieves post bail for Elmer's release from police custody and promptly force Elmer at gunpoint to command London to reveal
the gem's hiding place. London cooperates, and the criminals procure the diamond from the aquarium, but they are prevented
from escaping after London attaches a metal cable to the rear bumper of their car, causing the car to abruptly stop. 
Police, in the vicinity of Elmer's home to maintain observation of Elmer, surround the thieves and retrieve the jewel, and
Elmer is "cleared" of police charges of larceny.
Guest stars: Patrick Macnee (Elmer), George Buza (Charlie Demerest), Ted Follows (Detective Harris).

"Romiet and Julio"
This episode reunites Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis, who acted together in the movie, Forbidden Planet, in 1956. London
helps two young lovers whose overbearing, prestigiously powerful parents, a widower mayor and a businessman's widow, 
disapprove of the relationship. London quickly realizes that the Montague-and-Capulet-like, difficult parents have a 
grudge against each other, the result of a past, broken romance. London assists the two old lovers to reconcile and to
consent to the marriage plan of their respective offspring.
Guest stars: Leslie Nielsen (Mayor Chester Montgomery), Anne Francis (Mrs. Penelope Conrad), Gordon Thompson (Chester 
Montgomery Jr.), Liz Ramos (Penny Conrad).

"Escape"
London helps Tim Reagan, an escapee from Millbank Federal Prison, to reach a city discotheque, where Reagan worked once 
upon a time with two partners. One of his partners, Sal, murdered the other partner, who had learned of Sal's mob money
laundering operation. Sal then falsely implicated Reagan in the killing, and Reagan was tried for murder and jailed. Now,
Reagan wants to find evidence to prove his innocence and Sal's guilt. Sal discovers Reagan searching the discotheque 
office and orders his henchmen to kill Reagan. London activates the discotheque lights and music to confuse Sal's men and
guides a policeman to the discotheque to interrupt the attempt by Sal's men to murder Reagan. A police Lieutenant arrives
on site to ask permission to search Sal's office, and Sal agrees to this, not wanting to appear guilty. London finds a 
videotape with strange, numerical markings. The Lieutenant inserts the videotape into a videocassette player and discovers
money laundering records. Reagan is exonerated, and Sal and his men are under police arrest.
Guest stars: Saul Rubinek (Tim Reagan), Louis Del Grande (Police Lieutenant).

"The Pied Piper"
London's latest companion, Dan Mooney, a kind, elderly man with an affinity for children and a knack for entertaining 
them, is accepted for work as a janitor at a children's hospital managed by an excitable, no-nonsense man. Mooney's goofy
impressions and whimsical stories appeal to the "funny bones" of the boys and girls, all but one, a boy who is depressed
by his estranged parents. Mooney does a ventriloquist act with London, whom he has granted entry into the hospital, 
portraying London as a German psychologist who promises to help to bring the boy's parents back together. But Mooney is 
interrupted in his voice-throwing performance by the hospital manager, who terminates his employment. Undaunted, Mooney,
together with London, covertly enters the hospital when the boy's parents come there to visit and, with the help of a 
hospital matron, performs another acting stint, this time with the boy's involvement, to show to the parents how their 
arguing affects their son, thereby persuading them to reconcile for their son's sake in addition to their own. The 
hospital's manager is now morally obligated to rehire Mooney and to allow Mooney to entertain the children as he has done
so successfully.
Guest stars: Jack Gilford (Dan Mooney), Louis Negin (Dr. McQuarter), August Schellenberg (Barney Baxter).

Hal Schaffer (DeForest Kelley) and friends human and canine in "Runaway".

Season 2

"Duddleman and the Diamond Ring"
London becomes acquainted with a bumbling pawn broker named Duddleman, who cannot find the diamond wedding ring that a 
young couple pawned six months previous and have come with money to Duddleman's pawn shop to repurchase. To make matters
worse, the young couple's money falls to the pawn shop floor unbeknownst to them while they are arguing with Duddleman. 
The money not visible on the pawn shop counter on which he had placed it, the young man, Steve, accuses Duddleman of 
stealing it. His anger mounting, Steve starts to ransack Duddleman's pawn shop for the ring and the money and triggers an
alarm. Steve decides to take a valuable horn from the store and hold it until Duddleman gives him the ring or the money. 
With London close behind him, Duddleman follows Steve and Steve's wife, Rosemary, straight into the couple's van, which 
Steve drives away from the pawn shop. The police arrive at the pawn shop and are told by witnesses that Steve has robbed
and kidnaped Duddleman. The police begin pursuing the van containing Steve and Rosemary- and unwelcome passengers
Duddleman and London. London parts temporarily from the misunderstood fugitives and goes back to the pawn shop to find the
missing money. He sees it on the floor, mouth-grabs it, and takes it to Steve and Steve's wife, who are cornered by the 
police at a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. Duddleman tells the police that Steve is innocent and that the whole 
incident was caused by his own ineptitude at losing the diamond ring. Returning to the pawn shop, he finds the ring in 
another drawer. He misread the drawer into which he earlier looked due to his faulty eye-glasses. The young couple are
cleared of criminal charges and have their ring back. 
Guest stars: Henry Jones (Duddleman), Karl Pruner (Steve).

"The Balloonist"
London befriends Gus Appleton, an elderly man with heart problems who enjoys flying in a carriage with a hot-air balloon.
Though Appleton's intermittent angina attacks are controllable by medication, Appleton's granddaughter and her fiance both
disapprove of Appleton's plan for an extended, skill-testing balloon flight. Defying their wishes, Appleton, accompanied
by London, readies his balloon for a prolonged excursion. But Appleton's angina seizes him at a critical time, as he is in
his balloon carriage removing one of the ropes holding it to the ground. He falls backward in the carriage, and the force
of his fall causes the balloon to tilt so that the other rope comes loose, releasing the balloon to flight. London tries
to restrain it by pulling on one of the ropes but is unable to stop its ascension. The balloon lifts the angina-stricken 
Appleton into the air, leaving London on the ground. London chases the balloon, and it descends into a dense forest. 
Reaching the downed carriage, London finds Appleton's pills and gives them to the pain-suffering balloonist. But the pill
supply is not inexhaustible, and London realizes that he must find help for Appleton before the medication is entirely 
used. He takes a piece of the balloon's fabric into a clearing and signals a passing helicopter in search of Appleton on 
the instructions of his worried granddaughter. The helicopter lands to collect Appleton for transport to a hospital, where
he is treated and released.     
Guest stars: Keenan Wynn (Gus Appleton), Mary Ann McIssac (Jennifer).

"Guinea Pig"
London's act of removing from a road a hay bale accidentally dropped from a truck impresses a young man named Michael, who
is driving a van, in the back of which is a cage that falls from the van. London picks up the cage, that contains a 
hamster, and carries it to Michael, who has seen through the van's rear-view mirror London's nimble-minded deed. Michael 
invites London to join him at his place of work, Currie's Animal Behavior Institute, where animals from guinea pigs to 
geese to chimpanzees are studied. A mysterious illness afflicts the guinea pigs inside of the institute's main building,
and the institute's leader, Dr. Currie, is suffering stomach cramps. London notices that a chimpanzee, given liberty in 
the yard because of its supposed intelligence, is dropping various items into a well. One such item is lime, which is 
poisonous in large doses. London understands the connection between the illnesses and the contaminated well water, but 
communicating this to the humans proves difficult. When he sees London tipping buckets and bottles of water and discovers
that London has closed the well's faucets, Michael assumes that London is simply being mischievous and locks him inside a
cage. The chimpanzee plays with matches and starts a fire in a chemical shed, and London frees himself from the cage in 
time to alert the human researchers, who use the well water to douse the fire. London beckons them to look down the now-
dry well, and they see emptied boxes, including the lime box, and conclude that the water supply was contaminated. 
Guest stars: Melody Ryane (Sarah), Joseph Daniels (Michael), Tony Van Bridge (Dr. Currie).

"Trapper"
Sam Burrows, a crotchety, animal-trapping woodsman, is contested by London, who, fearing for the safety of a young woman's
missing puppy, uses detached tree branches to neutralize all of Burrows' leg-hold traps and inflames Burrows into trying
to catch and kill him. London finds the missing puppy and carries it to safety, then returns to the forest to neutralize
more of Burrows' devices. Burrows digs a pit to add to his usual leg-hold and snare-net traps and waits for London to 
succumb to one of them. London becomes snared, and as Burrows is about to shoot his rifle, Burrows' leg is caught in one
of his own leg-hold traps, and he falls backward into the pit and injures his leg and back. Seeing that Burrows is unable
to pull himself out of the pit with a rope, London runs to find help for his nemesis, who is grateful for the dog's 
assistance and resolved to be more humane and less zealous in his animal-trapping.
Guest stars: John Vernon (Sam Burrows), Peter Jobin (Parker), Michelle Finley (Susan Munro).

"Mystery at the Zoo"
London joins a lady reporter, June Wilson, and her photographer-assistant, Lombardi, who are reporting on the 
disappearance of a macaw from a zoo. London suspects an elderly custodian, Fred Spooner, who is in forced retirement with
an expressed love for the animals once in his care, of being involved in the macaw's disappearance. After the vanishing of
a cougar kitten from the zoo, Wilson and Lombardi investigate and are told by the curator, Dr. Devereaux, that several 
other animals have gone missing in past weeks. London leaps into Spooner's vehicle as Spooner is driving to his farm home.
He finds the missing cougar kitten in a cage in the back seat. Spooner admits to London that he is taking the animals 
because they have been the only family he has ever had and that he cannot be parted from them by his retirement from the
zoo. London follows as Spooner pursues the cougar kitten that runs away from Spooner's farm where all the missing animals
are, and watches as Spooner attempts to reach the cougar in a tree by climbing a wooden ladder, a step on which collapses
and causes Spooner to fall to break a leg. London runs to find Wilson and Lombardi and guides them to Spooner's farm, 
where they find all the missing animals and the incapacitated Spooner, who admits to taking the animals to keep them near
to him. Spooner is forgiven and allowed to visit the zoo whenever he likes to see his animal "family".
Guest stars: Carol Lynley (June Wilson), Pat Moffatt (Dr. Devereaux), Charles Shamata (Lombardi).

"The Pearls"
At a city harbor, London assists a ship Captain, whose crew are mutineers. Aboard the ship, the lead mutineer, Brewster, 
has bound and gagged the Captain. Brewster wants possession of some pearls that the Captain has been entrusted by a 
deceased shipmate to keep for noble purposes. The Captain refuses to tell Brewster where the pearls are; so, Brewster
orders his henchmen to fist-beat the Captain to make the Captain more talkative, but London's barking interrupts them. 
Believing that London has brought someone aboard the ship, Brewster orders his men to search. Brewster finds the pearls 
and arranges to sell them to a wealthy man in a limousine, but London snatches the pearls from where Brewster has stashed
them and leads Brewster's men on a chase. Brewster falls from the ship, and London brings a Harbor Patrolman to the scene
to arrest Brewster and Brewster's men and free the Captain. The Captain gives the pearls to a church.
Guest stars: Scott Brady (Captain Turner), Donelly Rhodes (Brewster).

"Carnival of Fear"
London saves carnival manager Tigh Ridley from a seeming accident involving an empty, reversing truck, with crashes into a
confectionary on the carnival grounds. Nobody is hurt, but this has been one of a series of mishaps at the carnival. 
Suspecting sabotage, London investigates the carnival employees and discovers that a puppeteer named Margie is an 
unrequited lover of Ridley and thus has a motive for trying to kill Ridley. Margie shows no anger toward the carnival 
manager, but London learns that Margie is mentally disturbed with a dual personality and that she, in her other persona as
an eccentric fortune-teller, Madame Sybil, is responsible for the "accidents" and exposes her in her Madame Sybil disguise
to Ridley.
Guest stars: Gale Garnett (Margie/Madame Sybil), Angus MacInnes (Tigh Ridley).

"Sailing Away"
Compulsive gambler Don Porter owns a sailboat named Escapade in a marina and has promised to embark with his daughter, 
Jib, upon a lengthy voyage in the boat, but his gambling debts are already formidable, and a group of men are prepared to
exploit his addiction. They convince him to gamble high on a roulette wheel to win the money to pay his debts, and he must
borrow money from the unscrupulous men- with his boat as collateral- for funds with which to wager. His daughter loses
patience with him when he does not meet her at the boat as planned and she learns that he is gambling. So, she steers the
Escapade out to sea herself, and her new friend, London, knowing that she is inexperienced in boating by herself, goes 
with her. A sudden gust of wind causes a sail arm to rotate and hit her off of the boat and into the water, where she 
cannot attain firm hold of the boat and struggles to save herself from drowning. London uses a rope to pull her all of the
way to shore! Porter, having won at the roulette wheel to the chagrin of his exploiters and paid his debt, goes in the 
marina launch to look for Jib and sees her being saved by London. Porter vows to truly quit gambling and spend more time
on the boat with his daughter.
Guest stars: Martin Milner (Don Porter), Tracey Bregman (Jib), Lynn Deragon (Lois), David Calderisi (Nick), Michael Tough
(Andy).

"The Trail of No Return"
Accompanied by London, a boy named David and his younger sister, Kris, go into a forest on a camping expedition, and their
mother asks that a kindly ranger, Jim Haley, meet her two children on their trail and suggest a suitable site at which to
camp so that he will know where they are. Though they at first agree to Haley's suggestion of Pine River Dam, after Haley
leaves them, they decide to camp somewhere else, at Stony Lake. Their mother hears on the radio that the canned ham which
she put in her children's sandwiches is contaminated with botulism. She frantically calls Haley and asks for him to meet
her children at Pine River Dam before they eat the sandwiches, but they are not there! They are at Stony Lake, unbeknownst
to Haley. Both David and London eat the ham and become ill. Kris is not capable of finding her way alone in the forest and
must stay at campsite to care for her brother; so, despite his increasing botulism symptoms, London journeys to find help.
He succeeds, when a man at a farm mistakes him for a wolf and shoots a rifle at him, alerting Haley, who is nearby. Though
he can barely walk, London shows Haley where the children are by picking up a stone and dropping at on Haley's map. Haley
understands, and the children are found at Stony Lake. David and London are given antitoxin and cured.
Guest stars: James MacArthur (Jim Haley), Derek Jones (David).

"The Hunt"
London befriends a young lady, Teri Wilcox, who works at a stable for fox hunt horses as groom, trainer, and top riding 
participant in the fox hunts. A man named Carl, who runs the stables, is jealous of her abilities and sees an opportunity
to rid himself of her by falsely implicating her in a theft of prize money for an upcoming hunt sponsored by the owner of
the stables, Mr. A. E. Houghton, whose jockey son, Roger, has a relationship with her. London sees Carl planting the prize
money in Teri's bag in the stable and taking gasoline, a candle, and a fuse with which to make a bomb that will appear to
be set with the purpose of blasting open a safe in the stable's office to obtain the prize money to steal. Carl orders
Teri to follow some distance behind the main fox hunt so that she will not be seen by the others at the time of the 
bombing and will be blamed. London's attempts to stop Carl are hampered when Carl shoots him with a tranquilizer dart and
locks him in an outdoor cage. But London tunnels under the cage in time to run out to the hunt trail, grab a scent bag 
from one of the horses, and lure all of the hunters back to the stable office by dragging the scent bag on the ground. He
succeeds in doing so before the bomb's fuse, activated by the burning candle at a the candle's base where the fuse is 
tied, triggers the explosion. London brings Roger Houghton to the window, where Roger sees the fuse being activated. Roger
neutralizes the bomb, and when Carl tries to implicate Teri by bringing everyone to the stable and searching Teri's bag,
from which London has removed the money Carl had planted, a befuddled Carl inadvertently admits his guilt. He is 
arrested by the police.
Guest stars: Cameron Mitchell (Carl), Nicholas Campbell (Roger Houghton), Hollis McLaren (Teri Wilcox), George R. 
Robertson (A. E. Houghton).

"Fast Freddie"
London meets Fast Freddie, a con-artist who specializes in disguising himself to swindle people out of their money. London
first notices him pretending to be a blind man, colliding with a town mayor, and during the collision stealing the mayor's
wallet. London is unable to alert the mayor to Freddie's theft, and Freddie makes a smooth getaway. Freddie next dresses 
as a slick, mustached encyclopedia salesman to fool the town clerk into telling him who the town's wealthiest woman is and
what she fancies. Followed by London, Freddie next disguises himself as a greying music professor to ingratiate himself to
the town's wealthiest woman, an older lady who does not suspect anything when Freddie returns as a fire marshal to inspect
her home and thus gain access to her collection of priceless antiques. London obtains a newspaper clipping from Freddie's
trailer that shows Freddie's picture and information on his style of thievery and takes the clipping to the town clerk, 
who recognizes Freddie and alerts a lady constable. The police woman catches Freddie in the act of stashing his ill-gotten
gains into his trailer. Freddie is arrested for attempted larceny, with a probable 5-year jail sentence.
Guest stars: Morey Amsterdam (Freddie Tewksbury), Paul-Emile Frappier (Mayor Arthur Buckingham), Roger Dunn (Bert Tuddle).

"Licence to Steal"
Phil McLean, dedicated worker at a car compacting site, is targeted by an unscrupulous co-worker to help steal by night
some car licence plates from the safe at the site for profitable sale to people with stolen cars. The co-worker puts 
missing licence plates for soon-to-be-demolished automobiles in McLean's own car, plates which London finds and which 
cause McLean's boss to suspect McLean of trying to sell licence plates to car thieves. McLean is fired and immediately 
approached by the co-worker who had placed the licence plates in McLean's car and who, under the pretense of being a 
friend concerned for McLean's family's welfare, offers McLean a chance for earning some easy money, and McLean, realizing
his wife and son depend on him, reluctantly agrees. London knows that McLean is wrong to participate and that, in all 
likelihood, McLean will be the patsy in this scheme, but McLean does not want London interfering and locks London in his 
other car as he drives in his main car at night to meet his co-worker. London alerts McLean's wife by honking the horn of
the car inside of which he is locked, and McLean's wife releases London, who races to the car compacting site. London has
the additional responsibility of saving McLean's son, Danny, who has hidden in his father's car when his father left to 
meet the thieving co-worker, who, with another man, overpowers McLean. In the fight, McLean lands against the trunk of his
car and inadvertently locks his son inside. McLean is rendered unconscious and tied with rope. The thieves put McLean's 
car in a compactor, and London arrives in time to revive McLean and direct him to stop the compacting before Danny is
killed. The thieves are stopped and arrested by the police, whom McLean's boss had alerted to the scheme after McLean had
reported it to him before leaving to meet the crooked co-worker. McLean was honest all along, and as a reward, he has his
job back, with a generous raise.
Guest stars: Clifton Davis (Phil McLean), Ken Pogue (Bob Harrell), Richard Yearwood (Danny McLean).

"Portrait of Danger"
London's new friend, photographer Kevin Wheeler, happens to capture on film men running from an armed robbery scene, 
including a close-up of one of the men's face, and instead of being a publically-minded citizen and providing the pictures
to the police, Wheeler decides to hold the pictures until a profitable sale can be arranged with a newspaper or magazine.
But the robbers know about Wheeler's pictures, and one of the robbers poses as a customer to obtain Wheeler's business 
card and thus learns Wheeler's address, then, when Wheeler is not home, ransacks Wheeler's apartment in search of the 
pictures. Wheeler has secreted them in an envelope and hidden the envelope atop a stack of shelves. Despite London's 
efforts to alert Wheeler to the danger and persuade Wheeler to give the pictures to the police, Wheeler decides to locate
the criminals using the licence plate number of the getaway car in one of the pictures and further snapshot the 
malefactors from a window, but he is caught by them, and they demand with threat to his life that he tell them where the
robbery scene pictures are. London has mouth-grabbed the envelope of pictures from its hiding place at Wheeler's apartment
and brought it to the nearest police station. The police use the licence plate in one of the photos to pinpoint the 
location of the robbers and interrupt the criminals in the act of "taking Wheeler for a ride" to doom in their car. The 
criminals are all caught, and Wheeler is freed. He does not gain monetarily from the pictures but has learned a valuable
lesson! It is best to do what is right without expectation of reward.
Guest stars: James Stephens (Kevin Wheeler), John-Peter Linton (Marty).

"Ghost Rig"
A transport truck, accompanied in front and behind by a Road Security escort, mysteriously disappears on a stretch of road
along which there are no intersections, side roads, or driveways. London and a transport insurance man named Jeffrey 
Farley investigate. They find a cut fence and go through a field to a muddy clearing, where there are tire tracks but no
sign of the missing truck. London discovers a book of matches at the clearing, with a telephone number written on the 
inside. Farley learns that the telephone number is assigned to a restaurant supply firm and that the matches belong to the
owner of a roadside diner on the transport truck's route. Farley further learns that the diner owner, a man named Carmen,
recently bought the eatery establishment and continues to drive truck on occasion. The truck is removed from camouflage in
the mud by Carmen and brought to DiSilva Tools, whose president arranged the disappearance of the truck to collect on 
insurance and retain the truck's cargo, which belonged to DiSilva Tools, and thus not have to deliver the materials. 
London and Farley visit DiSilva Tools on a hunch that this company, whose cargo was on the truck, is involved in the 
truck's disappearance, and while Farley goes to the DiSilva president's office, London probes a warehouse and finds the 
missing truck about to be repainted by Carmen, whom London stops from proceeding with his nefarious work by grabbing the 
hose to a paint sprayer and spraying paint onto his face visor, then by leading him on a chase. Farley deduces that the 
DiSilva president is the instigator of the disappearing truck scheme, and London helps him to subdue both diner owner and
DiSilva president, and the police, whom Farley summons, perform the remainder of the necessary tasks.
Guest stars: Henry Gibson (Jeffrey Farley), Rosemary Dunsmore (Dixie), Harvey Atkin (Carmen).

"Runaway"
Hal Schaffer, a modern-society-weary university professor, vacations unusually by opting for simplicity in living with a 
group of rail-riding hobos. London meets Schaffer and brings him to a boxcar, inside of which is a little boy, a runaway,
who refuses to speak to Schaffer but is in possession of a photo of himself and a man. The names on the picture are Dave
and Bobby. Dave is a soon-to-be-married man who has had a Big Brother friendship with little Bobby, an orphan. Dave and 
his fiancee want to adopt Bobby, but Bobby does not know this. Thinking that he would not see Dave anymore because of 
Dave's marriage, Bobby fled the orphanage where Dave had been visiting him. Schaffer finds a telephone number on Bobby's
picture with Dave and, leaving London to watch Bobby, goes to a telephone booth at a small railway station to contact 
Dave. Dave and his fiancee meet Schaffer, who tells them that he left Bobby with an extraordinary German shepherd and 
escorts them to collect the boy. But Bobby has fled from London and boarded the boxcar where he had initially been found,
unaware that it is slated to be sealed and removed from the rail lines. London leads Schaffer, Dave, and Dave's fiancee to
the boxcar as it is being lifted by a crane, and Schaffer orders the crane operator to lower the boxcar. After freeing 
Bobby from the boxcar, Dave informs him of the adoption plans, and Bobby is overjoyed.
Guest stars: DeForest Kelley (Professor Hal Schaffer), Ted Simonette (Dave Martindale), Jamie Dick (Bobby).

"East Side Angels"
London befriends a teenager with a leg in a cast. The teenager, Willie, is a member of an intercity basketball team with
an ego-centric Captain, Jason Davis, who refuses to be a team-player and is suspended from the team by its lady coach,
Miss Watson, until he decides to respect his peers. In the evening, when Willie and London remain at the basketball team's
gymnasium, a malfunction in the electrical system results in Willie being electrically shocked into unconsciousness and a
fire starting in a storeroom adjacent to the gymnasium. Jason returns to the building to obtain his Captain's jacket and 
is brought by London to the gymnasium where Willie is unconscious and into which smoke is pouring. Jason and London 
cooperate to carry Willie from the smoke-filled gymnasium and save Willie's life, and London activates the fire alarm. The
Fire Department arrives at the gymnasium and douses the blaze. Because he has had a difficult life and was angry for his 
suspension from the team, Jason is blamed for starting the fire, and Willie has unclear memories of the electrical 
problems and cannot absolve Jason from blame. London obtains the faulty electronic circuit from the burned gymnasium and
brings it to Willie, and it revives Willie's memory of the actual accidental cause of the fire and of Jason's role in 
saving his life. With London's help, Willie and Miss Watson stop Jason from hitchhiking out of the city and plead for 
Jason to stay on the team and to forgive them for thinking him guilty of arson. He does, and he agrees to be more of a 
team-player. 
Guest stars: Chris Makepeace (Willie), Clarke Johnson (Jason Davis), Nerene Virgin (Miss Watson).

"Here's Joey Jackson"
London helps Joey Jackson, a popular live-television talk show host who is being blackmailed via notes and telephone calls
by a bearded man on a motorcycle. The blackmailer knows about Jackson's past as a reckless young man named Joey Jagovitch,
who stole a car, had a hit-and-run accident, was convicted, and served his time. Fearing for his career as an entertainer,
Jackson is willing to pay the blackmailer any sum of money to keep him silent. London follows the blackmailer to a public
telephone booth, where he overhears the blackmailer speaking to a Mr. Telford, Jackson's announcer and co-host, and 
reporting to Telford on the blackmail scheme. London carries one of the blackmail notes to the police and stops the 
bearded man from collecting the envelope of money that Jackson left, as arranged, in his own car. London brings the 
envelope of money to Jackson and Telford, who are in the middle of a broadcast, and walks straight over to Telford. 
Telford implicates himself by unwittingly stating the exact amount of money in the envelope, which he could not have known
if he were innocent. Jackson courageously decides to tell about his past misdeed to his audience, who mostly respond 
understandingly, and Telford and the bearded motorcyclist are arrested. Telford needed the blackmail money to pay gambling
debts.
Guest stars: Jack Carter (Joey Jackson), Marvin Goldhar (Gabe Telford), Linda Sorensen (Louise), Barry Belchamber
(Kramer).

"Mystique"
London notices that glamor model Heather Atkinson is dazed and entranced when she hears the sound of camera shutters, 
which is very problematic for her as she aspires to be accepted as the advertising signiture girl for Mystique perfume.
London discovers that Heather's hypnotherapist, Dr. Henshaw, has "programmed" her to lose awareness of where she is 
whenever camera shutters are heard by her, so that a conniving rival can win the modeling audition. The righteous London
acts to thwart Henshaw's "programming", first by breaking Heather's trances, then by discarding a cassette with negatively
suggestive messages that Henshaw has given to Heather to "relax" her. He then exposes Henshaw's plot and the involvement
therein of the rival glamor model. 
Guest stars: John Evans (Dr. Henshaw), Elizabeth Edwards (Heather Atkinson).

In "Once Upon a Tyme", London befriends David Barrington (Geraint Wyn Davies) near the location of an outdoor medieval pageant.

Season 3

"The Day of the Fugitive"
A Bulgarian ship is quarantined in a city harbor due to an apparent outbreak of plague among its crew. Milos, a shipboard
engineer seeking asylum to defect from Communist Bulgaria to the democratic West, sneaks off of the beleagured sea vessel
in an attempt to unite with his immigrated sister in the city. City officials decree that Milos be stopped at any cost to
prevent the plague from spreading. London is seen helping the hunted man, and he is ordered intercepted too, killed if 
necessary! London aids the Bulgarian to attain sanctuary in a church, but the city authorities find them there. London and
Milos both surrender to city police for treatment of the affliction, and it is determined by a Dr. Cobourne that the 
ship's crew were not plague-stricken but had suffered food poisoning with un-contagious, plague-like symptoms. London and
Milos are examined, declared safe from illness, and released by Cobourne, and the Bulgarian stays in the city with his 
sister.
Guest stars: Gerard Parkes (Dr. Cobourne), Jan Filips (Milos).

"Airport"
London discovers underhand interference at an airplane charter business. George, a man wanting to purchase the business, 
has arranged with the business' engineer, Jack, to cause a series of seeming accidents to demoralize the female owner, Di
Jarrett, into selling the franchise- to George, of course. George and Jack attempt to sabotage a flare in Di's own 
airplane to smoke and force her to land, but Jack, who does not discern the different appearance of flares and dynamite 
sticks, unwittingly rigs a stick of dynamite to explode, and London, watching Jack's activity, knows that Di is in danger.
Having locked London inside of the cockpit of another airplane, the saboteurs realize just after Di has begun airplane 
ascension that there is really dynamite on her airplane, and, not wishing her to die, they chase her and signal for her 
to land the aircraft. London alerts one of Di's other employees to release him, and he runs to Di's landing airplane to
obtain the dynamite and carry it away from Di, to explode in an open field. George and Jack's illicit intent has been 
exposed, and the duo are placed in police custody.
Guest stars: Rosemary Dunsmore (Di Jarrett), Eric House (Jack), Jonathan Welsh (George).

"The Secret of Red Hill"
London hears the screams of a girl named Peggy, who says that she is running from a giant ape loose in a forest. In the 
neighboring small town of Red Hill, rumors are already spreading about "Bigfoot" being in the vicinity. Rachel, a 
reporter, teams with London to investigate the strange sightings, and they visit the town veterinarian, Dr. Janssen, who
has behind his clinic an empty cage, in which he more than a year previous kept orangutans for behavioral study. He says
that none of the apes remain present, that one died and the other was sent away on the town's request. Rachel and London
are suspicious of Janssen. When a nature club camp-out encounters the ape creature, the local sheriff, who accompanied the
club as a precaution, raises his gun to kill the creature, but Rachel and London arrive on the scene (after having been 
informed of the nature club's plans) to stop him. London chases and subdues the ape and, realizing that the ape is really
a costumed man, unmasks him to reveal Janssen underneath. Janssen did not intend any harm. Rather, he knew that his 
deceased father had dumped some toxic waste in the forest and, rather than report the waste and tarnish his father's 
reputation, he decided to try to scare everyone away from the forest with the ape disguise.
Guest stars: Susan Hogan (Rachel), David Fox (Dr. Janssen).

"Suspect"
Lloyd Wells parks his car outside of a hunting lodge that he co-owns with a business partner, Ed Jordan, after being 
telephoned and summoned to the premises by Jordan, who urgently wanted to talk about something. Wells cannot find Jordan
but, joined by London, who also arrives at the lodge, he discovers an overturned boat in a nearby lake. Thinking that 
something may have happened to Jordan, Wells contacts the police. A rifle belonging to Wells and that has been fired 
recently is promptly admitted into evidence by the police, as too are two buried items: a shovel and a life jacket with a
bullet hole. The police inspector suspects foul play, with Wells as the perpetrator and Jordan as the victim. Wells is 
further incriminated when London finds a key that opens a drawer in the lodge, containing an account book that Jordan 
apparently had brought with him to the lodge and which indicates embezzlement on someone's part. The inspector suspects
Wells of being the embezzler and, believing that he has ample justification, apprehends Wells. London perceives and 
investigates a light across the lake. He sees a bearded man with binoculars observing Wells' commenced detention by the 
police. London quickly learns from the bearded man's muttering that the man is Jordan, who has implicated Wells for his 
own "murder" and is planning to leave the country under a new identity with funds that he (Jordan) has embezzled. London 
brings Wells' wife to Jordan's campsite, where Jordan has shaven, donned a hairpiece, and begun speaking with an English 
accent. Jordan effectively dupes Wells' wife into thinking that he is one Robert Simmonds, but London confiscates the 
passport that Jordan has in the name of Simmonds and carries it directly to police headquarters in a nearby town, and when
Jordan comes to the precinct office to collect the passport, London pulls off his hairpiece, and Wells, in a jail cell at
the same police station, instantly recognizes his business partner, whom the inspector impounds. Wells is free.
Guest stars: Stephen Young (Lloyd Wells), Richard Monette (Ed Jordan), Elaine Nalee (Lynda Wells).

"The Hero"
London meets Joey Green, a learning-disabled, young man wearing a Holmesian hat and imagining himself to be a detective. 
Joey is a helper at a variety/pet store owned by a pleasant man named Kennedy. When Kennedy leaves Joey alone in the 
store, two unsavory customers arrive there and notice London. Thinking that London is a valuable thoroughbred dog, they 
plot his capture. One of them pretends to be faint and asks for Joey to go to a drug store and obtain some aspirin. Joey 
reluctantly agrees to the request and leaves his Holmesian hat with the nefarious men, who lure London into their van, 
shut London inside thereof, and transport London to their warehouse headquarters, where London escapes the van and spies
upon the two men. He learns that they are perpetrating a dog theft-and-sale "business" with computer-generated, forged 
pedigree papers. London finds Joey's hat and positions it in the doorway of the warehouse. Then, he runs to locate Joey,
who has returned from the drug store to discover that he had been swindled. Kennedy suggests that Joey return the Sherlock
Holmes books that Joey borrowed from a library, and while Joey is en route on his bicycle to the library, he is joined by
London, who guides him to the warehouse. Joey discovers the two men's scheme, and they lock him in an elevator. 
Claustrophobia causes Joey to curl into a corner, but London enters the elevator shaft from above the carriage, jumps down
to the top of the carriage, and barks to direct Joey to an upper escape passage. London is unable to open the hatch. So, 
he grabs with his mouth some streamers from Joey's bike and carries them to Kennedy, who, suspecting that the two men of
whom Joey spoke are thieves of thoroughbred canines, has already telephoned the police. Kennedy and the police are brought
by London to the warehouse, where Joey climbs out of the elevator shaft, and he and London lure the evil-doers into the 
elevator and lock them inside of it. The police apprehend the thieves, and Joey receives a plaque in appreciation for his
brave effort to foil the criminals. London declines when Joey offers to him a collar medal, and he departs from Joey. Joey
discards the Holmesian hat now that he has learned that he does not anymore need to pretend to be someone else.
Guest stars: Edward Albert (Joey Green), Jack Creley (Kennedy), Ted Follows (Frank), Danny Higham (Teasing Boy).

"Wolf Hunt"
In a forest, London encounters three wolf-hunters: a crotchety man and his two sons, one intent about the hunt, the other
squeamish. They have gunned and wounded what they believe is a wolf, but London discovers that the wounded animal is a
female dog with a litter of puppies. London acts to protect the mother and her pups from the hunters. He establishes eye
contact with the apprehensive younger son, Jeff, persuades Jeff to help him, and leads Jeff to the mother dog. Jeff
returns to his family's campsite to obtain medicine and water to aid the mother canine, but his brother, Mel, follows him
and tries to gun-shoot the mother dog. A struggle ensues between the brothers, and London lifts the older brother's rifle
and throws it down a sandy gorge. Mel tries climbing down the gorge to regain his rifle and falls many dozens of feet down
the gorge. Jeff calls to their father, who comes as requested, to find Mel at the bottom of the gorge and Jeff attempting
to descend the gorge and reach his brother. London acquires some rope from the father's backpack and ties the rope to a 
tree. Jeff grasps the rope to go down into the gorge and reach and revive Mel, who has sustained cuts and bruises in his
fall. Using the rope, Jeff and Mel climb out of the gorge. Impressed by London's ingenuity and by Jeff's bravery, the
father has mellowed is now prepared to abandon the wolf hunt and to let Jeff be independent. They treat and comfort the
mother dog, who will recover from her bullet wound and raise her pups.
Guest stars: John Ireland (Pa), Jeff Wincott (Mel), Michael Wincott (Jeff).

"The Locket"
Wandering a wilderness on a sunny summer day, London meets an old, bearded man who lives in seclusion in a cabin. The man
injures his own hand when a window falls on it. Relaxing in a chair after bandaging his hand, the man shows to London a
photograph of his only living relative, his granddaughter, Jenny, who lives in a houseboat at a Port Albany marina. He had
a rift with his granddaughter after his wife, Emily, died. Jenny wanted to quit college and be caretaker for him, and he
angrily disapproved of the idea. Estranged grandfather and granddaughter want to reach out to each other, but he is not
physically fit to travel the distance, and she does not know that he wants for her to come to him. The grandfather has a
silver locket with Emily's picture in it, a locket which he would like to give to Jenny as a sign that he wants the rift
between them mended. London decides to courier the locket, to go to Port Albany and to give it to Jenny. On his long 
journey, London temporarily rides in a transport-truck, achieves shelter during a downpour by crawling underneath a
couple's camper-boat on a road, and successfully fights two young men who try to steal the locket. Following a car and
boat, on which a Port Albany marina sticker is sported, London arrives at Port Albany and leaves the locket on Jenny's 
houseboat's doorstep. She opens the houseboat door, finds the locket, which she is sure that her grandfather has sent, and
travels to his cabin to fully reconcile with him. He tells to her how the locket came to be on her doorstep. There was 
this dog...
Guest stars: Chris Wiggins (Grandpa), Wendy Crewson (Jenny), Ralph Benmergui (Paul).

"The Clown"
London finds a wallet dropped by a man leaving a park, picks up the wallet, follows the man to the man's home, and gives
the wallet to the man. The thankful man is a retired clown named Freddie who invites London into his downstairs apartment.
Passing to Freddie oranges to juggle and then pulling Freddie's old costume out of storage, London convinces Freddie to 
perform his act. The landlord interrupts Freddie, tells to Freddie that his rent is months overdue and that inviting a dog
inside is the proverbial final straw. The unpleasant landlord calls Freddie silly, orders him out of the apartment, and 
tears one of Freddie's promotional posters into pieces. Later, London sees a woman with balloons and follows her to 
Summitview Public School, where a charity fair is being organized and an entertaining clown is needed. London tries to 
bring Freddie, who is sitting on his park bench, to the school, but Freddie despondently instructs London to leave him
alone. London next carries a fragment of Freddie's poster to an organizer of the fair, then grabs a set of balloons with
prize money attached and leads the fair's organizers and several children on a chase direct to Freddie, who, with his
comedic manner, immediately appeals to the children. The fair's organizers ask for Freddie to perform for them. Freddie 
needs no convincing! And he impresses the school so much that he is hired as a crossing guard. Gainfully employed again 
and able to perform his clown act on occasion for the school, Freddie is grateful for London's help.
Guest stars: Donald O'Connor (Freddie the Clown), Ted Simonette (Harrison).

"Photo Finish"
London's new friend, jockey Sally Peters, is the top contender in the Silver Stakes with her horse, Magic Man. She is the
unsuspecting target of a race-outcome-manipulating group that plans to replace Magic Man with an ineffectual horse of near
identical physique and a leg dyed to look exactly like Magic Man's, and bet on Sally's closest opponent, while Sally is 
certain to lose the race with the imposter horse. London discovers the plotters and their nefarious purpose and obtains 
the real Magic Man before the race and brings Magic Man to Sally, who, trusting London's judgement, discards the horse 
that she thought was Magic Man and rides her true horse to victory. London exposes Sally's new boy-friend's involvement in
the scheme by showing to Sally an instant photograph which her boy-friend had snapshot of Magic Man's leg when he was 
supposed to be photographing her in a looking-away pose. All of the perpetrators of the attempted fraud are apprehended by
police when they attempt to run away from the race track.
Guest stars: Melody Ryane (Sally Peters), Winston Rekert (James), Sean McCann (Joe).

"War Games"
London notices that a young woman, short cutting to her home, is walking into a military training ground. He enters the
training ground to guide the woman out of it. A gate guard sees them inside of the training zone and runs in their
direction, shouting at them to leave the site by the way that they came. The guard steps on a land mine, which, though of
the practice variety, has an explosive effect. It temporarily blinds the guard and cuts his face. While London runs 
further into the training area to find a medic, the young woman helps the blinded guard to what appears to be an abandoned
barn. London brings a medic to where the guard stepped on the practice mine and finds the guard and young woman gone, and 
the medic and some accompanying soldiers believe that whoever triggered the practice mine could not have been seriously 
hurt. London departs from them and searches for the young woman and guard- and finds the pair in the barn, where they have
introduced themselves to each other as Linda and Ken. Linda's father, Capt. Garr, is involved in a nearby military 
training exercise, in which, unbeknownst to either Linda or Ken, the barn that they are in is a bombing target! London 
finds some dynamite in a room in the barn that is primed to detonate when the barn is fired upon by the trainees, and he
coaxes Linda and Ken outside of the barn while Capt. Garr's group is about to fire on the barn! The barn explodes when an
incendiary shell is discharged on reflex by one of Garr's men, but London has led Linda and Ken far enough away from the
barn to avoid being caught in the series of explosions as the inside dynamite is triggered.
Guest stars: Annette McCaffrey (Linda Garr), Brian Young (Ken), John Granik (Capt. Garr).

"A Special Friend"
An elderly man who enjoys sea air and feeding and actually communicating (so he claims) with pigeons and seagulls, lives
on a barge at a city dock and is daily visited by two amiable police officers. The elderly man, whose name is Charlie, 
meets and befriends London. London discovers nefarious goings-on at a nearby warehouse. A group of men are molding stolen
gold bullion into ornaments and spray-painting the gold to render it indistinguishable from common ornament material. 
London brings Charlie to the warehouse to show to him what the criminals are doing, and Charlie's sneeze alerts the men to
his presence, but not to London's. They lock Charlie in a room, and London later frees him. Together, London and Charlie
trip one of the men into immediate unconsciousness and lock another in the room that had imprisoned Charlie. Charlie's 
policemen friends arrive at his barge to find him gone and begin looking around the dock. They see one of the criminals 
preparing to shoot a pistol at Charlie. London knocks the gun out of the criminal's hand, and the two police seize the 
truck into which the evil-doers were loading the gold and arrest the entire group. Charlie and London are heroes. The two
policemen give to Charlie a transistor radio as a gift.
Guest stars: Ray Walston (Charlie), John Evans (J. T.).

"Hidden Room"
London uncovers a phoney-seance sham perpetrated by a man named Kent, and in which the flamboyant father of a speechless 
young girl is a reluctant participant. The girl, Rose, communicates with sign language, and she and London have an instant
rapport. London soon becomes aware that the scheme involves inviting wealthy ladies, whose daughters have died, to a old-
style house and using Rose as the "ghost" of the ladies' dead daughters. She sits in a hidden room, her image cast through
a transparent painting with an eerie light, fake fire in a fireplace, smoky mist hosed into the room from a basement 
generator, and a reel-to-reel audiotape playing a recorded voice of a girl (not Rose) speaking from "the spirit realm" to
the mothers of the dead girls. London decides to thwart the next bogus seance in the house by acquiring the hose for the
mist and diverting it out of the house. When the mist does not appear in the house on cue, the scheme runs quickly afoul.
London next steps on the audiotape player, slowing the voice of the "ghost", then jumps straight through the painting to 
reveal Rose sitting in the room behind the picture. Firemen, attracted to the house by the smoky mist, enter the dwelling
and hereby prevent Kent from fleeing from his less-than-supernatural enterprise. The ladies targeted in the fraud do not 
file criminal charges against Rose's father.
Guest stars: Neil Dainard (Mr. Kirston), Megan Follows (Rose), Louis Del Grande (Kent).

"Fussin' and Fightin'"
A bus arrives at a Western-style outdoor music festival, and three musicians, a banjo-player, guitar-player, and 
harmonica-player, step out of the bus, walk to a stage, and perform for the festival attendees, among them London, who 
notices that a rogue harmonica-player named Happy Daize wants to replace the trio's current harmonica talent, Herb Price,
by any means available. Happy tries to implicate Herb in a theft of lead performer Alf's money first by luring Herb into a
game of poker with marked cards, in which Herb loses all of his earnings, then by filching Alf's money when Alf is asleep,
and hiding it, so that it looks like the "broke"-by-gambling Herb stole the money. But London thwarts Happy by bringing
one of the marked cards to a festival official and by obtaining Alf's money from where Happy hid it and putting it safely
into Alf's cash box. Happy manages to escape Herb's suspicion in this scheme and ingratiatingly invites Herb to lunch and
beer at a restaurant, where he taints Herb's beer with pills, but London switches the two men's drinks when Happy is 
distracted by a waitress. And when Happy invites the waitress to drink his beer, she swiftly collapses. Herb realizes at
last what Happy has been "fixin'" to do and, with London, chases Happy through a wooded park by foot and by bicycle, and
then pursues him down a water slide. London grabs Happy by Happy's belt and holds him until Herb can administer a swift
left-cross. Herb and his two fellow musicians continue their act. 
Guest stars: Gary Reineke (Herb Price), Ken James (Happy Daize), Don Keppy (Alf).

"Mail Order Bride"
London meets a cantankerous farmer named Tom Beecher, who has corresponded with a sensitive city lady named Mary Pearce 
and invited her to come to his farm to help him and to become his wife. The couple's first meeting is anything but 
cordial. Beecher's truck has run off of a road while he was driving it to a bus stop to meet Mary, and London brings her
to him as he is laboring to fix his damaged truck and in a foul mood. After pulling his truck back to his farm by using a
tractor, Beecher shows to Mary his abode that is in desperate need of cleaning. Mary spends an entire day cleaning the
house, and when Beecher returns to his house from a day's labor on the farm and she does not have a hot meal prepared, he
scolds her, calling her a prissy city girl. Relations between them worsen, despite London's efforts to mediate and help 
each to see the redeeming qualities in the other, and Mary decides to leave. At this time, Beecher is crossing a wooden 
bridge in his tractor, and the bridge collapses, throwing Beecher and tractor into a river. Beecher's leg is pinned under 
the tractor, and he struggles to keep his head above water level while London runs to find Mary and, by confiscating her
purse, brings her to the accident site. Mary and London save Beecher's life by tying the tractor to a mule, which pulls 
the tractor off of Beecher, enabling Mary to pull him to land. Beecher and Mary express their love for one another, and 
London has helped to bring another two people together.  
Guest stars: Simon Oakland (Tom Beecher), Barbara Gordon (Mary Pearce).

"Music Box"
London befriends Natalie, an imaginative, young girl whose mother, Vivian Barrie, is a famous ballerina. Natalie is lonely
and comes often to a museum in a castle to view the exhibit dedicated to her mother, which includes a magnificent music 
box given to Vivian by the man who built the castle. London learns that Natalie aspires to be a ballerina but that Vivian,
who has retired from dancing to teach ballet, refuses to teach her daughter to dance for fear her daughter will not 
perform as ably as she, or will have a career ended by an injury, which was what happened to Vivian. A rebellious Natalie
steals the music box from the museum and brings it home. London reacts to this by ringing the Barrie doorbell and bringing
Natalie out of her bedroom where the music box is. While Natalie answers the door and finds nobody there, London enters 
Natalie's bedroom via a window and obtains the music box to take back to the museum. Natalie thinks that it returned there
by magic. She goes to the museum, and, sure enough, the music box is back in its exhibit location. Natalie stays in the 
museum, where she becomes sleepy, and London finds Vivian and brings her to the museum to find Natalie asleep at the 
exhibit. Believing that her daughter returned in conscience the music box that had been reported as having been stolen,
Vivian is proud of Natalie, and on London's suggestion by providing some ballet shoes from the exhibit, Vivian dances for
the half-awake Natalie and decides to teach ballet to her daughter.
Guest stars: Karen Kain (Vivian Barrie), Sarah Stevens (Natalie Barrie).

"Once Upon a Tyme"
London meets David Barrington, a business college computer whiz, who is head-over-heels in love with a performer in an 
outdoor medieval pageant. But the young lady David loves, Lillian, has feelings for another man, a co-performer named 
Marshall, who is also the pageant organizer. Marshall is heavily in debt and plans to collect on an insurance policy. He 
decides to use David in an arson scheme, by making it look like David is responsible for the fire. After inviting David to
the pageant one evening with the false message that Lillian wants to see him, Marshall drugs David with chloroform, leaves
David lying in a wooded area, then takes David's car keys and places them on the pageant site, which he then splashes with
gasoline. London has discovered Marshall's plot but is too late to prevent Marshall from doing these heinous deeds. 
Despite London's effort to stop him, Marshall torches the pageant site and flees. London rings a bell on the exhibit to
awaken David, who is coming out of his drugged state, and alerts him to the blaze. London also rescues Lillian, who,
unbeknownst to Marshall, was inside an office in the pageant platform. Lillian and David, joined by several performers 
returning from a party, extinguish the fire and preserve most of the sets. London shows the performers the insurance 
policy on the pageant, and Marshall's setting of the fire is suspected. Marshall returns to find that the fire did not 
work to his plan and aloud states his intention to finish the arson, but he is overheard by his fellow performers, who 
have donned black death robes to conceal themselves in the dark. London activates a trap door that sends Marshall falling
into a cage with a hell backdrop. David has Lillian's full affections now for helping to save the pageant and intends to
join the pageant as its organizer, to study a small business in action. 
Guest stars: Geraint Wyn Davies (David Barrington), Gina Massey (Lillian).

"Rex Badger P.I."
Gumshoe Rex Badger tells Dragnet-style the story of how London helped him to discover the true intent behind the theft
and ransom of a valuable feather from a monastery. An ex-convict named Don Riglioni blames Badger for his time in jail. 
Riglioni's girl-friend, Felicity Patelli, has hatched a plot to steal the feather, "plant" it inside a hanging plant in
Badger's office, and paste together a ransom note to leave at the theft site, and on the note is the "name" of the 
supposed thief, "The Black Fedora", which is the style of hat that Badger wears. When Badger comes to the monastery and 
meets London there to investigate the theft reported to him and to London by none other than a disguised Felicity, whom 
Badger did not recognize, Badger is apprehended by the monks who believe he, with his black fedora, is the thief. He is 
locked in a basement bowling alley in the monastery. London obtains a key to release Badger and brings to Badger a copy of
a magazine from inside the monastery, with letters removed to compose the ransom note. Badger deduces that the theft was 
staged to implicate him, and he suspects his old nemesis, Riglioni. He and London learn that the gardener at the monastery
is Sal Patelli, Felicity's ex-convict-now-law-abiding father, which would give Felicity easy access to the monastery to 
come and go as she pleases- on the pretense of visiting her father. Badger realizes that Felicity was the woman who 
reported the theft to him knowing he would come to investigate, and that Felicity pasted together the ransom note falsely
implicating him. Felicity is caught by London trying to flee the monastery after she heard Badger tell the monks that he
has solved the crime. The feather has been retrieved by London from Badger's office where Felicity had "planted" it, and 
returned to its place in the monastery.
Guest stars: Michael Kirby (Rex Badger), Jayne Eastwood (Felicity Patelli), Cec Linder (Sal Patelli).

"Forget Me Not"
A young lady who is the manager of a waterfall theme park called Canada's Wonderland that is due to open in a day's time,
has had a car accident and been hospitalized with a concussion. Diagnosed with amnesia and confusion, she somehow has 
departed the hospital without doctor's permission and has wandered to the theme park and entered it without speaking to 
the Security guard, who sees her but does not know about her condition. Inferring that the young lady, Cynthia Masters, is
disoriented, London has also entered the theme park and endeavors to keep Cynthia out of danger while trying to bring the
attention to workers at the park to her dazed and confused condition. He is unable to stop her from boarding a roller 
coaster being tested for the park's opening, and its ups and downs and twists and turns remind her of her traumatic
accident. Dr. Fowles at the hospital has ascertained that Cynthia, not his regular patient, is a diabetic who needs a 
regular insulin injection, but that she is not going to remember this. Moreover, she has left her purse with the vital 
insulin bottle at the hospital. Fowles contacts the theme park to inform the personnel there of Cynthia's condition, and
Security combs the park in an urgent effort to find her before she goes into diabetic shock. Fowles arrives with the 
insulin bottle at the theme park and joins in the search. London stops Cynthia from stumbling off of an artificial cliff
into a waterfall, and Fowles reaches her in sufficient time to administer to her the insulin and return her to hospital,
where she fully recovers.
Guest stars: Joanna Pettet (Cynthia Masters), Richard Fitzpatrick (Dr. Fowles).

London runs aside his young, bicycle-racing friend, David (Mark Polley), in "Happy Birthday, Mom".

Season 4

"The Spirit of Thunder Rock: Pt. 1"
In a woodland near a lake, London meets seismologist Tony Kendall and family. Kendall has come to the area to measure its
frequent earthquakes to determine how unstable it is and report his findings to the government, which has purchased the 
land. Kendall's wife, teenage son, and three daughters have joined him at a cabin that he is using as a base. One of 
Kendall's daughters, Marti, plays a wood-carved flute and thinks that London is a spirit that can be drawn to the flute
from a distance. Bored with her siblings, Marti decides to alone search the woods for evidence of past native occupation 
because this area, now presumably without any settlement, is considered by native Indians to be sacred. Marti is defying
the order of her father to stay in open ground to be safe from falling trees or rocks, and has entered a cave, where she
has found buried arrowheads. London senses a coming major quake and strives to keep Marti from endangering herself. He has
also discovered a rifle-possessing man in a tent, a poacher named Henig, who resents the government for dispossessing him
from his cabin (the one that Kendall unwittingly uses as a base). Henig is preparing to attack Kendall in retaliation. But
London is preoccupied with Marti's reckless investigation, and when a quake uncovers a centuries-old Viking skeleton in 
the cave, Marti starts to dig around the skeleton for possible treasure and disturbs a venomous snake. 
Guest stars: Ted Follows (Tony Kendall), Megan Follows (Marti Kendall), August Schellenberg (Walter Henig), Dawn 
Greenhalgh (Denise Kendall), Laurence Follows (Louis Kendall).

"The Spirit of Thunder Rock: Pt. 2"
London grabs the snake without being bitten and removes it from the cave. He returns to the cave to urge Marti to leave 
it, but she is determined to stay and explore. So, London grabs Marti's satchel of discovered arrowheads and couriers it 
to her father. Marti is found in the cave by Henig, who himself does some digging and finds a valuable Viking artifact. He
ties and gags Marti and carries her out of the cave. Kendall's instruments indicate a coming major quake, and he commands
his wife and two other daughters to leave the area. He and his son, Louis, follow London to the cave, but Marti is not
there. Marti has been carried by Henig to the cabin and locked in a storeroom. A severe quake strikes, and a tree falls on
the car containing Mrs. Kendall and her two daughters, cutting Mrs. Kendall's forehead and trapping the three inside the
vehicle after a live electric wire lands on it, electrifying the metal. London hears their cries for help and uses a tree
branch to pull the wire off of the car. Kendall aborts his search for Marti to tend to his injured wife. Henig has cut the
telephone lines so that medical help cannot be summoned. So, Kendall's wife and two daughters are driven by Louis in the 
still-usable car to the nearest ranger station. Certain that there is someone hostile in the area, Kendall searches for 
Marti. London has found Marti in the cabin storeroom and enters through a decayed part of the wall. He unties her and 
finds an axe for her to use to break a hole through the wall so that she can free herself. Meanwhile, her father has 
discovered Henig's camp and is confronted there by the rifle-toting man.
Guest stars: Ted Follows (Tony Kendall), Megan Follows (Marti Kendall), August Schellenberg (Walter Henig), Dawn 
Greenhalgh (Denise Kendall), Laurence Follows (Louis Kendall).

"The Spirit of Thunder Rock: Pt. 3"
Henig tells to Kendall that the cabin was initially his and that he wants it back. He shows to Kendall the Viking artifact
and announces that he is staking sole claim on the discovery. Henig fires his rifle into the air to intimidate Kendall, 
and London, hearing the rifle shot, comes to the Henig campsite and jumps Henig. London snatches the artifact from Henig,
and London and Kendall flee the poacher. Unable to find her family, Marti returns to the cave- and finds Henig there with
a snakebite, and the snake killed by Henig's rifle after it