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Subject: need to find out animal from tv show
Written By: hyechica on 03/07/04 at 12:22 a.m.
ok im tring to figure out this triva question it says name the tv show the animals came from and what animal they are the choices are spot, gin gin, and higgin or higgins, gin gin is i dream of jeanie its her dog, spot is the dragon from the munsters, now i cant find out who or what higgins was or where he/she came from someone told me magnum pi another person told me my favorite martian, there was something junction, but all dead ends and its most likely a classic tv show since the first 2 were
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thnks
alyssa
Subject: Re: need to find out animal from tv show
Written By: lorac614 on 03/07/04 at 01:05 p.m.
I copied this from a great website called TV ACRES, you can find some of the best info there...
Bassett Hounds
Dog the dog - Bassett Hound seen on the ABC episodes of the detective drama COLUMBO/NBC/1971-77/ABC/1989-91. Dog was owned by Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) a seemingly incompetent homicide detective who always got his man. Columbo once explained the dog's name by saying "Dog. He's a dog so we call him dog." The choice of a droopy-eared basset hound perfectly matched the disheveled police officer who wore a dirty raincoat and smoked cigars. When Columbo sent his dog to obedience school hoping to improve the canine ("he just sits around the house and drools"), he was expelled because "he demoralizes the other students." On the NBC produced episodes, Columbo's dog was originally called Fang. The spin-off series KATE LOVES A MYSTERY (MRS. COLUMBO)/NBC/1979 featured the wife of Detective Columbo, Kate Columbo (Kate Mulgrew) who owned a lazy basset hound dog named Whitefang. Dog (a.k.a. "Higgins") was also the name of the family pet on the sitcom PETTICOAT JUNCTION/CBS/1963-70.
So to answer your question "Petticoat Junction"
Well, I just re-read this...Higgins could be the dogs real name, not what he was called on the show, I'm not sure. Sorry.