Item AAAA1227 - The littlest hobo : No escape

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The littlest hobo : No escape

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Canamac Pictures Ltd.

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AAAA1227

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  • 1964 (Creation)
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The littlest hobo

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Television drama. Episode from a syndicated television series about the adventures of a German shepherd named "London" who wanders from place to place and in and out of the lives of his human co-stars. "No Escape" was shot at Hollyburn Film Studios (West Vancouver), on Vancouver's Granville Street, and at Point Atkinson Lighthouse and a West Vancouver marina. It concerns a nightclub singer (Taylor), the witness to a murder, who eludes gangsters and police by hiding out at a lighthouse.

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A VHS reference copy is available for this item.

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Copyright assumed to be held by the producer(s) and/or sponsor(s).

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This episode is about 2,300 ft (00:26:00) in total. 60 to 65 episodes were shot in the Vancouver area. The series was the predecessor of the more recent "Littlest Hobo" series, produced in colour (mainly in Eastern Canada) in the early 1980s. "London" and his understudies were trained by Charles P. Eisenmann.

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References: Listed in Duffy, "Camera West", entry #L/37.

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Accession number(s): F1984:11

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London; Joyce Taylor; Graig Shreeve; Fred Bass; Billy Braden; Blair Jackson; Lloyd Berry; Alan Lewis; Ronald Worley

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producer: Stuart E. McGowan; director: Stuart E. McGowan; executive producer: Dorrell McGowan; script: Jerome B. Thomas; production manager: Clark Paylow; photography: Carl Berger; editor: James Leicester; producing agency/company: Canamac Pictures Ltd.; sponsored/presented by: Storer Programs Inc.; editor: Christopher Dew; sound: Gil Plenty; sound: Ralph Zerbe

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