The BEST episodes of The Littlest Hobo season 1
Every episode of The Littlest Hobo season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Littlest Hobo season 1!
London is an extremely intelligent, wandering German shepherd who walks into a different place in each episode of this long-running television series, and comes upon people down on their luck or in trouble. London always befriends and helps the struggling person or persons. Then, when his job is done at episode's end, London declines to be the pet of the people he has helped and departs to continue his cross-country drifting.
#1 - Heritage
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1979
The Hobo finds an eccentric old gold prospector who's being harassed and intimidated by someone trying to acquire his mine.
#2 - Give My Regards to Broadway
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1980
A struggling actress resorts to stealing (and writing IOUs) to make ends meet and the Hobo tries to keep her out of trouble.
#3 - Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/13/1980
A diamond thief uses an innocent magician as a fall guy and his act as a front for a major operation.
#4 - Guardian Angel
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/3/1980
A baby girl is abandoned on the steps of a church and the Hobo takes it upon himself to keep her from harm.
#5 - The Further Adventures of Willie and Kate
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/1980
The Hobo journeys onward, trying to keep his transient companions out of trouble, when Kate is captured by the authorities and placed in an orphanage run like a military academy.
#6 - Silent Witness
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1979
The Hobo witnesses a drunken hit-and-run and haunts the perpetrator, playing his conscience against him.
#7 - Little Girl Lost
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1979
An ex-trucker tells the tale of a little girl who was lost deep in the woods and the heroic dog that watched over her until she was found.
#8 - The Last Job
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1980
An ex-convict has a bright future ahead of him, if he goes straight, but is compelled to perform one last bank robbery.
#9 - Manhunt (2)
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1979
The innocent fugitive continues to evade his pursuers while the Hobo acts as decoy.
#10 - Big Al and Sam Strawberry
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1980
The Hobo helps an artist out of temptation to embezzle a Van Gogh, as a desperate measure to pay off a mobster.
#11 - Double Trouble
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1979
The Hobo, and a charming human peer, conspire to save a couple of horses who are about to be put down and turned into fertilizer.
#12 - Target For Terror
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1979
Two political radicals abduct a judge's son and his girlfriend. Fortunately for them, the Hobo's ingenuity is brought to bear on the kidnappers.
#13 - Manhunt (1)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1979
Hobo helps a man accused of murder escape from angry villagers.
#14 - Stand-in
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1979
An electronics warehouse is repeatedly being hit by thieves who somehow have the ability to order the guard dog let them escape.
#15 - The Million Dollar Fur Heist
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/1980
A drunken ex-trucker goes on a joy ride with the Hobo and is surprised to find that the truck he borrowed is full of stolen furs. His problems run deeper when the thieves learn where he (and his grandson) live.
#16 - Romiet and Julio
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/1980
The Hobo plays matchmaker to a young couple who, in between being separated by their respective parents, find time to bicker among themselves.
#17 - The Pied Piper
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/10/1980
The Hobo and a janitor who has a soft spot for kids performs drama for children at a hospital, as a kind of therapy.
#18 - The Defector
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1979
An Eastern European ballerina tries to defect but is caught. The Hobo, along with a human sidekick, try to rescue her, but unfortunately, her kidnappers have help from the local police.
#19 - Boy On Wheels
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1979
Hobo comes to the aid of a wheelchair-bound boy in rehab.
#20 - Snapshot
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1980
The Hobo and a boy disturb bank robbers working on a vault, late at night.
#21 - Smoke
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/11/1979
A provisioner aggressively sells traps and poison to help locals deal with wildlife, driven into their communities by a forest fire. A toddler ingests some poisoned meat, so a Hobo-lead team set out to fly in the antidote in poor weather.
#22 - Second Chance
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1980
The Hobo discovers a drug smuggling operation. He's only able to bring this to the attention of an ex-con who doesn't want to get involved, but the smugglers wind up involving him anyway--as the fall guy.
#23 - Willie and Kate
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/15/1980
The Hobo tries to give support and guidance to a couple of quarrelsome human transients--one old man and one young girl.
#24 - Escape
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/27/1980
Hobo helps an escaped convict expose the mobster who set him up for murder.