The BEST episodes of The Littlest Hobo season 5
Every episode of The Littlest Hobo season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Littlest Hobo season 5!
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 - Scavenger Hunt (1)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1983
As a requirement for acceptance to a fraternity, three teams are competing in a scavenger hunt. Some of the players are willing to do anything to win and the Hobo is there to prevent them from going that far.
#2 - Born To Run
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1983
A race dog contending for a national championship is stolen by a rival's owner. The Hobo trails the thief to his home, but must outwit a large dog and a human, who is armed with a gun.
#3 - Rookie
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1983
Hobo befriends police officers in a K-9 unit who are searching for a runaway teen with a brain tumour.
#4 - Tempest Probe
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1983
An eccentric criminal mastermind uses high-tech gadgets and a dog to perform heists. When he has designs on a military laser, the Hobo sabotages the operation.
#5 - Sartech (2)
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1983
Search and rescue is dispatched, but without a working emergency transmitter, the plane is difficult to find. Some of the more seriously injured passengers' conditions worsen and another turns out to be a diabetic, short on insulin.
#6 - Lumberjacks
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1983
A bookie tries to fix a lumberjack competition using extreme methods.
#7 - Passage
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1983
The Hobo waivers between confounding a hunter who is being paid a large sum a money to catch a falcon and helping him when he gets into trouble.
#8 - Sartech (1)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1983
The Hobo discovers a small aircraft crashed in a forest in the wilderness. All passengers and crew survive the crash, but some are seriously wounded and the radio doesn't work.
#9 - Applejack
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/8/1984
Two bootleggers working at an orchard steal their employers apples and make alcohol with them. When they setup an honest colleague, who is short on English, the Hobo moves to expose the entire operation and the crooked employees.
#10 - Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1984
A marauding wolf is killing sheep and threatening the family that owns them. Hobo tries to defend both, but is believed to be the danger.
#11 - Indian Summer
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/1984
The Hobo and a group of seniors match wits with the corrupt and abusive staff at a retirement home.
#12 - Ghost Station
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/1984
An archaeologist is clandestinely digging for human remains in a subway station, when he is unfairly mixed up in a theft.
#13 - The Genesis Tapes (2)
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1984
Hobo continues to amaze the ambitious humans who are stalking him and must use all of his super-canine cunning not only to evade capture, but also to keep his secret.
#14 - The Genesis Tapes (1)
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/26/1984
A TV reporter and a cryptozoologist discover the hobo when researching archival footage of his many adventures and seek to trap him. But since the prevailing assumption is that there are many dogs of his kind, there is talk of dissecting him!
#15 - Dragonslayer
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/1984
Four kids play a Dark Ages fantasy game and Hobo acts as a spirit guide, protecting them from real dangers.
#16 - Trucker
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1983
A shipper with a reputation for dirty dealing pressures a desperate trucker into working for him.
#17 - Second Sight
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1983
Hobo gives guidance to a dejected, newly blinded equestrian rider.
#18 - Scavenger Hunt (2)
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1983
Contestants continue to put themselves in danger, private property continues to go missing, and Hobo keeps dashing across town trying to right the wrongs done in the name of competition.