DiamondDave2005

This was bascially a Lassie imitator, with a horse instead of a dog. I loved it as a kid. It was one of those Saturday moring shows I used to watch.

Nobody I've mentioned this to in the US has ever heard of it.

http://brokenwheelranch.com/champion.htm

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/...ns/champion.htm

batguano

I missed it. I was staioned in Canada with the USAF at that time.

WhiteS2k

Sorry, the show does not ring a bell. But I remember Mr. Ed.

DiamondDave2005

I don't think we ever had Mr. Ed in Ireland. There was a series of movies about a talking mule, although I forget his name.

Kyras

Me too.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

But have you ever heard of a talking horse?

LINESUPER

I was sent this - it's not Champion - but it should be!

ONE MEAN MULE!!!

This may be a first...

A couple from Montana were out riding on the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion a Mountain Lion decided that he wanted to stalk the dogs (you'll see the dogs in the background watching). Very, very bad decision...

The hunter got off the mule with his rifle and decided to shoot in the air to scare away the lion, but before he could get off a shot the lion charged in and decided he wanted a piece of those dogs. With that, the mule took off and decided he wanted a piece of that lion. That's when all hell broke loose... for the lion.

As the lion approached the dogs the mule snatched him up by the tail and started whirling him around. Banging its head on the ground on every pass. Then he dropped it, stomped on it and held it to the ground by the throat. The mule then got down on his knees and bit the thing all over a couple of dozen times to make sure it was dead, than whipped it into the air again, walked back over to the couple (that were stunned in silence) and stood there ready to continue his ride... as if nothing had just happened.

Fortunately even though the hunter didn't get off a shot, his wife got off these 4...







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Whoa! Bad Ass indeed!

MsPerky

Francis, the talking mule...very funny!

fltsfshr

I'll confess to remembering that show . It wasn't that big a deal as we were all into Roy and Dale. Then soon after we graduated to coonskin caps.

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DiamondDave2005

Yes, that was it!

We had other animal shows too:

Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo - http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/skippy.htm

Flipper

Sandy the seal (I think it was another Australian show)

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