Famous Lieutenant Colonel Columbus, played to perfection by Peter Folk, is not your average TV policeman. He is a little sink and does not look particularly seen on many social norms, wearing a spoiled coat and wearing a cigarette almost wherever he goes. Over Every beautiful, long episode of Columbus (They run for about an hour and 40 minutes without ads), the same name will solve the murder shown at the beginning of the story using his well -intentioned forces of perception, and for the most part he is the only repetitive character in the series. Different Guest Starswells emerged as new killers And victims every week, with Columbus himself, serving as the only connection thread, with a small exception: pet pet, dog.

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Starting in Season 2, Columbus occasionally had dogs with it in various cases, serving as a kind of mostly useless trainer. The dog is good to sometimes get Columbus's interviews to open a little more, but mostly he just wandered or carries Columbus, as he is, because he is an older citizen. He has become so much part of Columbus that Peter Folk's bronze statue as a detective in Budapest, Hungary, also has an appropriate bronze dog statue! However, when Folk heard about a dog for the first time, he was not a very fan - until he saw the dog actor showing his TV.

In the premiere of Season 2 of Columbus, "étude in Black", the good lieutenant appears in the veterinarian's office with a big old basser, and when the veterinarian tells Columbus that the dog is quite healthy, he is a little shocked. You see, Columbus apparently adopted the dog because the old dog was on the last legs, and Columbus wanted to give him good last days. (That kind of work is a big part of what makes the show so comforting to see; Columbus is just darling!) Episode director Nicholas Collasanto (coach of Cheers!) Wanted to include the dog and folk balcm, and it seemed that the idea was diminished. In an interview with BBC TV In 1993

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"And here is this dog. And he is exposed, and he can hardly go, he is half dead, he is a million years and he is irresistible. I mean, you are in this job. And I said, 'Okay, well." I didn't know it would be such a dog. "

Similar to The famous stage of ColumbusWhat comes from writers who need property in place, the dog's name also appears because the detective is more focused on other things. During the episode, he tries to come up with a dog name and even gives him a few suggestions, but ends up to keep things simple and sweet.

Unfortunately, the dog who played a dog in season 2 was really old, and Folk explained to the BBC that he had died and they had to get a replacement dog. They ended up rescuing a basser named Henry, making a real -life rescue dog in a fictional rescue dog, but there was a small problem: Henry was much younger than the original dog actor. Folk joke about the BI -Y -Y that dog make -up lasted longer than its own, saying:

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"So, the problem with the new dog was that we had to collect it. Now that I got in the morning, I took me about 6 seconds. I look in the mirror, I knit my hair and I'm made up. I'm ready to go. But sitting in the barber chair next to me is the new dog and he gets the clown for 15 minutes.

While the dog was a pretty important guest star, he didn't hold the record for most guest appearances. That record actually goes Folk's wife in real life, actor Jera Dane, And, I will bet that he does not mind waiting for her in the makeup chair, just as he did the rifle powder. It all worked in the end, because Columbus and Dogg were perfect partners, even if folk were worried about being a cunning policeman with his dog companion.

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