Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Here's Boomer' from 1970-1982:
- Johnny as Boomer (1980)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Here's Boomer':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Carolyn Handler Miller, Daryl Warner D: Larry Eikann
With Dee Wallace (Alice), Natasha Ryan (Molly), Fran Bennett (Dr. Joyce Clarke), Guy Boyd (Ken), Betty Baird (Mrs. Harker). A new comedy and adventure series tracing the heroics and antics of a remarkable dog. Tonight, Boomer helps a girl presumed to be mentally disabled, and enables her parents to discover her true condition.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Ed Pomerantz D: Larry Eikann
With Tom Bosley, Barney Martin (Lew), James Luisi (Combs), Kevin Scannell (Tod). Boomer runs into a down on his luck vaudeville entertainer who's also a heavy drinker, and attempts to reunite him with his successful former partner.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Archie L. Tegland D: Michael Caffey
With Matthew Labyorteaux (Jesse), Margaret Hamilton, Michael Alldredge, Chris Mulkey. Boomer and a boy liberate a warehouse full of caged canines being held captive by an evil dognapper.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella D: Claudio Guzman
With Ken Kercheval (Dr. Haggert), Fred Stuthman (Jake), Fionnula Flanagan (Bronnie). Boomer meets two dogs that are in need of help: one's lifelong master dies and the other is blinded in an accident.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Kirby Timmons D: Claudio Guzman
With Michael J. Fox (Jackie), Doris Roberts (Liz), John Reilly (Matt), Jerry Houser, William Bogert. Boomer is picked to star in a dog food commercial, and succeeds in bringing the advertising agency owner and his estranged son closer together.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Paul W. Cooper D: Paul Leaf
With Charles Siebert (Dan), Moosie Drier (Brian), Tracey Gold (Laurie), Scott Baio (Ronald). Boomer offers a lesson in wilderness survival to a family of campers that includes a sullen, motherless boy who almost causes a disaster.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Carolyn Handler Miller, Daryl Warner D: Larry Stewart
With Henry Jones (George), Jeanette Nolan (Emma), Louis Giambalvo (Delaney), Wesley Ann Pfenning (Tracy). Boomer helps the last two elderly tenants in a building slated for demolition fight to keep their home.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Ross Hirshorn D: Victor Lobl
With Ron Silver (Kolodny), Janet Julian (Samantha), Rue McClanahan (Thelma), Jonathan Frakes (Philip), Stephen Pearlman (Eugene). A private eye takes Boomer along when he is hired to guard a wealthy family's jewels, where the dog plays cupid for the detective and the poor little rich girl he wants to marry.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Todd Bridges (Benny), Gene Evans (Wynegate), Dick Balduzzi (Fielding), Sarina C. Grant (Hilary), Ronald G. Joseph (Cody), Nicholas Woodeson (Theo). Boomer befriends an aspiring jockey who is threatened by a mean horse trainer.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Terry Hart D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Whitney Blake (Dorothy), Gene Rayburn (Emcee), Roddy McDowall (Milo), Tammy Lauren (Jenny), Raymond Singer (Lester), Katherine Moffat (Pam). Boomer begins the new season as a pup that lets us know what's on his mind. In a special one-hour episode, the usually silent star not only foils a scheme to fix a beauty pageant but also begins to "think out loud".
Season 1, episode 11
W: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Todd Bridges (Benny), Gene Evans (Wynegate), Dick Balduzzi (Fielding), Sarina C. Grant (Hilary), Ronald G. Joseph (Cody), Nicholas Woodeson (Theo). While trying to help a stablehand realize his dream of becoming a jockey, Boomer and the young man fall prey to some vicious plans.
October 4, 1981: Boomer And The Musket Cove Treasure
Season 2, episode 1
W: Richard Correll, Fred Fox Jr. D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Jack Elam (Capt. O'Connell), Rance Howard (Foldy), David Spielberg (Flint), Stuart Pankin (Blades), Lee Wilkof (Nigel). Boomer joins an old salt to hunt for a pirate's long-buried treasure.
Season 2, episode 2
With Todd Bridges (Turk), Pat Petersen (Joey), John Hollander (Marty), Sonny Trinidad (Mr. Wong), Vince DeCenzo (Vinnie), Paul Jarnagin (Ox), Jeff Rake (Frankie), Mark James (Billy), Paul King (Bobby). Boomer comes to the aid of some boys being harassed by gangs.
Season 2, episode 3
With Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Parkington), Jennifer Holmes (Vicki), Fred McCarren (David). Boomer enjoys being mistaken for a pampered pooch until he learns he'll be put to sleep when his ailing mistress dies.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Sandy Veith D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Meadowlark Lemon (Himself), Patrick Cassidy (Robbie), Berry Beaird (Mrs. Johnson). Boomer helps a former star athlete, now confined to a wheelchair, overcome his self-pity.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Ed Pomerantz D: Larry Stewart
With Bill Dana (Angelo), Kaye Ballard (Sophia), Mark Lonow (Joe), Kevin Lee Miller (Page), John Femia, Dick Martin. Boomer teams with an aspiring young comic and helps convince him to go to Hollywood.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Bill Daley D: Larry Stewart
With Victor Buono (Dr. Frankenstein), Allan Arbus (Boris), Richard Moll (Monster), Rick Lohman, Forbesy Russell. Boomer and stranded young boy and girl seek refuge in a spooky old house inhabited by an eccentric Dr. Frankenstein.
Season 2, episode 7
With Rosanna Arquette (Ginny), Dean Butler (Gary), Jerold Pearson (Cyclist). Boomer becomes a guide dog for a blind man whose seeing eye dog has died, but who wants to bicycle across the country.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Terry Hart D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Conrad Janis (Phil), John Lawlor (John). Boomer's life passes before his eyes after he's taken to the pound for a biting he didn't commit.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Bill Daley D: Larry Stewart
With John Amos (Foster), Paul Regina (Steve), Basil Hoffman (Sloan Meadows). Boomer and a successful businessman team up to instill confidence in a depressed youth.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Lowell Ganz, Arthur Silver D: Herbert Kenwith
With Todd Susman (Officer Fortunato), John Reilly (Officer Shackelford), Raymond Singer (Officer Pesky), April Clough (Officer Mikulanitz), Gary Epp (Officer Heinrich), Jason Bernard (Sgt. Andrews), Eddie Quillan (Arthur), Tracie Savage (Sunny). Boomer hooks up with two bumbling policemen who can't get along with each other as they try to nail an affluent bookie. (Last show of the series.)