![]() There wasn’t the time available in a sitcom, with its jokes and plot, that a TV audience really needed to watch Bob Williams interact with Louie. The problem wasn’t with Williams, Louie, or Here’s Lucy but the issue of trying to do what Bob did in a half hour sitcom. He is clearly enjoying himself, a twinkle in his eye and sporting a bow tie.īut maybe Bob and Louie should have done some tricks for Here’s Lucy.īecause in the course of the show, we see two of Louie’s “tricks,” and they are the most underwhelming dog tricks I’ve ever seen. That's for an ordinary dog act,” Bob says at one point to Lucy and Kim. ![]() They were famous for what they didn’t do. Only the thing is – and what I didn’t know but what 1973 TV audiences generally were well aware of – Bob Williams and his dog, Louie, didn’t do any dog tricks. So be careful the next time any of your relatives ask you if you want to go shopping.Īll of this plot is designed, of course, to create an episode that offers up an excuse for Bob Williams, then 64 years old, to show up, and he does, with his dog, Louie, and they do some of their famous act. Kim said yes, and her mom brought her to a pet shop to work there - and shop, if Kim had any interest in purchasing some dog treats. We learn that Lucy talked Kim into it by asking if she wants to go shopping. Lucy the convinces her daughter Kim (Lucie Arnaz) to help her. Carter badgers Lucy into filling in for the weekend, and she agrees, but not before getting him to cough up fifty bucks. Carter and Lucy work, informing his new boss that he has quit. Carter’s pet store employees drops by the employment agency where Mr. “He’s the one I hope to sell it to at a reasonable profit,” Carter says. “He's also the man I hope to pawn off the boutique on,” Carter says, and then when Lucy shoots him a disapproving look, he says, “Uh, onload the place on.” “He’s the man who has that fabulous dog act,” Carter says. Carter soon reveals that he is hoping to get a phone call from Bob Williams. ![]() “Oh, Harry, to you, man's best friend is money,” a disapproving Lucy says. We learn at the start of the episode that Harrison Carter (Gale Gordon), Lucy’s boss and brother-in-law, has purchased a pet shop, The Bow Wow Boutique, which he hopes to soon sell for a profit. So Bob Williams is featured in season six of Here’s Lucy (yeah, six seasons it may not be remembered in the way that I Love Lucy is, but it was a very successful show), in the fifth episode, which was titled, “The Bow Wow Boutique.” As noted, I discovered Bob Williams, the dog trainer extraordinaire, by watching Here’s Lucy – all of the series episodes can be found on quite a few streaming channels. Let’s start with where I first encountered Bob Williams, and, no, he is of no known relation to The TV Professor. At this point in his career, Williams had been working with dogs for about 40 years.
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