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A Dog's Show

Television, 1981

 A Dog's Show

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Man. Dog. Sheep. This was an unlikely formula for Kiwi TV gold. Showing sheepdog trials from around the country, A Dog's Show ran from 1977 to 1992. In each trial a farmer, armed with an array of whistles and commands, instructed a sheepdog to wrangle a flock of recalcitrant sheep along a course or into a pen. This episode is from the same year as the Springbok Tour, but the only riots here are ovine. John Gordon provides the commentary. Trivia: the opening tune is a version of the Statler Brothers song ‘Flowers on the Wall’, also used in the film Pulp Fiction.

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 Malcolm Kemp
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 The Sheep Collection