There is a long television tradition of hyper-intelligent dogs and animals being able to solve all manners of problems and crimes to the backdrop of a great theme tunes. It goes back to the 1950s and the days of black and white TV but although the animals and locations changed, they were pretty much all the same show at heart. So today we’re going to have a brief look at a few of these “saviour animals”, all of whom seem capable of understanding English and saving human beings.
So after the jump, in no order whatsoever, we have Champion the Wonder Horse, Gentle Ben, Flipper, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, The Littlest Hobo, Lassie and Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince. There are more heroic animals out there, but that’s enough for one day, don’t you think?
