Television
“Clowning Around,” PBS’ newest Wonderworks Family Movie (today at 2:30 p.m., Channel 28), is an Australian film about a boy who dreams of becoming a circus clown.
Nov. 26, 1993
Movies
There’s a world of difference between taking a human life out of selfishness and out of a belief that you’re doing the victim a favor.
Jan. 24, 1987
Lassie has nothing on Slim and Delbert, the dolphins who hang out at “Dolphin Cove”--which also is the name of their new CBS series that premieres at 8 tonight (Channels 2 and 8).
Jan. 21, 1989
World & Nation
Some Aussies see the canines as pets, others as pests. Interbreeding threatens the species.
Oct. 19, 2003
California
As 13 police dogs yelped and whined and their masters held back tears at the Sea Breeze Pet Cemetery, the Newport Beach Police Department on Wednesday laid to rest Dingo, a 10-year-old German shepherd who died last week after surgery.
Jan. 6, 1994
Things were quiet around Officer Kent Eischen’s house after veteran police dog Dingo died late last year.
May 17, 1994
A 10-year-old police dog believed to be the oldest active-duty canine in Orange County has died, according to the Police Department.
Jan. 4, 1994
Obituaries
Michael Chamberlain, who waged a decades-long battle to prove his baby daughter was killed by a dingo in Australia’s most notorious case of injustice, has died, his former wife said Tuesday.
Jan. 10, 2017
Dingoes, the yellow native dogs of Australia, probably evolved from a very small group of pets brought by Southeast Asian settlers, researchers reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Aug. 7, 2004
Twenty-eight dingoes were shot dead in a cull launched on an Australian island resort after two of the wild dogs killed a 9-year-old boy.
May 6, 2001