Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way

Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way
Presented byBarbara Woodhouse
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes10
Production
ProducerPeter Riding
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC2
Release7 January (1980-01-07) –
10 March 1980 (1980-03-10)
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Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way is a British television series presented by Barbara Woodhouse first shown by the BBC in 1980.[1] It was taped in 10 episodes at Woodhouse's home in Hertfordshire, England.[2] The show was also internationally syndicated.[3]

In the show she often used two commands: "walkies" and "sit"; the latter of which was parodied in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy where James Bond does a Woodhouse impersonation, puts his hand up in a command posture, repeats Woodhouse's catch-phrase to a tiger and the animal responds to it by obeying.[4] Her ten-part series had been shown at over one hundred stations in the United States and in Britain it proved so popular it was run twice.[5] In 1982, singer-songwriter Randy Edelman wrote a song about her and her show, "Barbara (The Woodhouse Way)", which he released in a single 45 rpm record.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way". Film and TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 August 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way". TV Guide.
  3. ^ Current Biography Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Company. 1989. Retrieved 7 May 2013. 1910-July 9, 1988 Animal trainer; began career in 1930s as trainer of horses; later trained animals for motion pictures; won great popularity with her internationally syndicated BBC-TV program Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way, launched in ...
  4. ^ Sinclair McKay (7 October 2008). The Man with the Golden Touch: How the Bond Films Conquered the World. Aurum. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-84513-355-9. Retrieved 7 May 2013. ...brushing, he continues on his way. Next up is a sudden brush with a prowling tiger. 'Sit!' he commands, hand held high, in a reference to cult dog-handler Barbara Woodhouse.
  5. ^ Chronicle of the Horse. Vol. 45. Chronicle of the Horse, Incorporated. October 1982. p. 52. Retrieved 7 May 2013. Over 100 stations in the United States have scheduled her ten-part series, "Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way," which was the BBC's surprise hit of 1980, so popular it was repeated twice there, and it promises to have as rabid a following in ...;
  6. ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (20 February 1982). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 67–. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 7 May 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "Randy Edelman – Barbara (The Woodhouse Way)". Discogs.