Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin (sometimes punctuated with hyphens) was a canine movie star beginning in the silent era. The heroic German Shepherd, much like the later Lassie, spent most of his screen time battling villains and performing rescues and received star billing on posters. When the original died in 1932, Rin Tin Tin Jr. took over for serials. On TV, an unrelated dog played the character on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954-1959).
==References==
===The Jimmy Dean Show===
*In the September 26, 1963 broadcast, Rowlf says, "in the words of the immortal Rin Tin Tin, without a dog, you've got nothin'."
*In the February 13, 1964 broadcast, Rowlf telephones Lassie but thinks a man answered, "sounded like Rin Tin Tin" (and he was panting, too).
*Rowlf seems to have put his jealousy of Rin Tin Tin aside for the March 12, 1964 broadcast, announcing him as a presidential running mate.
*While rehearsing his desperate gun-driven ploy to get Lassie to marry him on the December 17, 1965 broadcast, Rowlf finds Jimmy Dean taking too long to say his line. "By the time you got that out, I could have been dead and buried and Lassie could have been married to Rin Tin Tin!"
===Other===
*One of the names Big Bird mistakenly calls Officer Patinkin (played by Mandy Patinkin) is "Officer Rin Tin Tin" in Episode 2095 of Sesame Street.
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