Rin Tin Tin in Popular Culture
Produced by Herbert B. Leonard, the 1988–93 Canadian TV series Katts and Dog, featuring the adventures of a police officer and his canine partner, was titled Rin Tin Tin: K9 Cop for its American showings. More recent films featuring authentic Rin Tin Tin line dogs include the 2006 production titled Rin Tin Tin... A Living Legacy.
A film loosely based on Rin Tin Tin's debut is Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood.
A fictionalized account of Lee Duncan finding and raising Rin Tin Tin is a major part of the novel Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Rin Tin Tin has been featured as a character in many fiction works, including Cooper, P.T. (2012). Rin Tin Tin and the Lost King. p. 173. ISBN 978-0615651910. http://www.amazon.com/Rin-Tin-Lost-King/dp/0615651917/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340653433&sr=1-1&keywords=rin+tin+tin+and+the+lost+king., a children's book in which Rin Tin Tin and the other animal characters are able to talk to one another but are unable to talk to humans.
Rinty was featured on CBS Sunday Morning on September 25, 2011 showing the history, career and lineage of Rin Tin Tin.
Rin Tin Tin was named recipient of the 2011 American Humane Association Legacy Award in Beverly Hills in October 2011
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Famous quotes containing the words rin, tin, popular and/or culture:
“Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)