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THE BULLETIN • JUNE 24 - 30, 2021
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“The Incredible Dr. Pol:
Season 18” (Available now)
Critical clinic visits, emergency farm
calls and a whole lot of triaging
mayhem keep Dr. Jon and Diane
Pol and their staff at Pol Veterinary
Services of Central Michigan on their
toes in the most recent season of this
long-running Nat Geo Wild series.
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“The Happiest Millionaire”
(Available now)
Fred MacMurray was in the midst
of his long run on “My Three Sons”
when he starred in this 1967 comedy
as an eccentric Philadelphia millionaire
who hires a clever Irish immigrant
(British pop star Tommy Steele) to be
his butler. Greer Garson, Geraldine
Page and John Davidson also star for
director Norman Tokar (“The Apple
Dumpling Gang”).
“Dino Ranch: Season 1”
(Available now)
From Canada’s CBC Television comes
this CGI-animated children’s series that
follows the adventures of the Cassidy
family as they tackle life on the ranch
in a fantastical setting where dinosaurs
roam. Tyler James Nathan, Ava Ro,
Jacob Mazeral, Scott Gorman and
Athena Karkanis head the voice cast.
“Running Wild With Bear
Grylls: Season 6” (Available
now)
The famed adventurer takes TV
personality Bobby Bones into the rugged
wilderness of the eastern Sierra Nevada
Mountains, helps actress Gina Carano
face her fears in Italy’s Dolomites and
accompanies actor/comedian Keegan-
Michael Key into an Icelandic lava field,
among other treks, in Season 6 of this
National Geographic series.
Bobby Bones
OF ‘BREAKING BOBBY BONES’ ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
It’s one thing to come from behind
a microphone and get in front of
a camera. It’s another thing to put
your butt on the line in doing it.
What is it inside you that wants
to succeed? What is it in you that
wants to overcome the obstacle?
Just getting down to the core of it, I think
it’s probably just searching for some sort
of love. For me, that’s why I got on stage
to do comedy. That’s why I was able to
get behind a microphone and do radio
or even TV now, was I didn’t have a lot
of love growing up. And I started to find
love in these places. ...
When I wrote my first book, there
were some stories in there that I was
not ashamed of but I thought, “Man,
if people see this, they’re going to
judge me and feel sorry for me.” What
happened the most was, people would
say, “Hey, I felt that.” Like, no one’s
ever spoken for me. And so that’s why I
pushed through this. I’ve hated doing a
lot of these actual missions, but there was
never a second that I was going to not
do them. But I’m supposed to hate them.
I believe you don’t grow unless you’re
uncomfortable.
Among all the crazy experiences
you have faced in the show, which
one was the most challenging?
That’s a good question because they’ve
all been so different. I used to have
two fears that crippled me: commitment
and heights. I no longer have fear of
commitment because I am engaged for
the first time ... . However, heights is still
there. ...
Hanging over the Grand Canyon, my
fiancée was on set because she was
doing my hair and makeup, and she has
headphones that she wears to hear me
talk. ... I was so scared that she started
crying because she could hear how
terrified I was. Because you just have
a trust a rope, a rope! And if that rope
gives out, that’s 4,000 feet you’re falling!
So that, to me, was really awful.