Tribute to ‘Radar’
<y.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) LONDON, Oct. 27. As befitted one of tele- ' vision’s top crime-busters, he was intelligent, good : looking, and immaculately groomed. Now, Radar, the black-and-tan Alsatian who sniffed I his way to the top in “ZCars” and “Softly, Softly” is the hero of a new book. Radar died, at the age of 12, in May 1972, and is : buried in a parish church graveyard in Buckinghamshire — the county in which several of his television escapades were filmed. His owner, Miss Dorothy ! Steves, said today: “There I was never a dog like him. He was brave, but gentle and loving.” Her book, “Radar,” goes on sale in Britain tomorrow.
Radar’s place was taken in the television police series by another of Miss Steves’s dogs. another talented Alsatian, called Saxon,
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33676, 28 October 1974, Page 13
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