Whatever Happened to Quincy the Basset Hound on the TV Show “Coach”?
From time to time throughout this blog we are going to be covering the lives of some famous basset hounds. This is our first post in this series.
Remember the ABC-TV show Coach? Luther Van Dam (Jerry Van Dyke), assistant coach under head coach Hayden Fox, owned a basset hound named Quincy. Quincy’s job was to pretty much sit, do nothing and be pulled in a red wagon– because he was too lazy to walk. He was Coach Van Dam’s pride and joy!
Quincy’s real name was Issac, a veteran performer who appeared in a recurring roll in the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara and in several Purina dog food commercials.
Issac was owned and trained by Cheryl Shawver who reported that Issac “was chosen for the part because he was not pretty”. Issac died during production of the series and was replaced for a short period of time before he was written out of the show during a funeral episode.
