But he couldn’t shake Jones on the film’s controversial final line, which makes a sick pun out of what Ellison saw as a tragedy, and that line is still contentious today. It’s a startlingly close adaptation of Ellison’s grim story, but upon seeing the rough cut, Ellison was apoplectic about some of Blood’s misogynistic dialogue, and took up a collection to fund some re-dubbing of the dog’s voiceover. In a lengthy dialogue on the newly restored Shout! Factory Blu-ray release of A Boy And His Dog, Ellison and Jones walk through the history of the film together: Ellison had writer’s block over the screenplay, so Jones wrote the script and directed the film. Jones adapted the original story into the feature film A Boy And His Dog, starring Don Johnson as Vic, and Tiger, the dog from The Brady Bunch, as Blood. And in 1975, longtime Sam Peckinpah actor L.Q. All three stories and an unproduced feature-film screenplay for CBS formed the core of Ellison’s as-yet-unpublished book Blood’s A Rover. The story and two others featuring the same characters, “Eggsucker” and “Run, Spot, Run,” were collectively adapted into the 1989 graphic novel Vic And Blood. First published in short-story form in 1969, “A Boy And His Dog” was expanded to novella-length for Ellison’s anthology The Beast Who Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World. Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story about a young post-apocalyptic survivor named Vic and his best friend, a telepathic, intelligent dog named Blood, has been through many forms.

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