Trivia

This show was a quick spin-off of B.J. and the Bear (1978), when that show was an instant hit. However, ratings quickly dried up, and neither show lasted long. To make a more compelling product for syndication, all episodes of both shows were packaged as a bundle titled "The B.J./Lobo Show".

By the second season, the series was titled Lobo instead of The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, relocated from the fictional small town of Orly to Georgia, where the theme song, the classic, Georgia, sung by Ray Charles, replaced the first season's ballad about Sheriff Lobo and, herein, Claude Akins' title character became a more serious (and no longer crooked) big city cop, leaving only Mills Watson as Perkins for the comedy relief.

During the second season when the show moved from "Orly County" to Georgia, Nell Carter was added to the cast as a police station secretary.

Mills Watson's two most memorable roles were as clumsy cops: Here as Perkins, and as Harry under Stacy Keach in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke.

Season Two's shift to a more serious setting had Sheriff Lobo (Claude Akins) no longer in charge and, working in Georgia, he was under a strict chief played by Nicolas Coster, making Lobo a detective, not a suited cop/sheriff like the first season.