Dog City
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Dog City title screen
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| Also known as | Jim Henson's Dog City |
| Written by | Laraine Arkow, Terrie Collins, Marty Isenberg, Robert N. Skir, Robert Schechter, and Gary Sperling. |
| Starring |
Muppet performers: Fran Brill Lisa Buckley Kevin Clash Joey Mazzarino Brian Muehl David Rudman |
| Voices of |
Ron White Elizabeth Hanna Stuart Stone James Rankin Stephen Ouimette Howard Jerome Paulina Gillis |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 31 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Michael K. Frith Brian Henson Patrick Loubert Michael Hirsch Clive A. Smith |
| Production company(s) |
Nelvana Limited Jim Henson Productions |
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| Original network | USA: FOX (Fox Kids) Canada: Teletoon |
| Original release | September 26, 1992 – November 26, 1994 |
Dog City is an American/Canadian television series that was produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions and aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to November 26, 1994 and in Canada on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson Productions.
Dog City was originally a thirty-nine-minute long TV movie, broadcast in 1989 as an episode of The Jim Henson Hour, featuring the characters as puppets. In Dog City: The Movie, Ace Yu inherits a bar-restaurant called the Dog House following the death of his Uncle Harry and is harassed for protection money by crime syndicate boss Bugsy Them (who was responsible for the death of Uncle Harry, who, as it turns out, was actually Ace's father). Refusing to pay or fight him, Bugsy kidnaps Ace's love interest Colleen. There are car chases and shoot-em-ups and rubber duckies involved in the action. In the end, Ace defeats Bugsy and gets the girl.
Dog City: The Movie also features cameos by Sprocket the Dog from Fraggle Rock, Lyle the Dog and Baskerville the Hound from The Muppet Show, a dog character that resembles Tramp from Lady and the Tramp, and a background pug that later appears in Jim Henson's Animal Show, Puppet Up!, and other Henson Alternative projects.
The Muppets of Ace Yu and his associates would make cameos in The Muppets at Walt Disney World and would later go on to become Eliot Shag and the other "real world" counterparts to the animated characters.
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