A Watchdog's Tale
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A Watchdog's Tale official poster
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| Genre | Modern Drama |
| Starring |
Kent Cheng Steven Ma Linda Chung Raymond Wong Natalie Tong Maggie Shiu |
| Opening theme | "老友狗狗" by Steven Ma & Linda Chung |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Standard Cantonese, Weitouhua and Hakka |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Producer(s) | Leung Choi Yuen |
| Running time | 45 minutes (approx.) |
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| Original network | TVB |
| Original release | December 28, 2009 – January 23, 2010 |
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Title screen shot
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| Traditional Chinese | 老友狗狗 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 老友狗狗 | ||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Friends of Dogs" | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǎo Yǒu Gǒu Gǒu |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Lou5 Jau5 Gau2 Gau2 |
A Watchdog's Tale (Traditional Chinese: , literally Friends of Dogs), is a 2010 TVB modern drama series.
Lai Chun Sing (Kent Cheng) has been in the police force for 30 years. During one investigation, his assistant police dog sacrificed its life to save him. Struck by the death, Sing decided to join the Police Dog Unit. In 25 years, he advanced from a dog caretaker to an instructor and he now plans to use his retirement money to open a dog care center, allowing dog owners to bring their dogs for training and play.
Sing's wife died a long time ago, but left him with an obedient daughter, Lai Sin Yue (Linda Chung). Yue follows after her father and loves animals as if they were human. This eventually leads Yue to become a veterinarian. She later decides to help her dad and moves to the countryside to help with his dog care center. Her determination is driven by the fact that she wants to make sure all animals are treated lovingly.
In the countryside, they soon meet the rowdy bunch that lives there. Chow Yung Kung (Steven Ma) is the renovator who is in charge of preparing the dog care center. Yue and Kung initially start off on the wrong foot, but the two eventually start developing feelings for each other as they spend more time together. They start to fall in love with each other, but Sing refuses to accept Kung as his daughter's boyfriend, saying that Kung has no education and no stable job To make things more complicated, Kung's ex-girlfriend (Queenie Chu) reappears with a vengeance.
The two side stories involve Chiang Tin-Ngo (Maggie Shiu), her brother Tin-Hung (Lee Kwok Lun), Chou Ka-Man (Natalie Tong), and Ho Tin-Yau (Raymond Wong Ho-yin). Tin-Hung has always been looked down upon by his father and sister as a failure. He wants to start his own business, but his father will not loan him the money, believing all of his son's ideas are bound to end up a disaster. His sister refuses to help him plead their father, so Tin-Hung resorts to kidnapping Tin-Ngo and demanding their father for a large sum of money.
Tin-Ngo then devotes herself to finding the kidnapper, believing it is someone in the nearby countryside. She monitors all of villagers closely, looking for something suspicious. She even decides to move in to study them closer. Tin-Hung, scared that his sister might figure out the kidnapper was him, moves himself to the countryside too, attempting to prevent Tin-Ngo from getting any serious evidence. While she is there, Tin-Ngo starts to develop feelings for Sing, but she is rejected and runs away.
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