Clifford the Big Red Dog (TV series)
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | |
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| Genre |
Education Fantasy |
| Based on |
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell |
| Directed by | John Over |
| Voices of |
John Ritter Grey DeLisle Cree Summer Kel Mitchell Cam Clarke Kath Soucie Gary LeRoi Gray Ulysses Cuadra Earl Boen Edie McClurg Nick Jameson Tony Plana |
| Composer(s) |
Josh Mancell Mark Mothersbaugh |
| Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Deborah Forte Gary Conrad |
| Running time | 30 minutes (15 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode) |
| Production company(s) |
Scholastic Productions Mike Young Productions (Uncredited) |
| Release | |
| Original network | PBS Kids |
| Original release | September 4, 2000 – February 25, 2003 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Clifford's Puppy Days |
Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American-British educational animated children's television series, based upon Norman Bridwell's children's book series of the same name. Produced by Scholastic Productions, it originally aired on PBS Kids from September 4, 2000 to February 25, 2003. The UK version (where it was dubbed with British voice actors replacing the original American soundtrack) originally aired on BBC 2 from April 1, 2002.
Two 15-minute stories made up each half-hour cartoon. Usually one story featured Clifford and his canine friends, Cleo and T-Bone among them; the other story would focus on Clifford's owner Emily Elizabeth and her friends. As in other shows of its kind, during scenes focusing on the dog characters' perspective, human speech would replace barking to engage viewers in the storyline from the dogs' point of view.
John Ritter voiced Clifford in all episodes. This was originally done by Brent Titcomb in the series that debuted in 1988 and ran into the early 1990s. Generally speaking, his schedule dictated the production of Clifford the Big Red Dog. By the time the last of the 68 half-hour cartoons and the movie were completed, Ritter was back on ABC's prime-time schedule, starring in 8 Simple Rules. Ritter's death on September 11, 2003 came less than a week before PBS debuted Clifford's Puppy Days, a function of keeping Clifford's legacy going.
While no new Clifford episodes have been released since Ritter's death in 2003, voice actors for the main characters have reprised some of their roles for the Ready to Learn PBS Kids PSAs. The film Clifford's Really Big Movie serves as the series finale due to Ritter's death, as no new episodes were made to continue from where it left off.
The series has at least 5 segments in the show, which are:
This series was only produced by Mike Young Productions and Scholastic Studios. John Ritter voices Clifford on this series before his death in 2003. Grey DeLisle voices Emily Elizabeth. She would reprise this role in the prequel Clifford's Puppy Days.
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