Underplayed Gems

Dog City (1992)

Dog City poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United States
Length
3 seasons, 31 episodes
Rated
A
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A German Shepherd animator creates a cartoon private detective dog. The show blends real life with the animated adventures of that detective in a city full of dogs.

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What happens

Dog City is an animated television series that was produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions in association with Channel 4 (UK) and Global Television Network. The series ran for three seasons, airing on Fox Kids from September 26, 1992, to November 26, 1994; in Canada, the series aired on YTV until 2000. The series contained both animation made by Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson Productions - similar to Little Muppet Monsters - and invoked a mixture of detective fiction with police comedy. The series starred Kevin Clash as Eliot Shag, a German Shepherd animator, and the voice talents of Ron White as Ace Hart, a cartoon German Shepherd private detective who Eliot animates. Each episode of Dog City focus on the exploits of Ace as he tackles various crimes around the titular Dog City, based on the stories Eliot devises from events that happen in real-life that inspire him, with the pair often interacting with each other during work to animate an episode of Ace's cartoon series. Dog City was spawned following an hour-long live-action television film, titled Dog City: The Movie, which was created for an episode of The Jim Henson Hour in 1989, with the Muppet cast created for the film incorporated into the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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