Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (1994)

Original title

Dr. Globule

Genre

comedy television series

Country

France, United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 65 episodes

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mad scientist runs a pet shop in a spooky castle. He creates strange animals and has odd adventures with them.

goofywhimsicalsillyplayfulfast-pacedcolourfullightheartedkooky

What happens

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) is a 1994–1997 French-British animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP and Fairwater Films, and distributed in the UK by The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd (which also produced Potsworth & Co. and Budgie the Little Helicopter) which later rebranded as SKD Media and Entertainment Rights before being dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) and by PMMP and TF1 International in the rest of the world. 65 episodes were produced. The show aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 20 June 1994 to 21 August 1997, while in France it aired on TF1 from 4 September 1996. The show ran for four series. The music for the series was composed by Danny Chang and Tony Barnes. A comic strip version of the show was included in Buster magazine from September 1994 to November 1996. The series was later repeated on Nickelodeon in the early 2000s until 2004, and had sporadic reruns from 1999 until 2001 (it was put on hiatus in 2002). It was also aired on cable television in Australia, first airing on Nickelodeon and later on Cartoon Network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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