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Dog City
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.
Dog City was originally an hour-long, broadcast on May 5, 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). As it turns out, Harry 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 ends up with Colleen.
Dog City: The Movie (sans the framing sequences) was released to regions 1 and 2.
The Jim Henson Company's YouTube channel has clips from the film, in addition to the trailer and a behind the scenes clip from a mockumentary included in a playlist called "Dogs!".
Dog City focuses on the lives of various anthropomorphic dogs and cats that reside in two different worlds - a live-action world portrayed by puppets and an animated world. The stories themselves focus on animator Eliot Shag and his cartoon creation (and practical alter ego) canine private investigator Ace Hart, both of whom are German Shepherd. Each episode focuses on Eliot creating new animated stories featuring Ace for a television program named after the character with Ace playing out the stories that Eliot devises from inspiration he has from real-life events in his apartment building within his cartoon series' setting of Dog City. Both Eliot and Ace maintain a brotherly relationship as the latter knows he is a cartoon character and often breaks the fourth wall to speak with Eliot in regards to various issues he encounters during the animating of episodes, often when something he is doing or the story itself doesn't feel right to him.
During the live-action sequences, Eliot faces different problems relating to his work life and his personal life, including contending with his building's grouchy bulldog superintendent Bruno. As a recurring gag, many of the characters made for Eliot's cartoon series are based on the residents of the building that he knows of and interacts with - Bruno himself being the inspiration for the character of Bugsy Vile, a notorious crime boss whom Ace regularly has to deal with in many of the plots Eliot devises, alongside Artie, Eliot's young friend and animator assistant, being the idea behind Ace's own sidekick Eddie, a young newspaper boy.
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Dog City
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.
Dog City was originally an hour-long, broadcast on May 5, 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). As it turns out, Harry 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 ends up with Colleen.
Dog City: The Movie (sans the framing sequences) was released to regions 1 and 2.
The Jim Henson Company's YouTube channel has clips from the film, in addition to the trailer and a behind the scenes clip from a mockumentary included in a playlist called "Dogs!".
Dog City focuses on the lives of various anthropomorphic dogs and cats that reside in two different worlds - a live-action world portrayed by puppets and an animated world. The stories themselves focus on animator Eliot Shag and his cartoon creation (and practical alter ego) canine private investigator Ace Hart, both of whom are German Shepherd. Each episode focuses on Eliot creating new animated stories featuring Ace for a television program named after the character with Ace playing out the stories that Eliot devises from inspiration he has from real-life events in his apartment building within his cartoon series' setting of Dog City. Both Eliot and Ace maintain a brotherly relationship as the latter knows he is a cartoon character and often breaks the fourth wall to speak with Eliot in regards to various issues he encounters during the animating of episodes, often when something he is doing or the story itself doesn't feel right to him.
During the live-action sequences, Eliot faces different problems relating to his work life and his personal life, including contending with his building's grouchy bulldog superintendent Bruno. As a recurring gag, many of the characters made for Eliot's cartoon series are based on the residents of the building that he knows of and interacts with - Bruno himself being the inspiration for the character of Bugsy Vile, a notorious crime boss whom Ace regularly has to deal with in many of the plots Eliot devises, alongside Artie, Eliot's young friend and animator assistant, being the idea behind Ace's own sidekick Eddie, a young newspaper boy.