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Jim Henson's Dog City title screen

Dog City is a television series that aired on FOX from 1992 to 1995, and in Canada on Global in 1993, then on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation, done by Nelvana and Fox Kids, and puppetry, done by Jim Henson Productions. The animated portions of the show focused on a canine private detective named Ace Hart. The Muppet portions of the show focused on the interactions between Ace Hart and his animator Eliot Shag (who, like Ace, is a German Shepherd). Eliot would illustrate the stories while Ace would go traverse through it, occasionally breaking the fourth wall to speak with Eliot about the various troubles with the story. In one episode, Eliot even enters Dog City himself to join Ace in solving a mystery. This would be the first Jim Henson animated series since Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock: the animated series.

A recurring gag was that many of the characters in the cartoon were seemingly based on the residents of Eliot's apartment building. The bulldog crime-boss Bugsy Vile was inspired by the building's grouchy bulldog super, Bruno; Ace's love interest, Rosie, was based on Eliot's unrequited feelings for his neighbour Colleen, and so on. The Muppet characters were unaware of this; in the first episode Bruno asks Eliot how a loser like him could have created a great character like Bugsy. Eliot replies "Sometimes it's just staring you in the face".

Later series included segments from other shows Eliot worked on, including skits featuring the main Dog City characters and a superhero series starring the Batman parody Watchdog.

1 Characters
- 1.1 Animated
- 1.2 Muppets
2 The Movie
3 Episode guide
4 Credits
- 4.1 Series 1
- 4.2 Series 2
5 External links

Characters

Animated

Ace Heart, voiced by Ron White
Chief Rosie O'Gravy, voiced by Elizabeth Hanna
Eddie, voiced by Stuart Stone
Bugsy Vile, voiced by John Stocker
Frisky, voiced by James Rankin
Mad Dog, voiced by Stephen Ouimette
Bruiser, voiced by Howard Jerome
Kitty, voiced by Paulina Gillis
Baron Von Rottweiler, voiced by Stephen Ouimette
Mayor Kickbark, voiced by Len Carlson
Dot, voiced by Tara Strong
Yves, voiced by Rino Romano
Steven, voiced by Len Carlson

Muppets

Eliot Shag, performed by Kevin Clash
Colleen and Terri Springer, performed by Fran Brill
Artie Springer, performed by Joey Mazzarino
Bruno, performed by Brian Muehl
Bowser, performed by David Rudman
Ms Fluffe, performed by Lisa Buckley

The Movie

Dog City was originally a thirty nine minute long TV movie, broadcast in 1989 as an episode of The Jim Henson Hour, featuring the characters as puppets. In Dog City THE MOVIE Ace is harassed for protection money by crime synidicate boss Bugsy. Refusing to pay or fight him, Bugsy kidnaps Aces 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 gets the girl.

Ace Yu, voiced by Kevin Clash
Frisky, voiced by Dave Goelz
Eddie, voiced by Kathryn Mullen
Mad Dog, voiced by Steve Whitmire
Bugsy Them, voiced by Jim Henson
Colleen, voiced by Fran Brill
Rowlf the Dog, voiced by Jim Henson

The Muppets of Ace and his associates would go on to become Eliot Shag and the other "real world" counterparts to the animated characters.

Episode guide

Season 1

1.The Big Squeak
2.Taming of the Screw
3.Meat the Butcher
4.Disobedience School
5.The Dog Pound
6.Radio Dazed
7.The Bloodhound
8.Adventures in Puppysitting
9.Ya Gotta Have a Heart
10.In Your Dreams
11.Rocketship K-9
12.Cats 'n' Dogs
13.Is It Arf?

Season 2

14.Boss Bruiser
15.Springer Fever
16.Much Ado About Mad Dog
17.Of Mutts and Mayors
18.Who Watches the Watchdog?
19.The Great Dane Curse
20.Out of the Mouths of Pups
21.Farewell My Rosie
22.Old Dogs New Tricks
23.Sick as a Dog

Season 3

24.The New Litter
25.Doggy See Doggy Do
26.Comedy of Horrors
27.Howl the Conquering Hero
28.Reduce, Re-Use, Retrieve
29.Future Schlock
30.No Pain, No Brain
31.Dog Days of Summer Vacation

Credits

Series 1

Executive Producers: Michael K. Frith, Brian Henson, Patrick Loubert, Michael Hirsch, Clive A. Smith
Produced by: Stephen Hodgins
Coordinating Producer: Patricia R. Burns
Line Producer: Hasmi Giakoumis
Associate Producer: Neil Court
Directed by: John Van Bruggen
Assistant Directors: Dave Pemberton, Steve Whitehouse
Story Editors: J.D. Smith, Peter Sauder
Casting: Jessie Thomson
Voice Director: Kathryn Mullen
Unit Director: Brad Goodchild
Unit Manager: Kokila Jeffrey
Production Manager: Ruta Cube
Production Supervisor: Steve Chadwick
Coordinators: Jocelyn Hamilton (production), Erik Strobel (script), Shelly Theaker (storyboard), Tyler Baylis (design), Shelley Morrow (layout)
Storyboard Artists: Frank Lintzen, John Flagg, Arna Selznick, Andrew Tan, Vincenzo Natali, Bob Smith, Robert Rivard
Storyboard Cleanup Supervisor: Dave Quensnelle
Background Artist: Clive Powsey
Paint Supervisor: Mary Bertoia
Layout Artists: Dermot Walshe, Kevin Klis, Glenn Chadwick, Daniel Poitras, Gord McBride, Steve Remen, John Lei, Paul Bouchard, Brad Graham, Mike Halley
Layout Supervisor: Lyndon Ruddy
Color Designer: Jo-Anne Merrill
Designers: Charles E. Bastien, Jens Pindal, Leif Norheim, Kevin Fraser, Scott Bennett
Key Animators: Niall Johnston, Gerry Fournier, John De Klein, Paul Riley, Mike Tweedle, Scott Glynn, Dave Boudreau, Bill Zeats, Alan Knappett, Brad Goodchild, Lynn Reist, Dennis Gonzales
Post Production Supervisor: Rob Kirkpatrick
Post Production Manager: Lan Lamon
Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Cole
Picture Editor: Algis Magiulis
Supervising Pre-Production Editor: Darrell MacDonald
Supervising Breakdown Editor: Rick Dubiel
Recording and Transfer Technician: Mike Reid

Muppet Segments

Production Coordinator: Jennie Lupinacci
Puppeteer: Kevin Clash
Additional Puppeteer: Don Reardon
Executives in Charge of Production: Jim Lewis, Ritamarie Peruggi, David Gumpel, Pat Nugent
Production Designer: Lyndon Mosse

Theme by: Philip Balsam
Score Composed by: Acrobat Music
Additional Production Facility: Hanho Heung Up Co. Ltd
Negative Cutting Services: Catherine Rankin Productions
Laboratories: Magnetic North, The Filmhouse Group, Access Post Production Audio Inc., Studio 306

Series 2

Executive Producers: Michael K. Frith, Brian Henson, Patrick Loubert, Michael Hirsch, Clive A. Smith
Supervising Producer: Stephen Hodgins
Coordinating Producer: Patrica R. Burns
Producer: Merle-Anne Ridley
Director: John Van Bruggen
Assistant Director: Dave Pemberton
Story Editor: J.D. Smith
Casting and Voice Director: Jessie Thomson
Production Supervisor: Steve Chadwick
Production Manager: Ruta Cube
Unit Director: Brad Goodchild
Coordinators: Asha Daniere (production), Erika Strobel (script), Laurie Towata (storyboard), Aidan Closs (layout), Patty Beausoleil (design)
Storyboard Artists: John Flagg, Frank Lintzen, Vincenzo Natali, Dave Pemberton, Robert Rivard, Arna Selznick, Bob Smith, Doug Thoms
Storyboard Cleanup Supervisor: Dave Thomas
Layout Supervisor: Tony Tarantini
Layout Artists: Dale Desrochers, Chad Hicks, Brian Lee, John Lei, Jeff Lyons, Mary Lyons, Chris Minz, Brian Poehlman, Affee Yepp
Color Design: Jo-Anne Merrill
Background Design: Clive Powsey
Design Supervisor: Doug Thoms
Designers: Dave Boudreau, Trevor Davies, Kevin Fraser, Stephanie Gignac, Steve Manning, Robert Walton, Richard Weston
Key Animators: Dave Boudreau, Robin Budd, Shane Doyle, Gerry Fournier, Brad Goodchild, John Hill, Niall Johnston, Rick Marshall, Lynn Reist, Cynthia Ward, Jamie Whitney, Steve Whitehouse
Paint Supervisor: Mary Bertoia
Supervising Editor: Rob Kirkpatrick
Post Production Managers: Marianne Culbert, Lan Lamon
Supervising Sound Editor: Steven Cole
Picture Editors: Algis Maciulis, Karen Lawrie
Supervising Pre-Production Editor: Darrell MacDonald
Supervising Breakdown Editor: Rick Dubiel
Recording/Transfer Technician: Mike Reid
Re-Recording Engineer: Tony Van den Akker