Dog City

Jim Henson


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| last_aired = {{end date|1994|11|26}}
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””’Dog City””’ is an [[Animated series|animated television series]] that was produced by [[Nelvana|Nelvana Limited]] and [[The Jim Henson Company|Jim Henson Productions]] in association with [[Channel 4 (UK)|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 (Canadian TV channel)|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=158 }}</ref>
””’Dog City””’ is an [[Animated series|animated television series]] that was produced by [[Nelvana|Nelvana Limited]] and [[The Jim Henson Company|Jim Henson Productions]] in association with [[Channel 4 (UK)|Channel 4]] (UK) and [[Global Television Network]]. The series ran for three seasons, airing on [[Fox Kids]] from September 26, 1992, to November , 1994; in Canada, the series aired on [[YTV (Canadian TV channel)|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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=158 }}</ref>
The series starred [[Kevin Clash]] as Eliot Shag, a [[German Shepherd]] animator, and the voice talents of [[Ron White (actor)|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.
The series starred [[Kevin Clash]] as Eliot Shag, a [[German Shepherd]] animator, and the voice talents of [[Ron White (actor)|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.

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