Dog City is an American/Canadian animated television series that was
produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions in association
with Channel 4, Global Television Network, FORTA and Canal+ Spain and
aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to November 26, 1994 and in
Canada on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by
Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson Productions, similar to Little
Muppet Monsters.Dog City was originally an hour-long live-action TV
movie, 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, who, as it turns out, 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 gets the girl.Dog City: The
Movie also features cameos by Sprocket the Dog from Fraggle Rock, Lyle
the Dog and Baskerville the Hound from The Muppet Show, a dog
character that resembles Tramp from Lady and the Tramp, and a
background pug that later appears in Jim Henson's Animal Show, Puppet
Up!, and other Henson Alternative projects.The Muppets of Ace Yu and
his associates would make cameos in The Muppets at Walt Disney World
and would later go on to become Eliot Shag and the other "real world"
counterparts to the animated characters.
produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions in association
with Channel 4, Global Television Network, FORTA and Canal+ Spain and
aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to November 26, 1994 and in
Canada on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by
Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson Productions, similar to Little
Muppet Monsters.Dog City was originally an hour-long live-action TV
movie, 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, who, as it turns out, 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 gets the girl.Dog City: The
Movie also features cameos by Sprocket the Dog from Fraggle Rock, Lyle
the Dog and Baskerville the Hound from The Muppet Show, a dog
character that resembles Tramp from Lady and the Tramp, and a
background pug that later appears in Jim Henson's Animal Show, Puppet
Up!, and other Henson Alternative projects.The Muppets of Ace Yu and
his associates would make cameos in The Muppets at Walt Disney World
and would later go on to become Eliot Shag and the other "real world"
counterparts to the animated characters.
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