Dog City
Debut: December 15, 1992
Ended: December 15, 1995

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 neighbor 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.

Intros
Posters
Quotes
Ace: "The name's Ace.......Ace Hart....Private Eye....Dog -Ace"
Ace Hart: "Ace: Whoa, the future doesn't look so bad. (looks over and sees himself at hot-dog stand) Ace of future: You want fries with that? Ace Hart: The future stinks. -Ace Hart"
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