Bad Dog (TV series)
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Bad Dog is an animated series produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment for the Teletoon and Fox Family Channel networks, first airing on Teletoon on March 1, 1999.[1] The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog.[2]
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Genre | Animation |
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Directed by | Joseph Jacques |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 40 |
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Producer | Louis Duquet |
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Release | July 18, 1998 (1998-07-18) – December 14, 2000 (2000-12-14) |
The show was inspired by the After Dark screensaver "Bad Dog".[3] The two dogs have a similar appearance, and the "Bad Dog" of the show is named Berkeley, a likely reference to Berkeley Systems, the creators of After Dark.[4] The show was paired with another series called Monster Farm.
Internationally, the series did air on Fox Kids (later known as Jetix), being lastly rerun in 2011 on Disney Channel in Netherlands.