All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series

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All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
Format Animation
Directed by John Grusd
Gary Selvaggio
Starring Charlie B. Barkin
Dom DeLuise
Sheena Easton
Ernest Borgnine
April Winchell
Bebe Neuwirth
Sheryl Bernstein
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 40
Production
Running time 22 min
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Audio format Stereo
First shown in September 21, 1996
External links
IMDb profile

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series is an animated television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which aired from 1996 to 1999 with over 41 half-hour episodes produced. Don Bluth’s 1989 animated feature All Dogs Go To Heaven featured a roguish mutt named Charlie, who died, went to heaven (as all dogs do), conned his way back to Earth for vengeance on his killer, then found redemption through a little orphaned girl. The film warmed audience’s hearts, spawning a film sequel and this animated series.

The series picks up where All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 left off. Charlie and Itchy live in San Francisco (rather than New Orleans) as guardian angels, getting their missions from Anabelle. The show was a family sitcom, with Charlie and Itchy getting mixed up in several misadventures while trying to do the right thing. Charlie’s villainous rival, Carface and his hench-dog Killer also carried over into the series, as did Charlie’s pooch pals Sasha, and Annabelle.

Most of the voice actors from the feature film reprised their roles in the series, including Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bebe Neuwirth, and Sheena Easton.

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[edit] Characters

  • Charlie B. Barkin: (Steven Weber) As always, Charlie is the star of the show. Working as a guardian angel, he is always on the lookout for trouble. As himself, by contrast, he is constantly making it.
  • Itchy Itchiford: (Dom DeLuise) Always loyal, Itchy is back as Charlie's devoted sidekick once more. With a deep sense of duty and a great zeal for life, Itchy generally tries to keep his buddy in line, but he's usually lucky just to keep up.
  • Annabelle: (Bebe Neuwirth) The whippet archangel Annabelle pops up in the series on a regular basis to give Charle and Itchy their assignments. Good-hearted as always, there is some room for question as to whether she trusts Charlie a little more than she should.
  • Sasha LaFleur: (Sheena Easton) Making a return from All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Sasha is Charlie's on-again, off-again "girlfriend." Their relationship during the series has ups and downs as intense as any roller coaster, with exchanges of romantic words one episode and thrown objects the next. Sasha also runs a diner called the "La Fleur Den," or "The Flea Bite."
  • Winnifred Bessime de Winkerville: (Tress MacNeille) Prefers to be called "Bess," as opposed to her long-winded full name. Bess is Itchy's girlfriend in the series, having met him in "Cyrano de Barkinac" when the dachshund stopped a mail truck which would have otherwise hit Bess. She is a show dog with a remarkable pedigree and an impressive collection of trophies and awards, and she frequenly jogs to keep herself in top condition.
  • Carface Caruthers: (Ernest Borgnine) Back again and (almost) as rotten as ever, Carface pops up in the series anytime Charlie isn't able to cause enough trouble on his own.
  • Killer: (Charles Nelson Reilly) Killer is back as Carface's sidekick (again), although he is only a minor character. Pathetic and slow-witted, he is essentially useless to Carface as anything but a stooge, and usually even fouls that up.
  • Belladonna: (Bebe Neuwirth) Annabelle's hellish cousin, Belladonna is forever trying to foul things up for the dynamic dog duo. Sly, sadistic, and even mildly seductive at times, Belladonna is a veritable canine of Satan.

[edit] Movie and series differences.

Viewers have observed a number of continuity flaws between the series and the movies it originated from. Some of these "errors," have been explained in the course of the show, while others have not.

[edit] Charlie

At the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Charlie gave up being an angel to live on earth with Sasha. However, in the series he somehow has returned to being an angel. To further the confusion, the angel-wing pin (or "merit badge," as hereferred to it in the movie) which Annabelle said he could claim in "oh, say... twenty years," is now in his possession. Morevoer, it now seems to go beyond being a mere badge of honor, apparently gifting him with increased strength.

[edit] Itchy

At the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Itchy chose to stay in Heaven because of the wings and lack of fleas which he enjoyed there. However, in the series he is once more on Earth, literally in the flesh. His personality has also been altered-whereas before he was reserved almost to the point of cowardice, now he shows a remarkable zest for life. The question of his presence on Earth is answered when, in one episode, it was revealed that he had willfully signed up for working alongside Charlie.

[edit] Carface

Carface, who was banished to Hell at the end of the second movie, is also back in the world of the living in several episodes. This, unlike Itchy's presence, is never properly explained.

[edit] Charlie and Sasha

Perhaps the most continuous discrepancy surrounds the matter of Charlie and Sasha's relationship. Whereas they were (for want of a better word) married and living with David at the end of the second movie, in the series their relationship is significantly altered. They now live separately, neither of their homes are in a human residence, and their relationship is shaky. Charlie still shows plain admiration of Sasha, while Sasha's attraction to Charlie, though clearly present throughout the series, varies in clarity from episode to episode. In "The Perfect Dog," Sasha mostly points out Charlie's shortcomings (much more blatantly than in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, when she did it with a humorous tone), only showing her true concern for him when she believes he is dead, at which point she admits that she wants him rather than a "perfect dog."

[edit] Episode list

1st Season 1996-1997 (ABC)

01. 21 Sep 96 The Doggone Truth
02. 28 Sep 96 Field Trip
03. 05 Oct 96 Lance the Wonder Pup
04. 19 Oct 96 Puppy Sitter
05. 02 Nov 96 Dogs in the House
06. 09 Nov 96 Cyrano de Barkinac
07. 16 Nov 96 An Itch in Time
08. 23 Nov 96 Mission Im-paws-ible
09. 30 Nov 96 Mutts Ado About Nothing
10. 18 Jan 97 Dog Eat Dog
11. 25 Jan 97 Will Success Spoil Itchy Itchiford?
12. 01 Feb 97 Heaventh Inning Stretch
13. 22 Feb 97 The Perfect Dog

2nd Season 1997-1998

14. 20 Sep 97 La Doggie Vita
15. 27 Sep 97 Travels with Charlie
16. 04 Oct 97 Charlie's Cat-Astrophe
17. 11 Oct 97 Magical Misery Tour
18. 18 Oct 97 Miss Guidance
19. 08 Nov 97 Fearless Fido
20. 15 Nov 97 Pair-A-Dogs Lost
21. 22 Nov 97 Kibbleland
22. 31 Jan 98 The Rexx Files
23. 07 Feb 98 Sidekicked
24. 14 Feb 98 Heaven Nose
25. 21 Feb 98 The Big Fetch
26. 28 Feb 98 All Creatures Great & Dinky

3rd Season 1998 (now on Fox Family Channel)

27. 31 Jul 98 Free Nelly
28. 07 Aug 98 Dogfaces
29. 14 Aug 98 Charlie the Human
30. 21 Aug 98 History of All Dogs
31. 28 Aug 98 Trading Collars
32. 04 Sep 98 Whacked to the Future
33. 11 Sep 98 Dr. Jekyll & Mangy Hide
34. 18 Sep 98 Charlie's Angle
35. 25 Sep 98 Agent from F.I.D.O.
36. 2 Oct 98 Bess and Itchy's Dog School Reunion
37. 09 Oct 98 When Hairy Met Silly
38. 16 Oct 98 The Wrong Stuff
39. 30 Oct 98 Haunted Is as Haunted Does
40. 06 Nov 98 He Barked, She Barked

Special

41. Dec 98 An All Dogs Christmas Carol (90 min)

[edit] Broadcasting History

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