All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
This title card of the animated series.
Genre	Sitcom Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Based on	All Dogs Go to Heaven, by Don Bluth
Directed by	Gary Selvaggio (Season 1–2) John Grusd (Season 3)
Voices of	Steven Weber Dom DeLuise Sheena Easton Ernest Borgnine Charles Nelson Reilly Bebe Neuwirth
Theme music composer	Mark Watters
Opening theme	"A Little Heaven", performed by Gene Miller, Clydene Jackson-Edwards, and Carmen Twillie
Ending theme	"A Little Heaven" (Instrumental)
Composer(s)	Mark Watters (original songs) Robert Irving (music scores)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Paul Sabella Jonathan Dern
Producer(s)	John Grusd (Season 3 only) Robert Winthrop (associate producer, S01) Cary Silver (associate producer, S02–03) Jymn Magon (co-producer, season 3)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation
Distributor	Claster Television (1996–1997) MGM Worldwide Television Distribution (1998)
Release
Original network	First-run syndication (1996–1998) Fox Family (1998)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 21, 1996 (1996-09-21) – November 6, 1998 (1998-11-06)
Chronology
Preceded by	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Followed by	An All Dogs Christmas Carol

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series is an animated television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 in syndication and on the Fox Family Channel from 1998 to 1999, with 40 half-hour episodes produced in total. The series was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation, and was distributed by Claster Television (in the years 1996 and 1997) and MGM Worldwide Television Distribution in 1998; finally, its animation was by the studios Wang Film Productions and Thai Wang Film Production Co., Ltd.. Don Bluth’s 1989 animated feature All Dogs Go to Heaven featured a roguish German Shepherd named Charlie who died, went to heaven, conned his way back to Earth for vengeance on his killer Carface and then found redemption through a little orphaned girl named Anne-Marie. The film was popular with audiences, spawning a sequel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and this animated series.

Most of the voice actors from the feature films reprised their roles in the series, including Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bebe Neuwirth, Sheena Easton, and Adam Wylie. Steven Weber provided the speaking and singing voices of Charlie B. Barkin, who was voiced in the films by Burt Reynolds and Charlie Sheen (and sung in the second film by Jesse Corti).

Plot

Charlie and Itchy live in San Francisco as guardian angels. In each episode, they are given a mission by Anabelle but, while they try to do the right thing, they become caught up in the middle of difficult situations. Charlie’s villainous rival Carface and his sidekick, Killer (from the first film), also appeared in the series, as did Charlie’s friends: the dog Sasha, the dog-angel Anabelle, and the human kid David. Finally, the series also featured two new characters named Bess, a pure bred award winning show dog and Itchy's love interest, and Belladonna, Anabelle's demonic antagonist cousin. The series makes several changes to the second film. For example, Charlie and Sasha were shown as being together at the end of the second film, however, in the series, they seem to have never had a first date together; also, Itchy decides to stay in Heaven, but he is alive in the series, although it becomes clear later in the series why he is on Earth instead of being in Heaven.

Characters

• Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin (voiced by Steven Weber)
• Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise)
• Anabelle (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth)
• Sasha La Fleur (voiced by Sheena Easton)
• David (voiced by Adam Wylie)
• Carface Caruthers (voiced by Ernest Borgnine)
• Killer (voiced by Charles Nelson Reilly)
  • Otto (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui)
  • The Wild Pack
• Belladonna (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth)
• Winifred Bessamay "Bess" de Winkerville (voiced by Tress MacNeille)
  • Manfred (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson)
• Gerta (voiced by Tress MacNeille)

Episodes

Principal voice actors

• Ernest Borgnine - Carface Caruthers
• Dom DeLuise - Itchy Itchiford
• Sheena Easton - Sasha La Fleur
• Bebe Neuwirth - Anabelle, Belladonna
• Charles Nelson Reilly - Killer
• Steven Weber - Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin

Additional voices

Songs

The theme song for the series is "A Little Heaven", written by Lorraine Feather and Mark Watters (which is also the music composer). The singers were Gene Miller of Nashville, Clydene Jackson-Edwards, and Carmen Twillie. Below are the main songs in the series, which is six in the first season, four in the second season, and one in the third season; all for a total of eleven songs.

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Crew

• Maria Estrada - Casting and Voice Director
• Gene Miller - Theme Song Performer
• Clydene Jackson Edwards - Theme Song Performer
• Carmen Twillie - Theme Song Performer

Home video history

In the 1990s, several VHS editions of the series were released, each containing two episodes. In 2006, two volumes of the series were released by MGM Home Entertainment, each containing four episodes. The entire series is available for digital download on iTunes, available for free on hulu.com. In Spring 2011, the entire series became available on YouTube through MGM Digital Media.

TGG Direct has released all three seasons on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.^[1][2][3] On December 3, 2013, TGG Direct released All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series - Complete Series on DVD.^[4] The 7-disc set features all 40 episodes of the series as well as the TV movie An All Dogs Christmas Carol.

References

External links

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