Bad Dog (TV series)

For the Animal Planet TV series, see Bad Dog!
Bad Dog
GenreAnimation
Written by
  • Taylor Grant
  • Brent Piaskoski
Directed byJoseph Jacques
Voices of
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes40
Production
Executive producers
  • Jacques Pettigrew
  • Michael Lemire
ProducerLouis Duquet
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseJuly 18, 1998 (1998-07-18) –
December 14, 2000 (2000-12-14)
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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]

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.

  1. ^ "Archived copy". teletoon.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 1999. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 21. ISBN 9781476672939.
  3. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  4. ^ "Bonneau names that toon".