Dog City: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The animated portions of the show focused on a canine private investigator 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. 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 superintendent 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.

Series details

• Title: Dog City
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Children
• Premiere date: 1992-09-26
• Final broadcast date listed: 1994-11-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: FOX
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.2/10
• TVMaze ID: 58631
• IMDb ID: tt0120949
• TVDB ID: 70394

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1992-09-26; final listed air date 1993-01-30; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 1993-09-18; final listed air date 1993-11-20; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 1994-09-17; final listed air date 1994-11-26; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dog City on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.