All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
File:All Dogs Go to Heaven - The Series (title card).jpg The title card of the animated series.
Genre	Animated sitcom Supernatural fiction
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 Lorraine Feather (lyrics)
Opening theme	"A Little Heaven", performed by Gene Miller, Clydene Jackson-Edwards, and Carmen Twillie
Ending theme	"A Little Heaven" (Instrumental)
Composers	Mark Watters (original songs) Robert Irving (music scores)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Paul Sabella Jonathan Dern
Producers	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 companies	MGM Animation MGM Television
Release
Original network	First-run syndication (1996–1998) Fox Family Channel (1998)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 21, 1996 (1996-09-21) – November 6, 1998 (1998-11-06)
Related
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 An All Dogs Christmas Carol

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series is an American animated television series, which aired from 1996 to 1998 in syndication and on Fox Family from 1998 to 1999 with 40 half-hour episodes produced in total. Don Bluth's 1989 animated feature All Dogs Go to Heaven featured a disreputable mongrel (with a mixture of a German Shepherd) named Charlie who died, went to heaven, escaped back to Earth for vengeance on his murderer and then found redemption with the help of a young orphan girl named Anne-Marie. It spawned a 1996 sequel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2. The series takes place after the second film.

Most of the voice actors from the 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 singing voice provided in the second film by Jesse Corti). A direct-to-video Christmas special An All Dogs Christmas Carol serves as the finale.

Plot

Following the events of All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Charlie and Itchy live in San Francisco as guardian angels. In each episode, Annabelle assigns them a task, and while they always try to do the right thing, they inevitably keep ending up thrust into the middle of awkward situations. Charlie's duplicitous enemy Carface and his sidekick, Killer – returning from the first film – also appear, as did Charlie's friends: the Irish Setter Sasha; the whippet angel Annabelle, and the human boy David. The series also introduces three new characters: Bess, an award-winning, purebred show dog and Itchy's romantic interest; Lance, a by-the-book Doberman Pinscher, whom Charlie is jealous of for his heroic acts; and Belladonna, Annabelle's demonic cousin.

Episodes

Main article: List of All Dogs Go to Heaven episodes

List of All Dogs Go to Heaven episodes

Voice cast

• Steven Weber as Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin
• Dom DeLuise as Itchiford "Itchy Itchiford" Dachshund
• Bebe Neuwirth as Annabelle / Belladonna
• Sheena Easton as Sasha la Fleur
• Adam Wylie as David
• Ernest Borgnine as Carface Caruthers
• Charles Nelson Reilly as Killer
• Carlos Alazraqui as Otto
• Tress MacNeille as Winifred Bessamay "Bess" de Winkerville / Gerta
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Manfred
• Mark Benninghofen as Lance the Wonder Pup
• Jess Harnell and Steve Mackall as The Blueshounds
• April Winchell as Tiffany

Music

Mark Watters wrote the show's score. Some episodes feature a song, which was more frequent in the first two seasons, and season 3 only has one. "The Perfect Dog" and "Take the Easy Way Out" earned the series two Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Original Song.

Title	Composer	Lyricist	Performer(s)	Episode
"A Little Heaven" (theme song)	Mark Watters	Lorraine Feather	Gene Miller Clydene Jackson-Edwards Carmen Twillie	All episodes
"Casanova"			Ernest Borgnine	"The Doggone Truth"
"By the Book"	Ray Colcord		Mark Benninghofen Steven Weber	"Lance, the Wonder Pup"
"It's Gotta Come from the Heart"	Michael Silversher Patty Silversher	Michael Silversher Patty Silversher	Steven Weber	"Cyrano de Barkinac"
"Everything a Girl Wants"			Sheena Easton	"Mission Im-paws-ible"
"Itchin' and a-Twitchin"	Tom Scott	Lorraine Feather	Steven Weber Dom DeLuise	"Dog Eat Dog"
"The Perfect Dog"	Michael Silversher Patty Silversher	Michael Silversher Patty Silversher	Sheena Easton Steven Weber Dom DeLuise	"The Perfect Dog"
"Take the Easy Way Out"	Richard Kaufman Scooter Pietsch	Lorraine Feather	Bebe Neuwirth Andrea L. Robinson	"La Doggie Vita"
"Party on a UFO"	Kevin Quinn Randy Petersen	Kevin Quinn Randy Petersen	Jess Harnell Steve Mackall Steven Weber Kevin Quinn Randy Petersen	"The Rexx Files"
"Sidekicks"	Megan Cavallari	David Goldsmith	Dom DeLuise Charles Nelson Reilly	"Sidekicked"
"Be Your Own Dog"	Scooter Pietsch	Lorraine Feather	Sheena Easton Andrea L. Robinson Maxi Anderson Carmen Twillie	"The Big Fetch"
"Why Not Be Happy Now?"	Mark Watters		Sheena Easton Carlos Alazraqui Sheryl Bernstein John Forsythe	"He Barked, She Barked"

Home media

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

In December 2013, TGG Direct released All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series - Complete Series on region 1 DVD. The 7-disc set features all 40 episodes, alongside An All Dogs Christmas Carol.

See also

• List of films about angels

External links

• All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series on IMDb

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