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***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.

## 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*.

## Notes

1. ↑ Animation outsourced to Wang Film Productions and Thai Wang Film Productions.

## References

1. ↑ Perlmutter, David (2018). *The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows*. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 21–22. ISBN 978-1538103739.
2. ↑ Erickson, Hal (2005). *Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003* (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-1476665993.
3. ↑ All Dogs Go to Heaven: Complete Season One
4. ↑ All Dogs Go to Heaven: Complete Season Two
5. ↑ All Dogs Go to Heaven: Complete Season Three
6. ↑ All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Complete Series

## External links

* *All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series* on IMDb

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