All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series

***All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series*** is an American animated adventure comedy television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 in syndication and on Fox Family in the United States, and DreamWorks Channel in Europe and Asia from 1998 to 1999, with 50 half-hour episodes and five specials produced in total. The series was produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and MGM Animation.

DreamWorks Animation's 1989 animated feature film *All Dogs Go to Heaven* featured a selfish German Shepherd named Charlie who died, went to Heaven, escaped back to Earth for vengeance on his murderer Carface and then found redemption with the help of a young orphaned girl named Anne-Marie. The film spawned a sequel, *All Dogs Go to Heaven 2* and this animated series takes place after these events.

Most of the voice actors from the feature films reprised their roles in the series, including Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bebe Neuwirth and Sheena Easton. Steven Weber provided the voice 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 Christmas special, *An All Dogs Christmas Carol*, served as the series finale.

## Plot

Set sometime after the events of the second film, Charlie, Itchy and Anne-Marie live in New Orleans as guardian angels. In each episode, they are given an assignment by Annabelle but, while they try to do the right thing, they become caught up in the middle of awkward situations. The trio's callous enemy Carface and his henchmen, Fee, Line and Killer (all the three returning from the first film), also appeared in the series, as well as supporting characters from both films such as the dog Sasha, the dog-angel Annabelle, the dog Flo and the gator King Gator (the latter two also returning from the first film). Finally, the series also featured two new characters named Bess, a purebred award winning show dog and Itchy's love interest, and Belladonna, Annabelle's demonic cousin who replaced Red from the second film.

The series makes several changes to the second film, which led fans to consider both the series and the specials as non-canon. For example, Charlie and Sasha were shown as being a couple at the end of the second film, however, in the series, they seem to have never had a first date together; also, Anne-Marie and her adoptive family have moved to San Francisco at the beginning of the second film but they are still living on New Orleans, Killer had reformed at the end of the first film but is still working to Carface, and Itchy decided to stay in Heaven while Carface was sent to Hell after unknowingly selling his soul to Red, but both are alive in the series, although it is explained later in the series why Itchy is on Earth instead of being in Heaven.

## Characters

* **Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin** (voiced by Steven Weber)
* **Itchy Itchiford** (voiced by Dom DeLuise)
* **Anne-Marie** (voiced by Lacey Chabert)
* **Sasha la Fleur-Barkin** (voiced by Sheena Easton)
* **Annabelle** (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth)
* **Carface Caruthers** (voiced by Ernest Borgnine)
* **Fee** (voiced by Paul Winchell)
	+ **Line** (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui)
	+ **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)
* **Flo** (vocied by Tress MacNeille)
* **King Gator** (voiced by Billy West)
* **Harold and Kate** (voiced by Steven Weber and Tress MacNeille)
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## Trivia

* *All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series* is DreamWorks' third animated series based on an animated film after *The Adventures of Platero* and *Headin' South: The New Adventures of Janice*.
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