All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series facts for kids

Quick facts for kids All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series
The title card of the animated series.
Genre	Animated sitcom Farce Fantasy Adventure
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)
Composer(s)	Mark Watters (original songs) Robert Irving (music scores)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Paul Sabella Jonathan Dern
Producer(s)	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 company(s)	MGM Animation MGM Television
Distributor	Claster Television (1996–1998) (seasons 1–2) MGM Domestic Television Distribution (1998) (season 3)
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)
Chronology
Preceded by	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Followed by	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 Carface and then found redemption with the help of a young orphaned girl named Anne-Marie. The film spawned a 1996 sequel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, and this animated series takes place after the second film.

Most of the voice actors from the feature 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 Christmas special An All Dogs Christmas Carol serves as the finale.

Plot

Charlie and Itchy live in San Francisco as guardian angels. In each episode, they are given an assignment by Anabelle but, while they try to do the right thing, they become caught up in the middle of awkward situations. Charlie's duplicitous enemy Carface and his sidekick, Killer returning from the first film, also appeared in the series, as did Charlie's friends: the dog Sasha, the dog-angel Anabelle, and the human kid David. Finally, the series also featured three new characters named Bess, a pure bred award-winning show dog and Itchy's girlfriend, Lance, a Doberman Pinscher who is a by-the-book dog whom Charlie is jealous of for his heroic acts, and Belladonna, Anabelle's demonic cousin. The series makes several changes to the second film, which led many fans to consider the series 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 only seem to be friendzoned, also, Itchy decides to stay in Heaven, but he is alive in the series, although it is explained later in the series why he is on Earth instead of being in Heaven.

Episodes

List of All Dogs Go to Heaven episodes

Characters

• Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin (voiced by Steven Weber)
• Itchiford "Itchy" Dachshund (voiced by Dom DeLuise)
• Annabelle (voiced by Bebe Neuwirth)
• Sasha la Fleur (voiced by Sheena Easton)
• David (voiced by Adam Wylie)
• Carface Caruthers (voiced by Ernest Borgnine)
• 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)
• Gerta (voiced by Tress MacNeille)
• Lance (voiced by Mark Benninghofen)

Songs

The theme song for the series is "A Little Heaven", written by Lorraine Feather and Mark Watters (which is also the music composer). The singers were Gene Miller of Nashville, Clydene Jackson-Edwards, and Carmen Twillie. Below are the main songs in the series, which is six in the first season, four in the second season, and one in the third season; all for a total of eleven songs.

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Voices

• Ernest Borgnine as Carface Cruthers
• Dom DeLuise as Itchford "Itchy" Daschsund
• Sheena Easton as Sasha le Fleur
• Bebe Neuwirth as Annabelle, Belladonna
• Charles Nelson Reilly as Killer
• Steven Weber as Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin

Crew

• Maria Estrada - Casting and Voice Director
• Gene Miller - Theme Song Performer
• Clydene Jackson Edwards - Theme Song Performer
• Carmen Twillie - Theme Song Performer

Home media

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

TGG Direct has released all three seasons on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. On December 3, 2013, TGG Direct released All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series - Complete Series on DVD. The 7-disc set features all 40 episodes of the series as well as the TV movie An All Dogs Christmas Carol.