Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop

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Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
Created byTony Barnes
Starring Kerry Shale
Christian Rodska
Nicolette McKenzie
Country of originFrance
United Kingdom
Original languagesFrench
English
No. of series4
No. of episodes65 (13 unaired)
Production
ProducerPhilippe Mounier
Running time25 min
Production companies PMMP
Fairwater Films
Shanghai Morning Sun Animation Company Limited
Original release
Release20 June 1994 (1994-06-20) –
21 August 1997 (1997-08-21)

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) is a 1994-1997 animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP and Fairwater Films and distributed in the UK by The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd (who also produced Potsworth & Co. and Budgie the Little Helicopter ) which was later changed to SKD Media and Entertainment Rights and then dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) and by PMMP and TF1 Intl in the rest of the world. 65 episodes were produced. [1]

Contents

The show aired in the United Kingdom on ITV starting 20 June 1994 and finishing 21 August 1997, while in France it aired on TF1 from 4 September 1996. The show ran for four series. Music for the series was composed by Danny Chang and Tony Barnes.

A comic strip version of the show was included in Buster magazine from September 1994 to November 1996. [1] The series was later repeated on Nickelodeon in the early 2000s until 2004, and had sporadic reruns on ordinary TV from 1999 until 2001 (it was put on hiatus in 2002).

It was also aired on cable television in Australia first airing on Nickelodeon and later on Cartoon Network.

Plot summary

Dr. Zitbag was a Pet Shop worker who wasn't very good at selling any pets at all and because of this he was fired from the local Transylvanian Pet Shop. So he decides to set up his own Pet Shop at an old Haunted Castle and finds out that he will have to share the place with a skeleton dog, Horrifido. With Horrifido now helping him out, the doctor begins use with his inventions to create Horrific Pets to gain his profit.

Characters

List of episodes

Twelve of a total of 65 episodes were released on video.

Series One (1994)

  1. Welcome To The Transylvania Pet Shop - first aired: 20/06/1994 [4] (the pilot episode of the show)
  2. Grime Does Not Pay - first aired: 27/06/1994 [5]
    There was no episode broadcast on 04/07/1994 due to a showing of Dragonslayer as a result of schedule changes regarding the 1994 FIFA World Cup. [6]
  3. Horrybaby - first aired: 11/07/1994 [7]
  4. Food Glorious Pet Food - first aired: 18/07/1994 [8]
  5. Ants In Your Pants - first aired: 25/07/1994 [9]
  6. Every Dog Has Its Show - first aired: 01/08/1994 [10]
  7. Gorilla Thriller - first aired: 08/08/1994 [11]
  8. Where Mouse - first aired: 15/08/1994 [12]
  9. Pirate Parrots - first aired: 22/08/1994 [13]
    There was no episode shown on 29/08/1994 due to it being public holiday.
  10. Bungle in the Jungle - first aired: 05/09/1994 [14]
  11. Halloween Horse Race - first aired: 12/09/1994 [15]
  12. Double Trouble - first aired: 19/09/1994 [16]
  13. Triassic Lark - first aired: 26/09/1994 [17] - The children were demanding dinosaurs for pets, which caused Dr. Zitbag and Horrifido to construct a time machine in order to travel to prehistoric times so to capture some baby dinosaurs. After minor setbacks such as travelling to before creation and the future, they have arrived, unbeknownst that Officer Deadbeat had snuck on board and had his hijinks with a cavewoman. This is the first episode (also applies to every episode beyond) that was only broadcast and never commercially released.

Series Two (1995)

  1. Inspectre Spector - first aired: 09/06/1995 [18]
  2. Pyramid Pandemonium - first aired: 16/06/1995 [19]
  3. Computer Bugged - first aired: 23/06/1995 [20]
  4. Kangaroo Caught - first aired: 30/06/1995 [21]
  5. Orang-Utans and Lemmings - first aired: 07/07/1995 [22]
  6. Medieval Dread - first aired: 14/07/1995 [23]
  7. Easter Funny - first aired: 21/07/1995 [24]
  8. Happy Horridays - first aired: 28/07/1995 [25]
  9. Transylvania Excess - first aired: 04/08/1995 [26]
  10. Do You Believe in Humans? - first aired: 11/08/1995 [27]
  11. Loch Mess Monster - first aired: 18/08/1995 [28]
  12. Hooray for Horrywood - first aired: 25/08/1995 [29]
  13. The Show Mustn't Go On - first aired: 01/09/1995 [30]

Series Three (1996)

  1. Don't Hoot, I'm Only the Piano Slayer - first aired: 11/06/1996 [31]
  2. Pinball Wizard - first aired: 18/06/1996 [32]
  3. From Transylvania with Love - first aired: 25/06/1996 [33]
  4. Tele Nightmare - first aired: 02/07/1996 [34]
  5. A Close Shave - first aired: 09/07/1996 [35]
  6. Lost Wages - first aired: 16/07/1996 [36]
  7. Son of Zitbag - first aired: 23/07/1996 [37]
  8. Cranksgiving Chaos - first aired: 30/07/1996 [38]
  9. Bride of Horrifido - first aired: 06/08/1996 [39]
  10. Horrorgrammes Horrolympics - first aired: 13/08/1996 [40]
  11. Slime Suspect - first aired: 20/08/1996 [41]
  12. Moby Duck Billed Platypus - first aired: 27/08/1996 [42]
  13. I Was a Teenage Zitbag - first aired: 03/09/1996 [43]

Series Four (1997)

  1. A True Fairy Tale - first aired: 29/05/1997 [44]
  2. For Better or For Curse - first aired: 05/06/1997 [45]
  3. Horrorlection Fever - first aired: 12/06/1997 [46]
  4. Time is Big Money - first aired: 19/06/1997 [47]
  5. Happy Mishmash - first aired: 26/06/1997 [48]
  6. Tele-Zitportation - first aired: 03/07/1997 [49]
  7. A Giant Problem - first aired: 10/07/1997 [50]
  8. My Zister - first aired: 17/07/1997 [51]
  9. The Seventh Art - first aired: 24/07/1997 [52]
  10. Nothing There - first aired: 31/07/1997 [53]
  11. Doc, What's Up - first aired: 07/08/1997 [54]
  12. Terror in Transylvania - first aired: 14/08/1997 [55]
  13. Dances the Hula - first aired: 21/08/1997 [56]

Series Five (Unaired)

The following episodes never aired on CITV.

  1. End of Season
  2. Rose Button
  3. Scare Tactics
  4. Hydrious Monster
  5. Zlotys Galore
  6. Bluebald
  7. Dr. Zitbag Against Silly Holmes
  8. Mad Scientific Shenanigans
  9. The Ridiculous Journey
  10. Horrible Horrorscopes
  11. Anarchic Arctic Antics
  12. Word of Horror
  13. Forever Fiends

Transylvania Pet Shop is currently one of the most requested unreleased DVDs at TVShowsOnDVD.com.[ citation needed ]

Season 1 is currently available for download (In English) from Amazon UK. [57]

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  26. ↑ Television July 29-August 4, 1995: Friday Early, The Times , 29 July 1995 (pg.21); DESCRIPTION: "Dr Zitbag helps to recapture a train load of dangerous creatures."
  27. ↑ 11 August Friday, The People , 6 August 1995 (pg.71); DESCRIPTION: "Will Dr Zitbag sell up?"
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  34. ↑ Today's TV, Perthshire Advertiser , 2 July 1996 (pg.18); DESCRIPTION: "Our heroes are sucked into a television and their only hope is for everyone to switch off their sets."
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  41. ↑ Gorey Guardian, 14 August 1996 (pg.61); DESCRIPTION: "Zitbag decides to sell the slime that is very popular among Transylvanians."
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  44. ↑ BFI Collections Search: A True Fairy Tale
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