Doug

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Doug
Genre	Animated television series
Creator(s)	Jim Jinkins Joe Aaron
Starring	Billy West Fred Newman Constance Shulman Becca Lish Alice Playten Doug Preis Greg Lee
Narrated by	Billy West (1991-1994) Thomas McHugh (1996-1999)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	117 (98 11-minute episodes, 67 22-minute episodes, and 1 theatrical feature-length film) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode) – Doug: The Series 22 minutes (approx. per episode) – Disney's Doug
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon (1991-1994) ABC (1996-1999)
Original run	August 11, 1991 – December 16, 1994 (Doug: The Series) – September 7, 1996 – June 5, 1999 (Disney's Doug)
Links
TV.com summary

Doug was an animated television series on Nickelodeon and is the first Nicktoon ever made, starring a 6th grader named Doug Funnie (full name: Douglas Yancey Funnie). The series originated with an unpublished book, Doug Got a New Pair of Shoes, by artist and series creator Jim Jinkins and writer Joe Aaron, which was followed up by an USA Network promo featuring Doug and his dog Porkchop, and an ad for Florida Grapefruit Juice. The series premiered on Nickelodeon in 1991, where it ran until 1996. The episodes shown on Nickelodeon were produced during 1991-1994. In 1996, Disney produced new episodes following its acquisition of Jumbo Pictures. It ran on ABC from 1996-1999, as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning block.

Contents 1 Disney's Doug 2 Specials 3 Characters 4 Episodes 5 Copyright claims 6 Popularity 7 Richmond 8 External links

[edit] Disney's Doug

In February 1996, Disney bought Jumbo Pictures, and ordered new episodes of Doug to be produced (renamed Brand Spanking New! Doug and then later Disney's Doug). The new episodes featured a new theme song and brought a new baby sister for Doug as well as a change in age to 12½ years old. It also brought a new haircut for Patti, more money for Roger, weight loss for Connie, and much more. Less easily noticed was the change in Doug's haircut, due perhaps to approaching puberty, perhaps to copyright considerations. The original Doug has eight hairs. Disney's Doug has nine. Also included was a change of clothes for everyone and a brand new middle school. These episodes aired on ABC's One Saturday Morning cartoon block from September 1996 to September 9, 2000. In March 1999, Disney introduced Doug: Live! to its Walt Disney World theme park. This musical stage show based on the television series ran at Disney-MGM Studios until May 2001. After 65 additional episodes and a theatrical feature-length film, Disney's Doug went out of production in 1999.

During the course of the show, Doug was nominated for 4 Daytime Emmy Awards^{[citation needed]}. Since the end of production, also featured on Toon Disney, but due to scheduling changes and the addition of JETIX, it has vanished completely off the network. Along with a number of other shows, it was removed from schedules in November 2004 and has not been seen since. It is unknown if it will ever return, and Disney currently has no plans to release the series on a DVD set. The sale made Doug the only Nicktoon to ever be sold to a non-Viacom company (Ren & Stimpy was picked up by Spike TV in 2003 as the Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon).

[edit] Specials

• Doug's Halloween Adventure (1994)
• Doug's Christmas Story

[edit] Characters

Main article: List of Doug characters

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Doug episodes

Nickelodeon's Doug (52 episodes; 4 seasons) featured two eleven-minute stories with a commercial break between. ABC's Doug (65 episodes; 3 seasons) had a single theme the whole episode. Disney also produced a full-length movie (Doug's 1st Movie).

[edit] Copyright claims

Three parties lay claim to Doug:

• Disney for all episodes produced since 1996.
• Nickelodeon for all episodes produced for that channel, 1991 to 1994. However, Nickelodeon owns the distribution rights only for North and South America.
• Groupe Ellipse, the co-producer of the Nick version, has distribution rights for other parts of the world.

[edit] Popularity

The popularity of Doug spawned merchandise such as clothes, toys, and a number of books. It is available on home video, but it has not yet been released on DVD due to the copyright claims. Unofficially licensed sets of DVDs of the complete series of Nickelodeon Doug, however, have recently been spotted on eBay.com. A video game called Doug's Big Game was also released in 2000. Even a live 30-minute musical stage performance called "Disney's Doug Live!" was created and performed at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. The show ran from March 15, 1999 to May 6, 2001.

[edit] Richmond

Several times throughout the series, references are made to locations in Richmond, Virginia, where creator Jim Jinkins was born and raised. These include the Moody School which Doug's sister Judy attends, analogous to Moody Middle School in Henrico County, and the Four Leaf Clover Mall, analogous to the Cloverleaf Mall in nearby Chesterfield County. Several street names from Richmond's West End are also included. As well, the Honker Burger is supposed to be a reference to Roy's Big Burger, a popular burger joint in Richmond's Lakeside area. The neighboring city of Bloatsburg is a reference to Blacksburg[citation needed]. Blacksburg is three hours away.

[edit] External links

• Doug and Porkchop in a 1990 Promo for USA Network - via YouTube
• Doug at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Doug at the Internet Movie Database
• Disney's Doug at the Internet Movie Database
• "Killer Tofu" by the fictional band "The Beets"
• The Beets at MySpace
• 1990 ad for Florida Grapefruit juice featuring an early Doug Funnie
• Jump The Shark - Doug
• TV.com - Doug

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