Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
Created by Tony Barnes
Starring Kerry Shale
Christian Rodska
Nicolette McKenzie
Country of origin France
United Kingdom
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 65
Production
Producer(s) Philippe Mounier
Running time 25 min
Release
Original release June 13, 1994 – August 21, 1997

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) was an animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP Philppe Mounier Marketing Production. The show originally aired on TF1 and it was later dubbed for English audiences as well; even the show's title got a name change. It aired in the United Kingdom on ITV; starting June 13, 1994 and finishing August 21, 1997, the show ran for four seasons.

A comic strip version of the show was included in Buster magazine from September 1994 to November 1996. 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).

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

  1. Welcome To The Transylvania Pet Shop - first aired: 13/06/1994 (the obvious pilot episode of the show)
  2. Grime Does Not Pay - first aired: 20/06/1994
  3. Food Glorious Pet Food - first aired: 27/06/1994
  4. Bringing Up Horribaby - first aired: 04/07/1994
  5. Every Dog Has Its Show - first aired: 11/07/1994
  6. Ants In Your Pants - first aired: 18/07/1994
  7. Bungle in the Jungle - first aired: 25/07/1994
  8. Pirate Parrot - first aired: 01/08/1994
  9. Double Trouble - first aired: 08/08/1994
  10. Halloween Horse Race - first aired: 15/08/1994
  11. Where Mouse? - first aired: 22/08/1994
  12. Gorilla Thriller - first aired: 05/09/1994 (most sources say 'Double Trouble' and 'Halloween Horse Race' are the last two episodes, but the last two episodes in series one are actually 'Where Mouse?' and 'Gorilla Thriller') [though these are only the last two episodes in series one; not the last two episodes of the whole show]
  13. Triassic Lark - first aired: 12/09/1994

Series Two

  1. Inspector Spector - first aired: 09/06/1995
  2. Pyramid Pandemonium - first aired: 16/06/1995
  3. Hooray for Horrywood - first aired: 25/08/1995

Series Three

  1. Don't Hoot I'm Only the Piano Slayer - first aired: 11/06/1996

Series Four

  1. A True Fairy Tale - first aired: 29/05/1997
  2. What's Up Doc? - first aired: 07/08/1997
  3. Dances the Hula - first aired: 21/08/1997

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

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