Dogstar | |
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Created by | Doug Macleod Colin South John Tatoulis |
Directed by | Aaron Davies |
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Narrated by | Shaun Micallef |
Composer | Yuri Worontschak |
Country of origin | Australia |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
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Executive producers | Colin South Jo Horsburgh Emma Fitzsimmons |
Producers | Colin South Ross Hutchens |
Running time | 25 minutes (30 with commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | Nine Network |
Release | 4 September 2006 – 2011 |
Dogstar is an Australian animated television series produced by Media World Pictures [1] which first screened on the Nine Network in 2006, and then Disney Channel Australia. There are 26 episodes in each season. [2]
Dogstar was produced by Colin South and Ross Hutchens, written by Doug MacLeod and Philip Dalkin, designed by Scott Vanden Bosch [3] and directed by Aaron Davies. Editing and special effects were done by Merlin Cornish and the music was composed by Yuri Worontschak.
After thousands of years of wars, pollution, undrinkable water and silly cartoon shows, humans are forced to leave Earth and move everything and everyone to a new planet: New Earth. But not everything goes to plan when the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world's dogs, goes off course and becomes lost in space. On New Earth, the evil Bob Santino makes his fortune selling canine replacement units, Robogs, and plots to ensure the Dogstar is never found. But the Clark kids desperately miss their real dog, Hobart, and begin a quest through space to find the Dogstar - with Bob in hot pursuit.
Media World Pictures produced a movie length Christmas special called Dogstar – Christmas in Space for the Nine Network, which was released in Christmas 2016. [4]
The series featured the following voice artists: [5] [6]
The series has garnered numerous awards:
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