Bad Dog (TV series)

*Bad Dog*
Bad Dog
Genre	Animation
Written by	Taylor Grant; Brent Piaskoski;
Directed by	Joseph Jacques
Voices of	Harvey Atkin; Sheila McCarthy; John Stocker; Emilie-Claire Barlow; Tracey Moore; Robert Smith; James Rankin; Ron Rubin; Richard Binsley; Don Francks; Philip Williams; Michael Hall;
Country of origin	Canada; United States;
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	40
Production
Executive producers	Jacques Pettigrew; Michael Lemire;
Producer	Louis Duquet
Production companies	CinéGroupe; Saban Entertainment;
Original release
Network	Fox Kids (international); Fox Family Channel (U.S.); Teletoon (Canada);
Release	August 15, 1998 –; December 14, 2000

Bad Dog is an animated series produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment for the Teletoon and Fox Family Channel networks, first airing on Teletoon on March 1, 1999. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog.

The show was inspired by the After Dark screensaver "Bad Dog". The two dogs have a similar appearance, and the "Bad Dog" of the show is named Berkeley, a likely reference to Berkeley Systems, the creators of After Dark. The show was paired with another series called Monster Farm.

Internationally, the series did air on Fox Kids (later known as Jetix), being lastly rerun in 2011 on Disney Channel in Netherlands.