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Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop

TV series
1994–1995
1 season
TF1
Animation

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Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop was an animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by PMMP. 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 16, 1994 and finishing August 27, 1998, the show ran for five seasons. The show also aired on Bulgarian National Television from 1997 until 2000, and became very popular. 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.

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Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) is a 1994–1997 French-British animated television series created by Tony Barnes and produced by Philippe Mounier PMMP and Fairwater Films, and distributed in the UK by Sleepy Kids PLC (which also produced Potsworth & Co. and Budgie the Little Helicopter) which later rebranded as Entertainment Rights before being dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) and by PMMP and TF1 International in the rest of the world. 65 episodes were produced.

The show aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 20 June 1994 to 21 August 1997, while in France it aired on TF1 from 4 September 1996. The show ran for four series. The 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. The series was later repeated on Nickelodeon in the early 2000s until 2004, and had sporadic reruns 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.

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