Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
Format	Animated series
Created by	Tony Barnes
Starring	Kerry Shale Christian Rodska Nicolette McKenzie
Country of origin	France  United Kingdom
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	25 min
Broadcast
Original run	June 16, 1994 – August 27, 1998

Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop (known as Dr. Globule in France) was an animated television series created by Tony Barnes. 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. In Bulgaria the show was known as др. Злобил (Dr. Zlobil).

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 (2004 being the first year it was totally forgotten about) 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

• Dr. Sidney Zitbag - The main character of the show, he is a mad scientist type of character who wants to become the world's best pet shop owner, but his plans don't always work and certain mishaps do tend to happen.

• Horrifido - Horrifido is the actual owner of the old Haunted Castle where Dr. Zitbag has now set up his pet shop. He is a skeleton dog with green bat winged like ears, who now works as Dr. Zitbag's assistant. Sometimes Horrifido is seen wearing a pink bow collar around his neck.

• The Exorsisters - The Exorsisters are Dr. Zitbag's neighbours, both ladies are twins resembling the bride of Frankenstein. Every often Dr. Zitbag always tries to impress them both, but the two often argue at each other. Sinista, the sister with purple streaks in her hair often dismisses Dr. Zitbag whereas Bimbella, the sister with white streaks in her hair is more willing to give him a chance.

• Zombunny - Zombunny appears to be a zombified rabbit who never seems to move. Most of the time he is with Dr. Zitbag & Horrifido as Dr. Zitbag would use Zombunny as part of his experiments.

• Officer Deadbeat - Officer Deadbeat is the local police officer of Transylvania and Zitbag's antagonist, he appears to have no neck and so his head is floating at where his would be neck should be. He has a personal grudge against Dr. Zitbag, believing that the doctor is a con-artist, if he ever arrests the doctor for good, his ultimate goal is to claim the old Haunted House as a new police station, as the one he has got is very small and he often bumps his head off.

• Professor Sherman Vermin - Sinistra and Bimbella sometimes call him to help them, eventually making Dr Zitbag jealous.

List of episodes

Only twelve of a total of 52 episodes were released on video, due to the cartoon not being so popular (these were even the first series episodes in 1994; meaning all subsequent seasons from 1995 to 1998 are the other forty episodes which are the ones never released).

01. Welcome To The Transylvania Pet Shop

02. Grime Does Not Pay

03. Food Glorious Pet Food

04. Bringing Up Horribaby

05. Every Dog Has Its Show

06. Ants In Your Pants

07. Bungle in the Jungle

08. Pirate Parrot

09. Double Trouble

10. Halloween Horse Race

11. Where Mouse?

12. Gorilla Thriller (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]^{[citation needed]}

Transylvania Pet Shop is currently one of the most requested unreleased DVDs at TVShowsOnDVD.com.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Retro Junk
• Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop at the Internet Movie Database