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Piggsburg Pigs! is a Fox Kids animated comedy series from Ruby-Spears Productions, which originally aired in 1990.[1]
| Piggsburg Pigs! | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Melissa Silverman |
| Written by | Ralph Sanchez Gary Greenfield |
| Directed by | Bill Hutten Tony Love |
| Voices of | Tara Strong Harvey Atkin Robert Bockstael Robert Cait Len Carlson Don Francks Catherine Gallant Rex Hagon Dan Hennessey David Huband Elizabeth Hanna Keith Knight Gordon Masten Jonathan Potts Susan Roman Ron Rubin Norman Spencer Greg Spottiswood Allen Stewart Coates John Stocker Peter Wildman |
| Theme music composer | John Debney |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Joe Ruby Ken Spears Fred Silverman Stacy McLaughlin Sy Fischer |
| Producer | Larry Huber |
| Production companies | The Fred Silverman Company Ruby-Spears Productions The Sy Fischer Company |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fox Children's Network |
| Release | September 15 – December 15, 1990 |
Despite most of the pre-1991 Ruby-Spears library being owned by Warner Bros. after merging with Turner Entertainment, ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide.[2][3][4]
Located behind the world's largest pig farm, the city of Piggsburg is a swine-only habitat. Here, the Bacon Brothers: Bo, Portley, and Pighead as well as their pet duck Quackers fight the evil plans of the hungry, carnivorous Wolf brothers Huff and Puff as well as the supernatural forces from the Forbidden Zone outside of Piggsburg. Other pig buddies of the Bacon Brothers include Dotty, Lorelei, the children Piggy, Pokey, and Prissy, and the snobby Rembrandt Proudpork. When not fighting off evil plots, the boys unwind at nearby Newpork Beach.[5][6]
| No. | Title | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Mummies from Outer Space" | Gary Greenfield & Ralph Sanchez | September 15, 1990 | |
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As a gala called the Pig Sty Slop Hop is near, a race of mummy-like creatures from another planet crash into the Forbidden Zone where they cause havoc in Piggsburg. | ||||
| 2 | "Mystery of the Swamp Mansion" | Rowby Goren | September 22, 1990 | |
| 3 | "Curse of the Ancient Skull" | Ted Pedersen (story) Michael Allen (teleplay) | September 29, 1990 | |
| 4 | "Pighead's Brain" | Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts | October 6, 1990 | |
| 5 | "Pigs on the Lam!" | Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts | October 13, 1990 | |
| 6 | "Vampire Dogs from Mars" | Richard Merwin | October 20, 1990 | |
| 7 | "Creatures" | Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts (story) Michael Allen (teleplay) | October 27, 1990 | |
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Two small furry monsters (greatly resembling the ones from the film Critters) are adopted by Portly and Pighead as pets. The pigs are unaware the monsters are planning to hatch their brood and destroy Piggsburg. | ||||
| 8 | "Carnival of Evil" | Douglas Booth | November 3, 1990 | |
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The monstrous owner of the Carnival of Night uses his powers to turn all of Piggsburg's law enforcement into powerless forms in a plan to get every monster in the Forbidden Zone to invade the town. | ||||
| 9 | "Case of the Troublesome Monster" | Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts | November 10, 1990 | |
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A benign monster accidentally discovers the magic words to animate a giant gargoyle statue and approaches the Bacon brothers to be his bodyguards when a pair of gargoyles who want the statue's power for themselves hunt him down to learn the secret. | ||||
| 10 | "Day of the Creeping Fog" | Unknown | November 17, 1990 | |
| 11 | "Nightmare Wish" | Unknown | December 1, 1990 | |
| 12 | "Raid on the Forbidden Zone" | Unknown | December 8, 1990 | |
| 13 | "A Beast for Rembrandt" | Unknown | December 15, 1990 | |
The series has not been released on VHS or DVD in the United States, but a set of 3 DVDs containing 2 episodes each was released by Boulevard Entertainment in the United Kingdom in 2007.[citation needed]
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