Live Action Pilot
Dog City was originally a thirty nine minute long TV movie, broadcast in 1989 as an episode of The Jim Henson Hour, featuring the characters as puppets. In Dog City The Movie Ace Yu is harassed for protection money by crime syndicate boss Bugsy. Refusing to pay or fight him, Bugsy kidnaps Ace's love interest Colleen. There are car chases and shoot-em-ups and rubber duckies involved in the action. In the end, Ace defeats Bugsy and gets the girl.
- Ace Yu (performed by Kevin Clash) - The protagonist of the film. Ace Yu is a German Shepherd adopted by Chinese Pekingese parents. Although Ace's puppet is a Hand-Rod Puppet, it is later modified into a Live-Hand Puppet when it was used to play Elliot in the TV series.
- Colleen (performed by Fran Brill) - A Rough Collie who serves as Ace's love interest.
- Bugsy Them (performed by Jim Henson) - The main antagonist of the film. Bugsy Them is a vain bulldog crime boss who is proud of his tail. His puppet is later used to play Bruno in the TV series.
- Frisky (performed by Dave Goelz) -
- Mad Dog (performed by Steve Whitmire) - Bugsy Them's dimwitted St. Bernard henchman. His puppet is later used to play Bowser in the TV series.
- Scruffy (performed by Gord Robertson) -
- Laughing Boy (performed by Rickey Boyd) -
- Rowlf the Dog (performed by Jim Henson) - He is the narrator of the TV movie.
The Muppets of Ace Yu and his associates would make cameos in The Muppets at Walt Disney World and would later go on to become Eliot Shag and the other "real world" counterparts to the animated characters.
Dog City: The Movie (sans the framing sequences) was released to regions 1 and 2.
The company's YouTube channel has 6 clips from the pilot in a playlist called "Dogs of Anarchy!".
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