''Littlest Pet Shop'' is an

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based on the toy franchise ''

Littlest Pet Shop Littlest Pet Shop is a toy franchise and cartoon series owned by Hasbro. The original toy series was produced by Kenner in the early 1990s. An animated television series was made in 1995 by Sunbow Productions and Jean Chalopin Creativite et Devel ...

'' released by

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. The series debuted on October 16, 1995 in the

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and syndicated to local stations by distributor

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. It was produced by

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in the United States, and Créativité & Développement and AB Productions in

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Plot

''Littlest Pet Shop'' follows the lives of five miniature animals who live in a pet shop on Littlest Lane and have their own treehouse inside of the store.

Characters

Main

* Stu (voiced by

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) - A blue dog with a bumbling personality who happens to be a big eater. His name is pun on

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. * Chloe (voiced by Babs Chula) - A sarcastic purple cat who has been reincarnated many times with her first life being in Ancient Egypt. * Viv (voiced by

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in a British accent) - A music-loving pink rabbit who sings and dances. She has a backing band that lives in her top hat. * Chet (voiced by

Lee Tockar Lee William Tockar (born 1969) is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter ...

) - A macho yellow horse who acts like a cowboy. His name is pun on the slang term ''

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''. * Squeaks (vocal effects provided by

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) - A red monkey who loves bananas and speaks in monkey language that the other characters understand.

Recurring

* Elwood P. Harvey (voiced by

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) - A man who runs the pet shop. * Delilah (voiced by Shirley Millner) - A normal-sized

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who plots to eat the pets and is owned by Elwood. * Harriet - A parrot who often joins the main pets. * Rookie (voiced by

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) - A brown puppy who lives in the pet shop. * Sergeant Butch Kowalski (voiced by

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) - A green militaristic hamster. * Bernice - A hamster and Butch's love interest. * Mumsy (voiced by

Kathleen Barr Kathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is best known for voicing Marie Kanker and Kevin in ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' and Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis in '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic''. She also voiced Henri Richard Maurice D ...

) - An archaeologist and explorer who is Elwood's mother.

Episodes

Production

''Littlest Pet Shop'' was animated by

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, KK C&D Asia in

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, and

Wang Film Productions Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. (also known as Hong Guang Animation (宏廣) and Cuckoos' Nest Studio) is one of the oldest and most prolific Taiwanese-American animation studios since 1978. The company, based in Xindian, Taipei and Los Angeles, ...

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Broadcast

''Littlest Pet Shop'' was syndicated to local stations in the

. The series was also broadcast on

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and

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in the

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Home media releases

In 1996,

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released the show on four VHS cassettes each containing 2 to 4 episodes. The Christmas video entitled ''Do Not Solve Until Christmas'' (which contains "Do Not Solve Until Christmas" and "Who Scrooged McRude?") was released as part of the ''Family Home Entertainment Christmas Classics'' series.

References

External links

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