''Playboy's Dark Justice'' is a half-hour, computer-animated,

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TV series shown on

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premiering on September 3, 2000, and running for 20 (of an intended 26) episodes until 2001, and was perhaps the first and only show of its kind created. Unlike most talk, variety, and reality series on Playboy TV, ''Dark Justice'' has characters and story arcs. The show features a heroine named Justina (voiced by

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), who fights crime as part of a

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force in a dystopian world in Metro City in 2120. The plots inevitably lead to Justina and others in sexual situations. The series was directed by

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, with Robert C. England as technical director, lead animator, motion-capture actor, and the voice of Wendell, and produced by Ninn and Hart (among others) through Hope Ranch Productions, and featured a number of porn stars as voice actors and models for motion capture animated with

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and

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. ''Dark Justice'' was the only completed film and television production from Hope Ranch until its acquisition by Pure Play Media in 2002 and name change to Ninn Worx. The name "Hope Ranch" appears to have been later used for the

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Characters

*Justin

*Lacy Whit

*Trevor & Wendel

*The Sarg

*Lance Larson *Lonnie Lovet *Lou Ston

*Taffy Dugan *Mayor Julio Camarone

*Chili "Bean" Johnso

Villains

*Mr. Bi

*Morell Deka

*Miz Behav

*Won Hung Lo

*Regin

*Doctor Dic

References

External links

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Playboy's Dark Justice
at Toonarific Cartoons
Playboy's Dark Justice - Episode Guide
MSN TV (includes episode list and air dates)
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Negative review
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Series description by Juan Duque
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