Black Dog

Black dog or blackdog may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

* Black Dog, a bio-robot in the 1982 Bulgarian animated science fiction film '' The Treasure Planet''
* The Black Dog, an inn in 2015–2016 British drama TV series ''The Coroner''
* Black Dog, a pirate in Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Treasure Island''
* Black Dogs, a group of students in the '' Boarding School Juliet'' manga series

Film and television

* ''The Black Dog'', a 1987 animated short film by Alison de Vere
* ''Black Dog'' (1998 film), an American film
* ''Black Dog'' (2024 film), a Chinese film
* '' Black Dog: Being A Teacher'', a 2019 South Korean television series
* "Black Dog", a 2002 episode of the American TV series ''That '70s Show'' (season 5)
* "Blackdog", a 2005 two-part episode of the British TV series '' The Commander'' season 2

Literature

* ''Black Dog'' (novel), by Stephen Booth, 2000
* '' Black Dogs'', by Ian McEwan, 1992
* ''Black Dog'', a children's book by Levi Pinfold, winner of the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal

Music

* The Black Dog (band), a pioneering British electronic music group
* "Black Dog", a song by Jesse Winchester, 1970
* "Black Dog" (Led Zeppelin song), by Led Zeppelin, 1971
* "Black Dog" (Arlo Parks song), 2020
* "Black Dog", a song by Poster Children from the 1997 album ''RTFM''
* "Black Dogs!", a song by Genesis Owusu from the 2021 album '' Smiling with No Teeth''
* ''Black Dog'' (album), 2023 album by Gazelle Twin
* "The Black Dog" (song), a song by Taylor Swift from the 2024 album ''The Tortured Poets Department''
* "Perro Negro", 2023 single by Bad Bunny and Feid, translated to "Black Dog" in English

Businesses and brands

* Black Dog Books (Australian publisher)
* Black Dog Books (American publisher)
* Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, an American publisher
* Black Dog Publishing, a British publishing company
* Black Dog Institute, an Australian institute for the treatment of mood disorders such as depression
* Black Dog Scotch Whisky, bottled and marketed by United Spirits Limited
* The Black Dog (restaurant), on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.
* The Black Dog, Dublin, a former prison in Ireland
* Black Dog Salvage, a salvage company in the 2012–2020 American reality TV series ''Salvage Dawgs''

Folklore and mythology

* Black dog (folklore), a spectral black dog from English folklore

Places

* Black Dog, Devon, England
* Black Dog Lake, in Minnesota, U.S.
* Blackdog, Aberdeen, Scotland
* Black Dog Halt railway station, a former halt in Wiltshire, England

Other uses

* a dog with black fur
* Major depressive disorder (the term ''black dog'' was coined by Samuel Johnson and popularised by Winston Churchill)
* Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain
* Black Dog (Osage chief) (1780–1848), and the name of his son
* Black Dog II, the son of Black Dog, a company commander of the Osage Battalion, an 1863–1865 Native American unit of the Confederate States Army
* BlackDog, a 2005 pocket-sized, self-contained computer

See also

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* Black dog syndrome, a tendency for black dogs not to be adopted from animal shelters
* Anubis, an ancient Egyptian god, depicted as a black canine or a man with a black canine head
* Hellhound, a supernatural dog in folklore

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