101 Dalmatian Street is an animated television series that premiered on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland in March 2019. It was later released on Disney+ in the United States and Canada in February 2020. The series made its linear cable debut on Disney XD in the United States in March 2021. A sneak-peek of the series aired in late 2018. The series' soundtrack was released in March 2019.
101 Dalmatian Street is reboot/continuation of the 1961 Disney film, 101 Dalmatians, taking place nearly sixty years after the events of the original film. The series follows the descendants of the original film's Dalmatians and takes place at the titular address in Camden Town.
Official synopsis
Premise and characters
Some of the main Dalmatian family members (left to right): Dylan, Dolly, Dawkins, Doug, Diesel, Delilah, and Da Vinci.
Poster depicting Dylan and Dolly with some of the series' supporting cast (clockwise from bottom left): Big Fee, Fergus, Sid, Roxy, and Snowball (alt version).
Dalmatian Street, the main location of the series.
Hunter De Vil, the series' recurring antagonist.
- For a complete list of characters, see here.
101 Dalmatian Street follows the Dalmatian family, descendants of Pongo and Perdita from the original film. Delilah and Doug, the parents of 99 puppies, work as a doctor and firefighter, respectively. While Delilah and Doug are off at work, eldest puppies Dylan and Dolly are tasked with taking care of their 97 younger siblings. However, Dylan's orderly and introverted nature clashes with Dolly's more open-minded and energetic personality.
Various other Dalmatians are given the spotlight throughout the series. This includes the intelligent Dawkins, the diva superstars Destiny, Dallas, and Déjà Vu (also known as Triple D), the pessimisic Dante, the artist Da Vinci, the musician DJ, the messy Diesel, the zen yet anxious Deepak, the athletic Delgado, mischevious triplets Dimitri 1, Dimitri 2, and Dimitri 3, the curious and naive duo Dizzy and Dee Dee, and youngest pup Dorothy. The remaining Dalmatians (billed as Puppy Ensemble in the series' credits) are relegated to background roles.
The Dalmatians live without a human at 101 Dalmatian Street, relying on Dylan's inventions to help them with their everyday tasks. Delilah and Doug serve as the main sources of income for their family via their aforementioned jobs. Additionally, Triple D's acting jobs also help provide for their family. While a supposed human for the Dalmatians is neither seen nor mentioned in the series, bibles and press releases describe their owner as a formerly wealthy artist named Dodie McDot.
Aside from the Dalmatians, recurring characters in the series include Clarissa Corgi, the snooty neighbor of the Dalmatians; Arabella Shih Tzu and Prunella Pug, Clarissa's sidekicks; Constantin Cat, another neighbor of the Dalmatians; the Canal Crew, a trio of vermin consisting of Fergus Fox, Big Fee Rat, and Sid Squirrel; Roxy Rottweiler and Snowball Pomeranian, Dolly's best friends; Hansel Husky, whom Dolly has a crush on; PC Pearl, a local police horse and good friend of the Dalmatian family; and goth dogs Portia Poodle and Spencer Sausage Dog. The series also follows an overarching narrative involving Hunter De Vil, the grand-nephew of Cruella De Vil, as he tries to gain more information on the Dalmatian family in order to capture them for their fur.
In 101 Dalmatian Street, animals can understand humans, but humans cannot understand animals. While the Dalmatian family are without a human, other domesticated animals treat their humans as pets, just as the original film's animals did. However, unlike the 1961 film, humans in this series are characterized as being dim-witted, while the animals believe themselves to be superior.
Throughout the series, the dogs of Camden use a device known as the World Wide Woof to communicate with each other over long distances. This begins with one dog giving a message and howling, causing any surrounding dogs to howl until the message reaches its target.
Episodes and format
Title card design used for various episodes (starting with "Dog's Best Friend").
- For a complete list of episodes, see here.
101 Dalmatian Street consists of one season with 52 eleven-minute episodes (42 standard episodes and five two-part specials); in total, the series has 47 stories. "I've Got My Pups with Me" serves as the series' opening theme, while "It's a Dog's Life" serves as the series' closing theme. In its original run, the series premiered with the episode "Boom Night" and concluded with "The De Vil Wears Puppies." (For more on the series' release schedule, see below.)
During the series' original run in the UK and Ireland, the first 34 episodes aired as individual eleven-minute episodes; starting with the 35th episode, the eleven-minute episodes were paired up and aired as half-hour packages. For the series' Disney+ release and Disney XD airings, the episodes (including the specials) were packaged as 26 half-hours. The credits for each half-hour package list the crew members for both eleven-minute episodes.
Each episode (including the first and second parts for the specials) is given its own title card, though some episodes reuse title card illustrations with occasional alterations. For example, the title card illustration first used in "Dog's Best Friend" is reused for several subsequent episodes, including "Power to the Puppies," "Diamond Dogs," and "Balancing Act."
Shorts
Dylan and Dolly in the Gigglebug Guarantee short "Prank Pups."
- See also: Shorts
A few months prior to the premiere of 101 Dalmatian Street, characters from the series appeared in online shorts titled Gigglebug Guarantee. Produced by Gigglebug Entertainment, these shorts feature little dialogue, instead focusing on visual humor. Most of these shorts were incorporated into the series with the two-part special "Puppy Dreams."
A separate series of web shorts titled Animals vs Humans was released on the DisneyChannelUK YouTube account during the series' original run. In these flash-animated shorts, Dylan and Dolly give their commentary on online videos of animals and humans performing various tasks.
Behind the scenes
The first publicly-released screenshot of 101 Dalmatian Street, taken from the series' pitch reel.
Series creator and director Miklós Weigert.
Executive producer Cara Speller.
The first draft of the bible for 101 Dalmatian Street was created on June 7, 2016. This bible listed potential characters and episode premises, many of which went unused. A second bible, which featured nearly-finalized character designs and episode plots, was created in November 2017.
A pitch reel for 101 Dalmatian Street, which uses a different art style and character designs compared to the final series, was privately screened in 2017. A storyboard pilot, which would become the episode "London, We Have a Problem," was produced around the same time. For these two early productions, the series' title is stylized as 101 Dalmatian St. By June 2017, the series was greenlit with a 26-episode order.
The series is based on a 2017 pitch by Anttu Harlin and Joonas Utti of Finland's Gigglebug Entertainment to Disney's original animation team in London.[2] The team developed the plot with Passion Animation Studios, who produced the series. Animation of the series was done by Atomic Cartoons while a series of shorts were produced by Gigglebug Entertainment. Although they didn't provide animation nor produced the series itself, Disney was heavily involved in each stage of production.[3]
Unlike previous animated 101 Dalmatians productions, which use traditional hand-drawn animation, 101 Dalmatian Street and its shorts were animated digitally with the Toon Boom Animation software on puppet rigs (though the series' pitch reel was animated traditionally).
Miklós Weigert is the chief director of 101 Dalmatian Street, with Maria O'Loughlin as the head writer and Cara Speller as the executive producer. The series stars Josh Brener as Dylan, Michaela Dietz as Dolly, and 41 supporting voice actors; in total, the series features 43 cast members that cover 106 speaking roles.[4] Each 11-minute episode of the show took 18 months to complete, from script, to storyboard, to the animation, with 130 artists having worked on the series' animation.[5]
The creators of 101 Dalmatian Street stated at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival that they only watched the original 1961 film for reference, and not the sequels, live-action films, or 101 Dalmatians: The Series. In fact, Miklós Weigert joked, "I feel like we've watched the Disney movie about 101 times during our research for the show."[6] The influence of the original film is present in the series' animation, which aims for an artsy, hand-drawn feel with its characters and settings.
Orion Ross, Vice President of International Animation for Disney Branded Television, spoke of the series' animation style in an interview:
As with the 1961 film, the artists who worked on the series used real-life dogs as reference for the canine characters in the show.[5][8]
Release
Poster for the series finale featuring Cruella De Vil.
United Kingdom
101 Dalmatian Street was originally slated for an autumn 2018 premiere,[9] though it was rescheduled to March 2019 for unknown reasons. However, a sneak peek for "Dog's Best Friend" aired on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 14 December 2018.
101 Dalmatian Street premiered on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom on Monday, 18 March 2019 with the pair of episodes "Boom Night" and "Dog's Best Friend."[10] New episodes would air regularly, albeit with some hiatuses occurring (though reruns would air nearly every day during the series' original run).
The series would conclude on Saturday, 22 February 2020 with the episodes "Dante's Inferno," "Better the De Vil You Know," and "The De Vil Wears Puppies."[11] Reruns would sporadically air until 31 March; the final pair of episodes to air were "Perfect Match" and "All Fired Up."[12]
North America
In the United States and Canada, all episodes of 101 Dalmatian Street were added to Disney+ on 28 February 2020 (just six days after its finale in the UK). Here, the series' episodes are slightly reordered from their original premieres.
On 28 March 2021, the series would begin its official run in the US on Disney XD.[13] New episodes would air on Mondays, once again with some hiatuses. The series would conclude on the following 22 November with the episodes "The De Vil Wears Puppies" and "Puppy Dreams."[14] A few minor reruns would air in January and February 2022, with "A Right Royal Rumble" and "Dal-Martians" being the final pair of episodes to air.[15]
Promotion
Les 4 Temps promotional event.
101 Dalmatian Street was announced by Disney at the France Annecy Film Festival in June 2017.[16] Several live presentations at film and animation events were held to promote the series, including: Miklós Weigert's "Work in Progress" event at the Annecy Film Festival in May 2018[17]; "101 Dalmatian Street: The Story So Far" at the Annecy Film Festival in June 2018[18]; a BAFTA Kids TV Preview featuring appearances by crew members and voice actors in early 2019[19][20]; and an overview of the series at Cartoons on the Bay in April 2019.[21] Additional promotional events included a display in the French mall Les 4 Temps,[22] a "mini-event" held in London in March 2019,[23] and a tour of a themed double-decker bus in early 2019.[24]
Several pieces of merchandise for the series were released, including plush toys and figure play sets by Mattel, two books based on episodes of the series, plastic water bottles by Font Vella, a set of children's pajamas, and stickers produced by SmileMakers. Additionally, two sweepstakes (one by Event Magazin[25] and another by Melita) were held for the series that gave away exclusive merchandise. Two albums were released for the series; the first is an EP of three songs, while the second features the full soundtrack. Despite the series' cancellation in 2020, merchandise would continue to release (though infrequently), including Mono Quick patches in 2021 and the comic book D is for Dalmatians in 2024.
Cancellation
In January 2021, it was reported that 101 Dalmatian Street had been neither renewed nor cancelled, with its future depending upon its ratings on Disney+.[26] For a hypothetical second season of the series, series creator Miklós Weigert expressed desire for having it include a origin story for Clarissa.[27]
On June 18, 2021, Weigert confirmed that there are no plans to create a second season of the show.[28] A week later, it was revealed that the series had been cancelled since 2020, with poor viewership in the United Kingdom (and later in North America) factoring in its cancellation.[29]
Cast
Main
- Josh Brener as Dylan
- Michaela Dietz as Dolly
- Ella Kenion as Delilah
- Rhashan Stone as Doug
- Rhys Isaac-Jones as Dawkins
- Nefeli Karakosta as Dizzy
- Florrie Wilkinson as Dee Dee
- Lauren Donzis as Destiny and Déjà Vu
- Abigail Zoe Lewis as Dallas
- Bert Davis as Diesel
- Akiya Henry as Da Vinci, Roxy, and additional voices
- Kyle Soller as Dante
- Nikhil Parmar as Deepak and Prince Corgi
- Maxwell Apple as DJ
- Jack Binstead as Delgado
- Margot Powell as Dorothy and Princess Positron
- Rocco Wright as Dimitri 1, Dimitri 2, and Dimitri 3
Supporting
- Harriet Carmichael as Clarissa, Fetch, and additional voices
- Conor MacNeill as Fergus
- Ben Bailey Smith as Sid and Spencer
- Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Big Fee, Arabella, and Summer
- Bethan Wright as Prunella
- Rasmus Hardiker as Hansel
- Paloma Faith as Portia
- Tameka Empson as Pearl
- Rufus Jones as Constantin, Hugo, Godfrey, Cuddles, and additional voices
- Daniela Denby-Ashe as Snowball
- Michael Golab as Stanislav
- Joshua LeClair as Hunter De Vil
- Tom Haywood as Chips
- Pixie Davies as Prince Waffles and the Puppy Ensemble
- Ashton Henry-Reid, Caoimhe Judd, Charlotte Davis-Black, Dino Karakosta, Theo Wilkinson, Twinkle Jaiswal, Ynez Williams as the Puppy Ensemble
Guest
- Matt Wilkinson as Mr. Fuzzy
- Stephen Mangan as Doctor Dave
- Olly Murs as Spike
- Miriam Margolyes as Bessie
- Michelle Gomez as Cruella De Vil
Crew
Illustration by Miklós Weigert.
- Executive Producers: Anttu Harlin, Cara Speller
- Producer: Karen Doyle
- Producer's Assistant: Delphi Lythgoe
- Directors: Jez Hall, Frédéric Martin, Joonas Utti, Miklós Weigert
- Director's Assistant: Anna Zhu
- Writers: Jess Kedward, Suzanne Lang, Ciaran Morrison, Mick O'Hara, Maria O'Loughlin, Nicole Paglia, Kirsty Peart, Giles Pilbrow, Baljeet Rai, Ishai Ravid, Josh Sager, Jerome Simpson
- Music By: Rupert Cross, Nathan W. Klein, Jonathan Rende, Kathryn Rende, Theo Vidgen
- Editing: Beverly Maguire, Ville Westerlund
- Casting: Michelle Jones
- Voice Directors: David Peacock (UK), Sara Jane Sherman (US)
- Production Design: Janne Korsumäki
- Art Direction: Abeth De La Cruz, Tristan Ménard
- Production Management: Joost Zoetebier, Martti Sirkkola
- Design Development: Neal Petty
- Character Designers: James A. Castillo, Marie Ecarlat, Thibault Leclercq, Caroline LeFevre, Meg Park, Andrea Torrejón, Margaux Zinsner
- Assistant Character Designer: Georgia Cook
- Background Artists: David Alcarria, Anna Bernal Anikó Kiss, Jess Nicholls
- Prop Designer: Anikó Kiss
- Storyboard Artists: Althea Aseoche, Barry Reynolds, Luke Allen, Max Loubaresse, Robert Nelson, Bianca Ansems, Krystal Georgiou, Dan Hamman
- Layout Artists: Marie Ecarlat, Ilaria Ponticelli
- Compositing Supervisor: Hein Schlebusch
- Digital Compositors: Marc Fortin, Ville Westerlund
- Animation Supervisor: Hallis Blaney
- Animation Directors: Aya Suzuki, Nadine Westerbarkey
- Animators: Rolando Maldonado, José Emiliano Carrasco Tena, Adriel Forsyth, Sara Franco, Fernando Gil, Erica Miles, Elena Najar Parente, Kaisa Pirttinen, Maxwell Racz, Jasmi Ritola, Janne Roivainen
- Effects Animators: Nathan Keane, Juan C. Lopez de la Torre
- Builds Artists: Mila Anctil, M. Rory Campbell
- Production Coordinator: Omari McCarthy
- Story Artist: Juan Pedro Alcaide, JP Saari
- 3D Animator: Bong Macarayan
- Animation Development: Gervais Merryweather
- Offline Editor: Darren Millstone
- Post-Production Coordinator: Rami Pantoja
- Sound Department: Liam Cameron, Claudia Casasola, Adam Davies, Michael Hills, Petri Matara, James O'Brien, Fitzrovia Post
- Music Department: Jonathan Atkinson, Veronika Hanl, Jamie Philokyprou, Lindsay Wright
- Talent Acquisition Specialist: Mark Hansen
- Production Coordinators: Cecilia Hay, Charlene Haywood, Kim Ngo, Beverly Yeang
- Film Editing: Luis Lazcano, Ville Vesterlund
- H.R. Manager: Colin Beadle
See also
- 101 Dalmatian Street (disambiguation)
- 101 Dalmatian Street/Gallery
- 101 Dalmatian Street pitch reel
- 101 Dalmatian Street storyboard pilot
- 101 Dalmatian Street style guide
Lists
- List of 101 Dalmatian Street episodes
- 101 Dalmatian Street/International Releases
- List of Easter Eggs in 101 Dalmatian Street
- List of 101 Dalmatian Street goofs
- Reused animation in 101 Dalmatian Street
- Breaking the fourth wall in 101 Dalmatian Street
- Most frequently recurring characters of 101 Dalmatian Street
Sources
- ↑ Atomic Cartoons website
- ↑ Television Business International
- ↑ Cartoon Brew, March 26, 2019
- ↑ Animation World Network
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Daily Puppy
- ↑ TV with Thinus, March 30, 2019
- ↑ Broadcast, March 13, 2019
- ↑ Mirror, March 10, 2019
- ↑ Animation Magazine, June 14, 2017
- ↑ TV24 (March 18, 2019)
- ↑ TV24 (February 22, 2020)
- ↑ TV24 (March 31, 2020)
- ↑ Disney XD Broadcast Archives (March 29, 2021)
- ↑ Disney XD Broadcast Archives (November 22, 2021)
- ↑ Disney XD Broadcast Archives (February 12, 2022)
- ↑ Variety, June 13, 2017
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on Tumblr, May 6, 2018
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on Tumblr, June 14, 2018
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on Tumblr, February 23, 2019
- ↑ Young BAFTA on YouTube, March 29, 2019
- ↑ Cartoons on the Bay on Facebook, April 12, 2019
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on Tumblr, March 5, 2019
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on Tumblr, March 16, 2019
- ↑ Premium Events on Facebook, March 1, 2019
- ↑ Event Magazin on March 9, 2019
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on January 13, 2021
- ↑ @MikWeigert on Twitter, January 13, 2021
- ↑ @MikWeigert on Twitter, June 18, 2021
- ↑ Disney Television Animation News on June 25, 2021