Piggsburg Pigs!

{{Infobox television

| image = PiggsburgPigs.jpg

| genre = Comedy

| runtime =

| creator = Melissa Silverman

| director = Bill Hutten
Tony Love

| executive_producer = Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Fred Silverman
Stacy McLaughlin
Sy Fischer

| producer = Larry Huber

| writer = Ralph Sanchez
Gary Greenfield

| voices = Tara Strong
Harvey Atkin
Robert Bockstael
Robert Cait
Len Carlson
Don Francks
Catherine Gallant
Rex Hagon
Dan Hennessey
David Huband
Elizabeth Hanna
Keith Knight
Gordon Masten
Jonathan Potts
Susan Roman
Ron Rubin
Norman Spencer
Greg Spottiswood
Allen Stewart Coates
John Stocker
Peter Wildman

| theme_music_composer = John Debney

| company = The Fred Silverman Company
Ruby-Spears Productions
The Sy Fischer Company
Fox Children's Productions

| country = United States
Canada

| language = English

| network = Fox Children's Network

| first_aired = {{start date|1990|9|15}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1990|12|15}}

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 13

}}

Piggsburg Pigs! is a Fox Kids animated comedy series from Ruby-Spears Productions, which originally aired in 1990.{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=460}}

Despite most of the pre-1991 Ruby-Spears library being owned by Warner Bros. after merging with Turner Entertainment, ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide.{{cite web | url=https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/advanced-search?records_per_page=10&subquery=%7B%22queryTerm%22%3A%22Piggsburg%20Pigs%21%22%2C%22operatorType%22%3A%22%22%2C%22fieldHeading%22%3A%22Title%22%2C%22searchType%22%3A%22As%20a%20Phrase%22%2C%22searchTypeReverseLookup%22%3A%7B%22exact%22%3A%22Is%20%28exact%29%22%2C%22starts_with%22%3A%22Starts%20with%22%2C%22contains%22%3A%22Contains%22%2C%22phrase%22%3A%22As%20a%20Phrase%22%7D%7D&page_number=0&date_field=representative_date&sort_field=representative_date&sort_order=asc&type_of_record=motion_picture | title=U.S. Copyright Public Records System }}{{cite web |url=https://streamclues.com/disney-and-missing-saban-entertainment-fox-kids-jetix-worldwide-library/ |title=Disney+ and Missing Saban Entertainment & Fox Kids-Jetix Worldwide Library - StreamClues |date=14 September 2022 |access-date=2 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226042740/https://streamclues.com/disney-and-missing-saban-entertainment-fox-kids-jetix-worldwide-library/ |archive-date=26 December 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://www.chroniquedisney.fr/fil-01-ABC/serie-bvs-entertainment.htm | title=Liste - BVS Entertainment | Séries }}

This animated series would be last work of Fred Silverman in animation business, as he went to produce various live-action series (In the Heat of the Night, Diagnosis: Murder).

Plot

Located behind the world's largest pig farm, the city of Piggsburg is a swine-only habitat. Here, the Bacon Brothers: Bo, Portley, and Pighead as well as their pet duck Quackers fight the evil plans of the hungry, carnivorous Wolf brothers Huff and Puff as well as the supernatural forces from the Forbidden Zone outside of Piggsburg. Other pig buddies of the Bacon Brothers include Dotty, Lorelei, the children Piggy, Pokey, and Prissy, and the snobby Rembrandt Proudpork. When not fighting off evil plots, the boys unwind at nearby Newpork Beach.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |page=613}}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43FuDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22piggsburg+pigs%22&pg=PA146 | title=Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s: A Complete Guide | publisher=McFarland | author=Bob Leszczak | year=2018 | pages=146| isbn=9781476631981 }}

Cast

Len Carlson as Rembrandt Proudpork
Tara Strong as Dotty, Prissy (credited as Tara Charendoff)
Keith Knight as Portley Bacon
Jonathan Potts as Bo Bacon
Norm Spencer as Puff
John Stocker as Huff
Susan Roman as Lorelei

=Additional=

Harvey Atkin
Robert Bockstael
Robert Cait
Don Francks
Catherine Gallant
Rex Hagon
Elizabeth Hanna
Dan Hennessey - Police Officer (in "Carnival of Evil")https://deadline.com/2024/11/dan-hennessey-dead-voice-actor-care-bears-inspector-gadget-x-men-tv-series-director-1236182060/
David Huband
Gordon Masten
Ron Rubin
Greg Spottiswood
Allen Stewart Coates
Peter Wildman

Crew

Stu Rosen - Voice Director, Sound Design
Butch Hartman - Key Model Designer

Episodes

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 1

| Title = Mummies from Outer Space

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Ralph Sanchez

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|9|15}}

| ShortSummary = As a gala called the Pig Sty Slop Hop is near, a race of mummy-like creatures from another planet crash into the Forbidden Zone where they cause havoc in Piggsburg.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = Mystery of the Swamp Mansion

| WrittenBy = Rowby Goren

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|9|22}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Curse of the Ancient Skull

| WrittenBy = Ted Pedersen (story)
Michael Allen (teleplay)

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|9|29}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = Pighead's Brain

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|6}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Pigs on the Lam!

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|13}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Vampire Dogs from Mars

| WrittenBy = Richard Merwin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|20}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = Creatures

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts (story)
Michael Allen (teleplay)

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|27}}

| ShortSummary = Two small furry monsters (greatly resembling the ones from the film Critters) are adopted by Portly and Pighead as pets. The pigs are unaware the monsters are planning to hatch their brood and destroy Piggsburg.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 8

| Title = Carnival of Evil

| WrittenBy = Douglas Booth

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|3}}

| ShortSummary = The monstrous owner of the Carnival of Night uses his powers to turn all of Piggsburg's law enforcement into powerless forms in a plan to get every monster in the Forbidden Zone to invade the town.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 9

| Title = Case of the Troublesome Monster

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|10}}

| ShortSummary = A benign monster accidentally discovers the magic words to animate a giant gargoyle statue and approaches the Bacon brothers to be his bodyguards when a pair of gargoyles who want the statue's power for themselves hunt him down to learn the secret.

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = Day of the Creeping Fog

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|17}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = Nightmare Wish

| WrittenBy =

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|1}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = Raid on the Forbidden Zone

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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|8}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = A Beast for Rembrandt

| WrittenBy = Gary Greenfield & Cliff Roberts

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|15}}

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Home releases

The series has not been released on VHS or DVD in the United States, but a set of 3 DVDs containing 2 episodes each was released by Boulevard Entertainment in the United Kingdom in 2007.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}