Nick & Perry
Two alien dogs hide their secret on Earth.
Nick & Perry (also known as Les Marchien) is a French children's animated comic science fiction television series created by Udo Beissel for Cartoon Network. The show follows two alien dogs who crash-land on Earth and attempt to blend in with ordinary dogs while concealing their extraterrestrial origins. It originally aired from 2000 to 2001, spanning 52 episodes across two seasons.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Comedy; Science-fiction
- Runtime
- 22 minutes
- Creator
- Udo Beissel
- Composer
- Danny Chang
- Company
- Ellipsanime
- EM.TV & Merchandising
- Victory Media Group
- Country
- France; Germany
- Language
- French
- German
- English
- Seasons
- 2
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Premise
Nick and Perry are two alien dogs from the planet Dogmas who crash-land on Earth. To avoid being sold to science, they must disguise themselves as ordinary dogs. Perry studies Earth culture and is fascinated by how things work, while Nick remains optimistic and enjoys the pleasures of Earth life, especially television and his love interest, Sofia. Nick is a tall, orange dog with a proud stature, lazy and vegetarian, and not as intelligent as Perry, though the two cooperate effectively. Perry is a small, blue dog resembling a beagle, highly intelligent and skilled at building complex devices from everyday human objects. Nick's easygoing nature often disrupts Perry's plans to return home, but their friendship endures. Lucy, a bright and adventurous only child, discovers the dogs after a UFO crashes in her garden and believes they are a birthday gift from her father, Frank. Frank, a history professor and single father, cannot bring himself to disappoint Lucy and keeps the dogs. Their neighbor Mr. Smith, a spiteful part-time UFO hunter, tries to catch Nick and Perry acting unlike normal dogs to sell them to science.
Production
Development and production were announced in 1998 and 1999 under the direction of Tony Barnes, with Ellipse Animation partnering with TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion and Victory 16. Film Production to create an animated series titled Nick and Perry-Alien Dogs. French broadcaster M6 and German broadcaster WDR were set to air the series, and Danny Chang composed the music. By March 2001, EM.TV & Merchandising AG had joined Ellipsanime's series, now renamed Nick & Perry, replacing Trickompany as co-producer and handling international distribution except in France. The series first broadcast on October 25, 2000 on M6 in France, and in Germany from September 11–27, 2001 on Ki.Ka. Distribution changed hands in July 2003 when Canal+ sold Ellipsanime to Média-Participations, with Mediatoon Distribution handling French distribution. In July 2008, Studio 100 Media acquired EM.Entertainment and its library, taking over worldwide distribution outside France.
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