Teacher's Pet is a Disney animated television series about a dog who lives like a little boy. Created by Gary Baseman and directed by Timothy Björklund. Broadcast on ABC and later Toon Disney, a feature film version was released in 2004. The show ran from 2000 to 2002, with a final episode that really doesn't seem like one. The movie seems to wrap up the series with its ending, though. The show was influenced by Gary Baseman's dog, Hubcaps. He would wonder what the dog would do while he was gone. He made this show in honor of him, with Spot portraying Hubcaps. Hubcaps died in 2002.

A similar animated short was shown on Nickelodeon's KaBlam!, called "Stewy the Dogboy." It has a similar premise, and it predates Teacher's Pet by at least 3 years. It was originally a pilot for a proposed new Nickelodeon animated series, but was turned down and was shown on KaBlam as a "special short."

Scheduling history

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The first episode aired on ABC's "One Saturday Morning" on Saturday September 9, 2000, and remained on ABC until about late 2001, then the show began airing in Toon Disney, and they used that channel to air new episodes every Friday. While still airing ABC, it was eventually cancelled off of ABC on September 24, 2002 due to a new Saturday morning block called "ABC Kids." As of 2006, it vanished off of Toon Disney as well and is nowhere to be found.

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