Dan Redican Bruce Hunter Bob Martin James Rankin Gord Robertson
Country of origin
Canada
Original language
English
No. of seasons
4
No. of episodes
53 aired (as of June 22, 2006)
Production
Producers
John Pattison Shawn Alex Thompson
Running time
30 mins
Original release
Network
The Comedy Network
Release
October 4, 2002 (2002-10-04) – June 22, 2006 (2006-06-22)
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Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by PWK Productions and originally broadcast on The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada in 2002, and Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. It has also been broadcast in India, South Korea and Germany. The series was on the digital network Hulu and is currently on CONtv and Tubi in the United States.
PWK began as a one-man live theatre show written and performed by comedian/puppeteer John Pattison at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1995. It later morphed into the series, using the same dark topics and featuring some of the same puppet characters. In 1999, a pilot for Puppets Who Kill was produced for the Comedy Network and broadcast in January 2000. The network ordered the first season of 13 episodes, which was produced in the fall of 2001, held back by the network for one year, and finally broadcast in the fall of 2002. For the next 3 years, a new season of the series was produced every fall.
In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Ventriloquist Dummy are four puppets with anthropomorphic qualities including individual histories of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a hapless and somewhat incompetent social worker named Dan Barlow, played by Dan Redican.
every fall. In PuppetsWhoKill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Ventriloquist Dummy are four puppets with anthropomorphic...
Within Canada, Smith's notable acting appearances included roles on PuppetsWhoKill, Street Legal and Adderly, the latter of which was one of her most...
Toronto's Necessary Angel Theatre. She has also had guest roles in Doc, PuppetsWhoKill, This Is Wonderland, One Life to Live, Rent-a-Goalie and Army Wives...
as a professional magician. Notably, he is one of the producers of PuppetsWhoKill, which aired on Canada's The Comedy Network. Thompson was born in Berwick...
Transformers: Cybertron, Shining Time Station, Peep and the Big Wide World, PuppetsWhoKill, The Avengers: United They Stand, Street Legal, Rupert, Four on the...
TV series and miniseries The New Twilight Zone, The Good Germany, PuppetsWhoKill, Relic Hunter, and Lexx. Robson died while in rehearsals for The Grapes...
several series (such as PuppetsWhoKill, Odd Job Jack and Kevin Spencer) developing cult followings and loyal fan-bases. PuppetsWhoKill, Comedy Now!, The...
5 episodes), Darcy D'Angelo Wild Card (2003, "Backstabbed"), Ilana PuppetsWhoKill (2004, "Portrait of Buttons"), Rosa The Jane Show (2004, "Pilot"),...
The Kennedys (2011), The Colony (2013), Chicago Fire (2016–2017), Mary Kills People (2017–2019), Caught (2018), Wynonna Earp (2021), Law & Order: Organized...
Trek: Deep Space Nine, as the acerbic and skeptical Romulan Senator Vreenak who is the target of a Federation false flag operation to deceive the neutral...
stations in the United States. Among its early work, Radical Sheep made puppets used in the early 1990s educational video series The Adventures of Ruffus...
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any way with his person or his privacy, he will quite simply be forced to kill them." The response from drill sergeant Hulka, played by Warren Oates—"Lighten...
begins to make the puppets move. Now Toulon realizes he is genuine and begins to learn his powers. Then Afzel starts to make the puppets draw a barrier that's...
worker who delivers Doc Brown's 70-year-old letter to Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II (1989), as well as the crazed fan yelling "jackass!" who secretly...
Her partner Paul O'Sullivan, also an actor and Second City alumnus, was killed in a car accident on 18 May 2012. Together they had three children. "Linda...
met Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald, who were in the process of forming a comedy troupe. Along with Scott Thompson, who joined after coming to a stage show...
Chronicles of the Paranormal. Garay is the daughter of Valéria Gyenge, an athlete who won an Olympic gold medal for Hungary in 1952. Her father is János Garai...
Prairie. He also starred as "Dan Barlow" in the Comedy Network series PuppetsWhoKill, also working as a writer and story editor. In 1988, Redican appeared...
Adult puppeteering is the use of puppets in contexts aimed at adult audiences. Serious theatrical pieces can use puppets, either for aesthetic reasons,...
the prequel Retro Puppet Master. The Leader of the puppets is one of the few puppets, along with Pinhead, to appear in all of the Puppet Master movies to...
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