Puppets Who Kill

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 in 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 CON TV and Tubi in the United States.

Puppets Who Kill
GenreDark comedy
Created byJohn Pattison
Steven Westren
Written byJohn Pattison
Dan Redican
StarringDan Redican
Bruce Hunter
Bob Martin
James Rankin
Gord Robertson
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes53 aired (as of June 22, 2006)
Production
ProducersJohn Pattison
Shawn Alex Thompson
Running time30 mins
Original release
NetworkThe Comedy Network
ReleaseOctober 4, 2002 (2002-10-04) 
June 22, 2006 (2006-06-22)

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, and held back by the network for one year - finally being 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.

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