Read more about Road Rovers at: Wikipedia Official Site: Warner Brothers Road Rovers is an American 2D animated television series written and produced by Tom Ruegger and Warner Bros. Animation that premiered on Kids' WB on September 2, 1996. It lasted one season and ended on February 22, 1997. Re-runs of the show continued for a short time on Kids' WB and then on Cartoon Network until 1999. Much of the humor contained in the show was derived from popular culture of the mid 1990s. The show follows the adventures of the Road Rovers, a team of five super-powered crime-fighting anthropomorphic dog, known as "cano-sapiens". The leader of the rovers is Hunter, a golden retriever mix from the United States. The Rovers' boss is a scientist known as "The Master" who oversees their operations and supplies them with equipment from their subterranean headquarters. The show was never released on VHS or DVD and as of May 2, 2010, Warner Bros. has yet to announce any plans for a DVD release of the show. In the town of Socorro New Mexico One year prior to the formation of the Road Rovers, Professor Shepherd is attacked by a man named General Parvo, who demands the professor's experimental transdogmafier (a play on the term transmogrifier) technology in exchange for his pet dog. Shepherd gives in but is tricked by Parvo, who gives him a bomb that destroys his laboratory. The next year, as normal dogs begin to mutate into monsters, Shepard realizes it is Parvo who is behind it and decides to stop him.
Road Rovers has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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