Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American animated television series created and directed by John R. Dilworth. The pilot episode, "The Chicken from Outer Space", originally aired as part of What a Cartoon! on February 18, 1996. The series officially premiered on Cartoon Network on November 12, 1999, and ended on November 22, 2002, with a total of 52 episodes over the course of four seasons. A CGI special titled "The Fog of Courage" was broadcast on Cartoon Network in Southeast Asia on October 31, 2014. The series is about an anthropomorphic dog named Courage, who lives with an elderly couple in Nowhere, Kansas. In each episode, the trio are thrown into bizarre and frequently disturbing misadventures, often involving the paranormal or supernatural.
The 2021 direct-to-DVD film is the only official Courage project in which Dilworth has no involvement.
According to the credits and sneak peek of the first episode,[1] the entirety of this season was produced between mid-August to late December 1999, while most of this season aired in early 2000.
Note: All episodes in this season (except episodes 1 and 13) were written by David Steven Cohen.
In February 2012, BuzzFeed reported that a CGI special of Courage the Cowardly Dog was in development.[2] The 7-minute special, titled The Fog of Courage, aired in 2014. Dilworth uploaded the special on his StretchFilms YouTube channel on March 14, 2024.[3]
In 2021, a 76-minute straight-to-video movie crossing over with Scooby-Doo was released, titled Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, but without involvement of Courage creator John R. Dilworth. The movie was released to DVD and digital on September 14, 2021.