Courage the Cowardly Dog
What Could Have Been in this series.
1996 promo featuring the live-action character, Spaceman Dilly.
Examples:
- Originally
, Eustace was going to scare Courage with a shotgun, but this was later changed to the mask due to network censors. - According to Marty Grabstein, Courage's voice actor, Courage actually was supposed to talk regularly, but then the producers decided Courage was talking way too much and so because Courage's dialogue was greatly reduced, Grabstein mostly had to make unintelligible noises (especially screaming). John Dilworth and his team ultimately preferred it that way, tough of course some viewers have said they wanted Courage to talk more.
- One early idea was for each cartoon to have a live-action bridging segment, with John Dilworth playing "Spaceman Dilly."
- So many fans were saddened by the show's ending that an online petition was formed, and sent to both Cartoon Network and Stretch Films, asking for a continuation. Because of this, a fifth season of the series was considered, but ultimately never came to be.
- On the same token, because of the series' popularity with fans, a movie was also up for consideration (whether theatrical or TV was never made clear), but nothing ever came out of it due to the poor box office performance of The Powerpuff Girls Movie..
- Series composer Jody Gray wanted to release a CD soundtrack of the show's music scoring and songs, and even asked fans to submit requests of specifics they'd like to be included in the soundtrack. Once again, nothing ever materialized.
- Way back when, Dilworth was pitching his indie short The Dirdy Birdy to Hanna-Barbera for the What a Cartoon! program, but they deemed the short unsuitable for TV, and Dilworth pitched what was to be his next indie effort The Chicken from Outer Space in order to receive funding for it, and the rest was history.
- When Cartoon Network started developing the series in 1999, the show was set to be produced and developed by Hanna-Barbera, which handled the What a Cartoon! anthology series that featured the show's pilot short. Dilworth eventually sent the production to his Stretch Films Studios, but it would've been interesting to see how Hanna-Barbera would've developed the series following its What a Cartoon! short.
- The 2014 short "The Fog of Courage" was part of an idea by John R Dilworth and Cartoon Network to revive the series, but the network changed its mind to pursue bigger projects.
- Later that same year, John R. Dilworth had posted on his tumblr that Cartoon Network had ordered two Courage holiday specials, one being a Christmas special and the other a Halloween special. Dilworth later removed the post after stating that there was still negotiating being done. The two specials were ultimately scrapped for unknown reasons.
