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List of Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes

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Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ435689
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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 Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog is the only official Courage project in which Dilworth has no involvement.

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Episodes

Pilot (1996)

Season 1 (1999–2000)

Note: According to copyright dates and sneak peek of the first episode, this entire season was completed by October 1999, a month before it premiered.

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