Dog the Bounty Hunter

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Dog The Bounty Hunter
Format Reality
Starring Duane "Dog" Chapman
Beth Smith
Leland Chapman
Duane Lee Chapman, II
'Baby' Lyssa Chapman
Tim Chapman
Justin Bihag
Tucker Chapman
No. of episodes 100
Production
Executive
producer(s)
Daniel Elias
Boris Lee Krutonog (Season one - three)
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel A&E Network
Original airing August 30, 2004 - Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Dog the Bounty Hunter is a reality television show which chronicles Duane "Dog" Chapman's operations at his job, Da Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dog is joined by his wife and business partner, Beth Smith Chapman, his sons Leland, Duane Lee, associates Tim Chapman, his daughter 'Baby' Lyssa Chapman. As of season 5, Tim Chapman will not be featured. In season one, the team was joined by Dog's 'nephew' Justin Bihag. Besides Hawaii, episodes have been filmed in Dog Chapman's home state of Colorado and the city of San Francisco. Production was halted by A&E after Dog Chapman was recorded uttering racist remarks and the show was removed from A&E's programming. On February 21, 2008, A&E stated that production of the show would resume. On July 16 at 9PM ET/PT. A&E announced that Dog The Bounty Hunter will return on June 25, 2008 with new episodes to begin a few weeks after that.

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[edit] Background

The show is aired on A&E Networks in USA and on Virgin 1 and Bravo in the UK (new episodes to be premiered in the United Kingdom on Bravo in September 2008.

While the program mostly follows Chapman and his team in pursuits against actual criminals who violated the conditions of their bail, it also shows his life as a husband, as a father to some of his twelve children, and as an ex-convict. Chapman and Smith were married on May 20, 2006.[1]

The program spun off from their appearance in the show A&E Network's Take This Job, a program about people with unusual occupations. Both shows are produced for A&E by Hybrid Films, a New York-based production company. The concept of the program is to follow a family of bounty hunters as they capture fugitives.

The family also run a bail bond business, Da Kine Bail Bonds, and has locations in Oahu, in Kona on the Big Island and also on the mainland in Denver, Colorado. The office on the Big Island is owned and run by Duane's son, Leland Chapman. The Oahu office is located at 1381 Queen Emma St. in Honolulu.

Chapman had a daughter named Barbara Katie who was killed in a car accident the day before Duane and Beth married May 20, 2006. Despite the death, the wedding ceremony commenced and the special episode was aired August 2006. Barbara Katie was just 23 years old.[2]

At a legislative hearing in Honolulu, Hawaii where he appeared to oppose a bill under consideration that would effectively remove his ability to capture fugitives, he claimed to have captured 7000 fugitives.[3]

On February 19, 2008, A&E announced that reruns of Chapman's reality show "Dog The Bounty Hunter" along with never before seen episodes from season 4 would air on June 25, 2008, with new episodes from season 5 to air on July 16, 2008.

[edit] Starring

Plus we get to see other family members and friends during the course of the four seasons.

[edit] Family Appearances

  • Cecily Barmore (Beth's Daughter)
  • Dominic (Beth's Son)
  • Bonnie Jo Chapman (Beth & Duane's Daughter)
  • Garry Chapman (Beth & Duane's Daughter)
  • Abbie Mae Chapman (Lyssa's Daughter)
  • Dakota Chapman (Leland's Son)
  • Cobie Chapman (Leland's Son)
  • Maui Chapman (Leland's Ex-wife)
  • Wesley Chapman (Duane's son)
  • Davina Chapman (Tim's Wife)
  • Monique Shinnery (Tucker's Girlfriend)
  • Tucker Chapman (Duane's son)
  • Travis Chapman (Duane and Beth's Grandson)
  • Summer Rain and Autumn Sky Chapman (Tim's Daughter's)
  • Garry Smith (Beth's Father)
  • Jodi Chapman (Duane Lee's Daughter)
  • Jasmine Chapman (Duane Lee's Daughter)
  • Jennifer Chapman (Duane Lee's Daughter)
  • Dylan Chapman (Duane Lee's Son)
  • Teresa Chapman (Duane Lee's Wife)

[edit] 2006 arrest and extradition proceedings

At approximately 6:00 am Hawaiian time on September 14, 2006, Duane Chapman, his son Leland and his associate (though Duane calls him his blood brother) Tim Chapman[4] were arrested by US Marshals at the request of the Mexican government, on charges of bounty hunting, which is illegal in Mexico. On June 18, 2003, the Chapman trio captured convicted fugitive rapist Andrew Luster (heir to Max Factor cosmetics) who was wanted on 87 counts of rape.[5] He had fled to Mexico. The trio were released on bail ($300,000 for Duane and $100,000 each for the other two).

On February 16, 2007, the second district court in Guadalajara denied a request for an injunction preventing extradition. The court ruled that Duane, Leland, and Tim should face trial on one count of "deprivation of liberty" in violation of the country's anti-bounty-hunting statutes. There have been multiple legal defense fund raising accounts set up for the trio, including one set up by Tanja "Doe," a victim of Andrew Luster.

On 1 August 2007, the ruling was appealed by the prosecution to overturn the decision. In Mexico most rulings such as this are automatically appealed and it can take some time for a decision to be made on the appeal. However, On 2 August, the First Criminal Court in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico dismissed all criminal charges pending against the trio on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired. The order effectively cancelled all pending charges. The ruling, however, was appealed by the prosecution in order to overturn the lower court's decision. A&E was told that in Mexico, rulings against the prosecution are generally appealed as a matter of principle.[6]

On 4 August 2007, on an episode of Larry King Live, while Duane "Dog" Chapman was talking, it was announced that the charges against Duane, Leland, and Tim on the Andrew Luster case, had been dropped by the Mexican government.[citation needed]

On 29 January 2008, Duane is officially free from his Mexican legal ordeal. A three-judge panel in Mexico unanimously ruled that the criminal charges against Dog, his son, Leland Chapman, and his brother, Tim Chapman, must be dismissed; they cannot be extradited to Mexico to face criminal charges for their 2003 capture of serial rapist and fugitive Andrew Luster.[7]

[edit] Return To TV

On February 21, 2008, it was announced by A&E Network that Dog & his team would be returning to TV on July 16 at 9PM ET/PT. A&E announced that Dog The Bounty Hunter will return on June 25, 2008 with new episodes to begin a few weeks after that. New episodes will be released to the UK in September 2008 on Bravo

[edit] In popular culture

  • Dog and his crew were parodied in the tenth season South Park episode "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy." Cartman portrayed Dog, but was a hall monitor rather than a bounty hunter. In this episode, Cartman would chase around students accusing them of "hallway infractions" and attacking them with bear mace, which is the weapon of choice for Dog and the rest of his crew. Cartman also gave the students he "caught" moral lectures, spoofing the philosophizing Chapman does with fugitives while transporting them to jail.
  • Dog appeared with his wife Beth on the one hour special of Criss Angel: Mindfreak. Dog tied Criss up to a chair and lowered him into a hot tub. After four minutes, Criss loosened himself and stood up.
  • Heavy metal artist Ozzy Osbourne sings "Dog, The Bounty Hunter" as Dog's theme song. The song can be heard on Ozzy's Prince of Darkness box set (CD #4).
  • Dog was also parodied in the second episode of the fifth season of Reno 911. The character, "Tommy Hawk", was portrayed by Diedrich Bader.
  • An impersonation of 'Dog' appears in Soulja Boy Tell Em's music video 'Yahhh!'.
  • Dog appeared in an episode of The George Lopez Show, where George goes to his mom's neighborhood to pick up her pet dog and meets Dog instead.
  • Dog appeared with Beth in the Corner Gas episode "Coming Distractions", in which during a daydream they showed up to arrest Brent
  • An imitation of Dog was put on by Jamie Grunge in BZW during one of his many unaired promos with Tank during their Ocober 2007- February 2008 rivalry. Grunge or "The Grunge" apparently had a warrant for Tank being a "Fatass redneck with no right to be allowed in public due to his ability to get in the way of cars chasing a rolling donut!". The song was parodied in this too.

[edit] DVD releases

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
The Best Of Season 1 7 January 25, 2005 Features Dog's episode of Take This Job, Cast Bios, and Promos.
The Best Of Season 2 7 March 28, 2006 Features Cast Bios and a Pop Up Dog Hunting Quiz.
The Best Of Season 3 8 February 27, 2007 Features a Photo Gallery.
The Best Of Season 4 8 June 25, 2008
The Wedding Special 1 December 12, 2006 Features 5 featurettes titled:
  • The Drama Of Dog's Wedding Ring,
  • Dance Lessons,
  • Shopping With Beth,
  • The Bow Wow Vow, and
  • A Tribute To Dog & Beth.
The Arrest 1 September 25, 2007 Features Additional Scenes.

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