TV & VIDEO - Feb. 20, 1989

Production has begun on the first prime-time animated series in more than a decade. NBC’s “Hound Town,” a half-hour comedy set in a typical American suburb, “concerns the lives that dogs have of which humans are unaware,” according to director Ralph Bakshi, who added: “The dogs have their own views of humans and ultimately turn out to be more civilized than we are.” The series is tentatively scheduled for a Friday night time slot.