Here is my opinion of what it could behave been like. I'm also adding a couple of pictures I drew of how the characters would have looked in the series' art style(Well, to be fair, it's actually more my art style, but I tried to copy the show's art style the best I could):
Has anybody seen these dogs?
I'll begin this what if with the three "missing" Pound Puppies, as I call them. (Scrounger's design, BTW, is based off his design in the episode, "Wagga Wagga", and Violet's design is a combination of her original design and her design in that episode.) Their roles and personalities in the show would be like this:
-Violet would be the group's second-in-command, a role she frequently took in the books.
Personality-wise, she'd still be sweet, polite, and smart, but also tough and adventurous(sort of like Cooler). She'd also, of course, be Cooler's girlfriend.(And you know, in retrospect, it kind of made little sense for her not to be in the series, seeing as that she was Cooler's girlfriend, and that Cooler had no romantic interest in Nose Marie.)
-Barkerville would be the group's strategist, as he was in the books and the '85 special.
Personality-wise, he'd still be polite, proper, and sensible(The most sensible member of the group, even!) His role as a strategist would be taken a step further in the second season; he'd have a computer that he would use to help find homes for the various dogs and cats they would be trying to place(In lieu of the dogs using "Puppy Power," i.e. the strange psychic abilities they apparently had to do this, which IMHO didn't make much sense...honestly, were they dogs or Alakazams?)
-Personality-wise, Scrounger would be...well, Scrounger! He'd still, as always, be sarcastic, hygiene-deficient, and have a voracious appetite. As far as things go, though, in the second season, his color would be changed to gray(as it was in the episode, "Garbage Night:The Musical).
And now, on to the villains:
Flack and Tubbs, the two dognappers from the '85 special, would now be Katrina Stoneheart's henchmen, sort of like Horace and Jasper to Cruella De Vil (One could say that they would now have an outlet for their dognapping). They'd mainly serve as comic relief, with their frequent botch-ups being a source of contant frustration to Katrina, as well as Brattina(and Captain Slaughter in the few episodes in which he appeared).
As per the picture above, the biggest change to them would be their appearance; Flack's sweater, for example, isn't quite as loose-fitting as it was in the pilot episode(i.e. no longer giving him an artificially muscular appearance), his hair is longer, and his beard is a little shorter. Also, in the second season, he'd start wearing fingerless gloves.
Tubbs now has larger eyes, a smaller mouth, and a slightly more visible nose. His scarf is also slightly shorter. In the second season, he'd don an orange sweater-vest(which, as one might expect, would be no more effective in covering his belly than his shirt was).
Personality-wise, the dognappers wouldn't have changed at all; Flack would still be sneaky and sarcastic, Tubbs would still be dopey and klutzy, and their ability to mess things up in hilarious slapstick ways would also remain the same.
(You know, I might be biased because I happen to like these particular characters, but it seemed like Flack and Tubbs kind of got short-shift in the series; they never appeared in so much as one episode, even in a cameo or a flashback. This is particularly hard to understand considering the fact that Dabney Nabbit, Mayor Fist, and Doc Weston have all appeared in at least one episode of the show.)
On an interesting note, the writers of the series apparently had originally intended to make Dabney Nabbit a regular character. (In fact, on some websites and in some books, he's been mistakenly listed as one of the regular characters.) According to some of the model sheets from the show (which show up on ebay from time to time), they had intended to make him a janitor. Huh? A janitor? Honestly, Nabbit just doesn't seem like the type that anyone would acquaint with cleanliness! You know, IMHO, it would have made more sense to have him still be a dogcatcher, and have him also be working for Katrina.(Honestly IMHO, seeing as that he was so popular in the books, it kind of made little sense not to include him.) Also, in the second season, he'd have a catch phrase: "I'll nab 'em, and I'll nab 'em good!"
To take this what if a step further, I wrote a few fan fictions based off of episodes of the TV show in this continuity:
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