It is not known whether the animated television series was contiguous with the feature-films but if it was it may take place before them because the only one of his pets to appear in the series is his capuchin monkey, Spike. Ace is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals, the son of Rex Ventura and descendant of such as 'Ernest Ventura Shackleton' and 'Jacques Ventura Costeau'.
