Belle and Sebastian (Japanese TV series)

This article is about the 1981 anime series. For other uses, see Belle and Sebastian (disambiguation).
Belle and Sebastian
Cover art from the DVD release
名犬ジョリィ
(Meiken Jorī)
GenreAdventure, Historical
Anime television series
Directed byKeiji Hayakawa
StudioMK Company
Visual 80
Toho
Original networkNHK
English network
Original run April 7, 1981 (1981-04-07) – June 23, 1982 (1982-06-23)
Episodes52[1] (List of episodes)

Belle and Sebastian (名犬ジョリィ, Meiken Jorī, Famous Dog Jolie) is an anime adaption of the 1965 novel Belle et Sébastien by French author Cécile Aubry.[2][3][4] The series ran on the Japanese network NHK from April 7, 1981 to March 24, 1982. It consists of 52 episodes and was a co-production of MK Company, Visual 80 Productions and Toho Company, Ltd.

Toshiyuki Kashiwakura was the head writer and character designs were by Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Children's BBC in 1989 and 1990.

This anime used many staffers from Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, thus the look and feel is similar to that of a WMT production even though Nippon Animation itself was not involved with this series.

The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages. The English-language script was written by Eileen Opatut, and the series was dubbed into English by Synchro-Quebec in Montreal.[5]

  1. ^ 名犬ジョリィ. NHK (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2009-07-12.
  2. ^ Schine, Cathleen (October 30, 1988). "From Lassie to Pee-Wee". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  3. ^ "French film star Cecile Aubry dies at 81". BBC. July 21, 2010. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  4. ^ Weber, Bruce (July 24, 2010). "Cécile Aubry, Actress and Writer of Children's Stories, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 21, 2013. Retrieved 2010-08-14.
  5. ^ O'Connor, John J. (1984-07-05). "Tv Review; New Children's Series". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-19.