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Récré A2
Récré A2 was a French children's TV programme broadcast in the 1970s and 1980s, on Antenne 2 (now France 2). It was produced by Jacqueline Joubert and first aired on July 3, 1978, lasting until June 29, 1988. Presenters and staff * Ariane * Cabu * Corbier * Dorothée * Jacky * William Leymergie Programs * Les Aventures électriques de Zeltron (1979 to 1982) * Fabeltjeskrant * Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird * Yakari (1983 TV series) * Pimpa * Mimi Cracra (1986 TV series) * Ulysse 31 * Maya the Honey Bee * Les Quaz'e'amis * Téléchat * Judo Boy * Les Paladins De France * Télétactica * Space Cobra * Grendizer * Candy Candy * Space Pirate Captain Harlock * The Rose of Versailles * The Smurfs (1981 TV series) * He-Man and the Masters of the Universe * Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea * Chapi Chapo * Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX * Seabert * Boule and Bill (1975) * Casper the Friendly Ghost * Thundercats * Sherlock Hound * Star Wars: Ewoks * Mio Mao * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 2
France 2 () is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4 and France 5. France Télévisions also participates in Arte and Euronews. Since 3:20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16:9 widescreen format over the French analogue and digital terrestrial television. An HD simulcast feed of France 2 has been broadcasting on satellite provider CanalSat since 1 July 2008 and on digital terrestrial television since 30 October 2008. History Originally under the ownership of the RTF, the channel went on the air for the first time on 18 April 1964 as '' RTF Télévision 2''. Within a year, ORTF rebranded that channel as ''La deuxième chaîne'' (The Second Channel). Originally, the network was broadcast on 625-line transmitters only in preparation for the discontinuation of 819-line black & white transmissions and the introduction of colour. The switch to colour oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapi Chapo
''Chapi Chapo'' is a French short stop-motion series. Created by Italo Bettiol and Stephano Lonati for the production company Belokapi, with music by François de Roubaix, it premiered in 1974 on R(T)F Television (and later on Boomerang) and ran for 60 5-minute episodes. The show aired on American television in the 1980s as part of Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. It ...'s '' Pinwheel''. "Chapi Chapo" is a play-on-words with the French word, ''chapeaux'', which means "hats". Both of the main characters wore oversized hats that matched their clothing. The one in red is Chapi (a girl) and the one in blue is Chapo (a boy). Each episode ends with a little dance. An announcement was made in 2015 that a new ''Chapi Chapo'' series is in development. It will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea
''Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea'' ( French: ''Les Mondes Engloutis'', "The Engulfed Worlds") is a 1985-1987 French animated series created by Nina Wolmark. The series consists of 52 episodes, each between 20 and 25 minutes in length, divided into two 26-episode seasons. Opening narration ''Ever since the time of the Great Cataclysm, the Arkadians have lived deep in the center of the Earth. They believed they were the only survivors of this great devastation. Their civilization thrived under the power of their sun, the Tehra... until it began to fail. In desperation, the children of Arkadia broke the law and entered the forbidden Archives, searching for a solution. What they discovered gave them hope. Anxiously, they used their special powers and created a messenger to the people above. They named her Arkana.'' Synopsis The lost city of Arkadia (named for Arcadia) resembles a small Alderson Disk, and is home to an ancient civilization which escaped a Great Cataclysm in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'' is an American animated television series produced by Filmation based on Mattel's toy line ''Masters of the Universe''. The show, often referred to as simply ''He-Man'', was one of the most popular animated shows of the 1980s. It made its television debut in September 1983 and ran until 1985, consisting of two seasons of 65 episodes each. Towards the end of the show's original run, it spawned one feature length theatrical movie '' He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword'', which served as the introduction for the show's spinoff literal sister series '' She-Ra: Princess of Power''. Reruns continued to air in syndication until 1988, at which point USA Network bought the rights to the series. USA aired ''He-Man'' until September 1990. The success of the toy-based show in syndication greatly influenced other animation houses to produce half-hour "cartoon commercials", and considerably changed the syndicated cartoon market. The franchise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Smurfs (1981 TV Series)
''The Smurfs'' ( syndicated as ''Smurfs' Adventures'') is an animated fantasy-comedy children's television series that originally aired on NBC from 12 September 1981 to 2 December 1989, lasted for eight years. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series by the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (who also served as story supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 258 episodes with a total of 419 stories, excluding three cliffhanger episodes and seven specials. History In 1976, Stuart R. Ross, an American media and entertainment entrepreneur who saw the Smurfs while traveling in Belgium, entered into an agreement with Editions Dupuis and Peyo, acquiring North American and other rights to the characters, whose original name was "les Schtroumpfs". Subsequently, Ross launched the Smurfs in the United States in association with a California company, Wallace Berrie and Co., whose figurines, dolls and other Smurf merchandise became a hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Of Versailles
, also known as ''Lady Oscar'' and ''La Rose de Versailles'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in the manga magazine '' Margaret'' from 1972 to 1973, while a revival of the series was published in the magazine from 2013 to 2018. The series is a historical drama set in the years preceding and during the French Revolution. Using a combination of historical personages and original characters, ''The Rose of Versailles'' focuses primarily on the lives of two women: the Queen of France Marie Antoinette, and Oscar François de Jarjayes, who serves as commander of the Royal Guard. Ikeda created ''The Rose of Versailles'' as a story about revolution and populist uprisings after becoming involved with Japan's New Left as a member of the Communist Party of Japan in the late 1960s. The series was developed during a significant transitional period for ''shōjo'' manga (manga for girls) as a medium, characterized by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto. It was serialized in ''Play Comic'' from 1977 to 1979, with the chapters collected into five ''tankōbon'' volumes by Akita Shoten. The series follows the titular Captain, an outcast turned space pirate after he rebelled against Earth's Government and humanity's general apathy. ''Space Pirate Captain Harlock'' was adapted into an anime television series in 1978 directed by Rintaro and produced by Toei Animation. A computer-animated film adaptation of the same name was released in 2013. In August 2014, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Matsumoto's debut, he launched a retelling manga, '' Captain Harlock: Dimensional Voyage'', illustrated by Kōichi Shimahoshi, which features some significant plot differences. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the manga in North America. A sequel comic book written and drawn by Jérôme Alquié, in collaboration with Matsumoto, and published by Ablaze Comics bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candy Candy
is a Japanese series created by Kyoko Mizuki. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Ardley is a blonde girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long hair, worn in pigtails with bows. ''Candy Candy'' first appeared as a manga in April 1975, written by Japanese writer Keiko Nagita under the pen name Kyoko Mizuki and illustrated by manga artist Yumiko Igarashi, a collaboration which was put together by the Japanese magazine ''Nakayoshi'' who were interested in recreating a "masterpiece" manga in the same vein as ''Heidi'', '' Anne of Green Gables'' and other famous classic titles of literature read predominantly by young girls. The manga series ran for four years and won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1977. The story was adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation. There are also three animated short films. Plot The ''Candy Candy'' manga provides a story for the shōjo demographic. Candy, an abandoned orphan taken in by the orphanage Pony's Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grendizer
, known as '' Grandizer'' in the United States, is a Japanese Super Robot anime television series and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the ''Mazinger'' series, however it is non-canon due to '' Mazinger Z: Infinity'' taking place losely 10 years after ''Great Mazinger'', discarding any connection other than Koji Kabuto and Boss to the ''Mazinger'' anime storyline, the manga however takes place in the same timeline as the Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger in an unspecified timeskip after Great Mazinger. The anime television series was produced by Toei Doga and Dynamic Planning and broadcast on Fuji TV from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel, then in Jim Terry's ''Force Five'' series, both under the title ''Grandizer''. It was widely popular in the Middle East, North Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Cobra
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Buichi Terasawa. Set in the far future, the series tells the story of Cobra, who lives an adventurous life until his enemies begin to hunt him down. Cobra surgically alters his face and erases his own memory to hide from his foes and have a normal life. Eventually, he regains his memories and reunites with his former partner Lady Armaroid. Terasawa devised it as a mix of Spaghetti Western and samurai stories, and aspects of films, varying from James Bond to Disney. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from November 1978 to November 1984. Later, Shueisha collected the chapters and published them in 18 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The ''Cobra'' manga spawned various sequel manga series, one-shots, a 1982 feature-length anime film, two anime television series (a 31-episode series in 1982, and a 13-episode series in 2010), two original video animations (OVAs) in 2008–2009, audio albums, vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
