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'' The Smurfs'' is an animated television series that originally aired on NBC from September 12, 1981 to December 2, 1989. Created by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford and based on his comic series of the same name, it was composed by 256 episodes with 417 stories, but also of three cliffhanger episodes and seven specials. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions with SEPP International S.A. Freddy Monnickendam is a Belgian businessman and executive producer of the animated television series ''The Smurfs'' (1981), '' Snorks'' (1984), and '' Foofur'' (1986). Biography Freddy Monnickendam came into contact with comics when he negotiate ... and Lafig S.A. (on Seasons from 1 to 7 for the first and 8–9 for the second, respectively). Series overview Episodes Specials References External links ''The Smurfs''at Big Cartoon DataBase * {{The Smurfs Series Smurfs Episodes ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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The Three Musketeers
''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos (character), Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. ''The Three Musketeers'' is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Anci ...
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Ray Patterson (animator)
Raymond Patterson (November 23, 1911 – December 30, 2001) was an American animator, producer, and director. He was born in Hollywood, California, and was the younger brother of animator Don Patterson (animator), Don Patterson. Career Patterson's earliest works in animation were for Charles B. Mintz's Screen Gems, Krazy Kat/Screen Gems studio, where he started as an inker in 1929. He remained at Mintz for eleven years. In 1940, he moved to the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studio, where he animated on ''Fantasia (1940 film), Fantasia'' and ''Dumbo'', as well as several Pluto (Disney), Pluto shorts (''Bone Trouble'' and ''Pluto's Playmate''). By 1942, he mostly worked on Donald Duck shorts such as ''Donald Gets Drafted''. Patterson left Disney in 1941 during an Disney animators' strike, animation strike. He would briefly reunite with Screen Gems before moving to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, with his first short for them being ''War Dogs (1943 film), Wa ...
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Scott Shaw
Scott Shaw (born 23 September 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, martial artist, and filmmaker. Career Scott Shaw is an advanced martial artist. He has written a number of books on the martial arts. Shaw has written a number of books on Zen Buddhism and eastern philosophy. Shaw is an active actor and filmmaker. Shaw practices a style of filmmaking where no screenplay is used to create a movie. He titled this style of filmmaking, "Zen Filmmaking." Works Partial bibliography *''About Peace'' () *''Advanced Taekwondo'' () *''Alles op Zen tijd'' () *''Arc Left from Istanbul: A Photographic Exploration'' () *''Bangkok and the Nights of Drunken Stupor'' () *''Bangkok: Beyond the Buddha'' () *''Bus Rides'' () *''Cairo Before the Aftermath: A Photographic Exploration'' () *''Cambodian Refugees in Long Beach, California: The Definitive Study'' () *''Čchi-kung pro začátečníky'' () *''Chi Kung for Beginners: Master the Flow of Chi for Good Health, Stress R ...
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Chris Bunch
Christopher R. Bunch (December 22, 1943 – July 4, 2005) was an American science fiction, fantasy and television writer, who wrote and co-wrote about thirty novels. Early life and education Bunch was born in Fresno, California and attended Mira Costa High School with his friend Allan Cole. He joined the United States Army and served 14 months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War in 1965–66. He was a patrol commander. He attended California State University, Los Angeles. Career He collaborated with Allan Cole on a series of books involving a hero named Sten in a galactic empire. He also wrote for ''Rolling Stone'' and was a correspondent for '' Stars and Stripes''. He died in his hometown of Ilwaco, Washington, after a long battle with a lung ailment. List of works Solo novels, series and short stories The Seer King Trilogy *''The Seer King'' (1997) () *''The Demon King'' (1998) () *''The Warrior King'' (1999) () Dragonmaster Trilogy *''Storm of Wings'' (2002) () *''Knighthood ...
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Allan Cole
Allan Cole (November 19, 1943 – March 29, 2019) was an American author and television writer, who wrote or co-wrote nearly thirty books. The son of a CIA operative, Cole was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. He collaborated with Chris Bunch on the Sten science fiction series, as well the Far Kingdoms Series, and the historical novels, ''A Reckoning for Kings'' and '' A Daughter of Liberty''. He coauthored a non-fiction book—'' A Cop's Life''—with his uncle, Thomas Grubb; and a fantasy novel—''Lords of Terror''—with Russian author Nick Perumov. His solo books include the fantasy novels that make up the Timura Trilogy? and the thrillers ''Dying Good'' and ''Drowned Hopes''. He sold more than a hundred television episodes, including ones for ''Quincy, M.E.'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''The Incredible Hulk'', ''Dinosaucers'', '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', ''Magnum, P.I.'', ''Werewolf'', and ''Walker, Texas ...
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Jeff Hall (animator)
Jeff Hall is a cartoon animator and director. His projects include ''Race for your life, Charlie Brown''.Jerry Beck, ''The Animated Movie Guide: The Ultimate Illustrated Reference to Cartoon, Stop-motion, And Computer-generated Feature Films'' (Chicago Review Press, 2005)/ref> Movies *''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown'' (1977)--animator *''The Powerpuff Girls Movie'' (2002)--animator (uncredited) References External links *'Jeff Hall'' at the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American animators American animated film directors {{US-animator-stub ...
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John Semper
John Semper Jr. is an African-American screenwriter, producer and story editor with numerous credits in animation for television. He has worked for miscellaneous companies as Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera Productions during a career which has involved the development of projects for Jim Henson, George Lucas, Stan Lee, Rob Minkoff and others. Semper created the English-language dialogue for two of Hayao Miyazaki's anime feature films '' Castle in the Sky'' and ''Kiki's Delivery Service'', and co-wrote the screenplay for the live-action comedy ''Class Act''. During the 1990s, Semper was producer/story editor of '' Spider-Man: The Animated Series''. which ran from 1994 to 1998. In 2016, he began writing a Cyborg series for DC Comics drawn by Brian Stelfreeze. ''Creeporia'' Semper's most recent creation is the family comedy-horror webseries ''Creeporia''. The character of Creeporia was first introduced in the webseries titled ''Crypt of Creeporia'' ...
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Marc Scott Zicree
Marc Scott Zicree (born 1955) is an American science fiction author, television writer and screenwriter. Zicree has written for major studios and networks including Paramount, Universal, Disney, Sony/Columbia Tri-Star, MGM, New Line, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, WB, UPN, Showtime, PBS, Turner, USA Networks, Syfy, Discovery, Nickelodeon, the BBC, Marvel and NPR. His credits include '' Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Babylon 5, Beauty and the Beast, Forever Knight, Sliders, Friday the 13th: The Series, Liberty's Kids, Super Friends, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Real Ghostbusters, The Smurfs'' and many others, as well as pilots for CBS, NBC, ABC and Showtime. Career He is the author of '' The Twilight Zone Companion'', a detailed history of Rod Serling's TV series ''The Twilight Zone''. Several of his interviews with ''The Twilight Zone'' actors, directors and producers are available as special features on the ''Twilight Zone: The Compl ...
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Ron Campbell (animator)
Ron Campbell (26 December 1939 – 22 January 2021) was an Australian animator, director, and producer, best known for his work on the 1960s '' The Beatles'' television series, as well as the animated feature film '' Yellow Submarine''. Early career Ron Campbell's career began in 1958 animating various commercials for Australian television. However, when Al Brodax brought both his Krazy Kat and Beetle Bailey cartoons to Australia for production, Campbell was recruited to work on the project. After Krazy Kat, Campbell went on to direct many installments of '' The Beatles'' television series for King Features. The show debuted on 25 September 1965, and remained number one in the ratings for the duration of its four-year run. He later wrote the foreword to the book ''Beatletoons: The Real Story Behind The Cartoon Beatles'', where his involvement in the show is also talked about extensively. Ron's surname is misspelled as "CAMBELL" at the end credits of "Cool McCool". Due i ...
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Rich Fogel
Rich Fogel is an American Emmy Award-winning animation writer. He has worked on series such as ''The Smurfs (1981 TV series), The Smurfs'', ''Batman Beyond'', ''Justice League (TV series), Justice League'', and ''Pinky and the Brain''. Screenwriting credits * series head writer denoted in bold Television *''Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show'' (1984-1985) *''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' (1985) *''The Smurfs (1981 TV series), The Smurfs'' (1986) *''Muppet Babies (1984 TV series), Muppet Babies'' (1987-1988) *''RoboCop (American TV series), RoboCop'' (1988) *''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' (1989) *''Disney%27s Adventures of the Gummi Bears'' (1989) *''DuckTales'' (1990) *''Goof Troop'' (1992) *''Dog City'' (1993) *''Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa'' (1993) *''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' (1993, 1996) *''Creepy Crawlers (TV series), Creepy Crawlers'' (1994) *''WildC.A.T.s'' (1994) *''Taz-Mania'' (1995) *''Pinky and the Brain'' (1996) *''Superman: The Ani ...
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Alan Burnett
Alan Burnett (; born February 17, 1950) is an American television writer-producer particularly associated with Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Productions, DC Comics, and Walt Disney television animation. He has had a hand in virtually every DC animated project since the waning years of the ''Super Friends''. Burnett's contributions for Disney were largely a part of the 1990s ''Disney Afternoon'', where he was attached to the ''Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears'' and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck universe. Because of his primary focus on televised animation, he has occasionally been involved in film projects related to a parent television program. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and has an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California. Filmography Film Television Comic books Burnett wrote ''Superman/Batman'', '' The Flash'' and ''Justice League of America The Justice League (also known as The Justice League ...
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