''Anatole'' is an

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based on the Anatole book series by

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. The series was created by

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, Valentine Productions s.a.r.l. and

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as one of their numerous programmes. It originally aired on Canada's YTV network from 1998 to 1999, and premiered in the United States on

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on October 3, 1998, and aired through the 1998–99 television season.

Premise

The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in

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. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette, and a family of six little mice.

Characters

Main

* Anatole, the series' lead * Gaston, Anatole's friend * Doucette, Anatole's wife * Paul, Anatole's oldest son * Paulette, Anatole's oldest daughter * Claude, Anatole's middle son * Claudette, Anatole's middle daughter * Georges, Anatole's youngest son * Georgette, Anatole's youngest daughter * Pamplemousse, the mayor of the mouse village

Supporting

* Edgar * Molière * Rene * Yvette * Mayor Soucy * Pascal * Uncle Louis * M. Duval * Monsieur Duval * Charlemagne the Cat * Pierre the Pigeon * Otto * Gretchen * Hans * Nathalie * Comtesse De Souris * Maurice * Jacques * The Two Crows * Nostromo * The Bakers * Thief * Uncle Louis * Two weasels * Mayor Soucy * Pascal

Production

announced in January 1998 that it would return to airing cartoons as part of its Saturday morning programming schedule for the 1998–99 television season, and ''Anatole'' was among the new animated series announced. In July 1998, it was announced that CBS would premiere ''Anatole'' and the rest of its Saturday morning animated programming on September 19, 1998, though by September the premiere date had slipped to October 3, 1998.

Episodes

Charles E. Bastien directed every episode of ''Anatole''.

Broadcast and home media

The series originally aired in 1998, on

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on CBS. In late 1999 it aired on Premiere 12 (now known as

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) in Singapore. It re-aired on the U.S. version of

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from 2001 to 2004. The series was returned in 2009 on STV, a Scottish television station, on their ''

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'' strand, and from 2015 as part of the "''Weans' World''" block on

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and

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. In the late 1990s, Alliance Atlantis released videotapes of the series.

References

External links

*
''Anatole''
on

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