''Janoschs Traumstunde'' is a

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that originally aired from 1986 to 1990. It was based on the works of German artist and

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author

Janosch Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator. Biography Janosch was born as Horst Eckert in what was then Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixed German and Pol ...

, with directors Jürgen Egenolf, Uwe-Peter Jeske and Wolfgang Urchs.

Format

Almost every episode contains two self-contained stories; in some cases, episodes featured three to four shorter stories. The stories are framed by a series of sequences featuring the "Big, Fat, Fabulous Bear," who introduced the stories in each episode.

Broadcast and home media release

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, the first season aired from October 12, 1986, to January 4, 1987, and the second season between January 7 and April 2, 1990, both airing on ARD. Re-runs later aired on

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from April 8, 2007, until April 5, 2008. In the United Kingdom, it was broadcast as The Bear, The Tiger and the Others on CBBC in the 1980s. In the United States, the series (dubbed in English (language), English and released under the title Janosch) was distributed on VHS by

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's "Just for Kids" imprint; it briefly aired on

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block as ''Janosch's Dream World'' (a direct translation of the original German title) from 1993 to 1994.

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Broadcast and home media release

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