''Pinocchio in Outer Space'' is a 1965 Belgian-American animated

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film which sets

Carlo Collodi Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''. Early life Col ...

Pinocchio Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...

character on a rocketship adventure. Peter Lazer performs the voice of Pinocchio. It was produced by

Ray Goossens Ray Goossens (14 August 1924 – 10 December 1998) was a Belgian artist, animator, writer, and director best known for creating the cartoon character Musti. Biography Ray Goossens was born in Merksem, Belgium in 1924. Interested in animation fr ...

Belvision Studios Raymond Leblanc (born 22 May 1915 – 21 March 2008) was a Belgian comic book publisher, film director and film producer, best known for publishing works such as ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé and ''Blake and Mortimer'' by Edgar P. Jaco ...

, with American involvement from

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(

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) and

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. The film was released in the US by

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. The French version was titled ''Pinocchio dans l'espace'' and the Dutch version was known as ''Pinocchio in de ruimte''. The

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character was not present in this production. Instead, Pinocchio's sidekick was Nurtle, an alien Twertle (voiced by

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), sent by his government to investigate an unusual increase of radiation on

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. Together they do battle against Astro, a marauding intergalactic whale who was seeking revenge after being abducted by a mysterious race of

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Cast

* Peter Lazer –

Arnold Stang Arnold Sidney Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009)
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– Nurtle the Twurtle * Ray Owens –

Mister Geppetto Geppetto ( , ), also known as Mister Geppetto, is an Italian fictional character in the 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio ...

* Conrad Jameson – G. Godline/

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* Mavis Mims – The Blue Fairy * Jess Cain –

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– The Blue Fairy's Mother *

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– Fedora * Kevin Kennedy – Astro the Space Whale

Comic strip adaptation

In 1965 the film was adapted into a comic strip by Willy Lateste, which was published in ''

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''.

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Comic strip adaptation

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