''The Prince of Atlantis'' is a British children's traditional- CGI animated television series about a group of underwater creatures who protect the oceans.

Synopsis

In the heart of the ocean, in the mysterious waters of the

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, is a beautiful city built by the legendary people of Atlantis. Its sole inhabitant is a child, the prince Akata, the last of the Atlanteans. With him in the underwater city lies all the knowledge, technology and the extraordinary powers accumulated by the people for 5000 years. But modern technologies threaten the city: men with sophisticated machinery plumb the depths of the ocean in order to extract its riches. Akata, with the help of the hologram of his master, Shum, and the

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-like mermaid Oya, must protect the Atlantean heritage, particularly the Blue Ray, from falling into the wrong hands.

Broadcast

It premiered on the BBC as part of their children's block CBBC and originally aired from 7 January to 1 April 1997 and later for further more episodes from 25 June to 10 September of the same year running for only 26 episodes. After the series was cancelled, it continued to air on the BBC until 2003. It also later aired on The Children's Channel on cable television and was broadcast in several countries worldwide such as

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in New Zealand, SRF zwei in Switzerland as well as various other German and Austrian channels such as Nickelodeon,

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, Junior and ORF eins, 8TV (originally called MetroVision) in Malaysia, Univision in America as part of La Piñata Loca, Bahrain Channel 55 in Bahrain, Channel 5 in Singapore, Sjónvarpið in Iceland, M-Net in South Africa with the series being shown on their programming block for children called '' K-T.V.'', Canal 5 in Mexico and

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in the Republic of Ireland as part of their children's block '' The Den'' and on military television on

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and its former network SSVC being shown on both of their children's wrapper programmes '' Room 785'' and ''Children's SSVC'' in some countries such as Germany and the Falkland Islands.

Response

In July 2002 the series was the most watched programme on CBBC that week, with 70,000 viewers.

Episodes

References

External links

LE PRINCE D'ATLANTIS - Episode Listing

Le prince d'Atlantis - Episode Guide

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