''Vic the Viking'' is a children's animated television
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Vicky the Viking
''Vicky the Viking'', known as ''Wickie und die starken Männer'' () in Germany and Austria and in Japan, is an animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows. It ...
''. The show aired 39 episodes for a total of 78 segments, and ended in 2014.
The main characters are Vic, a young, frail and ingenious Viking boy; his father Halvar, the Captain of the Drakkar and chief elect of 'Flake' the home village, and the villagers, mainly the other plunder crewmen, including druid Urobe, the ever-quarreling companions Tjure and Snorre, the simple giant Flaxe, squeaky-voiced navigator Gorm and bard Ulme; also Vic's bossy mother Ylva, mischievous urchin-rival Gilby, who is jealous that Vic is allowed to sail with the men, and Vic's equally inquisitive little cousin, Ylvi. Halvar's sworn enemy is the rascally captain Sven and his crew of incompetent oafs, but most episodes have other antagonists.
The series has been aired overseas, as in Flanders by
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Series overview
Season 1 (2013)
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References
External links
IMDb, with episode summaries
2013 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian animated television series
Animated television series about children
Australian children's animated action television series
Australian children's animated comedy television series
Australian computer-animated television series
English-language television shows
Network 10 original programming
10 Peach original programming
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Fictional Vikings
Television series set in the Viking Age