The Little Prince (TV series)
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The Little Prince was an anime series based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Made by the Knack animation studio, the series, originally titled Hoshi no Ojisama Puchi Puransu (Prince of the Stars: Petit Prince), aired in Japan on the TV Asahi network from July 1978 to March 1979. Re-edited and dubbed into English, the series premiered in the United States in 1982 on Nickelodeon and was rerun through the rest of the 1980s. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of Mobile Suit Gundam fame, was involved in this series as a director and character designer.
The series showed the extended adventures of the Little Prince, Swifty The Space Bird, and the Rose Girl. In total there were 26 episodes aired in English, with 39 episodes made for the original Japanese run. (According to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, only the first 35 episodes were actually aired on Japanese TV; the remaining four episodes remained "lost" until the series was reissued on video.) The 26 English episodes were released on DVD in 2005.
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[edit] Episodes (U.S. Version)
[edit] Season One
- Higher Than Eagles Fly!
- Shipwreck!
- On Wings of Love
- Rob the Rainbow
- A Small Alien
- Somewhere in Space
- Visit to Another Planet
- The Perfect Planet
- The Wolf Pack
- The Star Gazer
- Last Voyage of the Rose
- The Chimney Sweep
- The Greatest Gift
[edit] Season Two
- Too Big for This World!
- The Winning Ride
- To Be a Man
- The Magic Case
- Always Listen to a Fox
- The Dancing Bear
- Hitch Onto Halley's Comet
- A Light in the Storm
- What Makes Mitzi Mean?
- The Wishing Stone
- A Different World
- Erase All Beauty
- Play It Again, Sean!
[edit] English Theme Song Lyrics
[edit] Opening
The Little Prince, from outer space, can catch a shooting star and sail away.
Perhaps one day, he'll come your way.
[edit] Closing
He comes from somewhere, a world way out there.
And he hasn't been back since.
He finds friendly faces, such strange places,
And that's the tale of the Little Prince.
[edit] Japanese Version Credits
(Sources: http://www.pelleas.net/wmt/ - database featured on this site no longer exists; The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clemens and Helen McCarthy)
- Producer: Hiromichi Shigegaki, Hiroshi Hashioka
- Director: Takeyuki Kanda, Koji Yamazaki
- Episode Director: Takeyuki Kanda, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Osamu Sekita, Norio Kabeshima
- Script: Eiichi Tachi, Susumu Yoshida, Tsunehisa Itoh, Takero Kaneko, Yoshiaki Yoshida, Masaaki Sakurai
- Animation Director: Shinnosuke Kon
- Character Designs: Eiji Tanaka, Yasuji Mori, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
- Art Director: Hironari Hachimura
- Music: Tsuyoshi Kawano, Group TOMO
- Layout: Kazusuke Yoshihara
- Production: KNACK Co., Ltd. / TV Asahi
[edit] English Version Credits
- Writer: Jameson Brewer
- Director: Franklin Cofod
- Associate Producer: Irving Klein
- Production Manager: Kenneth Urheim
- Auditor: Alfred Spolar Jr.
- Music composed and conducted by: Dale Schacker
- Editorial Supervisor: Franklin Cofod
- Editor: Christopher Cooke
- Special Effects: Fritz Miller Animation/Graphics
- Recording: Sound Services Inc.
- Re-recording: Mix Magic
- Color: Getty Film Laboratories
- Syndication services: The Video Tape Company
- Production: Jambre Productions/Gallerie International Films for Studio NAC
- World Wide Distribution: Irving Klein
- US Distributor: Jason Syndication Inc.
[edit] Characters/Voice actors
- Little Prince (English: Julie McWhirter Dees, Katie Leigh; Japanese: Tatsuya Matsuno)
- Swifty (English: Hal Smith)
- Miscellaneous characters (English: Walker Edmiston, Bob Ridgely, Janet Waldo, Pamela Ziolkowski)
- Claude (Japanese: Yuuko Maruyama)
- Narrator (Japanese: Masaaki Yajima)
[edit] Bibliography
- The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, 2nd ed.
- The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, by Jonathan Clemens and Helen McCarthy
