The Little Prince (animated 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.

The Little Prince

Swifty, the Space Bird

The Rose Girl

Contents

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1

  1. Higher Than Eagles Fly!
  2. Shipwreck!
  3. On Wings of Love
  4. Rob the Rainbow
  5. A Small Alien
  6. Somewhere in Space
  7. Visit to Another Planet
  8. The Perfect Planet
  9. The Wolf Pack
  10. The Star Gazer
  11. Last Voyage of the Rose
  12. The Chimney Sweep
  13. The Greatest Gift

[edit] Season 2

  1. Too Big for This World!
  2. The Winning Ride
  3. To Be a Man
  4. The Magic Case
  5. Always Listen to a Fox
  6. The Dancing Bear
  7. Hitch Onto Halley's Comet
  8. A Light in the Storm
  9. What Makes Mitzi Mean?
  10. The Wishing Stone
  11. A Different World
  12. Erase All Beauty
  13. 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 Desk: Kazuo Harada
  • 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

[edit] DVD Releases

On September 6, 2005, Koch Vision released a 4-disc DVD of the entire English series in Region 1. Koch Vision has subsequently began releasing the series in Volumes each containing 3 or 4 episodes each, which sell at a lower cost than the complete series.

Cover Art DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
The Complete Animated Series 26 September 6, 2005

[edit] External links

Formerly Broadcast Animated Nickelodeon Shows of the 1980s
Channels on the Nickelodeon Network: TV Land | Nick Too | Nick GAS | Nicktoons Network | Noggin / The N
Premiered between 1983-1989:

Bananaman | DangerMouse | Belle and Sebastian | Star Trek: The Animated Series | The Little Prince | The Smurfs | Mysterious Cities of Gold | Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea | Adventures of the Little Koala | Heathcliff | Jim Henson's Muppet Babies | Inspector Gadget | Maple Town | Count Duckula | The Alvin Show on Nickelodeon | Beetlejuice | Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics | Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon | Noozles | The World of David the Gnome
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