The Adventures of The Little Prince

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The Adventures of the Little Prince
星の王子さま　プチ・プランス
(Hoshi no Ojisama Puchi Puransu)
Genre Adventures
TV anime
Network All-Nippon News Network
Original run July 4, 1978 – March 27, 1979
Episodes 39

The Adventures of the Little Prince (星の王子さま　プチ・プランス Hoshi no Ojisama Puchi Puransu?) 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.)

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. (14) Too Big for This World!
  2. (15) The Winning Ride
  3. (16) To Be a Man
  4. (17) The Magic Case
  5. (18) Always Listen to a Fox
  6. (19) The Dancing Bear
  7. (20) Hitch Onto Halley's Comet
  8. (21) A Light in the Storm
  9. (22) What Makes Mitzi Mean?
  10. (23) The Wishing Stone
  11. (24) A Different World
  12. (25) Erase All Beauty
  13. (26) Play It Again, Sean!

[edit] Voices

[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.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete Animated Series 26 September 6, 2005

[edit] External links

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Nickelodeon's 1980s animated programs