The Neverending Story (TV series)

The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux is an animated television series, produced by CineVox (Germany), Ellipse (France), and Nelvana (Canada), aired for one season (1995–1996) on HBO, ran for 26 episodes, and loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story (1979).

Differences between the TV series and the film

In the animated series, the Nothing is a recurring villain and in said show, it is a hole with evil red eyes, all which were belonged to that of a white wolf that is the show's version of Gmork. The evil sorceress Xayide, unlike in the first sequel film, wears green robes with an eyemask with yellow slits. In said film, she doesn't wear a mask covering her face of any kind, but her face is created by a special magical cream. The Rockbiter, as always in the latter two sequel films (including the third film), actually has a wife as well as his son, Junior, in this series. In 2005, the first three episodes were eventually released on DVD in a compilation entitled "Bastian Saves the Day".

Episode list

1. The Tears of Sadness -
2. The Meek and the Mighty -
3. The Purple Buffalo -
4. Morla's Wish -
5. Spook City -
6. To Save Falkor -
7. Missing Memories -
8. Perilin -
9. The Sea of Mist -
10. Promises -
11. Through the Misty Mountains -
12. A Friendship That Flames -
13. The Three Feeling Stones -
14. The Belt of Invisibility - Shadow Goblin and Vermin find a Belt of Invisibility and they use it to commit various thefts. To combat this, Bastian ends up having to turn to Xayide for help.
15. Good Deeds -
16. Barktroll's Blame -
17. The Searcher -
18. End of Time -
19. Thunder and Lightning -
20. The Everlasting Night -
21. After the Falls -
22. Mirror, Mirror - Xayide uses a special mirror that creates an evil version of Bastian and a good version of herself.
23. The Dreaming Fields - Xayide has placed Nightmare Weeds into the Dreaming Fields which causes everyone's dreams to come true until it goes horribly awry.
24. The Atonal Trolls -
25. The Race for the Ivory Tower -
26. The Perfect Gift -

Cast

• Janet-Laine Green - Xayide
• Dominic Zamprogna - Atreyu
• Chris Wiggins - Mr. Correander
• Christopher Bell - Bastian Balthazar Bux
• Neil Crone - Nimbly
• Marilyn Lightstone - Ygramul
• Benedict Campbell - Shadow Goblin
• John McGrath - Blubb
• Lisa Yamanaka - The Childlike Empress, Junior Rockchewer
• Richard Binsley - Barktroll
• James Rankin - Three Head
• John Stocker - Gluckuk, Gluckuk's racing snail
• Colin Fox - Large Head
• Ellen Ray Hennessy - Southern Oracle
• Dan Hennessey - South Wind Giant
• Gary Krawford - Graograman the Fire Lion
• Howard Jerome - Falkor the Luckdragon
• Don Francks - Gmork
• Wayne Robson - Engywook
• Len Carlson - Vermin
• Geoffrey Bowes - Barney Bux
• Harvey Atkin - Mr. Rockchewer
• Jayne Eastwood - Mrs. Rockchewer

External links

• The Neverending Story at the Internet Movie Database