Underplayed Gems

The Magic Roundabout (1963)

The Magic Roundabout poster
Original title
Le manège enchanté
Genre
children's television series, comedy television series, fantasy television series
Country
France
Length
4 seasons, 500 episodes
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

This is a French children's animated series with five-minute episodes. It follows the adventures of a group of characters living in a make-believe land called Bois-Joli, including a dog, a cow, a snail, and a jack-in-the-box.

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What happens

Le Manège enchanté (British English: "The Magic Roundabout", American English: "The Magic Carousel") is a French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1964, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. The series features characters in the make-believe land of Bois-Joli: Père Pivoine, the owner of the roundabout; Zébulon, a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog; Azalée the cow; Ambroise the snail; Flappy the Spanish rabbit; Margote, a girl; and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every sentence with "Hep Hep Hep". The footage was used by the BBC to produce an English-language version, The Magic Roundabout, using scripts that bore little relation to the original story lines. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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