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Fabeltjeskrant (1968)

Fabeltjeskrant poster
Original title
De Fabeltjeskrant
Genre
puppet show
Country
Netherlands
Length
25 seasons, 2736 episodes
Rated
AL
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

It is a Dutch children's puppet show that tells fables with stop-motion animation. The episodes are like a newspaper reporting on animal characters.

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What happens

(De) Fabeltjeskrant (Dutch pronunciation: [(də) ˈfaːbəltɕəsˌkrɑnt]; Dutch for "The Fables Newspaper") is a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion. Created in 1968 by Leen Valkenier and produced by Thijs Chanowski (1st series) and Loek de Levita (2nd series), it ended in 1989 and was broadcast on the Dutch channels NOS, RTL 4, and RTL 8; Japanese channel NHK; and on Belgian channel VRT. From 1973 to 1975 it was broadcast also in the United Kingdom, on ITV, with the title The Daily Fable. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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