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The Flying House (1982)

The Flying House poster
Original title
トンデラハウスの大冒険
Genre
animation, family, action & adventure, sci-fi & fantasy
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 52 episodes
Rated
TV-G
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of kids travel through time in a flying house. They meet figures from history and classic stories along the way.

adventurouseducationalwhimsicalfamily-friendlyupbeatnostalgickind-heartedsimple

What happens

The Flying House, known in Japan as Tondera Hausu no Daibōken (トンデラハウスの大冒険, The Flying House's Big Adventures), is a Christian anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production broadcast from 5 April 1982 to 28 March 1983 on TV Tokyo, and distributed by the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States. The Japanese opening song is "The Flying House's Big Adventures" (トンデラハウスの大冒険, Tondera Hausu no Daibōken) by Fusako Fujimoto. The Japanese ending song is "Adventure Heart" (冒険ハート, Bōken Hāto) by Yumi Okuhata, and the English opening is "The Flying House" by Stephan Peppos. Its instrumental version serves as the ending theme. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online. At the same time, CBN and Tatsunoko also produced a related series, Superbook. In the Philippines, reruns of the show were broadcast on GMA Network in the early 1990s, ZOE TV in 2000s, ABS-CBN in 2015, Pop Life TV via digital free-to-air television BEAM TV, and Yey! via digital free-to-air television box ABS-CBN TV Plus. The episodes are currently broadcast on A2Z, All TV, Light TV, and Kapamilya Channel. It was also broadcast on the Australian Christian Channel in Australia. It also aired on TBN UK & Ireland in the United Kingdom and Ireland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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