Pippi Longstocking (1998)

Genre

children's television series, comedy television series, adventure television series

Country

Germany, Sweden, Canada

Length

2 seasons, 26 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Pippi Longstocking is a strong and independent girl who lives in a big house with a horse and a monkey. She goes on small adventures with her friends Tommy and Annika in their neighborhood.

playfulwhimsicalenergeticlightheartedcozycheerfulgentlebrightsimple

What happens

Pippi Longstocking is an animated television series co-produced by AB Svensk Filmindustri, TaurusFilm, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion, and Nelvana Limited based on the book series drawn and written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. It is a joint Canadian-German-Swedish co-production. This was the first time that the popular character had been animated. A spin-off and continuation of the 1997 animated film of the same name, Melissa Altro, Richard Binsley, Noah Reid, Olivia Garratt, Wayne Robson, Rick Jones, Philip Williams, Chris Wiggins and Karen Bernstein are the only voice cast reprising their roles from the film. It was led by German director Michael Schaack. The story editor and chief writer for the series was Ken Sobol, a prolific children's television writer who was handpicked by Lindgren herself to head the series, with his son John also writing episodes under his guidance. Together they wrote all but three episodes, with this remainder credited to Robert Stutt, and movie screenwriter Catharina Stackelberg also co-writing one episode and serving as script supervisor. Although generally episodic outside the premiere and finale, the series also features two story arcs consisting of multiple episodes: "Pippi Goes to the South Seas", "Pippi Meets Some Pearl Poachers", and "Pippi Goes Home"; and "Pippi Doesn't Go to School", "Pippi Goes Up North", "Pippi Saves the Whales – Again", and "Pippi Goes to School – Or Does She?". The first of these were combined into the film-length Pippi's Adventures on the South Seas, released on VHS and DVD by HBO Home Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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