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Anatole (TV series)
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| channel = Disney Channel (U.S.)
CBC Television (Canada)
France 3 (France)
RD (Denmark)
NPO 3 (Netherlands)
Discovery Kids Latin America (Latin America & Brazil)
| first_aired = 7 September 2002
| last_aired = 27 January 2007
}}
Anatole is an American-Canadian-French-Danish-Dutch animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus.[1] The series was created by Disney DVD Pure Digital Magic, Decode Entertainment, C.O.R.E., Cartoon Pizza, Egmont Imagination, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, and Nelvana as one of their numerous programs.[2] It originally aired on Canada's CBC Television network from 2002 to 2007, and premiered in the US on CBS on September 7, 2002, and aired through the 2002–07 television season.[3]
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Premise
The series tells the story of Anatole, an anthropomorphic mouse who lives in Paris, Europe. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette, and a family of six little mice.[4]
Characters
Main
- Anatole, the series' lead. A loyal, honest, brave and open-minded mouse, Anatole is a good father to his children and a wonderful husband to Doucette.
- Gaston, Anatole's friend
- Doucette, Anatole's wife. Kind, loyal, wise and patient, Doucette is a source of comfort and advice to her children and her husband. A good mother, She gets genuinely worried whenever her family are in peril. In "The Hunchbat of Notre Dame", it is revealed that she is afraid of heights.
- Paul, Anatole's oldest son. He loves inventing, sword-fighting and sailing.
- Paulette, Anatole's oldest daughter. She shares similar interests as her brother Paul, including inventing and sword fighting.
- Claude, Anatole's middle son. He loves books and proves to have an active imagination.
- Claudette, Anatole's middle daughter. Literary like her brother Claude, Claudette also loves art.
- Georges, Anatole's youngest son
- Georgette, Anatole's youngest daughter
- Pamplemousse, the mayor of the mouse village
Supporting
- Edgar - A large but good-natured rat who helps Anatole rescue Claude, Paul and Paulette from the Parisian sewers.
- Molière - Anatole's dependable mole friend, who is an expert miner/tunneler.
- Rene
- Yvette
- Mayor Soucy
- Pascal
- Uncle Louis
- M. Duval
- Charlemagne the Cat - M. Duval's pet cat and one of Anatole's antagonists in the series.
- Pierre the Pigeon - A pigeon who would much rather walk than fly, due to getting dizzy while flying (airsickness).
- Otto
- Gretchen
- Hans
- Nathalie
- Comtesse De Souris
- Maurice
- Jacques - A misunderstood, hunchbacked bat who guards the Notre Dame Cathedral. At first intimidating, he is actually a passionate music lover and Gothic architecture. He shares similarities to Quasimodo from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and Erik the Phantom from "Phantom of the Opera."
- The Two Crows
- Nostromo
- The Bakers
- Thief
- Uncle Louis
- Two weasels
- Mayor Soucy
- Pascal
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Production
CBS announced in January 1998 that it would return to airing cartoons as part of its Saturday morning programming schedule for the 1998–99 television season, and Anatole was among the new animated series announced.[5] In July 1998, it was announced that CBS would premiere Anatole and the rest of its Saturday morning animated programming on 19 September 1998,[6] though by September the premiere date had slipped to 3 October 1998.[7]
Episodes
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Charles E. Bastien directed every episode of Anatole.[8]
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