Little Hippo

Little Hippo (French: Petit Potam) is an animated children's television series based on the French Petit Potam books by Christine Chagnoux. The series was an international co-production between Marina Productions, France 3, ZDF, EVA Entertainment, Neurones and The Britt Allcroft Company. The series debuted on France 3 in France on 1 September 1997.^[1]

Little Hippo
Also known as	Petit Potam
Based on	Petit Potam by Christine Chagnoux
Written by	Robin Lyons Andrew Offiler Suzanne Bailly Annetta Zucchi Douglas Booth Françoise Boublil Joe Boyle Jill Brett Jamie Brown Herbert Carias-Freire Stan Cullimore Christophe Léger Paul Finch Alexandre Gelbert Jean Helpert Anthony Hodgson Lucy Daniel Béatrice Marthouret Michael Maurer Lavinia Murray Dennis O’Flaherty Stéphane Piera Claude Raymond Noëlle Septier-Saugout Annie Smyth Alexander Swinnerton Jamila Taxit Raymond de Thiebert Pierre-François Bertrand
Directed by	Bernard Deyriès
Composers	Bill Baxter Olivier Lanneluc Jacques Bastello
Country of origin	France Germany Belgium United Kingdom
Original languages	French German English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	341
Production
Executive producer	Claude Berthier
Producer	Maureen Sery
Running time	13 minutes
Production companies	Marina Productions EVA Entertainment Neurones Britt Allcroft (Development) Limited
Original release
Network	France 3 (France) ZDF (Germany) RTL-TVI (Belgium) Playhouse Disney UK (United Kingdom)
Release	1 September 1997 (1997-09-01) – 1998 (1998)[citation needed]

Premise

Little Hippo is about Little Hippo, Tessie, Tim, and Tam who live in Muddy Wallow.

Characters

• Little Hippo
• Tessie
• Tim
• Tam

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"L'equipe aero-potam"	Bernard Deyriès	Unknown	1 September 1997 (1997-09-01)

Broadcast

Little Hippo was broadcast in 1998 on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom.^[2]

Film

Petit Potam – Le film is a film based on the series.