Heidi (2015 TV series)
Heidi is an animated children's television series, based indirectly on the 1881 novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The original 2007 television series was a Swiss-French-Italian-Australian co-production in 27 episodes of 26 minutes.
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| Also known as | Heidi 3D |
| Genre | Animation Adventure Dramedy Mountain climbing Historical |
| Created by | Jan Van Rijsselberge (of the series itself) Christel Gonnard (writing bible) Johanna Spyri (base novel) |
| Based on | Heidi by Johanna Spyri |
| Written by | Laurent Auclair Christel Gonnard Jean-Rémi François Sophie Decroisette (participating writer) and twelve others |
| Directed by | Jerome Mouscadet |
| Voices of | Nathalie Homs (narrator) Emmylou Homs Benoît Allemane Lucille Boudonnat Vania Pradier Gilduin Tissier |
| Theme music composer | French theme song: Music: David Vadant Romain Allender Patrick Sigwalt Lyrics: Sophie Decroisette International theme song: Music: Johan Vanden Eede Lyrics: Gert Verhulst Hans Bourlon Alain Vande Putte |
| Opening theme | "Heidi" (the name of both theme songs) |
| Composers | David Vadant Romain Allender Patrick Sigwalt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom Germany France Switzerland Belgium Italy |
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| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
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| Running time | 21 minutes (approx. per episode) |
| Production companies | Studio 100 Animation Flying Bark Productions Heidi, Pyld |
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| Network | ZDF (Germany) TF1 (TFOU) (France) |
| Release | January 11, 2015 – 2016 |
A "remake" (rather than a re-telling) of Heidi, Girl of the Alps, much of the story is the same; the titular character is a then-five-year-old girl, who's taken to her grandfather on the Swiss Alps by her aunt, Dete to live with him and while the girl ends up improving his life, she also befriends Peter, the goatherd of the village Dorfli below and the one who causes her to find a big passion of hers, goats and other animals in general.
But in this version, there is also a trio, Karl, Theresa, and William, who usually try to do something that would downgrade Peter, whom they often refer to as a mountain goat, in some way or another. But in the first winter up there, a letter is eventually gotten and what results from there will end up changing another's life, as well.
The series has been distributed in 138 countries around the world.