Le Manège enchanté

Le Manège enchanté (British English: "The Magic Roundabout", American English: "The Magic Carousel") is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1964, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series.

Le Manège enchanté
Characters from Le Manège enchanté
GenreChildren's television series
Created bySerge Danot
Written bySerge Danot
Voices of
  • Jacques Bodoin
  • Bernard Haller
  • Christian Riehl
  • Micheline Dax
  • Pascaline Priou
  • Patricia Danot
  • Serge Danot
Theme music composerAlain Legrand
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of series3
No. of episodesMore than 400
Production
AnimatorIvor Wood
Running time5 minutes
Production companies
  • Danot Production (1963–1967)
  • AB Productions (1971–1990)
Original release
NetworkORTF
ReleaseOctober 5, 1964 (1964-10-05) –
1974 (1974)
NetworkTF1 / La Cinq
ReleaseJanuary 7, 1990 (1990-01-07) –
1990 (1990)
Related
The Magic Roundabout

The series features characters in the make-believe land of Bois-Joli: Père Pivoine, the owner of the roundabout; Zébulon, a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog; Azalée the cow; Ambroise the snail; Flappy the Spanish rabbit; Margote, a girl; and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every sentence with "Hep Hep Hep".

The footage was used by the BBC to produce an English-language version, The Magic Roundabout, using scripts that bore little relation to the original story lines.

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