Fabeltjeskrant

Fabeltjeskrant

"Meneer de Uil", the main character of the series
Country of origin  Netherlands
No. of episodes 1640
Production
Producer(s) Thijs Chanowski
Loek de Levita
Running time 4/5 minutes
Release
Original network

Netherlands NOS
France Récré A2
Hungary ?
Italy RAI 1 / TMC
Norway NRK
Sweden SVT

United Kingdom ITV
Original release 1968 – 1989
Some characters of the series
Meneer de Uil with the newspaper "Fabeltjeskrant"

Fabeltjeskrant [(də) 'faːbəɫcəskrɑnt] (or De Fabeltjeskrant, Dutch for "The Fables Newspaper") is a Dutch children's television series featuring puppetry and stop motion. Created in 1968 by Leen Valkenier and produced by Thijs Chanowski (1st series) and Loek de Levita (2nd series), it ended in 1989 and was broadcast on the Dutch channels NOS, RTL 4 and RTL 8[1] and on Belgian channel VRT. From 1973 to 1975 it was broadcast also in the United Kingdom, on ITV, with the title The Daily Fable.[2]

Plot

Each episode is based upon fables of Jean de La Fontaine, Aesop, Phaedrus and also by the series' scenographer Leen Valkenier. The main character, the owl "Meneer de Uil", introduces each episode reading a fable to other characters upon a tree. The scene is a forest inhabited by different anthropomorphic paper animals and the first episode was broadcast on 29 September 1968 on NOS.

Characters

All character surnames are referred to their species.

In other countries

The show was adapted in some other countries under the following titles:

Adaptations

Lex Overeijnder wrote and drew a short-lived newspaper comic strip based on the TV show in 1969.[12]

In 1970, a film version, Onkruidzaaiers in Fabeltjesland, premiered in theaters.

In 2007 a musical adaptation was created by Ruud de Graaf and Hans Cornelissen.

Notes and references

  1. (Dutch) Infos on "Fabeltjesweb"
  2. 1 2 3 Article on tvcream
  3. (Dutch) Meneer de Uil on "Fabeltjesweb"
  4. See also nl:Meneer de Uil
  5. (Dutch) List of the characters on "Fabeltjesweb"
  6. (French) Article about "Le petit écho de la Forêt"
  7. See also: hu:Fabulácskahírek
  8. מי ומה בפסטיבל 'צלילי ילדות'. habama (in Hebrew). 9 September 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2011. בטלויזיה שיחק בשנות ה-70 בסידרה האהובה "הצריף של תמרי" ודובב סדרות מצויירות לילדים כמו: "נילס הולגרסן", "מסיפורי המלך בבר" ו"סיפורימפו".
  9. (Italian) Article about "Il bosco dei perché"
  10. See also: it:Il bosco dei perché
  11. See also: sv:Fablernas värld
  12. https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/overeijnder_lex.htm

See also

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