Anatole (TV series)

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Anatole
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Title card featuring Anatole
Genre Children's television series
Country of origin
  • France
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
Original languages
  • English
  • French
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Production companies
Original release
Network CBS
Release3 October 1998 (1998-10-03) 
28 June 1999 (1999-06-28)

Anatole is an animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. [1] The series was created by Scottish Television, Valentine Productions s.a.r.l. and Nelvana as one of their numerous programmes. [2] It originally aired on Canada's YTV network from 1998 to 1999, and premiered in the United States on CBS on 3 October 1998, and aired through the 1998–99 television season. [3]

Contents

Premise

The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in Paris. 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

Supporting

  • Edgar - A large but good-natured rat who helps Anatole rescue Claude, Paul and Paulette from the Paris sewers.
  • Molière - Anatole's dependable mole friend, who is an expert miner/tunneler.
  • Rene
  • Yvette
  • Mayor Soucy
  • Pascal
  • Uncle Louis
  • M. Duval
  • Monsieur Duval
  • Charlemagne the Cat - M. Duval's pet cat and one of Anatole's antagonists in the series.
  • Pierre the Pigeon - A pigeeon 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 similarties 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

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. [1]

Episodes

Charles E. Bastien directed every episode of Anatole. [7]

No.TitleOriginal air date [7] Prod.
code [7]
1"Anatole's Parisian Adventure"3 October 1998 (1998-10-03) [1] 1
Anatole goes with Gaston to the cheese factory solving M. Duval's bitter cheese problem and earning himself the position as Vice President of the company.
2"Sewer Rats"10 October 1998 (1998-10-10)2
Paul, Paulette and Claude drift into the sewers, but are rescued by Antatole's friends and a rat named Edgar.
3"The Mouse Who Cried Wolf"17 October 1998 (1998-10-17)3
After a cry wolf case from Claude, Anatole goes to find Doucette, George and Georgette trapped in a toy store while the others return a man his wallet.
4"Mouse-A-Lisa"24 October 1998 (1998-10-24)4
Thieving bakers do a series of art thefts. With help from Claudette's artistic talent, Anatole exposes the thieves to the police.
5"The Artful Dodger"31 October 1998 (1998-10-31)5
The Shadow Thief Elvon is robbing Paris. As a sneaky geezer he gets Paulette to help him out, but Anatole turns the tables on him at his latest robbery.
6"The Village is Falling"7 November 1998 (1998-11-07)6
Humans are digging holes to fix a water pipe. With Molière and the town's help, Anatole and Gaston manage to find it for the humans before they dig up the mouse village.
7"The High Fliers"21 November 1998 (1998-11-21)7
Anatole, Georgette, George and Gaston fix up a kite and fly on it. Two magpies go after the kite and Doucette's homemade medal, but Anatole sorts it out.
8"Anatole and the Hunchbat of Notre Dame"28 November 1998 (1998-11-28)13
Visiting Gaston's cousin Maurice, Anatole finds that Maurice is being evicted from Notre Dame by a bat named Jacque, but Anatole is able to negotiate with him.
9"The Cheesy Imposter"5 December 1998 (1998-12-05)8
Duval's employee Marcel takes credit for Anatole's cheese recipe, but Anatole is able to get his confession and save his livelihood. Meanwhile Paul and Paulette get some cheese from the factory to Mons. Pamplemousse.
10"The Phantom of the Cheese"12 December 1998 (1998-12-12)9
Anatole has a gift for the opera singer Madame Leblanc, but cheese disappears. Anatole finds an singing mouse named Renee. Anatole depends on her to help him recover the cheese from the security guard.
11"Wild Life"19 December 1998 (1998-12-19)11
A monster apparently lurks in the park. It turns out to be a Canadian Beaver named Natalie. Anatole and Gaston help Natalie to the Canadian Embassy before she taken back to the petting zoo.
12"The Night of Lights"26 December 1998 (1998-12-26)10
Otto, Gretchen and their boy Hans visit the mouse village in time for the Night of Lights. A fire started by Hans forces the mice to start all over again, but the town forgives him.
13"Feline Follies"2 January 1999 (1999-01-02)12
A cat show in the park is complicating matters for the mouse village. Comtesse De Souris is escorted by bloodhound while Anatole and Gaston execute a move to repel the cats from the village.
14"Anatole and the String of Pearls"25 January 1999 (1999-01-25)14
15"The Mousepiece"TBATBA
16"Tricky You"TBATBA
17"Truffle Treasure"TBATBA
18"The Long, Long Night"TBATBA
19"Les Mouserables"TBATBA
20"Over the Sea"TBATBA
21"The Mystery of the Dancing Ghost"19 April 1999 (1999-04-19)22
22"World of Cheese"3 May 1999 (1999-05-03)23
23"Anatole and the New Cat"17 May 1999 (1999-05-17)21
24"Bully for Anatole"31 May 1999 (1999-05-31)24
25"The Perils of Paulette"14 June 1999 (1999-06-14)25
26"My Favourite Mouse"28 June 1999 (1999-06-28)26

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