Ripples | |
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Ondino | |
Genre | Animated series |
Created by | ANIMABIT |
Directed by | Fran Bravo Raimondo Della Calce |
Creative director | Fran Bravo |
Voices of | Village Production Felicity Duncan Jo Lee Dave Kitchen Stuart Organ |
Theme music composer | Alfredo Vandresi Bottega del Suono Village Production |
Country of origin | Italy |
Original languages | English Italian |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Lorenzo Doretti Lucia Bolzoni |
Producers | Animabit Rai Fiction |
Running time | 10 minutes |
Production companies | Animabit Studio Rai Fiction |
Release | |
Original network | Rai 3 KidZone TV TV2 (Norway) ABC Australia Al Jazeera |
Picture format | (SDTV) (HDTV) |
Original release | 8 July 2007 – 2009 |
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