Taotao[a] is a Japanese animated TV series that aired for a total of 52 episodes on TV Osaka. The first series aired from October 7,1983 through March 30,1984. A second series with the same title was aired from October 9,1984 through April 9,1985.
Prior to the TV series,an feature-length animated film was released on December 26,1981. It is not specified if the series was intended to be connected with the film and,if so,if the series takes place before the film or after it (e.g. in another realm). Both the film and the TV series were produced as a co-production between China,Japan and Germany,and directed by Shuichi Nakahara and Tatsuo Shimamura.
Plot
The series is about the eponymous Taotao,an anthropomorphic panda cub. In the stories,Taotao goes on adventures with his animal friends and listens to the stories of his mother.
Music
The theme song of the series was composed by the Czech composer Karel Svoboda.
International broadcast
The series has been shown in Finnish on the Yleisradio channels,where it was narrated by Inkeri Wallenius,and in Austria,it was broadcast in German by ORF.
The series was also broadcast in Israel where it was dubbed into Hebrew. The theme song for the Hebrew dub was sung by Ilanit. In Greece,the series was broadcast in the 1980s on ET1. In the late 1980s,it was broadcast in Afrikaans in South Africa. It was also broadcast in the early 1990s multiple times as تاو' تاو' in the Arab world.
The series was also broadcast in Albania in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Meanwhile,Albania's communist prime minister Adil Çarçani was informally referred to as Tao Tao by Albanian dissidents during the protests leading to the fall of communism in Albania.[1][2]
The series has been broadcast in French Canada on Télévision de Radio-Canada,where it was dubbed into Quebec French,and in France,it aired from 1987 on FR3. The series also aired on Portuguese TV in 1987. In Serbia,the film was released on DVD in 2007 through City Records and Dexin Film. The Serbian dub was released by Studio Mirijus.
In 1992,as part of a collaboration with CFI in France,Vietnam Television broadcast the series in Vietnamese as part of their children's program Những bông hoa nhỏ.[3]
DVDs
Taotao 1-4
Story about a crow who wanted to look like a woodpecker
Story about a rabbit who beat a lion
Story about a self-righteous snake
Story about three puffy frog sisters
Taotao 5-8
Story about a crocodile king and his sick wife
Story about a rabbit who started a big rumour
Story about a white camel
Story about a careful bat
Taotao 9-12
Story about a vain vulture
Story about a birds' moving day
Story about a small fish's adventure
Story about a fairies' wedding party
Taotao 13-16
Story about unusual friends
Story about a difficult problem that troubled a mouse
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