The Legend of White Fang

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The Legend of White Fang
GenreAdventure
Based on White Fang
by Jack London
Developed byCrayon Animation
Starring Rick Jones
Patricia Rodrigues
Michael Rudder
Mark Hellman
Pierre Lenoir
Neil Shee
Terrence Scammell
Thelma Farmer
Anik Matern
Country of originCanada
France
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer Micheline Charest
Production company Cinar Films
Original release
Network Family Channel (Canada)
Release1 January (1994-01-01) 
25 June 1994 (1994-06-25)

The Legend of White Fang is an animated television series based on the 1906 novel White Fang by Jack London. [1] The show focuses on the main dog protagonist and a young human companion, 12-year-old female Wendy Scott, in the place of the novel's male trail guide, Weedon Scott. [2] Spanning 26 episodes for one season.

Contents

Production

Quebec-based Cinar (now WildBrain) produced the series and writer/journalist/popular historian, Pierre Berton, was a history consultant for the series.

Plot

12-year-old Wendy, a brave and kind girl, befriends wolf-husky mix White Fang. They share many adventures in Yukon's rugged Klondike territory during the Klondike Gold Rush where they encounter wolf packs, gold thieves, First Nations people, otters, poachers and treacherous avalanches.

Voice cast

Episodes

No.TitleOriginal air date
1"The Gold Nugget"1 January 1994 (1994-01-01)
2"Banished"8 January 1994 (1994-01-08)
3"William"15 January 1994 (1994-01-15)
4"Fool's Gold"22 January 1994 (1994-01-22)
5"Two Free Beings"29 January 1994 (1994-01-29)
6"The River of Life"5 February 1994 (1994-02-05)
7"The Ice Bound Boat"12 February 1994 (1994-02-12)
8"The Expedition"19 February 1994 (1994-02-19)
9"Leap of Danger"26 February 1994 (1994-02-26)
10"An Adventure at Every Turn"5 March 1994 (1994-03-05)
11"The Golden Touch"12 March 1994 (1994-03-12)
12"The Revenge"19 March 1994 (1994-03-19)
13"Otter Madness"26 March 1994 (1994-03-26)
14"The Fountain of Gold"2 April 1994 (1994-04-02)
15"Sharper"9 April 1994 (1994-04-09)
16"Wendy Runs Away"16 April 1994 (1994-04-16)
17"The Traitor"23 April 1994 (1994-04-23)
18"A Charmed Life"30 April 1994 (1994-04-30)
19"The Lynx"7 May 1994 (1994-05-07)
20"The Thunder Mask"14 May 1994 (1994-05-14)
21"The Great Showman"21 May 1994 (1994-05-21)
22"Keewan"28 May 1994 (1994-05-28)
23"White Fang Goes To Town"4 June 1994 (1994-06-04)
24"The Team"11 June 1994 (1994-06-11)
25"The Beavers"18 June 1994 (1994-06-18)
26"The Trap"25 June 1994 (1994-06-25)

Telecast and home media

The Legend of White Fang was first aired on the pay-TV network Family Channel in 1994. It also aired on Global Television Network and TF1 in France. HBO later broadcast it in the U.S. In the United Kingdom, it aired on Channel 4.

Two volumes were released on DVD in 2006, each containing four episodes.

On 14 September 2010, Mill Creek Entertainment released the entire series on DVD in Region 1. It includes bonus episodes of Busytown Mysteries , The Busy World of Richard Scarry , Flight Squad , Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Animated Series and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures . [3] The first disc was also released as single DVD on the same day called Wild and Free containing the same Busytown Mysteries episode.

As of 2022, the full episodes were available on YouTube.

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