Fabeltjeskrant
| Fabeltjeskrant | |
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"Meneer de Uil", the main character of the series
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| Based on | The work of Leen Valkenier |
| Country of origin | Netherlands |
| No. of episodes | 1640 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Thijs Chanowski Loek de Levita |
| Running time | 4/5 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NOS (Netherlands) SVT (Sweden) ITV (UK) |
| Original release | 29 September 1968 – 1989 |
NOS (Netherlands)
Récré A2 (France)
RAI 1 / TMC (Italy)
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 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.
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.
All character surnames are referred to their species.
The show was adapted in some other countries under the following titles:
Lex Overeijnder wrote and drew a short-lived newspaper comic strip based on the TV show in 1969.
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.
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