Fables of the Green Forest

Fables of the Green Forest
Fables of the Green Forest poster
山ねずみ ロッキーチャック (Rocky Chuck the Mountain Rat)
Genre	Adventure
Anime television series
Directed by	Masaharu Endo
Produced by	Shigehito Takahashi, Yoshinobu Nishizaki (Uncredited), Junzo Nakajima
Written by	Hisao Okawa, Shigeki Chiba, Yoshiaki Yoshida
Music by	Seiichiro Uno
Studio	Zuiyo Eizo
Original network	Fuji Television
English network	CA TVO
Original run	7 January 1973 – 30 December 1973
Episodes	52

Fables of the Green Forest (山ねずみロッキーチャック, Yama Nezumi Rokkī Chakku^?, lit. "Rocky Chuck, the Mountain Rat", also known as Rocky Chuck the Woodchuck, Chuck the Beaver and Johnny Chuck) is an anime television series based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji Television from 7 January 1973 to 30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was created by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo (the predecessor to Nippon Animation).

The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan, such as Germany (on Bayerischer Rundfunk), Spain (TVE), Romania (TVR 1), Portugal (RTP), Venezuela (VTV), Canada (TVOntario, dubbed in both English and French), and Hong Kong. The release of the series into Canada was done through ZIV International in 1978.

The series consists of the adventures of Johnny (or: Rocky), a woodchuck, and his mate Polly in the Green Forest. They make a lot of friends among their neighbours, and everyone works together to avoid the attacks of the different predators that put them in danger, such as man, the weasel, and the fox.

01 – Spring comes to the Green Forest

02 – Johnny grows up

03 – Johnny builds his home

04 – Huge tracks in the forest

05 – Buster the bear comes to the Green Forest

06 – The monster of Poplar Hill

07 – Mischievous Chatterer