Fabeltjeskrant (Dutch pronunciation:[(də)'faːbəlcəskrɑnt]) (orDe 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 and Japanese channels NOS, RTL 4RTL 8 and NHK[1] 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.[2]
Each episode is based upon fablesofJean 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 setting is a forest inhabited by different anthropomorphic felt animals. The first episode was broadcast on 29 September 1968 on NOS.
Peru: Las Crónicas de Fabulandia (Spanish for Chronicles of Fableland)
Mexico: Las Crónicas de Fabulandia (Spanish for Chronicles of Fableland)
Japan: "Fachishu shinbun" (Japanese for The animals of Fables village)
Poland: Leśna gazetka (Polish for Forest newspaper)
In Sweden, France, and the United Kingdom, the show was refilmed especially for those specific countries. The Hebrew and Italian versions were dubbings of the English adaptation.
Lex Overeijnder wrote and drew a short-lived newspaper comic strip based on the TV show in 1969.[8] In 1975 Dick Vlottes created another comic strip based on the series, which was published in the TV magazine Televizier in 1975.[9]
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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