7 April 1987 (1987-04-07) – 29 March 1988 (1988-03-29)
Ox Tales, also known as The Tales of Boes' Gang (げらげらブース物語, Geragera Būsu Monogatari) is an anime television series produced by Telecable Benelux B.V. in association with Saban Entertainment and animated by Telescreen Japan. It was a co-production between Japan and the Netherlands based on the comic stripBoes created by Wil Raymakers and Thijs Wilms. The series ran on the Japanese network TV Tokyo from 7 April 1987[1]–29 March 1988. It consists of 102 fifteen-minute episodes, that were regularly broadcast as 51 half-hour shows of two episodes each. The series currently has two English dubs. The 1989 dub produced by Saban and the 2010 dub produced by m4e, the current owner of the Telescreen library. Ox Tales is still remained to appear as a column strip in several Dutch daily and weekly newspapers.
Ollie (Boes in the 2010 and Dutch dub) - Ollie/Boes is an ox that owns the Funny Farm and isn't exactly the greenest grass on the farm. Although he means well, For some reasons, he makes situations worse than they normally are, but this is actually rare.
Jack Turtleson (Tad in the 2010 dub), - Jack/Tad a turtle who is Ollie's best friend, as he's seen mostly hanging out with him in each episode. However, in every mess that he and Ollie/Boes get into, you can bet that his shell will break apart at least once. In the Dutch comics and anime version, along with the Italian version, he is a female turtle.
Sammy (Saffie in the 2010 dub), a greyhound - Ollie's/Boes' most loyal pet on the farm who accompanies Ollie/Boes and Jack/Tad on their adventures in some episodes.
Lenny - a lion that imagines himself as a great hunter, although he cannot seem to take the initiative when he finally catches his food.
Towilla - a sarcastic Toco toucan who is the narrator of the English, German and Japanese dubs of the show and normally would insult a character and comment on what happens in the episode and will interrupted by the events in the episode. He breaks the fourth wall for some reason.
Bruce - a greedy grizzly bear who often tries to steal Ollie's honey.
Cecil - a mischievous skunk with both an abundant flatulence issue and a rather sadistic habit of only wanting to relieve his massive amounts of gas, if he can do so in the presence of others.
The series has been aired in several countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages. The series was broadcast in the United Kingdom several times between 1991 and 1996, on the ITV network.
In the late 1990s, the series was planned to air on Fox Family in the USA. However this was scrapped for unknown reasons.
In the US, a few episodes of the show were released on VHS by Just for Kids in the early 1990s; the show was officially released on DVDinPortugal[2] and Spain in 2006.
In 1989 Arab World, It first aired on Saudi TV.
In the 2010s, the entire series is now uploaded by YouTube's m4e channel.
