"D'Artacan y los tres mosqueperros" (1981) TV series

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Directors:

Luis Ballester Bustos
Shigeo Koshi

Writers:

Claudio Biern Boyd (writer)
Alexandre Dumas père (novel)

Release Date:

9 October 1981 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Prime Minister | Coming Of Age | Growing Up | Lady In Waiting | Woman Spy

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Satomi Majima	...	D´Artagnan (voice: Japanese version)
Akio Nojima	...	Aramis / Athos (voice: Japanese version)
Kaneto Shiozawa	...	Aramis (voice: Japanese version)
Tesshô Genda	...	Porthos (voice: Japanese version)
Eiko Masuyama	...	Milady (voice: Japanese version)
Mugihito	...	Richelieu (voice: Japanese version)
Akiko Tsuboi	...	D'Artagnan's Mother (voice: Japanese version)
Keiko Han	...	Constance (voice: Japanese version)
Noriko Tsukase	...	François (voice: Japanese version)
Teiji Ômiya	...	D'Artagnan's Father (voice: Japanese version)
Minoru Yada	...	(voice: Japanese version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Richard Barnes	...	Planchet (voice: English version)
Gloria Cámara	...	Julieta (voice: Spanish version)
José Carabias	...	Niño (voice: Spanish version)
Roger Carel	...	Richelieu (voice: French version)
Claude Chantal	...	Anne d'Autriche (voice: French version)
Cam Clarke	...	Dogtanian (voice: English version) (as Jimmy Flanders)
Matilde Conesa	...	Madre de D'Artacan (voice: Spanish version)
Warren Daniels	...	Porthos (voice: English version)
Daniel Dicenta	...	Planchet (voice: Spanish version)
Rebecca Forstadt	...	Juliette (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version) (as Reba West)
Eddie Frierson	...	Aramis (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version)
Ana Ángeles García	...	Milady (voice: Spanish version)
Ben Gibson	...	(voice: English version)
José Luis Gil	...	Amis (voice: Spanish version)
Mikey Godzilla	...	Athos (voice: English version)
Gérard Hernandez	...	D'Artagnan (voice: French version)
Eduardo Jover	...	D'Artacan
Robin Levenson	...	(voice: English version)
Kerrigan Mahan	...	Richelieu (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version) (as Kerry Mahan)
Dave Mallow	...	Dogtanian (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version)
Christy Mathewson	...	Aramis (voice: English version)
Edie Mirman	...	Milady (voice: English version) (as Penny Sweet)
José Moratalla	...	Om (voice: Spanish version)
Manuel Peiró	...	Dogos (voice: Spanish version)
Rafael de Penagos	...	Richelieu (voice: Spanish version)
Colin Phillips	...	Roquefort (voice: English version)
Jeffrey Platt	...	(voice: English version)
Simon Prescott	...	King Louis XIII (voice: English version) (as Sy Prescott)
Mike Reynolds	...	Widimer (voice: English version) (as Ray Michaels)
Evelyne Séléna	...	Hortense (voice: French version)
Michael Sorich	...	Athos (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version) (as Mike Sorich)
Doug Stone	...	Porthos (Return Of Dogtanian) (voice: English version)
Drew Levi Thomas	...	Pip (voice: English version) (as Drew Thomas)
Pierre Trabaud	...	Rochefort, Aramis (voice: French version)
Tom Wyner	...	Narrator (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

"Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds" (UK)
"Wan wan san jushi" (Japan)

Runtime:

Argentina:30 min

Country:

UK | Spain | Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:U | Argentina:Atp | Finland:S

Company:

BRB Internacional S.A.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Little Britain: (#3.3)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

So you onushi wa

SO much better than the one with Charlie Sheen and Chris O'Donnell.

If you've ever seen "Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds," Guido and Maurizio De Angelis' theme song will be stuck on your memory for the rest of your life. The show itself, from the same Spanish folks that gave us "Around the World with Willy Fog," was - once you get past the fact that all the characters are animals (mostly canine, with some exceptions - Milady was a cat for instance) - a pretty straight-faced adaptation; like "Muppet Treasure Island," it didn't make fun of its source, and all the better for it.

You do wonder why D'Artagnan was renamed Dogtanian (all the other Dumas characters kept their names), but the spirit of the story was retained and the message of friendship and loyalty came through true and clear - without any need to spell it out for the audience, DIC and Filmation please note. The animation wouldn't win any prizes, but neither was it as bad as some higher-profile companies (yes, that means Filmation again... now out of business, by the way). No one will rate this above the beloved 1970s version with Chamberlain, Reed and Co., but "The Musketeer" is likely to be less effective than this. The 1993 version, on the other hand, IS less effective than this.

Footnote: Although the English-language title and the theme song refer to "Muskehounds," Athos, Porthos and Aramis are referred to throughout the entire series as "Musketeers." I've heard of something getting lost in the translation, but this is ridiculous.