The Little Flying Bears

The Little Flying Bears
Written byJean-Pierre Liccioni
Starring
Countries of originCanada
Croatia
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes39
Production
Producers
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesCinéGroupe
Zagreb Film
Original release
NetworkFamily Channel
ReleaseSeptember 2, 1990 (1990-09-02) –
June 30, 1991 (1991-06-30)

The Little Flying Bears (Croatian: Mali leteći medvjedi) is an animated television series produced by CinéGroupe and Zagreb Film. It was a Canadian production which originally aired in 1990.

This cartoon helps children realize the importance of protecting the environment. The series shows the harmful effects of pollution and fires as well as the important role of the ecosystem.

Plot

The series focuses on a rare species of little bears with butterfly-like wings that live in the magical forest in a utopian cooperative community. The little flying bears together with their friends, took on themselves the task to defend their forest from pollution, but their efforts, very often, are disturbed by two weasels, Skulk and Sammy, who strive to pollute the forest. Every so often the weasels receive help from Slink the snake. The three always strive to find new ways to disturb the harmony of the forest but their plans are destroyed always by the bears. The bears are always attentive to the advice of the old bear, Plato (who is too old to fly) and his friend Ozzy the owl.

Characters

Protagonists

Other notable inhabitants of the forest include: blue rabbits, orange squirrels, pink bobcats or lynxes, raccoons, skunks and blue and green birds (both males and females of all these species are shown, but most of them remain unnamed).

Antagonists

Humans

Episodes

  1. Keep Out!
  2. Attack of the Scarlet Serpents
  3. The Juice Festival
  4. Black Cloud
  5. Runaway Truck
  6. Hurray for Eggs!
  7. A Birthday to Remember
  8. The Traps
  9. The Forbidden Flower
  10. The White Rain
  11. The Bears Christmas
  12. Sore Losers
  13. The White Bear
  14. The Fountain of Youth
  15. The Monster in the Mountain
  16. The Great Drought
  17. The Lumber Barons
  18. The Wood Fairy
  19. The Costume Ball
  20. Hide and Seek
  21. The Big Sting
  22. The Reluctant Hero
  23. The Virus
  24. Dr. Skulk
  25. A Gift from Space
  26. Sing for the Rain
  27. The First Encounter
  28. The Rats
  29. The River Rescue
  30. The Storm
  31. The Rats Revenge
  32. The Outsider
  33. Capture the Sun
  34. Prescription for Pandemonium
  35. Sabotage
  36. The Visitor
  37. Invasion
  38. Power to Spare
  39. Fire Bug

Theme song

The theme song was composed by Julie Villandré. The lyrics were written by Jean-Pierre Liccioni and sung by voice actress Sonja Ball.

Awards

The Little Flying Bears had won the coveted first prize for best animated children's series for 1990 at the FIMAJ International Festival in France.

Home media

As with some other CinéGroupe series, the only major English-language DVD release is by Czech distributor North Video, featuring both Czech and English audio and original video (with English-language text) in the original production order. 38 episodes were released on 12 volumes, from July 31 to October 17, 2009, with one episode, "The Rats Revenge", missing and one duplicate.

References

  1. ↑ TV Schedule: December 24 & 25, 1990, Večernji list, 1990-12-24, retrieved 2024-09-22
  2. ↑ https://www.dvdinform.cz/4743-north-video-mali-letajici-medvidci-1/
  3. ↑ https://www.dvdinform.cz/5437-north-video-mali-letajici-medvidci-12/