I Puffi (1981)

Broadcast
In Italy, the first season was broadcasted in local Italian TV channels in 1981, and then subsequently on Canale 5 from 1982, in which the channel being the only national channel to air the program on the country at the time. In 1983, the channel was moved to Italia 1, and it was still rerunning the entire nine seasons of this show to this day. In 1990s, Canale 5 and Rete 4 has once aired the reruns of the show. In, the Italian feed of the Boing channel has aired the first three seasons of the show in Italian digital television. In, Boomerang also aired the first two seasons. In January of 2011, another Italian channel Hiro has aired reruns of the show.

In 2013, the Italian feed of the Cartoonito channel has aired the entire series and even aired reruns since then.

Between 2018 and 2020, the show was re-aired in Italia 1 with a 16:9 HD widescreen remaster and a complete theme song lasting about 3 minutes always sung by Cristina D'Avena. But since 2021, the original 4:3 format of the show and as well as two minutes of the opening music video were restored for this show.

Currently, the show isn't airing in Italian televisions anymore.

Voice cast

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Trivia

 * A number of the following opening themes were used for each season and performed by famous Italian singer Cristina D'Avena (which done many Italian-exclusive theme song for many Western cartoons and animes), with the fifth to ninth season being the original Italian theme songs exclusively made for the dub.
 * Season 1 & Season 2 - Canzone dei Puffi
 * "Johan and Peewit" episodes - Due giovani eroi, John e Solfami (two themes for seasons 2-3)
 * Season 3 - Puffi la la la ("Smurf la la la" song)
 * Season 4 - Che bello essere un Puffo ("Smurfy Way" song)
 * Season 5 - Puffa di qua, puffa di là
 * Season 6 - Ogni Puffo pufferà
 * Season 7 - Puffi qua e là
 * Season 8 - I Puffi sanno (later used for re-airings of all 9 seasons)
 * Season 9 - Amici Puffi / Puffa un po' di Arcobaleno (the latter was recorded a few years ago after former, and for the latter, it used for re-airings of all 9 seasons later)
 * For some reason, the recent YouTube distribution of all Italian episodes use the second Italian "Johan and Peewit" theme.

(copied from Smurfs Wikia)


 * In Boomerang Italy airings of the first two seasons, the special episodes and as well as Johan & Peewit episodes were skipped.
 * In Italian Wikipedia article of the show and as well as Smurfs Wikia, it claims that "Il Paese dei Puffi" was used as the theme song of the first season of the show when it aired on the local Italian channels. However, though the song was found, but the video of the opening intro with the song wasn't found online and was likely lost, it is unknown if that claim was actually true.
 * As shown in "Gallery" section below, the first seven seasons of the show aired in Italy were always using the name "I Puffi", but in the eighth season, they used the "I Puffi sanno..." (The Smurfs know...) name before sometimes reverted to the original "I Puffi" name, while in the ninth and final season they used "Amici Puffi" (Smurf Friends) or "Puffa un po' di Arcobaleno" (Smurf a Little Bit of Rainbow) in reruns, referring to the rainbow magical time whirlwind in the abruptly-cancelled season-long time travel arc.
 * The episodes were originally aired uncut, but like many cartoons airing in Italy, in recent airings the episodes were separated into two-partner episode, for example the parts are respectively called Part 1 and Part 2. The titles of the episodes have been modified several times depending on the airings or the home video releases.
 * According to TV Tropes' Clean Dub Name page, The Smurfs' original French series name, "Les Schtroumpfs", were originally translated in an early release of the original comic book as Strunfi, but then the translators though that the word was sounded closer to a certain similar Italian swear word, so the Puffi name was used instead and was still used to this day.
 * Now you can see the episodes of the Italian dub for free on "I Puffi • Italiano" channel which is part of official Smurfs International on YouTube. You can see it here.
 * During early episodes of season 1, multiple characters were referred with their English names (so for example Brainy Smurf was called "Puffo Brainy" instead of "Puffo Quattrocchi"), while Gargamel was initially called "Garganella".