בילבי

It is the first Hebrew dub of a media to ever exist.

Broadcast
בילבי premiered on Channel 1 in Israel on at , fully dubbed to , a thing that wasn't common at the time. New episodes would air every Wednesday at. The last episode of the main series aired on at.

When the films "Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven" and "På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump" aired in Israel, they aired as additional eight episodes to the series itself. The four parts of "Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven" aired on the channel between at  and  at. The first two parts of "På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump" aired on at  and  at. Due to the events of the Yom Kippur War, the series went into a hiatus of a month and 4 days; the last two parts of "På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump" later aired on at  and  at.

Release
After the series finished airing in Israel, episodes 1, 3, 9, 10 and 12 were edited to a full-length movie titled "בילבי" (in : "Pippi Långstrump"), and episodes 4 and 6-8 were edited to another full-length movie titled "החופשה הגדולה של בילבי" ("Här kommer Pippi Långstrump"), while segments from the episodes 2, 5, 11 and 13 were included in both films. Both films were released around the 1980's and the 1990's.

An edited version of the first film was later re-released to DVD in by.

Cast

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Translations

 * Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump:
 * Villa Villekulla:

Trivia

 * The translators were forced to change Pippi Långstrump's name due to its negative meaning in Hebrew, as opposed from its meaning in . When the book series of Pippi Långstrump was first translated to Hebrew in, her name was changed to "Gillgi". When the dub was produced, her name was changed to "Billbi" in order to match the lip sync in the series. In translations of the books that were made after the production of the dub, her name was kept as "Billbi", and because of that, translators had to get permission from the Israel Broadcasting Authority to use the name.