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.

Since 2013, the Italian feed of Cartoonito channel has aired the entire series and has been keep airing 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.

Voice cast

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Trivia

 * The show also had several theme songs performed by the famous French singer, Dorothée, which is part of European company "AB Productions", known for the (in)famous former French block "Club Dorothée" which airs famous anime series like ドラゴンボールZ (and the infamous Big Green English dub, with an infamous nickname given to Piccolo in that dub), 美少女戦士セーラームーン, and etc. which contributed to the anime boom in France, and those franchise the company once have held license of, in Europe. The Season 1 intro sequence was used up until season 3, with the first alternate international theme music being used for season 1, and the second theme being the original Smurf song from season 2. (In Belgium, the theme was done by a male singer instead.) For seasons 4 to 7, the "Smurfy Way" theme song is used, accompanying portions of the intro sequences from seasons 4 and 5. Afterwards, seasons 8 and 9 used their original intro sequences.
 * For the "Johan and Peewit" episodes, two different theme songs are used, accompanied by the Season 2 intro sequence.
 * 1988 re-broadcasts of seasons 1 and 2 use a completely different theme song sung by Marie Dauphin.
 * 1995 broadcasts of season 9 use the Season 8 intro sequence, accompanied by a remix of the original Smurf song from a French album.
 * Starting in 1998, the modified intros for seasons 1 and 8, using the "Smurfingland" theme song, replaces all the original French intro sequences. You can see the video here.
 * The current French version of the "Smurfingland" theme song was also used in the French variant of the infamous UNICEF Smurfs PSA, which the song (which was edited to remove the kids' voice in the beginning of the song) was synced to the few seconds of the clip of season 1 opening intro of the show before the new animation in which the Smurf Village is annihilated by bombs dropped from planes. The PSA was made in part of UNICEF Belgium’s campaign to raise about $150,000 for the rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which both is a former Belgium colony in Africa, and with the approval of the family of the Smurfs' late creator Peyo, the PSA was shown on the Belgium television after the 9pm timeslot to avoid children seeing it.

(copied from Smurfs Wikia)


 * Now you can see the episodes of the French dub for free on "Les Schtroumpfs • Français" channel which is part of official Smurfs International on YouTube. You can see it here.