Barbapapa

Barbapapa
Details
Country	Canada
Language	Canadian English
Seasons	1
Episodes	45 (list of episodes)
Channels	TVO (formerly) Knowledge Kids (formerly) Channel 5 (formerly) Channel 11 (formerly) Nepal Television (formerly) NTA (formerly) TVM (formerly) TVB Pearl (formerly)
Release	September 17, 1977 – September 10, 1985

Barbapapa is the Canadian English dub of the show of the same name. It is one of five English dubs of the series overall. The dub aired on TVO in Canada from September 17, 1977 to September 10, 1985, and also aired on Knowledge Kids from 1985 to 1987.

In 1981, episodes of this dub were released on Betamax VHS tapes in the United Kingdom, distributed by Spectrum. The Pre-Cert website calls it the "Americanised version" to differentiate it from the UK dub, which never saw a home media release itself. Those tapes skipped the "Beach" episode for some unclear reason.

It is perhaps the most well known English Barbapapa dub, as it's the only one to use the popular "Clickety click, Barbatrick!" transformation phrase. It is also the only dub to air in places outside of its country of origin: the dub has reportedly aired in Thailand on Channel 11 in 1987, as well as national stations in Nepal, Nigeria, and Maldives.

Despite all of this, none of the cast and crew behind this dub were ever identified.

Cast

Character		Actor
	Barbapapa	Unidentified voice
	Barbazoo
	Barbabeau
	Barbabright
	Barbabravo
	Frank
Narrator
	Barbamama	Unidentified voice
	Barbalala
	Barbalib
	Barbabelle
	Cindy

Episodes

All 45 episodes in season one were dubbed. The following below lists the episodes in the order, and with titles presented by, the VHS tapes distributed by Spectrum in the UK. Only the information for what is listed in Volume 2 is available.

№		English title	Original title
FIRST SEASON
	24	Sheepsheering (Parts I & II)	La tonte des moutons
	25		Le tissage
	15	Civilization (Parts I & II)	Les œufs
	32		Le pique-nique
	33	Boat-race	La régate
	30	Ski-ing	Le ski
	17	Be a Good Sport	Le sport
	41	Mountsteering	L'alpiniste
	38	Model Contest	Photos de mode
	40	Barbapapa's Cake	L'anniversaire
	29	Hairstyle	La coiffure
	19	Orange Press/Microscope	Le microscope
	28	Metamorphosis	La métamorphose

Gallery

Front and back to Volume 2 of the Spectrum DVDs.

Notes

• Only the first season was dubbed, like nearly all of the English dubs.
• The characters all have individual voices in this dub, as opposed to being voiced all by one narrator, like in the first season of the original.
• When the characters say their transformation phrase, the "Barbatrick!" part is always done using the same voice as the narrator. This applies to the Barbamamas as well.
• This dub uses the same songs from the British English dub, including the theme song.
• The first 2001 Japanese DVD of the series has part of this dub on it, at the start of the second episode ("Le feu") where Barbapapa helps to get the leopard back to the zoo. This proves that this dub was most likely used as a base for the Aniplex dub, despite not having the same script.

References

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