Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds

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Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
Genre	Animation
Running time	26 mins
Creator(s)	Alexandre Dumas BRB Internacional Nippon Animation Claudio Biern Boyd
Starring	Cam Clarke Dave Mallow Rebecca Forstadt Simon Prescott Michael Sorich Doug Stone Eddie Frierson Kerry Mahan John Stocker Ron Rubin Elizabeth Hanna Prunella Scales Dan Hennessey James Rankin Stuart Stone Elisabeth Harnois Satomi Majima Akio Nojima Tesshô Genda Mugihito Eiko Masuyama Keiko Han Teiji Oomiya Noriko Tsukase Akkio Tsuboi Minoru Yada
Narrated by	John Koensgen Tom Wyner
Country of origin	Spain
Original run	1981–
No. of episodes	26
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Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is a cartoon version of the classic Alexandre Dumas story of D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers. Most of the characters are anthropomorphisms of dogs, hence the title of the cartoon. The main exception to this are the temptress Milady (a cat), Pip, Dogtanian's sidekick mouse, the birdy jewel thief Blue Falcon, Planchet (a bear), Dogtanian's main servant, and one pig from the Cardinal's guards.

The story follows a young Dogtanian (D'Artacan in the original Spanish version and voiced by Cam Clarke in the English version, and Darutaniyan in the japanese version and voiced by Satomi Majima) who travels to Paris in the 17th Century in order to become one of the King Louis XIII of France's musketeers (note that they are referred to as musketeers throughout the cartoon and only the title calls them muskehounds). He quickly befriends three musketeers (Porthos, Athos and Aramis) and falls in love with Juliette, a maid-in-waiting for Queen Anne of Austria.

The cartoon was created by Spanish studio BRB Internacional and produced in Japan by Nippon Animation. It was first broadcast in Spain (D'Artacan y los tres mosqueperros) and Japan (ワンワン三銃士) in 1981, and the UK in 1985, with the English language adaptation by Dave Mallow and Doug Stone.

Contents 1 Episode list 2 DVD release dates 3 Sequel 4 Cast 5 Crew 6 External link

[edit] Episode list

1. Dogtanian's journey
2. Dogtanian meets the man with the black moustache
3. Paris, the city of dreams
4. The three invincible Musketeers
5. Monsieur Treville, Captain of the Musketeers
6. Dogtanian meets his match
7. Dogtanian meets the king
8. Juliette's secret
9. Juliette kidnapped
10. The great getaway
11. Dogtanian's trance
12. Dogtanian to the rescue
13. Dogtanian meets Monsieur Pip
14. The search for Juliette
15. Dogtanian saves the day
16. Daggers and diamonds
17. The journey to England
18. The chase
19. Dogtanian is put to the test
20. Dogtanian and the Blue Falcon
21. The shipwreck
22. The jungle adventure
23. Marco's mission
24. The imposter
25. Milady's revenge
26. Dogtanian's dream comes true

[edit] DVD release dates

The series has now been released on DVD in the UK:

• Episodes 1–9: April 28, 2003
• Episodes 10–15: August 25, 2003
• Episodes 16–20: March 22, 2004
• Episodes 21–26: May 25, 2004
• Dogtanian- The Complete Series Boxset September 20, 2004
• The Movie One For All And All For One and a TV Special were also released on DVD in the UK July 26, 2004

[edit] Sequel

In 1990 The Return of Dogtanian was released by BRB Internacional, Thames Television and Wang Film Productions/Cuckoo's Nest Studios. It picks up the story ten years after the original with Dogtanian and Juliette now living together on the outskirts of Paris with their two children, Philippe and Fleur. The story is loosely based on the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne also by Alexandre Dumas, itself building on the myth of The Man in the Iron Mask. Dave Mallow, who adapted the original to English, takes over as the voice of Dogtanian. As production occured in Taiwan, Nippon Animation, the Japanese studio who produced the first series, was not involved in the sequel. This also was released in a UK DVD Boxset July 4, 2005.

[edit] Cast

• Narrator -
• Dogtanian - Dave Mallow
• Juliet - Rebecca Forstadt
• King Louis - Simon Prescott
• Athos - Michael Sorich
• Porthos - Doug Stone
• Aramis - Eddie Frierson
• Cardinal Richeliu - Kerry Mahan
• Count Rochefort/Pip - John Stocker
• Widimer/Planchet - Ron Rubin
• Milady - Elizabeth Hanna
• The Queen of France - Prunella Scales
• Blanc Bec - Dan Hennessey
• Count Bouchau - James Rankin
• Philippe - Stuart Stone
• Fleur - Elisabeth Harnois

[edit] Crew

• Directed by: Luis Ballester, Taku Sugiyama, Hidetaka Saito, Shigeo Koshi, Tom Wyner, Robert Barron, Byrd Ehlmann
• Produced by: Koichi Motohashi
• Executive Producer: Claudio Biern Boyd
• Written by: Claudio Biern Boyd, Akira Nakahara, Yoshihiro Kimura, Tom Wyner, Jason Klassi, Garry Morris, Melesio Rosales, Dayna Barron, Byrd Ehlmann
• Storyboard: Akira Nakahira, Yoshihiro Kimura
• Character Design: José Luis Rodriguez, Lorenzo Ballester, Shuichi Seki
• Animation: Takao Ogawa
• Edited by: Soledad Lopez
• Special Effects: Luis Castro
• Music: Katsuhisa Hattori
• Music Produced by: Guido & Mauricio de Angelis
• Music Edited by: Cabum Magister
• Music Subpublished by: Southern Pictures Music Inc.
• Theme Sung by: Popitos, Maron Kusaka, Suginami Children Choir, Hilary Mather, Elissa Mather, Ted Mather
• Recorded and re-mixed at: Intersound Inc.

[edit] External link

• Muskehounds.com