| Director: | Bruno Bianchi |
| Composer: | Haim Saban Shuki Levy |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 26 |
| Executive Producer: | Winston Richard Jacqueline Tordjman Vincent Chalvon-Demersay |
| Producer: | Eric S. Rollman |
| Runtime: | 30 min. |
| Company: | Saban International Paris |
| Channel: | Canal+ TF1 |
Saban's Around the World in Eighty Dreams (French: Les Aventures de Carlos) is a French animated series that first premiered on Canal+ on November 13, 1992, and later aired on TF1 in December 1993.[1]
A co-production between Saban International Paris and TF1, with the participation of Canal+ and the CNC,[2] the series focuses on Carlos (Based on Carlos Dolto, a French singer and celebrity[3]) and his parrot Oscar, and three adopted children who live on Carlos' own tropical Island. Carlos loves to tell the children stories about how he met world famous important figures in history in spite of the children's disbelief.[4] With the help of Grandma Tadpole, who lives on one of the beaches of the island, he travels back in time together with the children in order to prove to them that he is right. Carlos has the ability to transform into an ox when the group is in trouble.
Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.[5] [6] [7]
In 1993, the show was broadcast in the United States in first-run syndication in the early 1990s as part of Bohbot Entertainment's "Amazin' Adventures" package.
In 1994, a video game based on the series was released in France by Microïds for the Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS. It was a platforming game.