| Fables of the Green Forest | |
| Ja Kanji: | 山ねずみ ロッキーチャック |
| Ja Romaji: | Rocky Chuck the Mountain Rat |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Type: | TV series |
| Director: | Masaharu Endō |
| Producer: | Shigehito Takahashi Yoshinobu Nishizaki (uncredited) Junzō Nakajima |
| Music: | Seiichirō Uno |
| Studio: | Zuiyo Eizo, Mushi Production |
| Network: | Fuji Television |
| First: | 7 January 1973 |
| Last: | 30 December 1973 |
| Episodes: | 52 |
[1] is an anime television series based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji Television from 7 January to 30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was produced by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo along with Mushi Production as part of the Calpis Comic Theater (later known as World Masterpiece Theater).
The series has been aired in many countries outside Japan, such as Italy (on TMC), Germany (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Spain (TVE, Canal Nou), Romania (TVR 1), Portugal (RTP), Venezuela (VTV), the United Kingdom (ITV / Channel 4), Canada (TVOntario, Knowledge Network and CBLFT-DT, dubbed in both English and French), Saudi Arabia (KSA 1), Australia (Network Ten), Ireland (RTÉ One), Israel (Channel 2 dubbed in Hebrew), the Emirates (Dubai 33), Nigeria (NTA), Cyprus (METV), New Zealand (TV One), Brazil (SBT), the Netherlands (TROS), Malaysia (Network Two), Singapore (Mediacorp Channel 5), Indonesia (RCTI / SCTV), South Africa (SABC2), Namibia (SWABC, while known as South West Africa), Hong Kong (both ATV and TVB) and Trinidad and Tobago (TTT).
The release of the series into Canada was done through ZIV International in 1978. There was a second English dub under the title Friends of the Green Forest which aired on the TVOKids on TVOntario in the 1990s.
In the United Kingdom, the original transmission of the series as aforementioned on the ITV network was cut short, with only the first 30 episodes being broadcast in 1982, because the series was dropped due to the introduction of the Childrens ITV service in January 1983 taking over the series' former timeslot. Some of the other episodes were broadcast sporadically in the UK on the "Early Morning" weekend segment on Channel 4 in the early 1990s.
The series consists of the adventures of Johnny (or Rocky), a woodchuck, and his mate Polly in the Green Forest. They make a lot of friends among their neighbours, and everyone works together to avoid the attacks of the different predators that put them in danger, such as man, the weasel, and the fox.
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In the 2014 anime Shirobako, protagonist Aoi Miyamori states that her favorite anime is "Andes Hedgehog Mountain Chucky", which features a predominantly animal cast and is inspired by Fables of the Green Forest.
Jonathan Winters will provide all the off-camera voices for "Fables of the Green Forest", a new children's animated cartoon series. Simpson's Leader-Times, Friday, 23 May 1975, p. 11