| Genre: | Adventure |
| Based On: | Ferda Mravenec by Ondřej Sekora |
| Developer: | Entertaining Cartoon Productions |
| Director: | Jerry Hampeys Ralph Newman |
| Opentheme: | "Ferdy is your Friend" (English dub only) |
| Composer: | Evžen Illín Jiří Strohner |
| Country: | United Kingdom Germany Taiwan Czechoslovakia Liechtenstein |
| Language: | English German Czech |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Network: | SWR Fernsehen (Germany) ABC (Australia) |
| Screenplay: | Iva Hercíková Liane Novotny |
Ferdy the Ant (also simply referred to as Ferdy and Ferda) is a 1984 German-British children's animated television series based on the Ferda Mravenec series of picture books by Czech author Ondřej Sekora.[1] The animation was handled by Far Eastern Productions.
There are three English dubs. The original British English dub, the short-lived Harmony Gold USA dub and a German-produced 2000 dub that uses English-speaking voice actors based in Germany.
The show is primarily aimed towards children from ages 3 to 10,[1] and has been owned by Entertaining Cartoon Productions and Licensing AG since 2000 and it was also an animation by Far Eastern Animation in Taiwan.
It was also International Broadcast on the ABC & ABC Kids in Australia. The series was also broadcast on Nepal Television during the early 2000s. It was one of the few animated shows including Moomins that aired on the Nepal's national television at that time.
The series revolves around a little boy-ant named Ferdy as he embarks on a variety of adventures in the insect Utopia of Käfertal with his close insect friends.[2]
Story-arcs usually last up to seven episodes.
A 3D episodic arcade video game based on the series was developed by Centauri Productions and released by Cenega in 2002 for the PC.[3]
In 1986, select episodes of the Harmony Gold USA English dub of the series received a small VHS release in the US. The entire series was released on DVD in the Czech Republic in 2003.