Lupo Alberto (TV series) explained

Genre:	Humor
Creator:	Silver
Voices:	Francesco Salvi Lella Costa Tony Fuochi Paolo Torrisi Mino Caprio Beatrice Margiotti Saverio Moriones Paolo Torrisi
Opentheme:	"Stress da Lupo" (Season 2)
Country:	Italy France (Season 1)
Language:	Italian
Num Seasons:	2
Num Episodes:	104
List Episodes:	List of Lupo Alberto episodes
Executive Producer:	Giuseppe Laganà (Season 1 & 2) Jean C. Roger (Season 1) Alessandro Belli (Season 2)
Runtime:	7 minutes
Network:	Rai 1 Rai 2 Rai 3 Rai Gulp

Lupo Alberto (in English Alberto the Wolf) is an Italian animated series aired for the first time in 1997 by The Animation Band in co-production with Rai, inspired by the homonymous character and the same comic book created by Silver; two series were produced for a total of 104 episodes, each of which lasted for seven minutes. The second season is from 2002.

The first season was produced by Rai Fiction, The Animation Band, Canal+, France 2, Europool and Les Armateurs, and the second by Rai Fiction and The Animation Band, but this time distributed by Mondo TV.

The opening theme of the second season is sung by Gianna Nannini was written by Vic Vergeat.^[1] The series is available in Italian and English.

Characters

• Lupo Alberto (in English Alberto the Wolf) - A sarcastic and intelligent blue wolf who is a resident of the wood close to the McKenzie farm, Alberto pursues his relationship with Martha.
• Martha^[2] (Marta) - A eccentric and sweet hen who is Alberto's girlfriend.
• Moses^[2] (Mosè) - A mean sheepdog who is the obstacle to Alberto and Martha.
• Henry The Mole (Enrico La Talpa) - An eccentric and goofy mole
• Esther The Mole (Cesira La Talpa) - Henry's wife
• Alfred (Alfredo) - A turkey
• Ludwig (Lodovico) - A horse
• Einstein (Odoardo) - Einstein is Martha's cousin
• Glycerin (Glicerina) - A duck who has the nickname
• Krug - A bull
• Omar - A rooster
• Silvietta - A teenage female sparrow
• Arthur (Arturo) - Probably a chicken
• Kant (Alcide) - A philosopher pig
• Alice - Martha's friend, a fat hen

Voices actors

Italian

Actor (season 1)	Actor (season 2)	Character(s)
Francesco Salvi		Lupo Alberto
Lella Costa	Beatrice Margiotti	Martha
Tony Fuochi	Saverio Moriones	Moses
Paolo Torrisi †		Henry The Mole
		Esther The Mole
Alberto Olivero	Manfredi Aliquò	Alfred
	Massimo De Ambrosis	Ludwig
	Riccardo Deodati	Einstein
	Mario Bombardieri	Krug
Flavio Arras	Mario Bombardieri	Kant
Luca Bottale	Mino Caprio	Glycerin
?		Alice
?		Ausionia
	Beatrice Margiotti	Ursula
Paola Bonomi	Giorgina Pazi	Esmeralda
?		Omar
Luca Bottale	No	Gustav
Luca Bottale Alberto Olivero Paolo Torrisi	Fabrizio Mazzotta Monica Ward Luigi Ferraro Paolo Lombardi	Various voices

English

• Thor Bishopric - Lupo Alberto (season 2)
• Francis Michel Pardeilhan - Henry the Mole^[3]
• Cathy Weseluck - Martha and Alice (season 1)
• Maria Bircher - Martha (season 2)
• Gregory Snegoff - Moses (season 1)

Episodes

Season 2 (2001)

Home video

Mondo TV has released all of the first season episodes on 9 VHS tapes and 3 DVD releases, including special features.

The second season was released on DVD only, with 9 episodes each on 2 discs with no special features.

The DVD releases contain Italian and English audio.

External links

• Lupo Alberto at IMDb

Notes and References

1. http://www.film.it/articolo/lupo-alberto-sigla Stress da Lupo- Film.it
2. "Lupo Alberto . Rai Trade. Retrieved on 24 April 2011.
3. "Voice Acting." Francis Michel Pardeilhan. Retrieved on 24 April 2011.