Tabaluga (TV series)
| Tabaluga | |
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Title card | |
| Genre | Fantasy Animated series |
| Created by | Helme Heine Peter Maffay Gregor Rottschalk Rolf Zuckowski |
| Based on | Tabaluga by Peter Maffay |
| Written by | Gregor Rottschalk Heike Lagé John Palmer Dale Scott Susan Beak Geoff Beak David Witt Malcom McGookin Christopher Plowright David Evans Yoram Gross Athol Henry Sally Odgers Michael Maurer Phil Sanders Melanie Alexander Adam Bowen Grant Fraser Chris Phillips Rhett Walton |
| Directed by | Yoram Gross (Season 1–2) David Evans (Season 3 & TV movie) |
| Voices of | Jamie Oxenbould Keith Scott Robyn Moore Troy Planet (Season 2–3) Sarah Aubrey (Season 3 & TV movie) Shane Withington (TV movie) |
| Opening theme | "Tabaluga's Song", performed by Peter Rudolph Heinen |
| Ending theme | "Nessaja's Song", composed by Peter Maffay "Tabaluga's Song" performed by Peter Rudolph Heinen (TV movie) |
| Composers | Peter Wagner (Season 1–2) Andy Sedlmaier (Season 1–2) Clive Harrison (Season 3) Guy Gross (TV movie) |
| Country of origin | Germany Australia |
| Original languages | German English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Sandra Gross (Season 1) Tim Brooke-Hunt (Season 1) Dr. Sylvia Rothblum (Season 2) Matthias Schulze (Season 3) Hans-Jürgen Steimer (Season 3) Geoff Watson (Season 3) |
| Producers | Yoram Gross (Season 1–2) Franziska Guderian (Season 3) Andre Kussmaul (Season 3) Anke Steinbacher (Season 3) Rodney Whitham (Season 3) |
| Editors | Antonietta Sisinni (Season 1) Andrew MacNeil (Season 1) Christopher Plowright (Season 1) Roger Grant (Season 2) Dee Liebenberg (Season 2) David Stiven (Season 2) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production companies | ZDF Enterprises Yoram Gross Film Studios (Season 1) Yoram Gross-EM.TV (Season 2–3 & TV movie) EM.Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | ZDF Seven Network |
| Release | October 4, 1997 – June 19, 2004 |
Tabaluga is a German-Australian animated television series produced by Yoram Gross Film Studios and Yoram Gross-EM.TV, based on the character of the same name created by Peter Maffay. In this series, Tabaluga is the last of the dragons and lives in Greenland, a magical place inhabited by talking animals of many different species. Tabaluga must defend his home from Iceland, a frigid arctic tundra, ruled by the evil snowman Arktos. In Season 2, he must also deal with a searing desert, ruled by an evil sand-spirit named Humsin.
The series was shown on Seven Network in Australia and ZDF in Germany. It was also shown on the Fox Family Channel from 1998 to 2001 in the United States. In the first season, there are many references to the albums. For example, the snake, Bilingua (Tabaluga und das leuchtende Schweigen) and the spider Tarantula (Tabaluga und Lilli) make one-off appearances in the series. Special mention goes to Lilli, who Tabaluga falls in love with in the third album, Tabaluga und Lilli. Season 1, Episode 23, Tabaluga and Lilli, is dedicated to their love story.