Anatole (TV series)


Anatole is a Canadian animated children's television series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. The series was created by Scottish Television and Nelvana as one of their numerous programmes. It originally aired on Canada's YTV network from 1990 to 1993, and premiered in the United States on CBS on October 3, 1998, and aired through the 1998–99 television season.

Premise

The series tells the story of Anatole, a mouse who lives in Paris. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette, and a family of six little mice.

Characters

announced in January 1998 that it would return to airing cartoons as part of its Saturday morning programming schedule for the 1998–99 television season, and Anatole was among the new animated series announced. In July 1998, it was announced that CBS would premiere Anatole and the rest of its Saturday morning animated programming on September 19, 1998, though by September the premiere date had slipped to October 3, 1998.

Episodes

Charles E. Bastien directed every episode of Anatole.

Broadcast

The series originally aired in 1998, on The CBS Kids Show on CBS. In late-1999 it aired on Premiere 12 in Singapore.
It re-aired on the U.S. version of Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004. The series was rebroadcast in 2009 on STV, a Scottish television station, on their wknd@stv strand, and from 2015 as part of the "Weans' World" block on STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh.