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Doctor Snuggles is a Dutch/British animated television series created by Jeffrey O'Kelly about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles, who has unusual adventures with his friends in a psychedelic world.
Airing originally on Britain's ITV in 1979, the 13-episode series was shown around the world, including the United States, where it aired on HBO, in syndication, and, in the late 1980s, on Nick Jr. Animation for the first half of the series was handled in Japan by Topcraft and, in the second half, in the US by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, making this series a true International Coproduction.
Douglas Adams contributed a couple of episodes. The English-language version of the series featured Peter Ustinov in the title role.
Doctor Snuggles provides examples of:[]
- All-Natural Gem Polish
- Cats Are Superior: The Cosmos Cat
- Deranged Animation: Talking trees are the least weird things you'll see.
- Friend to All Living Things
- Funny Animal
- God Guise: Nobby once used super powers to impersonate an Egyptian god.
- Green Aesop: A few times.
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Douglas Adams, and Peter Ustinov as the voice of Snuggles in the English dub.
- Hong Kong Dub: Apparent in the English dub.
- Names to Know in Anime: The first half of the series, and the opening and ending, were done by the same studio that made Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind with Hayao Miyazaki (and later formed part of the nucleus of Studio Ghibli).
- Planet Looters: Twice.
- Road Sign Reversal
- The Seventies: Easily able to tell from the soundtrack!
- Widget Series