Billy the Cat
Billy the Cat is a French- Belgian comic and basing British animated series. The focus is on the boy Billy, who is turned into a cat because of his malice towards animals as punishment and experiencing adventures with animals.
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- 3.2.2 episode overview
Content
Billy has been transformed because of his malice towards animals in a cat to experience what this feeling here, and to adjust to his new situation, to make friends. So Billy is living with the hangover Sir Hubert in the junkyard and comes with other animals in contact, mostly cats and dogs. When his family but Billy can no longer live, because his mother is allergic to cats and his dog Gonzo does not like cats. Together with the animals experienced Billy different adventures. The experiences of the past lives help Billy about to break free again and again from awkward situations.
Differences between book and animated series
Contents of the book: Billy is a young student who tortures animals. When Billy one day runs into the street, he will run over, goes to heaven and is sent back as a cat on the earth to do penance for his misdeeds to return to heaven.
Content of television series: Billy, mistreated the animals with his friends, makes one day the wizard Kazam Ali 's attention. This tells him to stop the torture of animals, whereupon Billy mocks the magician. As a result, the magician turned him into a cat to teach him a lesson. The cat of the magician he later turned into a boy, Billy takes his family meanwhile.
Figures
The main character of the series is the young, black-yellow tabby cat Billy the Cat. This resides with the old hangover Sir Hubert in an old Cadillac on the urban junkyard. Billy reserves but even after his transformation into a cat diverse human characteristics. So he refuses, unlike the other cats to eat spoiled food and takes for cats rather unusual things, such as French fries or bananas to him. Furthermore, it retains the ability to read and white with technical devices, such as Deal computers. He is not afraid of water.
Besides them, the young cat Queenie and the dove jumbo play an essential role. Besides them, there are a number of other cats that occur as minor characters. They include Blacky, Teddy and Manx. Along with Billy the Cat and Sir Hubert they form a transition. Beside them appear even the very young cats Daisy, Crazy and Lasiy who are friends with them. The fat old cat Lucifer ( " butterball "), belonging to none of the groups and shows towards others usually cranky and mean.
As an opponent to them, step on the Totschlägertölen whose members are dogs, Brutus, Drool and bloodsuckers. Another group of dogs are the Windbeutelwauwies. They consist of Milli, Fetzer, Roy, the bitch Regina and the mad dog Loud. The dog Gonzo, whose owner was Billy, as he's still been a man, is a loner.
Formation and Publications
Comic
Billy the cat started as Franco Belgian comic book with the text of Stephen Desberg and drawings by Stéphane Colman, who appeared in 1981 in the comics magazine Spirou. Between 1990 and 1998, these were summarized in six anthologies. In 2002 he released a seventh volume containing the drawings by Marco Llin, 2003, the eighth with the drawings of Peral. In the ninth band Desberg worked with Janssens, who took over all the texts of the 10th and 11th band. Peral was a draftsman.
As of 1991, some books also appeared in German translation at the Egmont Ehapa and 1998 as a remake when Carlsen Verlag.
TV Series
In 1994, based on the comics produced a television series. Executive producers were Mikael Shields and Steve Walsh. Directed by Les Orton and Jean -Pierre Jacquet. The screenplay was written by Jill Brett, Robin Lyons, Fabrice Ziolkowski and Dennis O'Flaherty.
Images and animations are from Travis Cowsill, Juan Francisco González, among others Partici -saturated production companies were Sofidoc SA, EVA Entertainment, Les movie du Triangle, NOA, La Fabrique Cologne and Animation. Peter Sandmann was responsible for the other sounds and noises in the German series.
Original Air Date in the UK was 1995 to 1998, in France on 1 September 2001, in Germany on 17 March 1997 in the Children's Channel and ZDF on 4 April 1998 at Tabaluga tivi. There are more TV - publication in English, Turkish and Dutch.
The series was shown in two squadrons, each with 26 episodes. After the series was filmed, was still the movie Billy the Cat: Alone aired against all this. More broadcasts were seen in the ZDF and KiKA in the years 1997 to 2008.