Papa Beaver's Storytime is a French and Canadian animated television series based on a series of children's story books by the French author Père Castor. The series which was produced by Cinar

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, originally aired between 1993–1994 on the Canadian Family Channel and the French channel France 3

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 and later on the American channel, Nick Jr. between 1994-1997.

Synopsis

Series presenting a collection of tales based on the writings of French children's author, Pere Castor. Papa Beaver's Storytime is an animated television series which tells of Papa Beaver, a caretaker, a father figure, but most importantly, a storyteller. The show starts out with some type of disagreement between the children, who then turn to Papa Beaver for a solution. He begins telling them some stories which are somehow related to the situation the children are in, the stories are either a fable or a fairytale ultimately telling the morality of the story to teach them a lesson about their actions they have done before the story began.

Cast

• Papa Beaver: Walter Massey
  Walter Massey (actor)
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• Grandson: Teddy Lee Dillon
• Granddaughter: Pauline Little
  Pauline Little
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• Additional Voices: Bruce Dinsmore
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  , Kathleen Fee, Rick Jones
  Rick Jones (voice actor)
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International

• In the United States
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   it aired on Nick Jr. between 1994 and 1997.
• In Ireland
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   it aired on RTE Two
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• In Israel
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   it aired on the Israeli Educational Television
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• In Finland
  Finland
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   it aired on YLE