The Smurfs is an American

United States

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 animated

Animation

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 television series

Television program

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 that aired on NBC

NBC

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 from September 12, 1981 to August 25, 1990. Made by Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

, it is based on the Belgian

Belgium

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 comic series by the same name

The Smurfs

The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo on October 23, 1958...

, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo

Peyo

Pierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:...

 (who also served as Story Supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 256 episodes with a total of 421 stories.

History

In 1976, Stuart R. Ross, an American media and entertainment entrepreneur who saw the Smurfs while traveling in Belgium, entered into an agreement with Editions Dupuis

Dupuis

Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic books and magazines.Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French...

 and Peyo, acquiring North American and other rights to the characters, whose original name was "les Schtroumpfs". Subsequently, Ross launched the Smurfs in the United States in association with a California company, Wallace Berrie and Co., whose figurines, dolls and other Smurf merchandise became a hugely popular success. NBC

NBC

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 president Fred Silverman

Fred Silverman

Fred Silverman is an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at the CBS, ABC and NBC networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as the series Scooby-Doo , All in the Family , The Waltons , and Charlie's Angels , as well as the...

's daughter, Melissa, had a Smurf doll of her own that he had bought for her at a toy shop while they were visiting Aspen, Colorado

Aspen, Colorado

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. Silverman thought that a series based on the Smurfs might make a good addition to his Saturday-morning lineup.

Run on NBC

The Smurfs secured their place in North American pop culture in 1981, when the Saturday morning cartoon The Smurfs, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

 in association with SEPP International S.A., aired on NBC. The series became a major success for the network and one of the most successful and longest running Saturday Morning Cartoons in television history, spawning spin-off television specials on an almost yearly basis. The characters included Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, the evil Gargamel

Gargamel

In the fictional world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the sorcerer is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and the main antagonist in the show and comic books. While described as a wizard in the narration, Gargamel is not depicted as possessing real magical powers to speak of...

, his cat Azrael, and Johan and his friend Peewit. The Smurfs was nominated multiple times for Daytime Emmy awards, and won Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series in 1982–1983. The show enjoyed continued success until 1989, when after nearly a decade of success, NBC changed the format of the show and removed the smurfs from the forest and the smurf village, and then cancelled it due to decreasing ratings. In addition. NBC executives prepared a Today weekend program for Saturdays, which came later on and led to the elimination of Saturday morning children's shows.

Further appearances

The animated versions of Papa Smurf and Brainy Smurf were featured in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is an animated drug prevention television special starring many of the popular cartoon characters from American weekday, Sunday morning and Saturday morning television at the time of this film's release...

. Hefty Smurf also makes a brief cameo in the beginning of the movie with the other Smurfs, his only line being, "Who Smurfed the bell?". Smurfette is shown on the promotional poster and VHS cover artwork, but was not seen in the special. Harmony Smurf made a small cameo as the Smurfs comic book was flipping through pages. Gargamel and Azrael made guest appearances on Family Guy

Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...

in 2009. Danny Goldman

Danny Goldman

Danny Goldman is an American actor, voice artist, and, more recently, casting director. Among his many notable credits include a small role in Young Frankenstein, the voice of Brainy Smurf, Ozzie the Answer in the 1980s detective drama Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and as Dr. Denton on Get Smart,...

 reprised his voice role as Brainy Smurf in several episodes of Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. Green provides many voices for the show...

, while Seth Green

Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris...

 voiced Gargamel.

TV specials

The popularity of The Smurfs was such that NBC aired several prime-time Smurfs specials over the years:

• Here Comes the Smurfs (1981) - an hour-long special that aired the episodes "The Smurfette", "Supersmurf" and "The Baby Smurf" with new wraparounds featuring Papa Smurf telling the stories.

• The Smurfs' Springtime Special (April 8, 1982) - Gargamel teams up with his godfather Lord Balthazar to capture six Smurfs for making gold by putting a spell on Mother Nature, freezing their forest. The Smurfs enlist the aid of the woodland animals to bring an end to their plans and to bring spring back into the forest.

• The Smurfs' Christmas Special (December 12, 1982) - The Smurfs come to the rescue of two children and their grandfather when an evil mysterious stranger shows up and causes their sleigh to turn over, forcing them to seek help and inadvertently bring Gargamel in on the action.

• My Smurfy Valentine (February 13, 1983) - Smurfette's wish for a Prince Smurfing eventually causes the two evil wizards, Gargamel and Chlorhydris, to fall madly in love with each other when Gargamel intercepts Smurfette's note to Cupid to make her wish come true.

• The Smurfs Halloween (November 5, 1983) Halloween special finds gargamel using a spell to make things scary for the smurfs on halloween. First aired as "Smurfs halloween special" in prime time, then later renamed "All hallows eve" for its second airing.

• Smurfily Ever After (February 13, 1984) - Smurfette contemplates over who she would like to marry someday while the Smurfs help prepare for the wedding of Laconia and Woody, but Gargamel shows up to ruin this joyous occasion with his ghoulish calliope.

• The Smurfic Games (May 20, 1984) - The Smurfs engage in athletic competition to settle a dispute between both ends of the village over misquoted compound words, which turns deadly when the medal Clumsy is awarded actually causes an earthquake.

• Smurfquest (1986) - Grandpa Smurf returns to the village from a 500-year voyage around the world to restore the power of the Long Life Force Stone. Papa Smurf and a few other Smurfs help Grandpa Smurf find the purest sources of the four primal elements from around the world while the remaining Smurfs stay behind to search for the Long Life Force Stone. Smurfquest was going to get a big-screen release, but ended up airing as a two-hour TV movie. It was later split into 4 episodes, but was edited for commercials. It has never re-aired in its complete form.

• Tis the Season to Be Smurfy (December 13, 1987) - Grandpa Smurf and Sassette visit a human village to witness how they celebrate the holidays, and end up helping an old couple by having their fellow Smurfs bring some Christmas cheer into the old couple's lives while tracking down a thief in the process.

Voices

• Charlie Adler - Natural Smurf/Nat Smurfling (1983–1988)
• Jack Angel
  Jack Angel
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• Marlene Aragon -
• Bob Arbogast
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• René Auberjonois -
• Ed Begley, Jr.
  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• Bernard Behrens -
• Michael Bell - Grouchy Smurf, Handy Smurf, Lazy Smurf, Johan
  Johan and Peewit
  Johan and Peewit is a Belgian comics series created by Peyo. Since its initial appearance in 1947 it has been published in 13 albums that appeared before the death of Peyo in 1992. Thereafter, a team of comic book creators from Studio Peyo continued to publish the stories.The series is set in...
  
   (1982–1988)
• Gregg Berger
  Gregg Berger
  Greggory "Gregg" Berger is an American voice actor, who is known for his longtime role as Odie the dog from the Garfield franchise...
  
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• Lucille Bliss
  Lucille Bliss
  Lucille Bliss is an American actress and voice artist. A New York City native, she has appeared in films and on television shows, including The Smurfs as Smurfette, Nickelodeon's Invader ZIM and Walt Disney's Cinderella...
  
   - Smurfette
  Smurfette
  Smurfette is a female character from the Smurfs.Smurfette was the only female Smurf until the creation of Sassette. A Granny Smurf was also later introduced, although it is unclear how she was created. Thierry Culliford, the son of Peyo and current head of the Studio Peyo, announced in 2008 that...
  
  
• Susan Blu
  Susan Blu
  Susan Maria Blu , sometimes credited as Sue Blu, is an American voice actress, voice director, and casting director in American and Canadian cinema and television...
  
   - Nanny Smurf (1988), Pansy
• Sorrell Booke
  Sorrell Booke
  Sorrell Booke was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard....
  
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• Greg Burson
  Greg Burson
  -Biography:Greg Burson was given the responsibility of voicing Bugs Bunny in the 1995 Carrotblanca, a well-received 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure and The Pebble and the Penguin...
  
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• Ruth Buzzi
  Ruth Buzzi
  Ruth Ann Buzzi is an American comedienne and actress of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.-Early life:...
  
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• William Callaway - Clumsy Smurf, Painter Smurf
• Hamilton Camp
  Hamilton Camp
  Hamilton Camp was an English-American singer, songwriter, actor and voice actor.-Early life:Camp was born in London, England, and was evacuated during World War II to the United States as a child with his mother and sister. He became a child actor in films and onstage...
  
   - Greedy Smurf, Harmony Smurf
• Roger C. Carmel
  Roger C. Carmel
  Roger Charles Carmel was an American actor.Of his hundreds of roles, he is best remembered for playing the flamboyant and hapless criminal Harry Mudd on the original Star Trek. Other memorable roles include the accountant Doug Wesley on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Colonel Gumm on Batman...
  
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• Mary Jo Catlett
  Mary Jo Catlett
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• William Christopher
  William Christopher
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• Philip L. Clarke
  Philip L. Clarke
  Philip Lewis Clarke is an American voice actor. He has provided voices in various TV series, films, and video games, but is most notable for his leading role as Malcolm Betruger in Doom 3. He also voiced the villain Doctor Go in Challenge of the GoBots....
  
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• Selette Cole -
• Henry Corden
  Henry Corden
  Henry Corden was a Canadian-born American actor and voice artist best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone after Alan Reed died in 1977. His official debut as Fred's new voice was on the 1977 syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends for which he provided voice-overs on...
  
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• Tandy Cronyn -
• Peter Cullen
  Peter Cullen
  Peter Claver Cullen is a Canadian voice actor, known as the voice of Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, Optimus Prime and Ironhide in the original Transformers series, and the narrator in both of the original American Voltron series...
  
   - Zeus
  Zeus
  In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the "Father of Gods and men" who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart is Tinia.Zeus was the child of Cronus...
  
   (1989)
• Brian Cummings
  Brian Cummings
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• Jim Cummings
  Jim Cummings
  James Jonah "Jim" Cummings is an American voice actor who has appeared in almost 100 roles. He has appeared in classic animated movies such as Aladdin and The Lion King, as well as taking on roles in more current films, such as Bee Movie, Princess and the Frog, and Winnie the Pooh.-Personal...
  
   - Sultan of Sweets (1989)
• Keene Curtis
  Keene Curtis
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   - Lord Balthazar
• Jennifer Darling
  Jennifer Darling
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   - Princess Savina
• Leo DeLyon -
• Patti Deutsch
  Patti Deutsch
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• Richard Dysart
  Richard Dysart
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• Marshall Efron
  Marshall Efron
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   - Sloppy Smurf
• Richard Erdman
  Richard Erdman
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• Bernard Erhard
  Bernard Erhard
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   - Timber Smurf
• June Foray
  June Foray
  June Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
  
   - Jokey Smurf, Mother Nature
  Mother Nature
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  , Gargamel's Mother
• Pat Fraley
  Pat Fraley
  Patrick "Pat" Fraley is an American voice actor, who is best known as the voice of Krang, Casey Jones and numerous other characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
  
   - Tuffy Smurf (1984)
• Steve Franken -
• Linda Gary
  Linda Gary
  Linda Gary was an American voice actor and voice-over artist, who has worked on multiple animated projects.-Personal life:Linda Gary Dewoskin was born in California on November 4, 1944....
  
   - Dame Barbara
• Dick Gautier
  Richard Gautier
  Richard "Dick" Gautier is an actor, comedian, composer, singer and author. Among his most well-known television roles are for Hymie the Robot in the television series Get Smart, and Robin Hood in the short-lived TV comedy series When Things Were Rotten, a Mel Brooks send-up of the classic...
  
   - Wooly Smurf
• Henry Gibson
  Henry Gibson
  Henry Gibson was an American actor and songwriter, best known as a cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and for his recurring role as Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal.-Early life:...
  
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• Ed Gilbert -
• Patty Glick -
• Danny Goldman
  Danny Goldman
  Danny Goldman is an American actor, voice artist, and, more recently, casting director. Among his many notable credits include a small role in Young Frankenstein, the voice of Brainy Smurf, Ozzie the Answer in the 1980s detective drama Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and as Dr. Denton on Get Smart,...
  
   - Brainy Smurf
  Brainy Smurf
  Brainy Smurf is a male fictional character from The Smurfs.- Character :Brainy Smurf fancies himself as the all-around-brain of the village. Although he acts as though he is second-in-command behind Papa Smurf, this isn't the case and even Papa Smurf doesn't seem very fond of his sanctimonious...
  
  
• Ernest Harada -
• Phil Hartman
  Phil Hartman
  Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman was a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family moved to the United States when he was 10...
  
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• Bob Holt - The King (1982–1988)
• Jerry Houser
  Jerry Houser
  Jerry Houser is an American character actor and voice actor in film and television.-Career:Houser was born in Los Angeles, California. Since 1971, he has appeared in countless films, TV series, animated series, and commercials...
  
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• John Ingle
  John Ingle
  John Ingle is an American actor known for his role as scheming patriarch Edward Quartermaine on the ABC daytime drama, General Hospital.-Career:...
  
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• Tony Jay
  Tony Jay
  Tony Jay was an English actor, voice actor and singer. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in animation, film and computer games. Jay's distinctive baritone voice often landed him villainous roles...
  
   - Merlin
  Merlin
  Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures...
  
   (1989)
• Arte Johnson
  Arte Johnson
  Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson is an American comic actor. Johnson was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Verrrry interesting, but...['stupid', 'not very funny', and other variations]".-Early life:Johnson...
  
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• Marvin Kaplan
  Marvin Kaplan
  Marvin Kaplan is an American character actor and voice artist. Kaplan is probably best known for his recurring role on the sitcom Alice where he portrayed a phone company employee named Henry Beesmeyer who frequented Mel's diner. He was a part of the cast from 1977 to the series end in 1985...
  
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• Zale Kessler -
• Aron Kincaid
  Aron Kincaid
  Aron Kincaid was an American actor perhaps best known for playing Killer Croc on Batman: The Animated Series and Sky Lynx on The Transformers. He also voiced characters for The Smurfs, and DuckTales, among others...
  
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• Kip King
  Kip King
  Kip King was an American film, television and voice actor. He was the father of American television sketch comedian Chris Kattan.-Life and career:...
  
   - Tailor Smurf
• Paul Kirby - Narrator (1985–1990)
• Robbie Lee -
• Ruta Lee
  Ruta Lee
  Ruta Lee is a Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...
  
   - Morgan Lafay (1989)
• Marilyn Lightstone -
• Allan Lurie
  Allan Lurie
  Allan Lurie is a voice actor. He is also known as Alan Lurie and Bert Stewart.-Career:Lurie is best known for his voice-over for Mezmaron in the 1982 cartoon Pac-Man and as Uglor the Alien in Space Stars...
  
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• Norma MacMillan
  Norma MacMillan
  Norma MacMillan was a Canadian voice actor.Norma MacMillan was a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was there that she met, worked with and married her producer/manager husband Thor Arngrim. Arngrim had started the now-legendary, but short-lived Totem Theatre company in 1951...
  
   - Brenda (1983)
• Tress MacNeille
  Tress MacNeille
  Tress MacNeille is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Dave the...
  
   - Blue Eyes' mother
• Kenneth Mars
  Kenneth Mars
  Kenneth Mars was an American television, movie, and voice actor. He may be best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968's The Producers, and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974's Young Frankenstein...
  
   - King Bullrush, Julius Geezer (1989)
• Mona Marshall
  Mona Marshall
  Mona M. Ianotti is an American voice actress. She is often cast in the role of young boys. Her roles have included parts in not only Japanese anime, but also in American cartoons as well. Mona Marshall has recently lent her voice to the talking bear Koby the Study Buddy...
  
   - Andria (1983)
• Amanda McBroom
  Amanda McBroom
  Amanda McBroom is an American singer, songwriter and cabaret performer. One of the songs she has written is "The Rose", which Bette Midler sang in the film of the same name...
  
   - Chlorhydris
• Cindy McGee -
• Julie McWhirter
  Julie McWhirter
  Julie McWhirter is an Indiana-born voice actress and impressionist best known for her work as Kanga in "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore". Her voice acting also includes numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons, such as Jeannie, Jabberjaw, Casper and the Angels, Drak Pack and The Smurfs...
  
   - Baby Smurf (1986–1989), Sassette Smurfling (1985–1989)
• Allan Melvin
  Allan Melvin
  Allan Melvin was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's...
  
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• Don Messick
  Don Messick
  Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....
  
   - Papa Smurf
  Papa Smurf
  Papa Smurf is a male fictional character from The Smurfs. At 542 years old is the third-oldest Smurf after Grandpa and Nanny, and well above the typical age of the other Smurfs, which are approximately 100 years old...
  
  , Azrael, Dreamy Smurf, Sickly Smurf (1983), Sweepy Smurf
• Sidney Miller
  Sidney Miller (actor)
  -As actor:*1988 Memories of Me*1983-1985 Dungeons & Dragons *1972 Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask*1955 The Donald O'Connor Show *1954 Dragnet...
  
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• Larry Moss
  Larry Moss
  Lawrence “Larry” Charles Moss is an American artist who works mainly with latex balloons. Renowned in his field for his large and technically challenging sculptures, he has orchestrated the creation of several large scale installations in North America and Asia, including a successful Guinness...
  
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• Pat Musick
  Pat Musick
  Pat Musick is an American voice actress. She is the mother of Mae Whitman.-Television roles:* 2 Stupid Dogs - Additional Voices* The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda - Additional Voices...
  
   - Snappy Smurfling (1985–1989)
• Noelle North - Slouchy Smurfling (1985–1988), Blue Eyes
• Alan Oppenheimer
  Alan Oppenheimer
  Alan Oppenheimer is an American character actor and voice actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960s, and has had an active career doing voice work in cartoons since the 1970s.-Early life:...
  
   - Vanity Smurf, Father Time
  Father Time
  Father Time is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, somewhat worse for wear, dressed in a robe, carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device...
  
  
• Patricia Parris
  Patricia Parris
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   - Acorn
• Rob Paulsen
  Rob Paulsen
  Robert Fredrick "Rob" Paulsen III , sometimes credited as Rob Paulson, is an American voice actor, best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr...
  
   - Marco Smurf (1985)
• Clare Peck -
• Vic Perrin
  Vic Perrin
  Vic Perrin was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series The Outer Limits ....
  
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• Henry Polic II
  Henry Polic II
  Henry Polic II is a stage, screen, and voice actor best known for his role as Jerry Silver in the American 1980s television series Webster, as well as his frequent game show appearances on such series as Super Password and The $100,000 Pyramid...
  
   - Tracker Smurf
• Philip Proctor
  Philip Proctor
  Philip Proctor is an American actor, voice actor and a member of The Firesign Theatre. He plays Rocky Rococo and Nancy in the Nick Danger series. He is from Goshen, Indiana...
  
   - King Gerard
• Dan Radloff - Sneaky Smurf, Spy Smurf, Stinky Smurf
• Robert Ridgely
  Robert Ridgely
  Robert Ridgely was an American actor and vocal artist, known for both on-camera roles and extensive voice-over work.-Career:...
  
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• Neil Ross
  Neil Ross
  Theodoric Neilson "Neil" Ross is an English voice actor and announcer, born in London, England and now resident and working in Los Angeles, in the United States. He has provided voices for in many American cartoons, particularly those based on Hasbro products and Marvel Comics, and numerous...
  
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• Joseph Ruskin
  Joseph Ruskin
  Joseph Ruskin is an American character actor.Ruskin is one of only 4 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek and then in one of the spin offs...
  
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• Will Ryan
  Will Ryan
  Will Ryan is an American voice actor and producer–writer–composer, well-known for singing about the American West. In the late seventies he teamed up with Phil Baron as Willio and Phillio. They had regular gigs on television, radio and comedy clubs and universities throughout the US...
  
   - Wartmonger
• Michael Rye
  Michael Rye
  Michael Rye is a US voice actor. He is also known as Mike Rye and sometimes used his surname at birth, Rye Billsbury...
  
   - Morlock
• William Schallert
  William Schallert
  William Joseph Schallert is an American actor who has appeared in many films and in such television series as The Smurfs, The Rat Patrol, Gunsmoke, The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Waltons, Bonanza, Leave It to Beaver, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Love, American Style, Get...
  
   -
• Ronnie Schell
  Ronnie Schell
  Ronald Ralph "Ronnie" Schell is an American actor, stand-up comedian and cartoon voice actor . Early in his career he appeared as himself as a contestant on You Bet Your Life opposite Groucho Marx, demonstrating a comic barrage of jive talk.-Life and career:Schell was born in Richmond, California...
  
   -
• Marilyn Schreffler
  Marilyn Schreffler
  Marilyn Schreffler was an American actress, who provided voice-overs for several animated TV programs, mostly for Hanna-Barbera Productions.-Life:Born in Concordia, Kansas, and had an affinity for cartoons since age 6...
  
   -
• Avery Schreiber
  Avery Schreiber
  Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an American comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, TV, and film.-Biography:...
  
   -
• Mimi Seton -
• Susan Silo
  Susan Silo
  Susan Silo is an American actress and voice actress.-Early life and career:She was born in New York City, New York. Her acting career started in television on an episode of The Jack Benny Show. Silo also co-starred with Larry Blyden, Dawn Nickerson, and Diahn Williams in the NBC sitcom Harry's...
  
   - Petaluma (1986)
• Hal Smith
  Hal Smith (actor)
  Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...
  
   -
• Kath Soucie
  Kath Soucie
  Katherine Elaine Soucie is an American voice actress. She is sometimes credited as Kath Soucie, Katherine Soucie, Kath Souci, Kath E...
  
   - Adella (1987), Ali Baby (1989)
• John Stephenson
  John Stephenson (actor)
  John Stephenson is an American actor and voice actor. He has also been credited as John Stevenson...
  
   -
• Kris Stevens - Narrator (1981–1985)
• Andrea Stoddart -
• Andre Stojka
  Andre Stojka
  Andre Stojka is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as Owl in Winnie-the-Pooh projects beginning with The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh, inheriting the role from Hal Smith. He was also the voice of the horse Starlite in all of the animated Rainbow Brite productions...
  
   -
• Dee Stratton -
• Russi Taylor
  Russi Taylor
  Russi Taylor is an American voice actress. She is the current voice actress of Disney's Minnie Mouse character. She has held this role since 1986, longer than any other voice actress...
  
   - Smoogle (1988–1989), Brenda (1986)
• Fred Travalena
  Fred Travalena
  Frederick Albert "Fred" Travalena III was an American entertainer, specializing in comedy and impersonations.-Early life:...
  
   -
• Brenda Vaccaro
  Brenda Vaccaro
  Brenda Buell Vaccaro is an American stage, television and film actress.-Early life:Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Christine M. and Mario A. Vaccaro , both of whom were pioneers in Italian cuisine...
  
   - Scruple (1986–1989), Architect Smurf
• Janet Waldo
  Janet Waldo
  Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. She is best known in animation for voicing Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop and Josie McCoy in Josie and the Pussycats...
  
   - Hogatha
• B.J. Ward -
• Lennie Weinrib
  Lennie Weinrib
  Lennie Weinrib was an American actor, voice actor and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show H.R...
  
   - Bigmouth
• Frank Welker
  Frank Welker
  Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
  
   - Clockwork Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Peewit (1982–1989), Poet Smurf, Puppy (1985–1988), Wild Smurf (1987–1989), Nemesis (1988), Darkness Monster, Sandman
  Sandman
  The Sandman is a figure in folklore who brings good sleep and dreams.Sandman may also refer to:-People:*Mark Sandman, singer and co-founder of the band Morphine*Charles W...
  
  , misc. others
• Paul Winchell
  Paul Winchell
  Paul Winchell was an American ventriloquist, voice actor and comedian, whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   - Gargamel
  Gargamel
  In the fictional world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the sorcerer is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and the main antagonist in the show and comic books. While described as a wizard in the narration, Gargamel is not depicted as possessing real magical powers to speak of...
  
  , Baby Smurf, Nosey Smurf
• Jonathan Winters
  Jonathan Winters
  -Early life:Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore , a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is a descendant of Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, Ohio...
  
   - Grandpa Smurf (1986–1989)
• Francine Witkin - Lady Luck
• Alan Young
  Alan Young
  Alan Young is an English-Canadian actor and voice actor, best known for his role as Wilbur Post in the television series Mister Ed and as the voice of Scrooge McDuck in Disney films, TV series and video games...
  
   - Miner Smurf, Farmer Smurf, Scaredy Smurf

Use of classical music

The Smurfs was noted for its frequent use of classical music as background music or theme

Theme (music)

In music, a theme is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.-Characteristics:A theme may be perceivable as a complete musical expression in itself, separate from the work in which it is found . In contrast to an idea or motif, a theme is...

s for particular events. Notable works found in the Smurfs include:

• Isaac Albéniz, Suite española: Asturias
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 Allegro moderato
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  , Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 5, BWV 1056 Arioso. Largo
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 Gavotte
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  , Piano Sonata No. 8 ("Pathétique")
  Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky...
  
  , first movement
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 14 ("Moonlight")
  Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
  The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata , was completed in 1801...
  
  , third movement. The above two tunes are frequently used in scenes where the Smurfs are in danger, or which otherwise have a great deal of dramatic tension.
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 23 ("Appassionata"), first movement
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 1, first movement
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral")
  Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
  Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony , is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, and was completed in 1808...
  
  , first and fourth movements
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
  Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
  The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem...
  
  , second movement
• Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  , Symphonie fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique
  Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
  
  , second movement
• Léon Boëllmann, Suite Gothique: Toccata
• Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
  
  , Polovtsian Dances (Fifth Dance: "Dance of the Boys")
• Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 2, third movement
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  , Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , commonly known by its English title Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration...
  
  
• Paul Dukas
  Paul Dukas
  Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
  
  , The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of a poem by Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.-Story:...
  
  
• Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
  , Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory)
• Edward Elgar, The Wand of Youth Suite No. 1
• César Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  , Symphony in D minor, first and second movements
• Edvard Grieg
  Edvard Grieg
  Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
  
  , Peer Gynt: Morning Mood
  Morning Mood
  Morning Mood is a composition belonging to Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46. This composition is often used in films, television commercials, and shows . The piece depicts the rising of the sun. Along with In the Hall of the Mountain King, Morning Mood is one of Grieg's best known works....
  
  , In the Hall of the Mountain King
  In the Hall of the Mountain King
  In the Hall of the Mountain King is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg for the sixth scene of Act II in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, which premiered in Christiania on February 24, 1876....
  
  ("Morning Mood" is frequently heard when Mother Nature makes her appearance)
• Edvard Grieg, Lyric Suite: March of the Dwarfs
• Albert W. Ketelbey, In a Persian Market
• Lev Knipper, Cavalry of the Steppes
• Zoltán Kodály, Háry János Suite
• Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
  , Piano Concerto No. 1
  Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)
  Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes...
  
  
• Franz Liszt, Totentanz
• Franz Liszt, Transcendental Etude No. 6 "Vision"
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  , Spring Song
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  , The Magic Flute
  The Magic Flute
  The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
  
  
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony #35 in D major, K.385 "Haffner", 4th movement, The Smurflings episode. Just a very slowed down version.
• Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
  , Pictures at an Exhibition
  Pictures at an Exhibition
  Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists...
  
  : Gnomus, Tuileries, Gargamel
  Gargamel
  In the fictional world of The Smurfs, Gargamel the sorcerer is the sworn enemy of the Smurfs and the main antagonist in the show and comic books. While described as a wizard in the narration, Gargamel is not depicted as possessing real magical powers to speak of...
  
  's theme variation about 1.5 minutes in, and a scene segue part about 10 minutes in, are used in the cartoon.
• Modest Mussorgsky, Night on the Bare Mountain
• Sergey Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 ("Classical"): Gavotta
• Sergey Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet
• Sergey Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf
  Peter and the Wolf , Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story , spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra....
  
  
• Sergey Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé
  Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev)
  Lieutenant Kijé is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for the 1934 Soviet film Lieutenant Kijé directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov.-Suite from Lieutenant Kijé:...
  
  
• Sergey Prokofiev, Scythian Suite
• Sergei Rachmaninov, Prelude in G minor
  Prelude in G minor (Rachmaninoff)
  Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, was a music piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. It epitomizes Rachmaninoff's Russian nationalism, being rich, in full chords, and...
  
  
• Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit: Le gibet
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
  , Scheherazade
  Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
  Sheherazade , Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, sometimes known as The Arabian Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov in particular: dazzling, colourful...
  
  
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snow Maiden
  The Snow Maiden
  The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky .The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the...
  
  : Dance of the Tumblers
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel
  The Golden Cockerel
  The Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, which in turn is based on two chapters of Tales of the Alhambra by...
  
  
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumblebee
• Gioachino Rossini, William Tell Overture
  William Tell Overture
  The William Tell Overture is the instrumental introduction to the opera Guillaume Tell by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal...
  
  
• Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3 ("Organ"), first movement
• Franz Schubert: Rosamunde: Ballet Music No. 2
• Franz Schubert: Serenade
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  , Symphony No. 8
  Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
  Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor , commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" , D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages...
  
   ("Unfinished"), first movement. The Waldo de los Ríos
  Waldo de los Rios
  Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.De los Rios was born as Osvaldo Nicholas Ferrara in Buenos Aires into a musical family; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer; he studied composition and arranging at the National Conservatory of Music...
  
   version (with modern percussion) was used as theme music for Gargamel.
• Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
  , Finlandia
  Finlandia
  Finlandia is a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius.Finlandia may also refer to:* Finlandia Hymn, a section of the Sibelius symphonic poem Finlandia* Finlandia University, a private university located in Hancock, Michigan, USA...
  
  
• Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
  Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
  Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks , Op. 28, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, chronicling the misadventures and pranks of the German peasant folk hero, Till Eulenspiegel. The two themes representing Till are played respectively by the horn and the D clarinet...
  
  
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  , The Firebird
• Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  , Petrushka: Russian Dance
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Natha Waltz
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  , The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker
  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
  
  
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Seasons: June, August
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4: Finale (Allegro con fuoco)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  , Symphony No. 6
  Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
  The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on 16/28 October of that year, nine days before his death...
  
   ("Pathétique"), second theme from first movement.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
• Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Overture
• Richard Wagner, The Ring

Broadcast history

• USA
  • NBC
    NBC
    The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
    
     (1981–1990)
  • USA Network
    USA Network
    USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...
    
     (1989–1993)
  • Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
    
     (1993–2003)
  • Boomerang
    Boomerang (TV channel)
    Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...
    
     (2000–present)

• Australia
  • Seven Network
    Seven Network
    The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
    
     (1982–1992)
  • GO!
    Go! (Australian TV channel)
    GO! is an Australian free-to-air standard definition digital television channel launched by the Nine Network on Sunday 9 August 2009.-Origins:...
    
     (2011–present)
  • Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network (Australia)
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     (1995–2001)
  • Boomerang
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• UK
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    Boomerang
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  • S4C
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  • POP

• Turkey
  • TRT
    Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
    The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT , is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964. Around 70% of TRT's funding comes from a tax levied on electricity bills and a sales tax on television and radio receivers...
    
    
  • Kanal D
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    Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....
    
    
  • Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network
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• Argentina
  • Canal 11 de Buenos Aires (Mid 80's-1989)
  • Telefe
    Telefe
    Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...
    
     (1989–1993) (2008)

• Philippines
  • IBC 13
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  • ABS-CBN
    ABS-CBN
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• Netherlands
  • VARA (1982–present)
  • Kindernet
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    Kindernet was the first commercial television station in The Netherlands. It started on 1 March 1988. It broadcast programmes, most of them were cartoons. Their final broadcasting was on 31 December 2004...
    
    
  • Yorkiddin
  • RTL4
  • SBS6
    SBS6
    SBS 6 is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands owned by Sanoma and Talpa Holding . Other channels of the group in the Netherlands are NET 5 and Veronica.- History :SBS stands for Scandinavian Broadcasting System...
    
    
  • Z@ppelin
    Z@ppelin
    Z@ppelin is a Dutch television channel for kids that broadcasts on Nederland 3. Before z@ppelin, the programmes were seen over the three public channels. On the 3rd of September 2005 z@ppelin became a channel for 2-6 aged kids....
    
    /Z@PP
    Z@PP
    Z@PP is the child block-system of NPO. It is aimed especially at children between 6 and 12 years. Since September 2005 Z@ppelin has been the name of a block for children under 6.Z@PP also transmits Nederland 3....
    
     (2008–present)

• Finland
  • Kolmoskanava
    Kolmoskanava
    Kolmoskanava was a Finnish television owned and operated by MTV Oy. The channel was launched on December 1, 1986 and closed on December 31, 1992 and replaced by MTV3. The channel is the first nationwide channel in Finland....
    
    
  • MTV3
    MTV3
    MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...
    
    
  • Sub Juniori
    Sub Juniori
    MTV3 Juniori is a Finnish television channel targeting children owned and operated by MTV3.-External links:*...
    
    
  • Sub
    Sub (TV channel)
    Sub is a Finnish TV channel owned by Bonnier. The previous owner Alma Media sold Sub and its sister channels to Swedish Bonnier and Proventus in 2005.-Programs and audience:...
    
    

• Flandres
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• Japan
  • TV Asahi
    TV Asahi
    , also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....
    
    

• Jordan
  • Jordan TV Channel 1

• Hong Kong
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• Croatia
  • Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon (Croatia)
    Nickelodeon Croatia is a Croatian TV Channel.It is broadcasting Croatia but also in Montenegro,and Bulgaria.Nickelodeon Croatia is just Nickelodeon Europe....
    
    
  • HTV2

• Poland
  • TVP1

• Slovenia
  • SLO1
    Radiotelevizija Slovenija
    Radiotelevizija Slovenija – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization. Based in the country's capital, Ljubljana, it has regional broadcasting centres in Koper and Maribor and correspondents around Slovenia, Europe and the world...
    
    

• Italy
  • Italia 1
    Italia 1
    Italia 1 is an Italian commercial television channel on the Mediaset network. It is oriented especially at young people.Italia 1 was launched in January 1982 and, originally, was owned by Rusconi; after a few months, however, due to the aggressive dumping practices of Silvio Berlusconi's rival...
    
    , Canale 5
    Canale 5
    Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....
    
    , Rete 4
    Rete 4
    Rete 4 is an Italian television station belonging to the Mediaset network. It is an Italian private commercial TV channel. Rete 4's main news programme is TG4, whose editor-in-chief is Emilio Fede since 1992.-TV Series:...
    
    
  • Boing
  • Boomerang
    Boomerang (Italy)
    For the original Boomerang channel, see Boomerang .Boomerang is a television channel of old and new cartoons. In their programming are preferredly drawings of Hanna-Barbera, among others...
    
    

• Portugal
  • RTP1
  • TVI
  • SIC K
    SIC K
    SIC K is a Portuguese television channel aimed at children, owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunicação , the channel was launched on 18 December 2009 on the meo platform.-Programming:*Bleach *Blue Water High...
    
    
• Slovakia
  • Jednotka
    Jednotka
    Jednotka is a Slovak television channel owned and operated by Slovenská televízia....
    
    

• Israel
  • Jetix
    Jetix (Israel)
    Disney Channel is a children's television programming brand owned by Disney-ABC Television Group broadcast in Israel. It was previously known as Fox Kids and Jetix.-Rebrand:...
    
    

• Canada
  • Global Television Network
    Global Television Network
    Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
    
    
  • ATV
    CTV Atlantic
    CTV Atlantic is a system of four television stations in the Canadian Maritimes, owned and operated by the CTV Television Network, a division of Bell Media...
    
     (now CTV Atlantic)
  • Télévision de Radio-Canada
    Télévision de Radio-Canada
    Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
    
     (French version)
  • Canal Famille
    VRAK.TV
    VRAK.TV is a Canadian French language Category A specialty channel aimed at youth audiences. VRAK.TV is currently owned by Astral Media.-History:...
    
     (now VRAK.TV) (French version)
  • Teletoon Retro
    Teletoon Retro
    Teletoon Retro is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel based on the Teletoon programming block Teletoon Retro. The service consists of animation series from Canada and around the world, all of which commenced production at least 10 years prior to their exhibition...
    
     (2008–present)

• Yugoslavia
  • Radio Televizija Beograd (1985)

• Greece
  • Star Channel
    Star Channel
    Star Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.. The main news bulletin is called Star Eidiseis, which is currently hosted by Aimilios Liatsos...
    
     (1993-)

• Sweden
  • TV3
    TV3 (Sweden)
    TV3 is a television channel targeted at a Swedish language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded on 31 December 1987 by entrepreneur Jan Stenbeck as joint Scandinavian channel, but Denmark and Norway soon got their own versions of TV3...
    
    

• Norway
  • TV3
    TV3 (Norway)
    TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Swedish media group Modern Times Group...
    
    

• Spain
  • TVE1
  • Telecinco
    Telecinco
    Telecinco is a Spanish commercial television channel operated by Mediaset España. Launched in 1990 as Tele 5, it was the fifth of the national terrestrial television channels. In 1997, Tele 5 was rebranded as Telecinco, dropping the flower logo seen in other Mediaset channel...
    
    
  • Toon Disney
    Toon Disney
    Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company. A spinoff of Disney Channel, it mostly aired children's animated series and some live action programming. Its format had similarities to those of Cartoon Network and Nicktoons...
    
    
  • TVG
  • TV3
    TV3 (Catalonia)
    TV3 is the primary television channel of Catalan public broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya, a subsidiary of the CCMA. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...
    
    
  • K3
    K3 (television)
    K3 was a public television channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya available in analogue and DTT in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia, Andorra, Northern Catalonia and partly in Aragón....
    
    
  • Canal Super3
    Canal Super3
    Super3 is a Spanish public television channel owned by Televisió de Catalunya in Catalan language. It started broadcasting on 18 October 2009. Programming will be for children and teenagers based on the programme Club Super3, that started on 11 February 1991 on TV3 and has been seen on Canal 33...
    
    
  • ETB 1
    ETB 1
    ETB 1 is the first channel from Euskal Telebista , in the Basque Country. The channel broadcasts entirely in Basque and its programming is mainly general.The channel launched on 16 February 1983....
    
    
  • Canal Sur Television
  • Telemadrid
    Telemadrid
    Telemadrid is the first autonomous public television station of Madrid and the fifth national station, after those of Catalonia, Euskadi, Galicia and Andalusia. It is affiliated with FORTA since its inception, and it is a public channel that belongs exclusively to the autonomous government of...
    
    
  • Boing (Spain)
  • Canal Nou

• France
  • France 2
    France 2
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  • M6

• Czech Republic
  • ČT1
    CT1
    CT1 stands for Cordless telephone generation 1 and is an analog cordless telephone standard that was standardized by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations in 1984 and deployed in eleven European countries...
    
    
  • TV Nova
  • TV Barrandov
    TV Barrandov
    TV Barrandov is a Czech television channel, launched in 2009. It was founded and started to broadcast on 2009. TV Barrandov currently broadcasts in Czech.-External links:*...
    
    

• Costa Rica
  • Canal 6
    Repretel 6
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     (Mid 80's)

• Germany
  • ZDF
    ZDF
    Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
    
    
  • Super RTL
    Super RTL
    Super RTL is a Cologne-based German television network operated by RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG. It was the second German television channel aimed mostly at children...
    
    
  • Boomerang Germany
    Boomerang Germany
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• Austria
  • ORF
    ORF (broadcaster)
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• Russia
  • Karusel
    Karusel
    Karusel is a Russian television channel dedicated to children and youth. It is owned by Russian state broadcaster VGTRK and Channel One Russia Worldwide. It is currently available in Russia and in the United States via DirecTV....
    
    

Syndication

The series currently airs in reruns on Boomerang

Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

. The episodes were edited by Hanna-Barbera in 1987 into a half-hour syndicated version called Smurfs' Adventures; 26 episodes of this series aired as part of DiC's E/I

E/I

E/I, which stands for "educational and informative," refers to a type of children's television programming shown in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission requires that every full-service Terrestrial television station in the U.S. show at least three hours of these television...

-compliant children's programming block for broadcast stations in the early 2000s. The series is still being shown regularly on many channels throughout the world.

The cartoon was formerly distributed by Television Program Enterprises (later Rysher Entertainment

Rysher Entertainment

Rysher Entertainment is the owner of TV and film programming content, primarily distributed around the world by CBS Television Distribution and CBS/ Paramount Pictures...

), Tribune Entertainment

Tribune Entertainment

Tribune Entertainment was a television production and syndication company owned and operated by Tribune Broadcasting in the mid-1980s. Many programs offered from Tribune Entertainment have been broadcast on the company's television stations....

 (for DiC) and Worldvision Enterprises

CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

 (now CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution is a global television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's two domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment...

). The cartoon is now distributed direct from Warner Bros. Television Distribution

Warner Bros. Television Distribution

Warner Bros. Television Distribution is an American television distribution arm of Warner Bros. Television, itself a part of Time Warner formed circa 1960. In 1989, the studio formed Warner Bros...

; Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

 is the current owner of all Hanna-Barbera properties, having inherited them in their 1996 merger with Turner Broadcasting. Some episodes are available through the online video service In2TV

In2TV

In2TV was a website offering ad-supported streaming video of classic TV shows in the USA only .The main appeal of the service was that it made available numerous old shows which were rarely, if ever, aired on broadcast television...

.

Region 1

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

 released the complete first season on DVD in two volume sets in 2008. No further seasons have yet been released.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release date
Season One, Volume One	19	February 26, 2008
Season One, Volume Two	20	October 7, 2008

Region 2

Fabulous Films has released the first two seasons on DVD in the UK.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DVD Name !! Ep # !! Release date
|-
| Complete 1st Season || align="center" |26 || July 5, 2010
|-
| Complete 2nd Season || align="center" |36 || September 6, 2010
|-
The Smurfs and the Magical Flute 2011

Sony Home Entertainment has announced to release the full Series in 9 Season Sets on DVD in Germany, with german Sound only, beginning in August 2011.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! DVD Name !! Ep # !! Release date
|-
| Die komplette erste Staffel || align="center" |27 || August 4, 2011
|-
| Die komplette zweite Staffel || align="center" |24 || August 4, 2011
|-
| Die komplette dritte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || October 31, 2011
|-
| Die komplette vierte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || October 31, 2011
|-
| Die komplette fünfte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || October 31, 2011
|-
| Die komplette sechste Staffel ||align="center" |?? || December 31, 2011
|-
| Die komplette siebte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || December 31, 2011
|-
| Die komplette achte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || March 31, 2012
|-
| Die komplette neunte Staffel ||align="center" |?? || March 31, 2012
|}

Region 4

Magna Home Entertainment

Magna Home Entertainment

Magna Home Entertainment is a leading independent home entertainment distributor headquartered in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, operating within Australia and New Zealand. As of February 2009, Magna Home Entertainment became a fully owned subsidiary of Beyond International , one of Australia's...

 has released various best-of volume collections on DVD.

• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute has been released, but a new 'Original Collector's Edition' with new packaging will be released on 2 September 2011.
• The Smurfs - Time Travellers (3 Disc Set) was released on 5 November 2008.
• The Smurfs - Smurfette Collection (3 Disc Set) was released on 1 September 2009.
• The Smurfs - Papa Smurf Collection (3 Disc Set) was released on 4 November 2009.
• The Smurfs - Favourites Collection (6 Disc Box Set) was released on 29 June 2010.
• The Smurfs - Just Smurfy 1 (Box Set) (BONUS Figurine) was released on 3 November 2010.
• The Smurfs - Just Smurfy 2 (Box Set) (BONUS Figurine) was released on 3 November 2010.
• The Smurfs - Just Smurfy 3 (Box Set) (BONUS Figurine) was released on 1 December 2010.
• The Smurfs - Just Smurfy 4 (Box Set) (BONUS Figurine) was released on 2 March 2011.
• The Smurfs - Complete Season 1 (3 Disc Digipak) and The Smurfs - Complete Season 2 (3 Disc Digipak) will be released on 24 August 2011.

• The Smurfs - Complete Season 3 (4 Disc Digipak) and The Smurfs - Complete Season 4 (4 Disc Digipak) will be released on 5 October 2011.
• The Smurfs - Ultimate Collection 1: Limited Edition - Seasons 1-5 (18 Disc Box Set) released on 24 August 2011.
• The Smurfs - Ultimate Collection 2: Limited Edition - Seasons 6-9 (16 Disc Box Set) released on 2 November 2011.

External links

• The Smurfs at Big Cartoon DataBase
  Big Cartoon DataBase
  The Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows and cartoon shorts....
  
  
• The Smurfs at mushroomvillage.com