Ziv International was a television production and distribution company founded in 1971 by Irv Holender and composer Mark Mercury

Mark Mercury

-Career:His music is self-described as "a blend of contemporary classical and futuristic music." Some is of the ambient and electronic style. He has several album releases under his own record label, Blue Chromium Records.-TV series:*Candy Candy...

. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it distributed Americanised versions of Japanese anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 series, and produced and distributed celebrity biographies. WorldCat

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 recognises 83 works in 97 publications.

The company was later a subsidiary of Lorimar Productions Inc.

Ziv International has no relation with Ziv Television Programs

Ziv Television Programs

Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American television syndication and production company, producer of popular syndicated TV programs in the 1950s.- History :...

 (or its United Artists or MGM successors).

Shows produced or distributed

The following television shows were distributed and/or produced by Ziv International. Production credits typically involve dubbing a foreign language release into English and/or Spanish, and replacing the soundtrack with one composed by Mark Mercury.

• The Adventures of Sindbad The Sailor — Producer
• The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole — Distributor
• Candy Candy
  Candy Candy
  is a Japanese novel, manga, and anime series. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Ardlay is a blonde American girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long, curly hair, worn in pigtails with bows. Candy Candy first appeared in a prose novel by famed Japanese writer Kyoko Mizuki in...
  
   — Producer
• Captain Future — Distributor, Producer
• Captain Harlock
  Captain Harlock
  is a fictional character created by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto.Harlock is the archetypical romantic hero, a space pirate with an individualist philosophy of life. He is as noble as he is taciturn, rebellious, stoically fighting against totalitarian regimes, whether they be earthborn or alien...
  
   — Producer
• Fables of the Green Forest
  Fables of the Green Forest
  is an anime adaption based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji TV from 7 January 1973–30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was created by the animation studio Zuiyo Eizo .The series has been aired in many...
  
   — Distributor, Producer
• Flower Angel
  Hana no Ko Lunlun
  , translated to English as The Flower Child Lunlun and Lulu, The Flower Angel is a magical girl manga by Shiro Jinbo, focusing on a theme of flowers in its stories. It was adapted into an anime by Toei Animation in 1979, and the anime was greatly successful in the West, particularly in Europe and...
  
   — Distributor, Producer
• Force Five
  Force Five
  Force Five was a syndicated anime cartoon anthology during the late 1970s/early 1980s. In the US, this series was primarily shown only in New England and Virginia, though it did make brief appearances in other markets, such as Dallas, Texas and San Jose, California on KICU-TV 36. It was also shown...
  
   — Distributor
• The Gumby Show — Distributor
• James Dean, the first American teenager — Distributor
• Little Lulu — Distributor, Producer
• Nickel Mountain
  Nickel Mountain
  Nickel Mountain is a drama film produced in Iceland and the United States. It stars actors such as Michael Cole, Heather Langenkamp and Patrick Cassidy. The movie, based on the novel of the same title by American novelist John Gardner, is written and directed by Drew Denbaum....
  
   — Distributor
• Space Angel
  Space Angel
  Space Angel was an animated science fiction television series produced in the United States from early 1962 through 1964. It used the same Synchro-Vox lip technique as Clutch Cargo, the first cartoon produced by the same studio, Cambria Productions....
  
  — Distributor