Doraemon (1979 TV series)

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Doraemon
Logo
ドラえもん
Created by	Fujiko F. Fujio
Based on	Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio
Theme music composer	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Composer	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	26
No. of episodes	1787 and 30 specials
Production
Running time	6–23 minutes
Production companies	TV Asahi Asatsu-DK[a] Shin-Ei Animation
Original release
Network	ANN (TV Asahi)
Release	April 2, 1979 (1979-04-02) – March 18, 2005 (2005-03-18)
Related
1973 anime 2005 anime
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Doraemon (ドラえもん, Doraemon) is a Japanese anime television series based on Fujiko F. Fujio's manga of the same name and is the successor of the 1973 anime. Produced by Shin-Ei Animation, Asatsu-DK and TV Asahi, Doraemon premiered in Japan on April 2, 1979, and has been dubbed for broadcast in 60 countries worldwide. The series lasted 26 years and had over 1787 episodes and 30 specials, making it the longest of the three animated shows created to date. This Doraemon anime series is sometimes referred to in Asia as the Ōyama Edition (大山版), after Nobuyo Ōyama, the voice actress who voices Doraemon in this series.^[1]

Two official English dubs of this anime series have been released, the first of which was called The Adventures of Albert and Sidney, which was produced in Canada by CINAR^[2] and aired exclusively in Barbados on CBC TV 8 during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the United States, the series was planned to air on Superstation WTBS, now known as TBS, but would never premiered for unknown reasons. The second dub was made in Singapore and aired on Channel i & Kids Central^[3] from 2002 to 2003 in Singapore. Additionally, an unofficial bootleg English dub by Speedy Video was produced and released exclusively in Malaysia on various VCDs.

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