World Masterpiece Theater

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (2024-02) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:世界名作劇場]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|世界名作劇場}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "World Masterpiece Theater" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

World Masterpiece Theater (世界名作劇場, Sekai Meisaku Gekijō) is a Japanese TV animated series that showcased an animated version of a different classical book or story each year from 19:30 to 20:00 on Sunday on Fuji TV. It aired from 1969 to 1997 and from 2007 to 2009. It is commonly abbreviated to Meigeki (名劇, Meigeki).^[1][2]