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Key facts
- Also known as
- Smurfs' Adventures (in syndication )
- Genre
- Animated sitcom Adventure Fantasy Comedy Slapstick
- Created by
- Pierre "Peyo" Culliford
- Based on
- The Smurfs , by Pierre "Peyo" Culliford
- Voices of
- See Voices
- Theme music composer
- Mireille Delfosse (worldwide version) Hoyt Curtin (seasons 1–8, American version) Tom Worrall (season 9, American version)
- Opening theme
- "The Smurfy Way" (worldwide) "La La Song" (season 2, United States) "Johan and Peewit" (Johan and Peewit episodes only, worldwide)
- Ending theme
- "The Smurfy Way" (instrumental) "La La Song" (instrumental)
- Composers
- Hoyt Curtin Clark Gassman (season 9)
- Countries of origin
- United States Belgium
- Original languages
- English French
- Number span no of episodes
- 256 (417 segments) ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- William Hanna Joseph Barbera Freddy Monnickendam (seasons 6–7; special 7)
- Producers
- Gerard Baldwin (seasons 1–3) Bob Hathcock (seasons 4–6) Don Jurwich (season 7; special 7) Walt Kubiak (season 7) Paul Sabella (seasons 8–9)
- Editor
- Gil Iverson
- Running time
- 22 minutes
- Production companies
- Hanna-Barbera Productions SEPP International S.A. (seasons 1–7) Lafig S.A. (seasons 8–9)
- Network
- NBC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- The Smurfs
- Based on
- The Smurfs
- Creator
- Peyo
- Production company
- Hanna-Barbera
- Duration
- 22
- FilmAffinity ID
- 743744
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.smurf.com
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- end time
- 1989-12-02
- start time
- 1981-09-12
- original broadcaster
- NBC
- number of episodes
- 256
- number of seasons
- 9
- title
- The Smurfs
- after a work by
- Peyo
- list of episodes
- list of The Smurfs episodes
- media franchise
- The Smurfs
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
- Commons category
- De Smurfen (television series)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Smurfs (syndicated as Smurfs' Adventures) is an animated sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 12, 1981 to December 2, 1989. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series of the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (who also served as story supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 256 episodes with a total of 417 stories, excluding three cliffhangers and seven specials.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Smurfs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.