''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' (Spanish: ''D'Artacán y los Tres Mosqueperros''; Japanese: ''ワンワン三銃士 Wan Wan Sanjuushi'', lit., ''Woof Woof Three Musketeers'') is a children's animated television series that adapts the classic 1844

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story of

d'Artagnan Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the ...

and ''

The Three Musketeers ''The Three Musketeers'' (french: Les Trois Mousquetaires, links=no, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight f ...

'', produced by Spanish studio

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with animation by Japanese studio

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, that was first broadcast on MBS in Japan in 1981–82. Most of the characters in the series are anthropomorphizations of dogs, hence the title of the cartoon; although there are a few exceptions, most notably Dogtanian's two sidekicks Pip the mouse and Planchet the bear, among several others. In 1985, BRB Internacional released a television film edited from the series entitled ''Dogtanian: Special''. In 1989, they produced with

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and

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a sequel series entitled ''

The Return of Dogtanian ''The Return of Dogtanian'' (Spanish: ''El retorno de D'Artacán'') is a 1989 Spanish-British children's animated television series, and a sequel to the 1981 series ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'', that continues the classic 1844 Alexandr ...

''. In 1995, they released a television film edited from the sequel series entitled ''Dogtanian: One For All and All For One''. In 2021, Apolo Films (BRB International's cinema studio) and Cosmos Maya released a feature-length CGI film entitled '' Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' in cinemas.

Plot

The story, set in 17th-century France, follows a young Dogtanian (D'Artagnan (ダルタニヤン) in the original Japanese version and voiced by Satomi Majima (間嶋里美) and D'Artacán in the Spanish version) who travels from

Béarn The Béarn (; ; oc, Bearn or ''Biarn''; eu, Bearno or ''Biarno''; or ''Bearnia'') is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three B ...

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in order to become one of King

Louis XIII of France Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crow ...

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s. (They are referred to as musketeers throughout the cartoon and only the title calls them 'Muskehounds'.) He quickly befriends three musketeers (Porthos, Athos and Aramis), saving Juliette, a maid-in-waiting for Queen

Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (french: Anne d'Autriche, italic=no, es, Ana María Mauricia, italic=no; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 unt ...

. A key difference between the ''Dogtanian'' adaptions and Dumas' novel is that the character traits of Athos and

Porthos Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844), '' Twenty Years After'' (1845), and '' The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847-1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the othe ...

were interchanged, making Athos the extrovert and Porthos the secretive noble of the group.

Production

The series was produced in 1981 by

BRB International BRB Internacional S.A.U is a Spanish licensing and production company of animated television series as ''Around the World with Willy Fog'', '' Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' and '' The World of David the Gnome''. On 31 January 2018, WildBra ...

and

and it was first broadcast by MBS in Japan, where it began airing on 9 October 1981.ワンワン三銃士
Original credits in Nippon Animation's Japanese website One year after its premiere, it was broadcast for the first time in Spain on

's Primera Cadena starting on 9 October 1982. The partnership between BRB International and Nippon Animation worked so well, that they collaborated in another successful animated series two years later called ''

Around the World with Willy Fog ''Around the World with Willy Fog'' ( es, link=no, La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog) is a Spanish-Japanese animated television adaptation of the 1873 novel ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' by Jules Verne produced by Spanish studio BRB Inte ...

''. The series was dubbed into English by Intersound USA in 1985. As well as dubbing the TV series, BRB also produced a TV movie, which was again dubbed by Intersound USA. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC starting on 3 January 1985. Nowadays the series is still being broadcast on different platforms such as

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and

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Spanish team

* Production company: BRB Internacional S.A * Executive producer:

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* Director: Luis Ballester * Dialogue adaptation: Manuel Peiro * Music editing: Cabum Magister * Sound technicians: Eduardo Fernández, Alfonso Pino, José María San Mateo, José Esquirol * Sound: Estudios Exa, S.A. * Lab: Fotofilm Madrid, S.A. * Editing: Soledad López * Editing assistant: Alicia Saavedra * Effects: Luis Castro

Japanese team

* Production company:

* Executive producers: Endo Shigeo, Junzo Nakajima * Director: Taku Sugiyama, Shigeo Koshi * Screenplay: Akira Nakahara, Taku Sugiyama, Yoshihiro Kimura * Music: Katsuhisa Hattori * Character design: Shuuichi Seki * Storyboard: Taku Sugiyama, Shigeo Koshi, Fumio Kurokawa, Suzuki, Baba Ken, Saito Shuhokaku * Layout supervision: Koji Mori * Animation director: Takao Ogawa * Art director: Kobayashi Shichiro, Kazue Ito * Color: Takasago Yoshiko * Animation: Sakai Shunichi, Kimura Keiichiro * Additional animation: Anime R

English adaptation

* Directed by: Tom Wyner, Robert Barron, Byrd Ehlmann, Dave Mallow & Doug Stone * Written by: Tom Wyner, Jason Klassi, Garry Morris, Melesio Rosales, Dayna Barron, Byrd Ehlmann

Music

Spanish opening and ending

* Composed by:

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and Maurizio de Angelis * Sung by: Popitos

Japanese opening:

* Lyrics: Kayama Yoshiko * Lyrics & Arrangement: Katsuhisa Hattori * Sung by: Kusaka Marron * Chorus: Suginami Children Choir

Japanese ending:

* Lyrics: Kayama Yoshiko * Lyrics & Arrangement: Katsuhisa Hattori * Sung by: Kusaka Marron

English opening and ending

* Edited by: Cabum Magister * Subpublished by: Southern Pictures Music Inc. * Sung by: Hilary Mather, Elissa Mather, Ted Mather * Recorded and re-mixed at: Fizz Sound Creation, Intersound Inc.

Cast

Aramis René d'Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844), '' Twenty Years After'' (1845), and '' The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847-1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, A ...

–

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* Juliette –

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* Pip – Steve Kramer * Widimer – Mike Reynolds *

Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...

– Kerrigan Mahan * Queen Anne – Robin Levenson * King Louis – Simon Prescott * Narrator –

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* Dogtanian –

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–

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* Athos –

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* Blue Falcon –

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* Planchet – Milton James * Pig Guard – Richard Epcar * Count Rochefort – Dave Mallow * Monsieur Treville –

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* Milady –

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* Rochefort's henchman – Theodore Lehmann *

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– Tom Wyner

Episode list

# "Dogtanian's Trip" # "Dogtanian Mysterious Black Moustache's Knight" # "Paris, the Dream City" # "The Three Invincible Muskehounds" # "Monsieur Treville, Captain of the Muskehounds" # "Dogtanian Against The Three Muskehounds" # "Louis XIII The Just" # "Juliette's Secret" # "Juliette Kidnapped" # "The Great Getaway" # "Milady, the Hipnotizer" # "Dogtanian in Love" # "Pip's Debut" # "Seeking Juliet" # "Dogtanian's Great Feat" # "The Queen's Diamonds of Tears" # "The Queen's Missing Necklace in the Midst" # "Hurry, Before the Valtz Stars" # "The Feat Trial" # "Dogtanian and the Blue Falcon" # "The Misterious Ghost Ship" # "Dogtanian in the Jungle" # "Toll Not Ye Bells" # "The Fake Count the Rochefort" # "Milady's Poison" # "Congratulations, Muskehound Dogtanian"

Accolades

* Bronze medal at the 1982 International Film & TV Festival of New York. * Honorable mention at the 7th international 'Child of Our Time' festival, Milan. *

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award for most popular children's series. * Special award in the International Contest for Children & Youth of Gijón.

Home media

UK VHS releases

In the UK during the late 1980s, Video Collection International Ltd released numerous video releases of ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' after its broadcast on BBC from 1985 to 1987 and its latest reruns on ITV from 1988 to 1990.

DVD releases

The series has now been released on DVD in the UK by

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in Region 0 format: * Episodes 1–9: 28 April 2003 * Episodes 10–15: 25 August 2003 * Episodes 16–20: 22 March 2004 * Episodes 21–26: 25 May 2004 * ''Dogtanian - The Complete Series Boxset'': 20 September 2004 * The television films ''Dogtanian: Special'' and ''Dogtanian: One For All And All For One''. 26 July 2004. In November 2010, a version that contains both series and both television films was released exclusively for HMV. Later, the complete boxset was made available at other retailers. The complete series was released on DVD in the U.S. in 2012 by Oasis DVDs.

Soundtrack

The original version of the soundtrack to ''Dogtanian'' (called ''Dartacan Soundtrack'') can be downloaded from Amazon's UK website in MP3 format. It includes an English version of the theme song that uses the second series opening lyrics, but the music is similar to the original opening, in this version Dogtanian however is referred to as Dartacan, his Spanish name, and the theme is sung with very high voices, similar to the original opening, and rendered in a style reminiscent of the French dub. An insert song in Spanish which has been replicated twice (Richelieu and Bulibu, probably an error on Amazon's part or that of the record company) and a few instrumental tracks that are heard in the show itself and one unused instrumental track.

Television film

In 1985, BRB Internacional released a television film edited from the series entitled ''Dogtanian: Special''.

Sequel

In 1989 a sequel series entitled ''

'' was produced by

and

with animation of

Wang Film Productions Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. (also known as Hong Guang Animation (宏廣) and Cuckoos' Nest Studio) is one of the oldest and most prolific Taiwanese-American animation studios since 1978. The company, based in Xindian, Taipei and Los Angele ...

and Morning Sun Animation. Like the first series, 26 episodes were produced. In 1995, BRB Internacional released a television film edited from this second series entitled ''Dogtanian: One For All and All For One''.

Film

According to their main website, BRB Internacional was planning a new feature-length CGI film to be released in 2016, but it was delayed for unknown reasons. In April 2019, it was announced that Apolo Films, their new cinema studio, has since taken over production of the film. On 11 February 2020, the first image of the film was revealed. The film is written by

Doug Langdale Douglas Michael Langdale (born August 19, 1969) is an American screenwriter, producer and actor, who mostly works on television cartoons and animated films. He has worked with Disney numerous times, as well as the writing partner of Jorge Gu ...

and directed by Toni Garcia. The film was released on theatres under the title '' Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds''. It was released on SVOD. The film maintains the original series opening main theme tune composed by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. Additionally, they have composed new songs for the film. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2021.

References

External links

Official page
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Official Japanese
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Muskehounds.com
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Dogtanian.net
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