''Janoschs Traumstunde'' is a

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that originally aired from 1986 to 1990. It was based on the works of German artist and

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author

Janosch Janosch (, born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931) is a German children's author and illustrator. Biography Janosch was born as Horst Eckert on 11 March 1931 in what was then Hindenburg (now Zabrze, Poland) in Upper Silesia to a family of mixe ...

, with directors Jürgen Egenolf, Uwe-Peter Jeske and Wolfgang Urchs.

Format

Almost every episode contains two self-contained stories; in some cases, episodes featured three to four shorter stories. The stories are framed by a series of sequences featuring the "Big, Fat, Fabulous Bear," who introduced the stories in each episode.

Broadcast and home media release

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, the first season aired from October 12, 1986, to January 4, 1987, and the second season between January 7 and April 2, 1990, both airing on ARD. Re-runs later aired on

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from April 8, 2007, until April 5, 2008. In the United Kingdom, it was broadcast as ''The Bear, The Tiger and the Others'' on

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in the 1980s. In the United States, the series (dubbed in

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and released under the title Janosch) was distributed on

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's "Just for Kids" imprint; it briefly aired on

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block as ''Janosch's Dream World'' (a direct translation of the original German title) from 1993 to 1994.

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Format

Broadcast and home media release

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