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Series

The Magic Roundabout

1963 · Released · 5 min · France · English

Fantasy Comedy Children's

Le Manège enchanté (British English: "The Magic Roundabout", American English: "The Magic Carousel") is a French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1964, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. The series features characters in the make-believe land of Bois-Joli: Père Pivoine, the owner of the roundabout; Zébulon, a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog; Azalée the cow; Ambroise the snail; Flappy the Spanish rabbit; Margote, a girl; and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every sentence with "Hep Hep Hep".

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Also known as

Deutsch
Das Zauberkarussell
Español
El tiovivo mágico
Français
Le Manège enchanté
Italiano
La magica giostra
日本語
ザ・マジック・ラウンドアバウト
Polski
Czarodziejska karuzela

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Writer: Aline Lafargue

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