The New Adventures of Lucky Luke

The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
Genre	Western Action-adventure Comedy Slapstick
Created by	Morris
Directed by	Olivier Jean-Marie
Composer(s)	Ramon Pipin Hervé Lavandier
Country of origin	France Canada
Original language(s)	French English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producer(s)	Marc du Pontavice
Producer(s)	Marc du Pontavice
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Xilam Lucky Comics Tooncan
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television
Release
Original network	France 3 (France) Télé-Québec
Original release	September 16, 2001 – May 4, 2003
Chronology
Followed by	The Daltons
External links
Website
Production website

Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke (English: The New Adventures of Lucky Luke) is a French-Canadian animated television series based on THE Franco-Belgian comic book series of the same name created by Belgian cartoonist Morris. It was directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and produced by Marc du Pontavice at the Xilam studios in Paris, France. The music for the series was composed by Ramon Pipin and Hervé Lavandier. A theatrical feature-length film directly based on the series titled Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure was released in 2007.

Plot

Lucky Luke is a cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow. With the help of his faithful horse Jolly Jumper (the world's smartest horse) and sometimes also Rintindumb (the world's dumbest dog), he maintains peace and order in the Wild West. He hunts down desperadoes, keeps sharpshooters like Billy the Kid in check and constantly recaptures and returns The Daltons to prison.

French cast

• Antoine de Caunes - Lucky Luke
• Eric Legrand - Jolly Jumper, Jack and William Dalton
• Bernard Alane: Averell Dalton
• Gérard Surugue - Joe Dalton
• Francis Perrin - Rintindumb
• Isabelle Mangini - Calamity Jane
• Eric Metayer - Général Custer
• Donald Reignoux - Billy the Kid
• Marc Saez - Shérif Sleekhorn, Tchin-Tchin
• François Siener - Aigle Intègre, John Glutton
• Françoise Vallon - Lola Montes
• Valérie Karsenti

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English cast

• Marcel Jeannin as Lucky Luke and Rin-Tin-Dumb
• Mark Camacho
• Ellen David
• John Stocker
• Arthur Holden
• Daniel Brochu
• Laura Teasdale
• Bronwen Mantel
• Pauline Little as Lotta Legs
• Rick Jones as Jack Dalton
• Terrence Scammell
• Rick Miller
• Susan Glover
• Terry Simpson
• Cathy Weseluck as Big Bone Bear

Episodes

Production

Ten years after the last series of Lucky Luke episodes, Xilam has launched the production of new ones. The hope for Marc du Pontavice for this series is that it has to fill in the gap between the series already aired "which have aged" the new episodes "which have not aged". Fifty-two episodes were made with a budget of 120 million francs (just over EUR 18 million). These episodes are new stories written for the series.

• Because he died in July 2001, and the show was not released until September, apart from a few rushes, Morris never viewed the series.
• The series uses the graphic process Morris used that employs colors to differentiate a character according to its value in the (foreground, background), according to his mood state (green rage, ...) or to describe a mood (red fire, night blue, ...).

Some characters are caricatures (Garcimore, Roberto Benigni, Woody Allen, ...)

• This series features new historical characters General Custer, the Lumière brothers, Lola Montez, Buffalo Bill, John Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, Queen Victoria, etc.) or literary Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote, etc.) .
• An error seems to have occurred in the chronology of events. In episode 47, "A Bone For The Daltons", Lucky Luke states that he knows an archaeologist who he later meets for the first time in the next episode, "The Great Nose Of Talisman".

Broadcast history

The series was broadcast in France on channel France 3 in The Minikeums preview. The series was later aired on France 2, Fox Kids /Jetix, Canal J, France 5, and since 7 July 2014, on 6ter. In Belgium, the series was broadcast on The Three [8] and is currently on Kadet (Belgium). In Switzerland it was broadcast on RTS Two, and in Quebec on Télé-Québec. Unusual for a cartoon, the series has been broadcast in prime time resulting in an increase in popularity. Viewing figures were close to 4 million viewers every Sunday night.

The series was also broadcast in Germany under the name of Lucky Luke - Die neuen Abenteuer (Lucky Luke - The New Adventures).

See also

• List of French animated television series
• List of French television series
• Lucky Luke Comics

References

External links

• The New Adventures of Lucky Luke on IMDb
• Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke on Allociné
• Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke on Planète Jeunesse