Babar
Inspired by Jean de Brunhoff and Laurent de Brunhoff's beloved children's books, this animated series tells Babar's life story from the elephant king's point of view, reliving his early days as a young pachyderm with important lessons to learn.
Seasons
1. Babar's First Step
Air Date: 1989-01-03
This story begins to tell the classic tale of Babar's early life with his mother and all the other elephants in the jungle, and how his life is shattered when a hunter kills his Mother and he must cope on his own.
2. City Ways
Air Date: 1989-01-10
Forced to run away from the jungle by the Hunter, Babar makes his way to the City only to find it just as dangerous and confusing. Motherless and alone, Babar is befriended by the Old Lady, who tries to teach him how to fit into her world, with his ultimate test at a society dinner in his honour.
3. Babar Returns
Air Date: 1989-01-17
Babar leaves the Old Lady and City to return to the jungle so he can bring the other elephants his newfound knowledge. However, he discovers that despite the fact that his old friends are still running from the Hunter, they resist trying out any of his ‘new' ideas.
4. The City of Elephants
Air Date: 1989-01-24
As the Elephants' new King, Babar's first decree is to build a city for all the elephants. However, not only does Babar have to contend with the fact that Lord Rataxes is also trying to build a city, his own obsession to see his dream city completed on time creates insurmountable problems.
5. Babar's Triumph
Air Date: 1989-01-31
When the Hunter returns to threaten Babar's kingdom, Babar faces his greatest challenge as King when he unites Lord Rataxes and everyone in the jungle in an all out effort to fight the Hunter and repel him for once and for all.
6. Babar's Choice
Air Date: 1989-02-07
At an important palace ball, Babar's advisors Cornelius and Pompadour jeopardize Babar's relationship with Celeste by forcing Babar to take the visiting dignitary's daughter to the dance instead of her.
7. Race to the Moon
Air Date: 1989-02-14
Babar's hopes of rebuilding an old theater dedicated to his mother are jeopardized when all his subjects get caught up trying to build a rocketship in a silly attempt to beat Lord Rataxes to the moon.
8. No Place Like Home
Air Date: 1989-02-21
Babar decides to let a young circus boy live in the palace, but when the boy regrets his decision and wants to return to his circus home, he discovers it might be too late since the circus has been captured by Lord Rataxes.
9. An Elephant's Best Friend
Air Date: 1989-02-28
Times are hard for Babar when Lord Rataxes stops all pomegranate shipments from reaching Celesteville. However, when Babar finds a pet warthog in the jungle, Rataxes suddenly says he's willing to negotiate. What Babar doesn't realize is the warthog belongs to Lady Rataxes, and Rataxes has to grab it back before she or Babar discover that he lost it on purpose.
10. The Show Must Go On
Air Date: 1989-03-07
When Babar organizes a world class ballet to be performed in Celesteville, the star of the show, a temperamental prima ballerina, makes problems for his friends in the cast and crew and turns Babar's production into a disaster.
11. To Duet Or Not to Duet
Air Date: 1989-03-14
Babar is scheduled to perform a duet with a great pianist at a concert. However, he refuses to admit that the piece of music is too hard for him, so he procrastinates practicing until he feels so guilty that it begins to affect his job as King.
12. The Missing Crown Affair
Air Date: 1989-03-21
When Babar's crown goes missing, amateur sleuth Zephir decides to help Babar solve the mystery. However they both get panicky when all the clues point out that Babar's closest friends stole the crown as the first step to taking over his kingdom.
13. The Phantom
Air Date: 1989-03-28
When Babar discovers that the ‘Phantom' in an abandoned theater is really a lonely Old Musician who lives there, Babar decides to try and help him come out of seclusion. Unfortunately, the Phantom resents the meddling and scares Babar's friends away to the point where they decide the theatre should be torn down.
1. Between Friends
Air Date: 1989-08-21
When Zephir and Celeste have an accident they soon find themselves battling out their trial in court. Babar is caught in the middle, forced to be the Judge of who is guilty of causing the mishap.
2. School Days
Air Date: 1989-08-28
King Babar recalls a time when he was a young boy living in the City. Babar and his friends were picked on by the school bullies and made to feel like outcasts because they all looked 'different'.
3. Peer Pressure
Air Date: 1989-09-04
King Babar recalls having to make a tough decision between loyalty to friendship and loyalty to the law, when a group of boys he knows are about to cause trouble at a local junkyard.
4. Tour De Celesteville
Air Date: 1989-09-11
An annual bike race is about to take place and Babar has selected Arthur to be his teammate for the event. However, when Babar learns that too very fast athletes are also competing in the race, he decides to use unorthodox tactics in order to win, despite the fact that he could be disqualified if he were caught.
5. Monkey Business
Air Date: 1989-09-18
Babar has been troubled as of late, as he’s learnt that Zephir is too busy fooling around to take his duties as a Royal Guard seriously. In an attempt to teach him a lesson, Babar decides to play a prank of his own, though he soon learns something that makes him deeply regret his earlier actions.
6. The Gift
Air Date: 1989-09-25
Babar goes out of his 'way' to find the Old Lady a unique gift for her birthday.... the tail feather of the "Way Out Bird" who can only be found on top of the treacherous "Way Out Peak".
7. Rhino War
Air Date: 1989-10-02
When Babar fails to fill out the proper papers to ship fairground supplies through Rhinoland, a General in Rataxes' army uses this as an excuse to declare war on Celesteville.
8. Elephant Express
Air Date: 1989-10-09
When Rataxes refuses to let Babar build a railway through Rhinoland, Babar is forced to detour through a jungle inhabited by a strange monster known as the 'Polomoche'.
9. Conga the Terrible
Air Date: 1989-10-16
Cornelius believes that he's becoming quite useless, when his age causes Babar and his friend to get shipwrecked on an island that's home to a monstrous gorilla.
10. King Tuttle's Vote
Air Date: 1989-10-23
Rataxes 'king-naps' King Tuttle, the Tortoise King, so he cannot sign Babar's treaty that would force Rataxes to stop dumping garbage into the river.
11. The Intruder
Air Date: 1989-10-30
King Babar's children decide to help their father overcome one of his problems by telling him about the time when they thought there was a monster in the Palace.
12. Double the Guards
Air Date: 1989-11-06
The Royal Guard must do everything they can to protect the King and Queen, though when rumors are spread that an assassin is going to try to take Babar’s life, Pompadour and Cornelius decide to stay by their sire at every moment, though their actions only seem to get on Babar’s nerves.
13. Remember When...?
Air Date: 1989-11-13
Babar's children recall the time when they accidentally went up in a balloon and entered a terrible storm, forcing Babar and Celeste to use every bit of their courage and resourcefulness to save them.
1. The Celesteville Inquirer
Air Date: 1992-11-19
When Flora decides to do a newspaper story about Real Life of the Royal Family, the royal homestead is thrown into a panic as her photographs prove to be embarrassing to everyone in the palace.
2. Special Delivery
Air Date: 1992-11-23
With Babar and Celeste spending all their time tending to the needs of her new baby sister Isabelle, Floras feelings of being unwanted ultimately lead her to run away from home.
3. To Tell Or Not to Tell
Air Date: 1990-03-12
When Pom and Alexander are left to baby-sit their little sister Isabelle, their preoccupation with covering up some palace mischief allows Isabelle to go missing
4. The Coin
Air Date: 1992-12-02
When Babar has to honor an old promise and grant the wish of anyone who returns pieces of an old coin to him, his entire kingdom is put in jeopardy as Rataxes shows up with a piece and demands to be made King of Celesteville.
5. My Dinner With Rataxes
Air Date: 1990-04-16
While visiting Rhinoland to celebrate the peace treaty between their two kingdoms, Babar and Rataxes get caught up in a battle of one-upmanship which jeopardizes their attempts to rescue their lost children from a treacherous labyrinth.
6. Fathers and Sons
Air Date: 1990-04-02
When Alexander and Victor use the father-son events of a family picnic as a way to determine which of them has the best dad, Rataxes cheating not only costs him the race, but the admiration of his son.
7. Witches Potion
Air Date: 1990-03-19
Believing that magic is the only hope of Flora surviving a deadly snakebite, Alexander ventures into the dark forest to find an old lady he thinks is a witch.
8. A Tale of Two Siblings
Air Date: 1990-05-07
Stuck baby-sitting his little sister Isabelle, Alexander spends the afternoon making up a fairytale which ultimately draws them closer together.
9. A Charmed Life
Air Date: 1990-04-30
Burdened by the insurmountable demands of running his kingdom and family, Babar wishes he was never King. To his surprise and dismay, he gets his wish. Celesteville has become, Rataxesville!
10. Uncle Arthur and the Pirates
Air Date: 1990-04-09
When Uncle Arthur, the world traveller and adventurer, shows up at the palace, his tall stories propel Babars children into getting themselves mixed up in a dangerous dock side escapade.
11. The Unsalted Sea Serpent
Air Date: 1990-05-14
When a mysterious creature is sighted in the Celesteville lake, Babar calls upon a famous undersea explorer to help him protect it from the clutches of Rataxes.
12. Ghost for a Day
Air Date: 1990-05-21
Babar's health is in question when he accredits his strange behavior to mysterious visits from the Old Elephant King's ghost.
13. Boys Will Be Boys
Air Date: 1990-05-28
When Babar sets off with Uncle Arthur and Zephir to renew a childhood treasure hunt Rataxes seizes the opportunity to try and beat him to it.
1. Alexander the Great
Air Date: 1991-01-07
Alexander's flying skills get him into hot water when he crash lands his plane in the jungle and makes friends with a tribe who invite him for dinner.
2. Cruel to Be Kind
Air Date: 1991-01-14
Babar learns that honesty is the best policy when Zephir takes up the palace duties of Pompadour and Cornelius, with disastrous results
3. A Pair of Queens
Air Date: 1991-01-21
Flora's pen pal arrives, believing Flora is queen of Celesteville. Afraid to tell the truth, Flora convinces Pom and Alexander to help her keep up the illusion.
4. Rowing Pains
Air Date: 1991-01-28
Alexander learns a hard lesson about responsibility when he lets his rowing team and Zephir down.
5. Object D'Arthur
Air Date: 1991-02-04
When two inept thieves make off with Arthur's treasured statue, Babar is called in to solve the mystery.
6. The Diaperman Cometh
Air Date: 1991-02-11
When a baby elephant is abandoned on the doorstep of the Rhino palace, Rataxes finds himself acting as an unwilling father.
7. Time Flies
Air Date: 1991-02-18
After witnessing the arrival of a mysterious time traveler, Alexander has a hard time getting anyone to believe his story.
8. Insecurity System
Air Date: 1991-02-25
A fault in the Rhino Security system traps Cornelius and the children inside the Rhino Place, and it's up to Cornelius to devise an escape before its too late.
9. Kings of the Castle
Air Date: 1991-03-04
As part of a school project to promote understanding and co-operation, the children convince Babar and Rataxes to change places for the day. Forced to deal with the other's problems, Babar and Rataxes learn it isn't easy to walk a mile in somebody else's shoes.
10. What's Mine Is Mine
Air Date: 1991-03-11
After a calculating con man lures Arthur into throwing away his life savings for a worthless mine, Zephir and Arthur plan to teach the thief a lesson.
11. The Scarlet Pachyderm
Air Date: 1991-03-18
When Rataxes seals the border between Rhinoland and Celesteville, it's up to the mysterious night raider known as The Scarlet Pachyderm, to save the day.
12. All Played Out
Air Date: 1991-03-25
Babar and the children have no idea just how much they've been taking Celeste for granted, until she wins the lead role in Basil's new theater production.
13. Radio Riot
Air Date: 1991-04-01
A successful radio show shoots Zephir to superstar status with the children of the Kingdom. Unfortunately his questionable advice on "dealing with your parents" triggers a confrontation between generations.
1. The Lead Blimp
Air Date: 1991-04-08
Arthur becomes a hero when his "lead blimp" tops the jungle popularity polls. But the blimp doesn't work yet and the greatly anticipated maiden voyage is only a few hours away.
2. Helping Hands
Air Date: 1991-04-15
The kids decide to hold a yard sale believing the palace to be in financial trouble. But while looking for goods to sell, they mistakenly pick up Rataxes' "favorite" lamp.
3. Victor Victorious
Air Date: 1991-05-06
Determined to win Celesteville soap box derby, Victor "borrows" Pom and Flora's secret design. But when Alexander gets the blame, Victor wonders if winning means everything.
4. The Unsung Hero
Air Date: 1991-05-13
Rataxes takes the credit when Basil saves Isabelle's life. Rataxes is hailed as a hero but finds his guilty conscience troubling him.
5. Every Basket Has a Silver Lining
Air Date: 1991-04-29
When Pom makes the school basketball team as "towel boy" he lets Babar believe he's a top player. Yet Pom is in for trouble, when Babar makes plans to attend a game.
6. The One That Got Away
Air Date: 1991-04-22
Babar is out to catch the "biggest fish in all of Celesteville". But with the clumsy Flora as his partner, Babar's dream seems unlikely.
7. Never Cry Alien
Air Date: 1991-06-03
Arthur pulls a prank, which has everyone believing aliens are landing. But the joke backfires on Arthur when he spots a real UFO and nobody believes him.
8. Friendly Agreement
Air Date: 1991-05-20
Cornelius and Pompadour have a major disagreement and vow never to speak again. However, both are unaware that their silence could cost them their lives.
9. A Child in the Snow
Air Date: 1991-06-02
Babar takes his family up into the mountains ostensibly for a winter holiday. But Babar is really searching for the mythical creature he saw as a child.
10. The Old Lady Vanishes
Air Date: 1991-06-01
Babar agrees to clandestinely escort a top-secret briefcase to Paris. But the simple journey becomes complicated when the Old Lady mysteriously disappears from the train.
11. Oh, To Be An Adult
Air Date: 1991-05-27
When the kids turn eleven they decide they are now adults. Babar and Celeste are shocked when they announce their "adult" plans for their lives.
12. Robot Rampage
Air Date: 1991-06-04
Arthur builds a flawed robot but will not admit his mistake. In trying to cover up the situation, things get out of control.
13. Mango Madness
Air Date: 1991-06-05
Babar talks with Flora about the importance of always telling the truth. Yet Babar starts to regret those words when Flora does exactly that.
1. The Departure
Air Date: 1995-09-23
Babar and the family prepare to embark on a journey to find the ""Land of Happiness.""
2. Adventures on Big Island
Air Date: 1995-09-30
Babar, Celeste, Zephir and the children arrive at their first destination only to find that everything on the island is somewhat ""different.""
3. Land of Games
Air Date: 1995-10-07
Babar's balloon lands him and the others in a world filled with amusing games and fun.
4. Land of Toys
Air Date: 1995-10-14
The children are jovial when they learn that their balloon landed in a town filled with toys.
5. Land of Ice
Air Date: 1995-10-21
The family lands in the beautiful Land of Ice. Unfortunately, things aren't always what they seem.
6. Land of Pirates
Air Date: 1995-10-28
Babar and his family get caught in a terrible storm and get shipwrecked.
7. Land of Witches
Air Date: 1995-11-04
Babar and his family run into some trouble when they meet a witch,. named Lulu.
8. Land of Mysterious Water
Air Date: 1995-11-11
Babar, Celeste, Zephir and the children, come across a spring filled with mysterious water.
9. Land of the Underground
Air Date: 1995-11-18
The family find themselves stuck in an underground city where they are faced with a serious problem.
10. The Seabed Land
Air Date: 1995-11-25
The balloon lands on an island in the middle of nowhere, but they must help their new friend from doing something that will change her fate.
11. Land of the Treats
Air Date: 1995-12-02
Babar and his family land in a treat-filled town with a problem.
12. Land of the Treasure Hunt
Air Date: 1995-12-09
Babar's family participate in a treasure hunt.
13. Land of Happiness
Air Date: 1995-12-16
Once Babar and his family journey through this final land they should be able to reach the fabled Land of Happiness. This of course, is easier said than done!
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Rating
6.1/10
Release Date
1989-01-03
Episodes
78 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Ministère de la culture
Ellipsanime Productions
The Clifford Ross Company
CBC
Global Television Network
Téléfilm Canada
Le Canal Famille
Télévision Quatre Saisons (TQS)
HBO
Media United
Kodansha
TV-Loonland
CNC
Canal+
France 3
Fox Family Channel
Nelvana