Watership Down (1999 TV series)
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Watership Down is an animated fantasy children's television series, adapted from the 1972 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. The second adaptation of the novel (after the 1978 film), it was produced by UK's Alltime Entertainment and Canada's Decode Entertainment in association with Martin Rosen (the director of the 1978 film), with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit from the Government of Ontario.[1]
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Genre | Fantasy Children's television |
Created by | Richard Adams (book) |
Written by | Mary Crawford Alan Templeton |
Directed by | Troy Sullivan |
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Composer | Mike Batt |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
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Executive producers | Simon Vaughan Justin Bodle Steven Denure Neil Court |
Producers | Simon Vaughan Beth Stevenson |
Running time | 23 minutes |
Production companies | Decode Entertainment Nepenthe Productions Alltime Entertainment |
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Network | YTV (Canada) CITV (United Kingdom) |
Release | September 28, 1999 (1999-09-28) ā December 4, 2001 (2001-12-04) |
Watership Down aired for three seasons from September 1999 to December 2001, on both YTV in Canada and CITV in the UK,[2] though the latter didn't broadcast the final season. The series stars several well-known British actors, including Stephen Fry, Rik Mayall, Phill Jupitus, Jane Horrocks, Dawn French, John Hurt and Richard Briers (the latter two also star in the film).
Stephen Gately performed a new arrangement of Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes", which was included in the 1978 film, while Mike Batt (who wrote "Bright Eyes") and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra contributed a completely new score.[3] In 2003, composer Mike Batt was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series for his work on this series.[4] 39 episodes were produced.