World Masterpiece Theater
In Japan, the country of production, this work was broadcast on TV Tokyo from 19:30 to 20:00 on Thursday. This work is regarded as the only "World Masterpiece Theater" in TV Tokyo, and is the last anime based on Western literatures which was produced by Nippon Animation. In fact, there are no animes based on Western literatures in animes that were first broadcast since 1993, except for Fuji TV's "World Masterpiece Theater" series.