The Smurfs (1981)

***The Smurfs*** (syndicated as ***Smurfs' Adventures)*** is an American-Belgian animated fantasy-comedy children's television series. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series by the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo, who also served as story supervisor of the adaptation. The series is about a race of blue elves named Smurfs living in an mushroom village and constantly outsmarting an evil sorcerer named Gargamel who hunts for them.

The series debuted on NBC in the United States on September 12, 1981. It ended its original run on December 2, 1989, after nine seasons and 256 episodes.

## 藍精靈

### Year(s)

1984 - 1990s

The Cantonese dub of the show was once aired in TVB Jade under the 430 Spaceship block in 1984. However, many years after the dub was stopped airing in TVB Jade, a few stuffs of the recordings of the dub was uploaded such of ending, and an few recordings of a few episodes. The official Cantonese YouTube channel, which did uploaded some of the dubbed episodes (including an few special episodes) officially, but in edited version based off the current international remasters, which cut out scenes for timing reasons.

In April 14, 2022, the recording of the opening and ending of the dub was posted on YouTube.

#### Videos

藍精靈 (1984) - 無綫動畫版 OP + ED - 唱：華星兒童合唱團The TVB opening and ending藍精靈 TVBThe TVB ending1985：經典卡通片 - 藍精靈 (TVB 粵語配音版節錄)The incomplete recording of the Cantonese dub of "Swapping Smurfs" airing in TVB Jade藍精靈The Smurfs S07E04 - Skyscraper smurfs(廣東話配音)The recording of the Cantonese dub of "Skyscraper Smurfs" airing in TVB Jade藍精靈The Smurfs S07E05 - Crooner Smurfs(廣東話配音)The incomplete recording of the Cantonese dub of "Crooner Smurfs" airing in TVB Jade藍精靈The Smurfs S07E06 - All The News That's Fit To Smurf(廣東話配音)The recording of the Cantonese dub of "All The News That's Fit To Smurf" airing in TVB Jade

## 蓝精灵

### Year(s)

1980s

The first Chinese Mandarin dub of the show was made in 1980s, which covers the first season, the *Springtime Special,* and some selected episodes of the second season, and airs on local Chinese television stations. The opening intro of the dub, which is a music video consisting of clips of the first season of the show, was found on YouTube.

In August of 2020, an recording of the dub was found by BORIS DING, and posted in YouTube. A year later, in June, another recording of the dub airing in BTV in the 1980s was posted in Chinese video website Billibilli by an Chinese user named "雪乐火流星-怀旧经典".

## הדרדסים

### Year(s)

1983 - unknown?

The first Hebrew dub of the show was made by Raz Films Ltd and was once aired in Channel 1 on Israel in 1983. However, the dub was pretty hard to find online, and only stuff that discovered were a few recordings of episodes airing in Channel 1. It was overshadowed by the second and well-known Hebrew dub, but the dub was remastered and received an DVD release in 2010, with only a few episodes of the dub missing.

#### Videos

הדרדסים- סיפור גדולThe recording of the one of the episodes of the first Hebrew dub, "The Magnifying Mixture", which was missing from the 2010 DVD release that contains the remastered first Hebrew dub

## הדרדסים

### Year(s)

1998

The Tomitoot Productions dub (also the second dub) of the show was the well-known Israeli dub for the show, which were once aired on Channel 1, Arutz HaYeladim, Fox Kids, Israeli Education Television, Zoom, and Kan Educational. The episodes uploaded on the official Hebrew YouTube channel were also used this dub. Television recordings of the episodes of the dub, (including of some episodes that weren't available on official Hebrew YouTube channel as of yet) were uploaded on YouTube too.

#### Videos

1The incomplete recording of the Fox Kids Israel television airing of one of the episodes of the second Hebrew dub, "All's Smurfy That Ends Smurfy"2The incomplete recording of the Fox Kids Israel television airing of one of the episodes of the second Hebrew dub, "All's Smurfy That Ends Smurfy"

## 개구쟁이 스머프

### Year(s)

1983-????

The first Korean dub of the show was aired in KBS in the 1980s sometimes and stopped airing sometimes in 1990s. However, other than the recording of some of the dubbed episodes posted on Internet and as well as information about the voice actors, there's not much knowing about the dub, as two another dubs (sharing the majority of the voice actors between dubs, but neither of them would cover the entire series) was made for Cartoon Network Korea and Nickelodeon Korea in the current days, and the current dub was used for the Korean YouTube official channel.

A few low-quality recording excerpts of this dub were posted on an Naver blog (**WARNING:** Epilepsy warning!). An higher quality version of a recording of the dub were also posted on an Korean video website "Pandora TV", but as of 31 January 2023, the video was lost following the website's shutdown.

#### Videos

개구장이 (재업) -80년대 더빙판-개구쟁이 스머프 (2기?)오프닝-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 오프닝 (KBS 1993년)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 요술상자 (KBS 1990년초)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 가장소중한것 (KBS 1993년)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 멍청이 스머프들 (KBS 1990년초)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 5백년만에 나타난 성 (KBS 1993년)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 스머프 재판 (KBS 만화동산 1990년 초)-우리말- 개구쟁이 스머프 - 도깨비왕자 (KBS 만화동산 1990년 초)

## Os Estrunfes

### Year(s)

1983-????

The first European Portuguese dub of the show was once aired in RTP1 in 1983. The dub is made by Nacional Filmes studio. However, as of now the dub has been lost and was overshadowed by the well-known second dub made by Somnorte, and the second dub was also the only dub used for the official European Portuguese channel. Not much information is known about this dub other than a few confirmed voice actors and staff, which is on the Wiki Dobragens Portuguesas.

## สเมิร์ฟ

Official Thai logo used in official YouTube uploads

### Year(s)

1984-????

The Thai dub of the series was once aired in MCOT/Channel 9 in 1984, however the dub was nowhere to find online, outside of later episodes which was officially uploaded in YouTube. In July 27, 2022, an YouTube user named "Shiine (VHF CH.10)" uploaded a old recording of a promo of the show aired in MCOT/Channel 9.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1MB4y1g7w1
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1hK7ddC6GU

## External links

* *The Smurfs (1981)* on the Dubbing Database