[mar77i]

Heidi, the classic tale of the Swiss girl living in the mountains. The story is very popular in Asia and there was a kids' cartoon adaptation in 1974 by a Japanese animation studio. I thought the 2015 3d series also involved Japanese animators, though it turns out that one was produced in and for European TV.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070968/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4346362/

[smacktoward]

Heidi also became infamous here in the US in 1968, when a TV broadcast version of it pre-empted the end of a close football game, which went down in history as "the Heidi game." The furor that resulted led to changes in the way the TV networks managed their operations. The full story is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game.

[saghm]

My favorite part about this story is that they would have actually let the football game keep running if so many people hadn't been calling in about it:

> NBC executives had originally ordered that Heidi begin at 7:00 p.m. EST, but then decided to allow the game to air to its conclusion. However, communicating this revised plan to the technicians running NBC's master control proved impossible – as 7 p.m. approached, NBC's switchboards were jammed by viewers phoning to inquire about the night's schedule, preventing the planned change from being communicated.

[Synaesthesia]

Heidi! Yeah I watched that anime as a kid dubbed in Afrikaans too, good times. Well they were often tragic! Lots of tears etc.

[ageofwant]

Heidi was a fixture on South African TV in the 1980/1990's. Dubbed in Afrikaans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S9NQ4NGiGY

Same for Niels Holgerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atq032t1wAQ

[folli]

Heidi is however very well known in Switzerland, too.

In contrast to the Dog of Flanders, who is much less widely known in Flanders.

[Vomzor]

Owned and produced by a company from Flanders in fact.

https://www.studio100.tv/activities/animation/index.html