Ferdy the Ant (TV series)

Ferdy the Ant
Logo as seen in the opening of the various dubs outside of the UK
Genre	Adventure
Based on	Ferda Mravenec by Ondřej Sekora
Developed by	Entertaining Cartoon Productions Harmony Gold USA
Screenplay by	Iva Hercíková Liane Novotony
Directed by	Jerry Hampeys Ralph Newman
Opening theme	"Ferdy is your Friend" (English dub only)
Composer(s)	Evzen Illinois Zdenka Liska
Country of origin	UK Czechoslovakia
Original language(s)	German English Arabic French Spanish Hungarian Persian Indonesian
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Release
Original release	1984 – 1985

Ferdy the Ant (also simply referred to as Ferdy) is a 1984 Czech-British children's animated television series based on the picture books of the same name by Czech author Ondřej Sekora. It was produced by Entertaining Cartoon Productions,^[1] and animated by Harmony Gold USA.

The show is primarily aimed towards children from ages 3 to 10,^[1] and has been owned by Entertaining Cartoon Productions and Licensing AG since 2000.

Premise

The series revolves around a little boy-ant named Ferdy as he embarks on a variety of adventures in the insect Utopia of Käfertal with his close insect friends.^[2]

Episode format

Story-arcs usually last up to seven episodes.

Main characters

• Ferdy
• Bug Butterfingers
• Cricket
• Arambula
• Woody
• Gwendolyn (Referred to as Laura in later episodes)
• Bug Sniffy
• Bug Gobbler
• Oskar

Video game

A 3D episodic arcade video game based on the series was developed by Centauri Productions and released by Cenega in 2002 for the PC.^[3]

Home media

In 1986, select episodes of the English dub of the series received a small VHS release in the US. While in 2003, the Czech Republic released the entire series in DVD format.

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