Doraemon (1979)

Doraemon (ドラえもん) is an anime family comedy TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the successor of the 1973 anime. It premiered on April 2, 1979 on TV Asahi.

Dubbing History
The earliest known dub was made in Canada and titled The Adventures of Albert and Sidney, and aired on CBC TV 8 in Barbados in the late 1980's and early 1990's. The show aired on Saturday mornings on CBC TV 8. The Japanese signs weren't translated and Nobita and Doraemon were renamed Albert and Sidney, the spelling of Sidney's name is also still in doubt: some sources called him "Sydney", while others used the spelling "Sidney". According to the NATPE 1987 issue of Television/Radio Age magazine, the dub was distributed by Cinar, a children's entertainment company based in Montreal, Quebec. Cinar was selling the show as 150 ten-minute episodes. The English version was recorded in Canada (likely in Montreal), as the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved The Adventures of Albert and Sidney as Canadian content on June 6th, 1986 under its dubbing category. In March 2017, a Lost Media Wiki contributor contacted CBC if they had information about the dub, but unfortunately, the channel had long since removed Albert & Sidney from its archive. On February 2020, Jérôme Langlois revealed that each episode was roughly 8 minutes, the theme song is an original composition and not a translated version of the original Japanese theme, other characters' names he remembered from the show are "Buster" and "Lucy" (whether they were iterations for Gian or Shizuka remains unconfirmed), he composed the entire ordered series done in a whole summer of 1985 and also possesses VHS copies of the 30-second theme song and a 1-minute and 12 seconds excerpt from his work on the show. Despite his willingness to digitize them, scheduling and legal concerns hinders that decision. On September 2020, he finally uploaded clips from the dub. The dub was recorded in Montreal, Quebec. The Cinar dub is the only English dub in where Nobita is voiced by a male child actor. Despite the Westernized names, it is clear that it is still set in Japan. Suneo's name was changed to Ricky.

Other known dubs are the Asian dubs by Voiceovers Unlimited and Speedy Video (containing the same laughable voices and editing as their infamous dubs of the Dragon Ball Z films), and a dub made for TV Asahi by Phuuz Entertainment in the United States. In addition, a gag dub was done for MTV UK in the 1990's. Relatively little is known about any of them, other than the MTV gag dub had Doraemon's name spelt as "Doreamon", probably to make it easier to pronounce for either the voice actors or the viewers at home.