Barbapapa

Barbapapa is a Japanese-Dutch animated children's television series that was created by the French-American couple, Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, in 1974. The series was adapted from the 1970 book series of the same name. It was co-produced by the Japanese animation studios KSS and Topcraft, and the Dutch studio, PolyScope BV.

UK dub
Barbapapa formerly aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom from January 17, 1975 to 1979, and was the first English dub of the show. Many international dubs of Barbapapa were based on this one.

The theme song was performed by Ed Stewart, Cathy MacDonald, and "The London Boy Singers", and was released along with some other songs in 1975. The same theme song is also used in the Canadian English dub.

Magno
An American distributor, LBS Communications, imported Barbapapa in the United States for a syndicated run from September 4, 1977 to December 3, 1983. This dub uses its own background music, and the theme song is also a remix of the original and shares almost the same lyrics with the British English dub, except that there is no role-call.

Unlike the other dubs, this dub has more witty dialogue, and all of the accents of the characters were adapted into common ones (such as Barbabeau and Barbabravo having explicitly New York accents, as the show was dubbed there; Barbabright has a British accent, and Barbabelle speaks like a southern belle).

Centauro
Another American English dub was produced by Centauro Comunicaciones, and was released on DVDs in South Korea (with English subtitles) in 2006 to teach Korean people English. This dub was recorded in Miami, Florida. Only one voice actor was used for every character, like the original.

The songs were dubbed, and were also uploaded (albeit shortened to 30 seconds) to the official Barbapapa YouTube channel. The dub uses a lot of the Japanese English dub's script as a base, but it also has been known to take dialogue from the Canadian English dub, such as the "Birthday" episode.

Canadian dub
Shortly after the first American English dub had aired in the US, a Canadian English dub of Barbapapa formerly aired on TVOntario from September 17, 1977 to September 10, 1985 and Knowledge Network from 1985 to 1987.

The Barbapapas all have individual voices in this dub.

Japanese English dub
Not much is known about this dub, but similarly to the Centauro dub, a Japanese English dub was released on Barbapapa DVDs and VHSes in 2001 by Aniplex/Sony Music Entertainment in Japan to teach children English. The voice actors are currently unknown, and they often exchange which characters they play as well.

Cast
The voice actors of the Canadian and Japanese English dubs have not yet been identified.

U.K. Dub 🇬🇧 [[united kingdom|United Kingdom]]
Like the original, Flanders accordingly did the voices for all of the characters.
 * Narrator - Michael Flanders

Centauro Dub 🇺🇸 [[united states|United States]]
In the first season, one narrator did the voices of all of the characters just like in the original. In season two, the voice actors were all given individiual voices performed by various actors, and the voice of Barbapapa himself was replaced while the narrator retained his primary role. Nearly the same actors also reprised their roles for Barbapapa Around the World, except for the narrator, who was replaced by a female narrator in that series. It is not known who all of these actors are.

Credits
These are the end credits of the Magno dub.