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. The phrase the Barbapapas say when they transform, "Hup hup hup, Barbatruc !", was translated here as "All Change!".

US dub
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 Canadian English dub, except that there is no role-call. A consistent transformation phrase isn't applied in this dub; instead, they say a rhyming phrase that matches what they're turning into.

Unlike the Canadian dub, 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).

Canadian dub
Shortly after the 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.

A lot of international dubs of Barbapapa were based on this one. The phrase the Barbapapas say when they transform, "Hup hup hup, Barbatruc !", was translated here as "Clickety click - Barbatrick!". This dub is more wholesome and faithful to the original series than the American dub is.

Japanese-English dub
Not much is known about this dub, but accordingly a Japanese-English dub was released on Barbapapa VHS' in Japan to teach children English. The voice actors are currently unknown. Like the American English dub, the transformation phrase isn't applied in this dub, but it is instead replaced with situational responses such as "Away we go again!" or "Well, what is that?".