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| Also known as | Albert le 5ème mousquetaire |
| Genre | Animation |
| Created by | Christophe Izard |
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| Directed by | Alain Sion |
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| Composer | Kick Production |
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| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Release | March 16 (1994-03-16) – July 2, 1994 (1994-07-02) |
Albert the Fifth Musketeer is an animated television series based on the 1844 novelThe Three Musketeers byAlexandre Dumas. It is a co-production betweenFrance Animation andCINAR Films forRavensburger andBBC Children's International, in association withFrance 3,Canal+ and Videal.[1]
The show centers around the antics of Albert (French pronunciation:[albɛʁ]AL-bair) de Parmagnan, a new member of the Musketeers (the series takes place after theSiege of La Rochelle, and therefore afterD'Artagnan has become a musketeer, but beforeMilady de Winter's death). While the other four musketeers are portrayed as bumbling and incompetent, Albert is quick-witted and clever, creating many inventions to get the others out of trouble.
He and the other Musketeers have adventures as they fight with the guards ofCardinal Richelieu and attempt to thwart his plans to take over France.
In total there were 26 episodes, which aired in 1994. The show was later translated into English, Dutch, Swedish, French and Russian and shown in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Thailand, the Netherlands, United States, South Africa, Malaysia, Canada, Greece, Australia, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Hong Kong, France and Russia.
The characters, apart from Albert (voiced byJimmy Hibbert), are all generally broad stereotypes of their traditional portrayals in the originalMusketeers book and subsequent movies: