| The Return of Dogtanian | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Spanish | El retorno de D'Artacán |
| Genre | Animation, action, comedy-drama, fantasy |
| Based on | The classic story ofd'Artagnan andThe Three Musketeers byAlexandre Dumas |
| Developed by | Claudio Biern Boyd |
| Directed by | Wang Yaquan |
| Narrated by | Michael McConnohie |
| Theme music composer | Guido & Maurizio De Angelis |
| Country of origin |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Wang Yaquan |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production companies | |
| Original release | |
| Network | TVE1 |
| Release | 1989 (1989) |
| Related | |
| Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds | |
The Return of Dogtanian (Spanish:El retorno de D'Artacán) is a 1989 children'sanimated television series, and a sequel to the 1981Japanese anime seriesDogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, that continues the classic 1844Alexandre Dumas story ofd'Artagnan andThe Three Musketeers, produced by Spanish studioBRB Internacional,Televisión Española andThames Television with animation ofWang Film Productions.[1]
In 1995, BRB Internacional released a television film edited from the series entitledDogtanian: One For All and All For One.
In 1989The Return of Dogtanian was produced byBRB Internacional,Televisión Española andThames Television with animation ofWang Film Productions. Like the first series, 26 episodes were produced. Its budget was 650 millionpesetas.[1]
The story is loosely based on the novelThe Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later also by Alexandre Dumas, itself building on the myth ofThe Man in the Iron Mask. It picks up ten years after the first series story ends, with Dogtanian and Juliette now married and living together on the outskirts of Paris with their two children, Philippe and Fleur. The Muskehounds are reunited by QueenAnne of Austria when her husband starts acting suspiciously.Cardinal Richelieu is still featured, along with Milady and Widimer still loyal to him.
Dave Mallow andDoug Stone, who co-adapted the original scripts to English and co-directed, took over as the voices of Dogtanian, and Porthos, respectively. As it was produced inTaiwan byWang Film Productions,Nippon Animation, the Japanese studio which produced the first series, was not involved in the sequel, as BRB had started finding new partners outside Japan, due to the high costs caused by theJapanese asset price bubble.[2]
In 1995, BRB Internacional released a television film edited from the series entitledDogtanian: One For All and All For One,[3] with completely different voice actors and a few name changes from the original series.
The Return of Dogtanian was only released as a box-set and not as individual volumes. There are 4 disks in the set. Unlike the first series which is in Region 0 format, the second series was released in Region 2 format. The DVD of the TV film was also released in Region 0.
In November 2010, a version that contains both series and both television films was released exclusively forHMV. Later, the complete box set was made available at other retailers.
The series can be found on different platforms such asYouTube[4] andNetflix.