The Triplets
The Triplets | |
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Genre | Adventure Comedy Musical |
Created by | |
Based on | The Triplets books by Roser Capdevila |
Directed by | Robert Balser, (Season 1) , (Season 2) |
Voices of | |
Opening theme | We Are The Triplets! |
Composers | (Season 1 & 2) Joan Albert Amargós (Season 1) |
Country of origin | Spain |
Original language | Catalan |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 104 (Complete list) |
Production | |
Executive producers |
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Running time | 24 minutes circa |
Production companies | Televisió de Catalunya (1997–2003) |
Distributor | Televisió de Catalunya Alliance Films (Canada) |
Release | |
Original network | TV3 La 2 Clan Teletoon Treehouse TV (Canada) |
Picture format | NTSC |
Original release | 1997 2003 | –
Chronology | |
Related shows | The Bored Witch, The Baby Triplets |
External links | |
Website |
The Triplets (Catalan: Les tres bessones; Spanish: Las tres mellizas; Occitan: Es tres bessones) are three fictional characters (Anna, Teresa and Helena) created by Catalan illustrator .
The Triplets were created in 1983, based on Capdevila's own daughters, three actual triplets born in 1969. The stories were immediately successful and began publishing in many countries. In 1985 a new character, the "Bored Witch" (La Bruixa Avorrida) was added to the plots to form a collection of classical stories, "The Triplets and (...)".
In 1994, television producer and the Catalan TV corporation Televisió de Catalunya adapted the stories to make an animated series based on the books. It became very successful and profitable and led to the production of a second series with the Bored Witch as the main character, together with France 3, Canal J and .[1]
By 2004, The Triplets series consisted of 104 episodes, while The Bored Witch reached 52. They have been translated to 35 different languages and have been shown in 158 countries or territories. A spin-off series was also made, titled The Baby Triplets.
In October 2020, it was announced that the series will receive a reboot that will focus 20 years after the first one ended.[2]
Plot[]
The plots of the triplet sisters follow a definite pattern. Sometimes they play some prank or manage to annoy the Bored Witch, and, to punish them, she sends them into a classic tale, legend, or children's or adult's (such as Frankenstein or The Phantom of the Opera) literary work. The main structure of the classic remains, but some twists (often hilarious anachronisms such as showing The forty thieves getting distracted from robbing a house by a camel race on TV or Dr. Frankenstein as a veterinarian) are introduced to favor each plot and define the sisters' personalities.
Characters[]
- Teresa (Tessa in the English dub) - She is the triplet with the pink ribbon. She is the most adventurous triplet and comes up with the most ambitious ideas, but she's not necessarily the leader.
- Anna (Annie in the English dub) - She is the triplet with the blue ribbon. She's laid-back and more peaceful than her sisters. She's also quite curious. Anna tends to be a bit romantic at times.
- Helena (Nellie in the English dub) - She is the triplet with the green ribbon. She has the sweetest demeanor of the triplets. She also has a love for food and sweets, which sometimes leads to trouble.
- The Bored Witch - She is an overweight witch who is always bored, despite having great magical powers. She serves as a kind of unofficial day sitter for the triplets, but when they start acting disorderly, she uses her magic to send the girls into stories. No matter what, she never uses magic to directly hinder the girls in their adventures, although tends to join forces with every story's antagonist. Despite her role of antagonist, she is not an evil character and always keeps her word to return the girls to their land.
Episodes[]
The Triplets find themselves involved in a different classic story in each chapter.
Season 1 (1997-1999)[]
- Chapter 1: Hop o' My Thumb
- Chapter 2: Snow White
- Chapter 3: Cinderella
- Chapter 4: Ali Baba
- Chapter 5: John the Fearless
- Chapter 6: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Chapter 7: The Princess and the Pea
- Chapter 8: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Chapter 9: Bluebeard
- Chapter 10: Hansel and Gretel
- Chapter 11: Three Little Pigs
- Chapter 12: Emperor's New Clothes
- Chapter 13: Little Red Riding Hood
- Chapter 14: The Ugly Duckling
- Chapter 15: Aladdin
- Chapter 16: The Seven Samurai
- Chapter 17: Town Musicians of Bremen
- Chapter 18: The Red Dragon
- Chapter 19: Sleeping Beauty
- Chapter 20: Puss in Boots
- Chapter 21: Don Quixote
- Chapter 22: Pinocchio
- Chapter 23: Saint George
- Chapter 24: The Thief of Baghdad
- Chapter 25: Jack and the Beanstalk
- Chapter 26: Knights of the Round Table
- Chapter 27: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Chapter 28: The Treasure Island
- Chapter 29: Sandokan
- Chapter 30: Oliver Twist
- Chapter 31: Helen of Troy
- Chapter 32: Robinson Crusoe
- Chapter 33: Robin Hood
- Chapter 34: Atlantis
- Chapter 35: The Jungle Book
- Chapter 36: Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Chapter 37: Merlin
- Chapter 38: Buffalo Bill
- Chapter 39: Ulysses
- Chapter 40: Romeo and Juliet
- Chapter 41: King Kong
- Chapter 42: Tarzan
- Chapter 43: Leonardo da Vinci
- Chapter 44: The Three Musketeers
- Chapter 45: Cleopatra
- Chapter 46: Christopher Columbus
- Chapter 47: Cro-Magnon man
- Chapter 48: The Seven Little Goats
- Chapter 49: King Solomon's Mines
- Chapter 50: The Mayapan man
- Chapter 51: Marco Polo
- Chapter 52: Frankenstein
- Chapter 53: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Chapter 54: Kim of India
- Chapter 55: Mozart and Salieri
- Chapter 56: Santa Claus
- Chapter 57: In the Circus
- Chapter 58: In the Space
- Chapter 59: White Fang
- Chapter 60: Tom Sawyer
- Chapter 61:
- Chapter 62: Phantom of the Opera
- Chapter 63: Around the World in Eighty Days
- Chapter 64: Moby-Dick
- Chapter 65: In Africa
Season 2 (2003)[]
- Chapter 66: The Magic Flute
- Chapter 67: The Vain Little Mouse
- Chapter 68: Patufet
- Chapter 69: The Drummer from Bruc
- Chapter 70:
- Chapter 71:
- Chapter 72: Sherlock Holmes
- Chapter 73: The Ant and the Grasshopper
- Chapter 74: The Milkmaid and Her Pail
- Chapter 75: Cyrano de Bergerac
- Chapter 76: The World of Films
- Chapter 77: Geronimo
- Chapter 78: On the Everest
- Chapter 79: Vincent van Gogh
- Chapter 80: Gutenberg
- Chapter 81:
- Chapter 82:
- Chapter 83:
- Chapter 84: Thor
- Chapter 85: Velázquez
- Chapter 86: The Valiant Little Tailor
- Chapter 87: Beauty and the Beast
- Chapter 88: William Tell
- Chapter 89: Captains Courageous
- Chapter 90:
- Chapter 91: The Little Mermaid
- Chapter 92:
- Chapter 93: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Chapter 94: The Prince and the Pauper
- Chapter 95: Tristan and Isolde
- Chapter 96: The Snow Queen
- Chapter 97: Agatha Christie
- Chapter 98: The Happy Prince
- Chapter 99: Tutankhamon
- Chapter 100: The Time Machine
- Chapter 101: Pirates
- Chapter 102:
- Chapter 103: The Invisible Man
- Chapter 104: The Birthday Party
Voice actors[]
Character | Castilian voice | Catalan voice | |
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First season | Second season | ||
Annie | |||
Tessa | |||
Nellie | |||
The Bored Witch | |||
Owl (Buho) | |||
Teacher | (some episodes)
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Mother of the triplets | ?
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Father of the triplets | ?
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References[]
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 322. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ "Spanish Animated Hit 'The Triplets' Gets 21st Century Reboot from Brutal Media (EXCLUSIVE)". October 2, 2020.
External links[]
- The Triplets at IMDb
- Literary characters introduced in 1983
- 1997 Spanish television series debuts
- 2003 Spanish television series endings
- 1990s animated television series
- 2000s animated television series
- Teletoon original programming
- Catalan-language literature
- Children's television characters
- Female characters in literature
- Characters in children's literature
- Spanish children's animated adventure television series
- Spanish children's animated comedy television series
- Television shows based on children's books
- Television shows based on fairy tales
- Literature based on fairy tales
- Animated television series about sisters
- Animated television series about children