Around the World with Willy Fog

Around the World with Willy Fog is a Spanish animated television series adapting Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. It was produced by the Spanish studio BRB Internacional with Televisión Española and animated by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation, and it was first broadcast weekly on TVE1 in 1984. The characters of the novel appear as animals: Phileas Fogg becomes the lion Willy Fog, Passepartout the cat Rigodon and Aouda the panther Romy, with the villains drawn as dogs. An English dub aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on RTÉ in Ireland in 1984. A sequel series, Willy Fog 2, followed in 1993, and a stage musical was produced in Spain in 2008 for the show's twenty-fifth anniversary.