Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds

Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is a Spanish-Japanese children's animated television series based on the 1844 Alexandre Dumas story of d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers. It was produced by the Spanish studio BRB Internacional with animation by the Japanese studio Nippon Animation, and was first broadcast on MBS in Japan in 1981 and 1982. Most characters are anthropomorphised dogs, which gives the cartoon its title, with exceptions such as the cat Milady and the sidekicks Pip the mouse and Planchet the bear. The franchise grew beyond the original twenty-six episodes: BRB released an edited television film, Dogtanian: Special, in 1985, produced a sequel series, The Return of Dogtanian, with Televisión Española and Thames Television in 1989, released a second edited film in 1995, and in 2021 Apolo Films and Cosmos Maya released a feature-length CGI film in cinemas. The original episodes are available on BRB Internacional's official YouTube channel.