Le Manège enchanté (British English: The Magic Roundabout, American English: The Magic Carousel) is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1963 on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series.[2]
The series features characters in the make-believe land of Bois-Joli: Père Pivoine the owner of the roundabout, Zébulon a jack-in-the-box; Pollux the British dog, Azalée the cow, Ambroise the snail, Flappy the Spanish rabbit, Margote a girl, and Jouvence Pio, a gardener who starts every sentence with "Hep Hep Hep".
The video was used by the BBC to make an English-language version, The Magic Roundabout, using scripts that bore little relation to the original story lines.
