The New Adventures of Lucky Luke (French: Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke) is an animated television series based on the Franco-Belgian comic book series of the same name created by Belgian cartoonist Morris. 52 episodes were produced.
The show was directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and Jean-Charles Finck and produced by Marc du Pontavice at the Xilam studios in Paris, France. The music for the series was composed by Ramon Pipin, Hugues Le Bars and Hervé Lavandier. A theatrical feature-length film directly based on the series titled Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure was later released in 2007.
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Plot
Lucky Luke is a cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow. With the help of his faithful horse Jolly Jumper (the world's smartest horse) and sometimes also Rintindumb (the world's dumbest dog), he maintains peace and order in the Wild West. He hunts down desperadoes, keeps sharpshooters like Billy the Kid in check and constantly recaptures and returns The Daltons to prison.
Voice cast
Original French cast
Source:
Antoine de Caunes as Lucky Luke
Eric Legrand as Jolly Jumper, Jack and William Dalton
Bernard Alane: Averell Dalton
Gérard Surugue as Joe Dalton
Francis Perrin as Rintindumb
Isabelle Mangini as Calamity Jane
Eric Metayer as Général Custer
Donald Reignoux as Billy the Kid
Marc Saez as Shérif Sleekhorn, TchinasTchin
François Siener as Aigle Intègre, John Glutton
Françoise Vallon as Lola Montes
Valérie Karsenti
English cast
Marcel Jeannin as Lucky Luke, Rintindumb and Additional Voices
Mark Camacho as William Dalton and Additional Voices
Ellen David
Sonja Ball as Additional Voices
John Stocker as Joe Dalton, General Custer and Additional Voices
A.J. Henderson as Additional Voices
Arthur Holden as Additional Voices
Laura Teasdale
Bronwen Mantel
Pauline Little as Calamity Jane
Rick Jones as Jolly Jumper, Jack Dalton and Additional Voices
Rick Miller as Billy the Kid
Susan Glover as Additional Voices
Terry Simpson as Averell Dalton
Kathleen Fee as Big Bone Bear
Production
Ten years after the last series of Lucky Luke episodes, Xilam launched the production of new ones. The hope for Marc du Pontavice for this series is that it has to fill in the gap between the series already aired, "which have aged", and the new episodes, "which have not aged". Fifty-two episodes were made with a budget of 120 million francs (just over EUR 18 million). These episodes are new stories written for the series.
Because he died in July 2001, and the show was not released until September, apart from a few rushes, Morris never viewed the series.
The series uses the graphic process Morris used that employs colors to differentiate a character according to its value in the (foreground, background), according to his mood state (green rage, ...) or to describe a mood (red fire, night blue, ...).
Some characters are caricatures (Garcimore, Roberto Benigni, Woody Allen, ...)
This series features new historical characters (General Custer, the Lumière brothers, Lola Montez, Buffalo Bill, John Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, Queen Victoria), or literary (Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote).
An error seems to have occurred in the chronology of events. In episode 47, "A Bone for the Daltons", Lucky Luke states that he knows an archaeologist who he later meets for the first time in the next episode, "The Great Nose of Talisman".
Broadcast
In France, the show aired on France 2 and France 3, while in Canada, it was broadcast on Télé-Québec and also shown on Teletoon in Canada, Italia 1 in Italy, Super RTL in Germany and BBC Two and CBBC in UK.