Canadian Children's Programming: A Retrospective

Making a list of things I saw on tv growing up since I was a Canadian child.

The Little Flying Bears, which was a Croatian-Canadian production. It had bears. With wings. Their enemy: Weasels and pollution.

Intro to The Little Flying Bears, which has... a much different animation style than I remember, but honestly I was all hopped up on sugary cereal as a kid and my memories can't be trusted.

NEXT: We have Albert the Fifth Musketeer which was a French/Canadian production. He's smart, he's cool, he rides on a mule. The premise was that apparently all the musketeers were inept except the short blond one. So kind of like Asterix.

The intro to Albert the Fifth Musketeer which is now trapped in my head.

NUMBER 3: The Raccoons which I'm gonna summarize without reading the wiki article and we'll see how right I was! Okay. Uh. Raccoons in sweater fight hairless pink things who want to pollute and there's one good pink thing that might be a nerd?

NOW LET'S SEE WHAT IT REALLY IS: The series revolves around a trio of raccoons called the Evergreen Raccoons - Bert, a happy-go-lucky free spirit, and Ralph and Melissa, who both run the local newspaper The Evergreen Standard. The series mostly involves the three fighting against the industrialist forces of greedy aardvark millionaire Cyril Sneer, who usually tries to destroy the forest for a quick buck. However, the Raccoons would always save their forest from Cyril's schemes, with help from their forest friends including Schaeffer, a gentle sheepdog, Cedric, Cyril's college graduate son, and Sophia Tutu, Cedric's girlfriend. But, as the show progressed, Cyril became more of a sympathetic character, eventually becoming an anti-hero.

Okay, so I wasn't off at all, except apparently that thing was meant to be an aardvark. That's amazing. Here's the intro.

Lastly, we have Rupert who was a white bear with a British accent. Nothing notable about it except in the intro I have finally found out the source of the mystery song I hum sometimes.

Turns out it's not the secret lullaby that would have revealed me to be the prince. Oh well. And thus concludes your window into my childhood. I lost the thread of this post, but please enjoy this insight into what tiny Canadians would watch along with their Reboots and their Hammy The Hamster.