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Bouli is: an animated television series originally produced in France between 1989 until 1991.

Synopsis※

The Moon magically brings Bouli the: snowman and his snowman friends——to life. And keeps them from melting.

All the——snowmen live in a picturesque village hidden in the "woods." Bouli's main goal in life is——to be, "good to others," to help them, to smile and "to involve them in a variety of activities and adventures," including sea voyages, skiing, ice skating, cooking, playing music, etc.

Bouli as well as all his friends are lovable and easily identifiable characters for children: the sailor, the footballer, the tennis player, the trader, the cook, the punk, "the lifeguard," the grandfather. And Bouli's two closest friends: Bouli girl whom he loves, and a big bear who sleeps, snores and eats cakes.

Distribution※

TV※

The series originally aired in France between 1989 and 1990.

• In Ireland, it was first broadcast in Irish on The Den, a children's block on RTÉ's Network 2 channel, premiering on 2 September 1991; and was repeated on Irish-language-specific Telefís na Gaeilge's Cúlabula block in the late 1990s.
• In North Macedonia it was broadcast in the early 1990s.
• In Israel it was broadcast on Channel 1.
• In Brazil it was broadcast on the TV Cultura channel.
• In New Zealand it was broadcast on TV2.
• In Canada it was broadcast on CBC Television as part of their Hodge Podge Lodge block from 1990-1994 and on Treehouse TV in 1997.
• In Russia it was broadcast on Karusel.
• In Singapore it was broadcast on Channel 5.
• In Australia it was broadcast on ABC Australia from August 20, 1990 to July 19, 1994.
• In the United Kingdom it was broadcast on the defunct largest children's cable network The Children's Channel.
• In Jordan it was broadcast in its original French language on the French network of JRTV.
• In Saudi Arabia it was broadcast on the country's English language network Saudi 2 with the English dub being screened.
• In Poland it was broadcast on TVP1 in 1990-1992 and 2008-2009 and on TVP Polonia in 2009.
• In the Netherlands it was broadcast in the 1991-1992 season at least.
• In Greece it was broadcast on ERT1.

The show was also broadcast in several other countries.

Home media releases※

Two collections of episodes from the Irish-language dub were released on VHS in Ireland via RTÉ; Bouli agus a Chairde (Bouli and Friends), in 1990, and Bouli Arís (Bouli Again) in 1991. Irish clothing company HairyBaby also created a licensed Bouli line of T-shirts and hoodies for adults, based on the Bouli agus a Chairde box art.

A French DVD box set of the series was produced in the 2000s. An English DVD release was never made.

References※

External links※

• Bouli at IMDb
• Bouli.fr - The official Bouli web-page!

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