The Smurfs (1976)

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The Smurfs

Quick Facts

Premiered
Oct 1976
Runtime
mins
Language
English
Status
Ended

Also Known As

Τα Στρουμφάκια Štrumpfovi Ștrumpfii

Networks

NBC

Storyline

The Smurfs is a comic and television franchise centered on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) on October 23, 1958. The original term and the accompanying language came during a meal Peyo was having with his colleague and friend André Franquin at the Belgian Coast. Having momentarily forgotten the word "salt", Peyo asked him (in French) to pass the schtroumpf. Franquin jokingly replied: "Here's the Schtroumpf — when you are done schtroumpfing, schtroumpf it back..." and the two spent the rest of that weekend speaking in "schtroumpf language". The name was later translated into Dutch as Smurf, which was adopted in English.

Episodes

Cast

Don Messick
Don Messick
Papa Smurf
Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell
Gargamel
Lucille Bliss
Lucille Bliss
Smurfette
Danny Goldman
Danny Goldman
Brainy Smurf
Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer
Vanity Smurf
Michael Bell
Michael Bell
Handy Smurf
Hamilton Camp
Hamilton Camp
Greedy Smurf
Brenda Vaccaro
Brenda Vaccaro
Scruple
Frank Welker
Frank Welker
Hefty Smurf
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
Grandpa Smurf
Alan Young
Alan Young
Farmer Smurf
William Callaway
William Callaway
Clumsy Smurf
June Foray
June Foray
Jokey Smurf
Alan Young
Alan Young
Miner Smurf
Noelle North
Noelle North
Slouchy Smurf (Smurfling)
Charlie Adler
Charlie Adler
Nat (Natural Smurfling)
Pat Musick
Pat Musick
Snappy Smurfling
Julie McWhirter
Julie McWhirter
Sassette Smurfling
Michael Bell
Michael Bell
Lazy Smurf
Frank Welker
Frank Welker
Wild Smurf