The Bush Baby


Bush Baby, Little Angel of the Grasslands, shortened as The Bush Baby, is the title of a 1992 anime series consisting of forty 25-minute episodes. It is based on the novel The Bushbabies by Canadian author William Stevenson.
The series is part of Fuji Television and Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater franchise, which consists of anime television series adaptations of classic children's books. It has also been broadcast internationally on networks such as TVO / Access Alberta, France 3, Antena 3, Italia 1, Tele 5 / tm3, ORF1, ABS-CBN / GMA 7 / Quality TeleVision, various Arab networks, and RTM2.
The English dub for the series was handled by TVOntario from 1993-1995.

Summary

In 1964, a thirteen-year-old British girl named Jackie Rhodes living in Kenya travels the savannah in the area of Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya, where her father is an Animal Protection wildlife officer. Jackie finds an ill animal called a bushbaby.
Jackie adopts the bushbaby, calls him Murphy, and nurses him back to health. Murphy, Jackie, her family and their friends go on many adventures involving wild animals, poachers and more. When her father loses his job, the family prepares to return to England where they came from.
At Mombasa, right before they are about to leave, Jackie realizes that she has lost the papers for her pet bushbaby, Murphy. She leaves the ship heading for England and it sets sail without her. Luckily, she meets Tenbo, her father's loyal African assistant. Tenbo has been spying on the export warehouse of some poachers and is now being pursued by them. In addition, a manhunt for Tenbo has begun because people think he has kidnapped Jackie.
They must cross the dangerous savannah to escape the poachers and police officers chasing them. Along the way, Jackie teaches the now domesticated Murphy to survive in the wild, so that, before she leaves, she can release him in his natural habitat.

Characters

Main characters

;Jacqueline Rhodes
;Murphy
;Tenbo

Secondary characters

;Andrew Rhodes
;Arthur Rhodes
;Penny Rhodes
;Hawa
;Kate Addleton
;Laisa Addleton
;Henry Rutherford
;Micky Bill
;Hanna Kaufmann
;Professor Crankshaw
;Sally
;Dan Moore
;Lt. Robert Ireland
;Safina

Villains

;Michael and John

List of episodes

Music

Opening theme
  • "APOLLO": Eps. 01 - 22
  • :Lyrics and composition by: Shinji Tanimura
  • :Arrangement by: Yasuo Sakou
  • :Song by: Yasuhide Sawa
  • "A Smile as Prologue": Eps. 23 - 40
  • :Lyrics by: Neko Oikawa
  • :Composition by: Masayuki Kishi
  • :Arrangement by: Kazuo Shinoda
  • :Song by: Satoko Yamano
Ending theme
  • "I'll Turn into a Bird"
  • :Lyrics and composition by: Shinji Tanimura
  • :Arrangement by: Yasuo Sakou
  • :Song by: Maya Okamoto