The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
The New Adventures of 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.
Plot
Lucky Luke is a cowboy who shoots faster than his own shadow. With the help of his faithful horse Jolly Jumper and sometimes also Rintindumb, 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
- Daniel Brochu
- Laura Teasdale
- Bronwen Mantel
- Pauline Little as Calamity Jane, Lotta Legs
- Rick Jones as Jolly Jumper, Jack Dalton and Additional Voices
- Terrence Scammell
- Rick Miller as Billy the Kid
- Susan Glover as Additional Voices
- Terry Simpson as Averell Dalton
- Kathleen Fee as Big Bone Bear
- Adrian Truss as Jolly Jumper
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. 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, according to his mood state or to describe a mood.
- This series features new historical characters, or literary.
- 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".