Anatole (TV series)

Did You Know?

• CBS announced in January 1998 that it would return to airing cartoons as part of its Saturday morning programming schedule for the 1998–99 television season.
• In July 1998, it was announced that CBS would premiere Anatole and the rest of its Saturday morning animated programming on 19 September 1998.
• By September 1998, the premiere date had slipped to 3 October 1998.

Characters

Anatole, the series' lead, is a loyal, honest, brave and open-minded mouse who is a good father to his children and a wonderful husband to Doucette. Gaston is Anatole's friend. Doucette, Anatole's wife, is kind, loyal, wise and patient, serving as a source of comfort and advice to her children and her husband; she gets genuinely worried whenever her family are in peril, and in "The Hunchbat of Notre Dame" it is revealed that she is afraid of heights. Paul, Anatole's oldest son, loves inventing, sword-fighting and sailing. Paulette, Anatole's oldest daughter, shares similar interests including inventing and sword fighting. Claude, Anatole's middle son, loves books and proves to have an active imagination. Claudette, Anatole's middle daughter, is literary like her brother Claude and also loves art. Georges and Georgette are Anatole's youngest son and daughter. Pamplemousse is the mayor of the mouse village. Edgar is a large but good-natured rat who helps Anatole rescue Claude, Paul and Paulette from the Parisian sewers. Molière is Anatole's dependable mole friend, an expert miner and tunneler. Other characters include Rene, Yvette, Mayor Soucy, Pascal, Uncle Louis, M. Duval, Charlemagne the Cat (M. Duval's pet cat and one of Anatole's antagonists), Pierre the Pigeon (who would much rather walk than fly due to airsickness), Otto, Gretchen, Hans, Nathalie, Comtesse De Souris, Maurice, Jacques (a misunderstood, hunchbacked bat who guards the Notre Dame Cathedral and shares similarities to Quasimodo and Erik the Phantom), the Two Crows, Nostromo, the Bakers, a Thief, and two weasels.