Country of origin BelgiumCanadaFrance No. of seasons 1 Final episode date 1997 Number of seasons 1 | Original language(s) English First episode date 1996 Number of episodes 26 | |
Developed by Michel OleffeEmmanuel ErrerGérald Dupeyrot Directed by Michel OleffeOlivier Grenson Theme music composer Didier LedanJoseph Refalo Created by Michel Oleffe, Olivier Grenson Similar Night Hood, Creepy Crawlers, Flash Gordon, Oscar and Friends, CLYDE |
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Carland Cross was an 1996 hardboiled animated television series developed with the collaboration of Belgian, French and Canadian broadcasters. The series spanned 26 episodes (26 minutes in length) and was based on the comics The Adventures of Carland Cross, by Belgian natives Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe. Carland Cross tells the story of a fictional British private investigator specializing in curious and inexplicable cases. The series aired late 1996 under the French-language title Carland Coss and in other markets, such as Spanish, as Las aventuras de Carland Cross.
Contents
Of the 26 episodes, only 3 stories of the original print comic were used: 'The Golem', 'The Monster Under Sea' (The Tunnel), and 'The Mysteries of The Loch Ness'.
Although the television series remains unknown in international television, the animated television series was a success in the late 1990s to early 2000s in European countries such as Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland. However, it was also popular in South America, and especially in Argentina. Currently the series is only aired on Belgium and Swiss broadcasts.
Plot
Carland Cross, a typical British private detective, is called upon to investigate cases of the strange and mysterious. Cross attempts to solve cases involving ancient ruins, forbidden regions, strange inexplicable murders, criminal Satanic curses, deserted cities and an array of unimaginable monsters. The central storyline is set in the United Kingdom, mainly London, which is depicted as a mysterious drowned city of fog where crime is everywhere, and with it, dread and horror.
Protagonist
Carland Cross: A very cold and methodical British private investigator from Baker Street in London, working alongside the police officials. He shares his investigations with his pupil, Andy White, the aristocrat fervent admirer Medwenna Simpson, and is often helped by the Superintendent Marmaduke Wingfield.
Heroes
Note:Written as if characters are real
Villains
Conception and history
Carland Cross's crime comics, created in 1990, were inspired by works of well-known authors of the time, such as Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and Jean Ray. In 1994, Olivier Grenson had the idea to make a computer animation of Carland Cross. With a friend, owner of the studio ASAP, he began to select a series of images in albums and edit them into a short sequence in which he added some effects and a soundtrack to a text by Michel Oleffe. After contacting the Belgian animation professional studio ODEC-Kid Cartoons, they started the filming. They quickly decided to produce an animation pilot. Michel Oleffe provided a scenario from the Mystery of Loch Ness. The pilot was presented at a congress of animation, the Azores, in 1995. Given the interest generated by the pilot, a financial arrangement was concluded quickly and Odec-Kid Cartoons with French and Canadian partners got into production.
Olivier Grenson and Michel Oleffe, the creator and the publisher, later released their comics in a cold, humorless, sinister rare 3D animated series for kids and adults that contains some crypt themes, fantasy, crimes, horror and suspense. The series, which had 26 episodes of 26 minutes, was completed in 1997.
DVD releases
It was released on DVD only in Spain between 1999 and 2000 in a slim-lined box set [2]