Oscar

Oscar
Created by	Bruce Hefford
Theme music composer	Thomas Allen
Opening theme	Oscar On The Ice (1978); Oscar - Pilot(1979); Oscar (1980-1981); Oscar (1981-1982); Oscar (1982-1983); Oscar (1983-1984); Oscar (1984-1985); Oscar (1985-1986); Oscar (1986-1987); Oscar (1987-1988); Oscar (1988-1989); Oscar (1989-1990); Oscar (1990-1991); Oscar (1991-1992); Oscar (1992-1993); Oscar (1993-1994); Oscar (1994-1995); Oscar (1995-1996); Oscar (1996-1997); Oscar (1997-1998); Oscar (1998-1999); Oscar (1999-2000); Oscar (2000-2001); Oscar (2001-2002); Oscar (2003-2004); Oscar (2004-2005);
Ending theme	Oscar On The Ice (1978); Oscar - Pilot(1979); Oscar (1980-1981); Oscar (1981-1982); Oscar (1982-1983); Oscar (1983-1984); Oscar (1984-1985); Oscar (1985-1986); Oscar (1986-1987); Oscar (1987-1988); Oscar (1988-1989); Oscar (1989-1990); Oscar (1990-1991); Oscar (1991-1992); Oscar (1992-1993); Oscar (1993-1994); Oscar (1994-1995); Oscar (1995-1996); Oscar (1996-1997); Oscar (1997-1998); Oscar (1998-1999); Oscar (1999-2000); Oscar (2000-2001); Oscar (2001-2002); Oscar (2003-2004); Oscar (2004-2005);
Country of origin	France (1980-1983); Belgan (1984-1989); Australia (1990-1999); Canadia (2000); America (2001-2005);
No. of seasons	25
No. of episodes	772 (list of episodes)
Release
Original network	Cinemas (1978); Syndicated (1979); CBS (1980-1989); Fox (1990-1999); Nickelodeon (2000); Cartoon Network (2001-2005); Theatrical release (2006);
External links
	[{{#property:P856}} Website]

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Oscar is a 3D children's television series created by Otmar Gutmann and produced from 1980 to 2005 for Swiss television by The Pygos Group (formerly Trickfilmstudio and TF1 Filmstudio. It centers on a family of anthropomorphic lizards who live at the desert, and the main character is the family's son and title character, Oscar.

The series originally ran for 25 seasons (each season is made up of multiple commercials) from 28 May 1980 to 9 April 2005 on SF DRS. The Oscar pilot episode first aired on Swiss television in 1979 and was later shown at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

Oscar was very popular, due to its lack of a real spoken language: nearly all dialogue is in an invented grammelot "lizard language" referred to as 'Lizardese', consisting of babbling, muttering, and the titular character's characteristic sporadic loud hissing noise, which can be popularly recognized as "$$$$$!" or other variants, stated to be "ssss!" by the defunct Oscar website's trivia page, accompanied by turning his mouth into a megaphone-like shape. Within the first 25 seasons, all the characters were performed k07by Italian voice actor Carlo Bonomi, using a language of noises that he had already developed and used for the earlier Osvaldo Cavandoli's La Linea. In season 24 and 25, the Oscar cast was jointly voiced by David Sant and Marcello Magni.

A Japanese reboot of the series, titled Oscar in the City, began airing on NHK-E on 7 October 2007.

Brodcast history[edit]


Country	Network	Airdate
French Belgan	CBS	1980-1983 1984-1989
Australia	Fox	1990-1999
Canadia	Nickelodeon	2000
America	Cartoon Network	2001-2005
World	Theatrical release	2006

Specials[edit]

Oscar On Ice :1978 (pilot 1)

Oscar :1979 (pilot 2)

Oscar :The Movie (1984)

Oscar's Christmas Special (1986)

Oscar: The Finale (2006)

Oscar

Brodcast history[edit]

Specials[edit]

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