Around the World in Eighty Days

I remember the catchy theme song to this colourful cartoon series.The villain was Mr Fix and the heroine that Fogg travelled the world for was dinky Belinda Mayes ! each episode Fogg and his companion Passportou were in a different country and Mr Fix was like a Dick Dastardly character who kept trying to foil the journey but was always outdone by the travellers.

Around the world in 80 days with Passportou. Around the world in 80 days with Passportou. So Fogg may marry Belinda Mayes, Passportou. Fogg may fail, because of Fix. Unless Fogg fixes Fix's tricks. Around the world with Passportou !

Catchy huh ?

I've watched it in the summer of 1992. I was a kid at the time, and there was no internet, no computer, no DVD player, no cable.. well I think the world itself was a kid too !

I was watching an episode per day on our national TV at 5 p.m, and what an enjoyable short time I was having. It was so fun to watch, especially with all the nice simplicity, the true comic talents, and the storyline which made the novel so easy like a cat & mouse chase.

As for the theme song, let me tell you; I loved it to the extent that I recorded it on a cassette tape at the moment, and how I sung it so many times because its childish mirth, joviality and charming. Of course great thanks to the previous commenter who wrote the whole lyrics.

And I recorded also the constant final phrase of every episode when (Phileas Fogg) congratulates his devoted servant and partner for having victory on their enemy, as well as having us delighted, by his saying: "Good Show Passepartout".. Indeed.

People who made the new animated movie for new generation which is also called around the world in eighty days with animals as characters won't beat the original thing that we used to watch when we were kids back in the day. Some say it's way ahead the book but it's filled with fun and hilerious scenes that we won't forget. So if some of you who read this cooment, do me a favor, show your children so they could know about this, because on my opinion new cartoons that are made for children these days are so stupid, so please if you don't wan't your child not to know about what you've used to watch when you've been a kid, so please do it.

For some unknown reason, this cartoon was released on Soviet Central Television in 1981, and re-ran for several years throughout the 80s. Only 11 out of 16 episodes passed censorship (the one taking place in China didn't make it, but the US ones did). It quickly became a staple for most inquisitive kids of my generation, and opened up the world for many of us. From there, I've learned about many places, such as New Orleans, San Francisco, Mount Fuji (which shows just how little educational children's programming about geography beyond the Iron Curtain existed in those days). The dubbing and translation was first rate, and the Russian version of Passepartout, while having the same tone of voice, was somewhat less annoying than the original. It's hard to say how the show would hold up with today's internet-raised kids, but I have very fond memories of it, and can definitely trace my wanderlust to those 11 episodes.

Once very much for a long time, in already nonexistent country (USSR) showed this remarkable animated serial on TV..., viewing of this animated cartoon was top of pleasure! It everyone who had the TV looked, both children and adults... Cares and employment aside left all. In this cartoon film, on a number with flashing humor and fables cognitive episodes got on also. Travel on the countries and continents, the nature (plants and animals), people and their customs, a word a cartoon serial were the encyclopedia for boys and girls of our huge country. But the encyclopedia animated and fascinating! The Australian animators have worked at glory! It is a pity, that now our TV has passed to display of low-grade and silly cartoon films, having forgotten about existence of such remarkable cartoon film as " around the world in eighty days "