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Lovable blue gnomes---only three apples high---live an idyllic existence in a medieval forest, though their happiness is threatened by the wicked wizard Gargamel. `The Smurfs' can be traced back to 1958, when Belgian cartoonist Pierre `Peyo' Culliford created the mushroom-dwelling creatures. They debuted on American toy shelves in the late-1970s before appearing on NBC's Saturday-morning schedule. The show was a huge success, expanding from an hour to 90 minutes in 1982 and garnering two Emmys.

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New releases announced April 30:

Cagney & Lacey - The Menopause Years will be coming out August 25

New Tricks - Season 1 will be coming out August 25

Route 66 - Season 3, Volume 1 will be coming out June 30

The Smurfs - Volume 2: Smurfy Tales will be coming out August 18

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The Smurfs Season 2, Volume 1 and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 12/5/2008
New releases announced today, December 5:

The Smurfs - Season 2, Volume 1 will be coming out February 17

Speed Racer: The Next Generation - Comet Run will be coming out May 5

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Smurfs, Kardashians and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 7/15/2008
New releases announced today, July 15:The Buccaneers - The Best Of will be coming out August 19 Keeping Up with the Kardashians - Season 1 will be coming out October 7 The Smurfs - Season 1, Volume 2 will be coming out October 7 Speed Racer: The Next Generation - The Fast Track will be coming out October 7 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items. read more
Smurfs Headed for Bigscreens | Movie News | 6/10/2008
Smurfing news just in your favorite Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s is making its way to the big screen According to Variety Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation are creating a live-actionanimated Smurf film In negotiations to write the screenplay are none other than David Stem and David Weiss who also penned the second and third installments in the Shrek franchise Sony obtained film rights to the blue-colored characters from Lafig Belgium via Jordan Kerner Charlottes Web who is producingThough most of us remember the cartoon as the long running Hanna-Barbera series the tiny blue residents of Smurf Village were a part of a franchise that encompassed the world for decades who wasnt obsessed with Smurfs on Ice The Smurfs are one of the best-known franchises and among the most beloved collection of characters in the world Columbia co-president Doug Belgrad said Were very excited to introduce a new generation to Papa Smurf Smurfette and th read more be the first to leave a comment
Smurfs Film Coming to DVD | DVD News | 1/28/2008
Somehow a magic flute has gotten out of Smurfland and into the hands of young practical joker Peewit and the good knight Johan. That isn't so bad...but when Peewit loses the flute to the sinister Oily McCreep, the Smurfs have to come to the rescue!Legendary TV exec Fred Silverman had the knack of getting great ideas for a show from just about anywhere...including his own daughter's Smurf doll! Realizing that this line of toys represented an enormously popular world, that could make an excellent kid cartoon, Silverman put together a deal which would bring the now-classic animated series out near the end of his three-year stint as President and CEO of NBC. In 1981 NBC and Hanna-Barbera debuted the Saturday morning cartoon version of The Smurfs, and it quickly became a huge success. So much of a success, that the 1976 Belgium-made (and French-language) animated film La Flûte à six schtroumpfs was brought to the USA in 1983, dubbed in English, and distributed in theaters by At... read more

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Premiered: September 12, 1981, on NBC

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Premise: Lovable blue gnomes---only three apples high---live an idyllic existence in a medieval forest, though their happiness is threatened by the wicked wizard Gargamel. `The Smurfs' can be traced back to 1958, when Belgian cartoonist Pierre `Peyo' Culliford created the mushroom-dwelling creatures. They debuted on American toy shelves in the late-1970s before appearing on NBC's Saturday-morning schedule. The show was a huge success, expanding from an hour to 90 minutes in 1982 and garnering two Emmys.

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