The Smurfs (TV series) Saturday morning cartoon "The Smurfs", produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with SEPP International S.A. (from 1981 to 1987) and Lafig S.A. (in the years 1988 and 1989), debuted on NBC in 1981. The series became a major success for the networkand one of the most successful and longest running Saturday morning cartoons in television history, spawning spin-off television specials on an almost yearly basis. The characters included Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, the evil Gargamel, his cat Azrael, and Johan and his friend Peewit. "The Smurfs" was nominated multiple times for Daytime Emmy Awards, and won Outstanding Children's Entertainment
The Purple Smurfs The Purple Smurfs The Purple Smurfs (original French title: Les Schtroumpfs noirs, "The Black Smurfs") is the first album of the original French-language "Smurfs" comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo. It was first published as an album in 1963, but the stories it contained had already been published in "Spirou" magazine. The main story "Les Schtroumpfs noirs" was first published in number 1107 (July 2, 1959). Apart from the titular one, it contains two other stories: "The Flying Smurf" ("Le Schtroumpf Volant") and "The Smurfnapper" ("Le Voleur de Schtroumpfs"). In a little mushroom village live the Smurfs, diminutive blue-skinned